Berlin-born guitarist Manuel Göttsching and Ash Ra Tempel created instrumental music in an era when groups like Tangerine Dream, Agitation Free, Kraftwerk and Can put music made in Germany on the map — Göttsching worked with Timothy Leary, Conny Plank, Harald Grosskopf and Klaus Schulze, and became one of the figureheads of the tape-echo-drenched sound that the British music press named krautrock. Göttsching is probably still best known for his mega-classic *E2-E4*, recorded in December 1981 in a one-hour session and released three years later on Inteam Records — it was subsequently picked up by New York disco DJs like Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage. Gaining a great deal of attention at the end of the '80s in the house and techno scenes, *E2-E4* was remixed and sampled, and lived a second life as an Italian record by Sueño Latino.
