Brain Records

Brain Records was a Hamburg based record label prominent in the 1970s releasing several important Krautrock records by bands such as Neu!, Cluster and Guru Guru. Many of its more prominent records are currently being reissued on CD by Repertoire Records. In the middle of 1971, Rolf Ulrich Kaiser’s management style at Ohr Records caused two of his A&R; men, Bruno Wendel and Gunter Korber, to leave Ohr and set up their own record company, which the... more
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