Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos will release his second solo studio album, Off the Record, on March 18th via Bureau B. As The Quietus reports, the new 12-track offering will “pre-date” his 2003 solo debut, Communication, “draw[ing] on sonic sketches he made “off the record” during his time in Kraftwerk.” It gets zanier.

Bartos is calling these tracks ”iron crystal music,” which refers to the iron crystal cell-shaped Atomium building that was built for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. This new form of music encompasses a bevy of sounds, specifically “vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch, techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms!”

A taste of this fantastical madness is available below with a preview of “Atomium”. Stream the warped excerpt and pore over the album’s tracklist shortly after.

Off the Record Tracklist:
01. Atomium
02. Nachtfahrt
03. International Velvet
04. Without A Trace Of Emotion
05. The Binary Code
06. Musica Ex Machina
07. The Tuning Of The World
08. Instant Bayreuth
09. Vox Humana
10. Rhythmus
11. Silence
12. Hausmusik