Various Cafe Exil (New Adventures In European Music 1972-1980) (2xLP)

Condition: Brand New Ships from: Melbourne

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• A Sunday afternoon of spinning records with Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne) provided film freak Jason Woods, fed up with the Brexit, with an imaginary soundtrack to David Bowie and Iggy Pop’s favourite Berlin hangout in Kreuzberg, Cafe Exil, where beats, bohemians and intellectuals met and Bowie, in 1976, could recover quite anonymously from the (American) pitfalls of stardom.

  The laidback atmosphere there – nowadays a neat restaurant: Horvth with two Michelin stars – was quite inspiring and resulted in Iggy’s The Idiot and Bowie’s triptych Low, Lodger and Heroes, on which they applied innovative European electronica influences with producer Tony Visconti, thus polishing their innovative image again. Stanley and Woods have a limitless imagination: Italy (Tony Esposito and Piero Umiliani),