Category: Allgemein

2024-updates-Cosmic Price Guide, Allgemein, Cosmic Music, Kraftwerk, Krautrock, Science Fiction, Vinyl

Collecting Kraftwerk records – update 2024 – English Version

Kraftwerk is first and foremost Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben. In early 1970, the album ‘Tone-Float’ was released under the name ‘Organisation’, only in the UK on RCA, and is now a sought-after collector’s item. On 1 December 1970, the famous ‘Hütchenalbum’ (Red Traffic Cone Album) was finally released by Philips under the name Kraftwerk, [...]

2024-updates-Cosmic Price Guide, Allgemein, CAN, Cosmic Music, Krautrock, Progressive, Psychedelic, Underground, Vinyl

Collecting CAN records – update 2024 – English Version

Collecting Can Records Update 2024 Can is the only German band besides Kraftwerk whose music is as popular with vinyl collectors nationally as it is internationally. The first pressings of their classic phase, from Monster Movie to Future Days, are still highly sought after and are subject to a dynamic upward price trend. The prices [...]

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Collecting KRAAN records – update 2024 – English Version

The brothers Peter (guitar) and Jan Fride Wolbrandt (drums) founded the band Inzest together with Helmut Hattler (bass) in Ulm in 1969. While their musical roots initially lay in the obligatory beat music, the band’s musical interests increasingly developed in the direction of rock and free jazz, for example by Albert Ayler, and were later [...]

2024-updates-Cosmic Price Guide, Allgemein, CAN, Cosmic Music, Krautrock, Underground, Vinyl

Collecting CAN records – update 2024 – German Version

Can ist mit ihrer ganz einzigartigen Musik neben Kraftwerk die deutsche Band, die sowohl national als auch international bei Vinylsammlern am beliebtesten ist. Die Erstpressungen ihrer klassischen Phase von Monster Movie bis Future Days sind nach wie vor sehr begehrt und unterliegen einer dynamischen Preisentwicklung nach oben. Die in der letzten Auflage des Cosmic Price [...]

Allgemein, Cosmic Music, Krautrock, Progressive, Psychedelic, Underground, Vinyl

Hölderlin-Hölderlins Traum – Pilz 20 21314-5 – 1972

HÖLDERLIN debuted in 1972 on “Pilz” with the quite formidable album Hölderlins Traum produced by DIETER DIERKS. Psychedelic folk rock was a rare & even tender plant in Germany, which was mostly hybridized into galactic cucumbers in ROLF-ULRICH KAISER’s cosmic greenhouse. It’s a pity that the original line-up of H. with the wonderfully elegiac voice [...]

Allgemein, Cosmic Music, Psychedelic, Rolling Stones, Science Fiction, Underground, Vinyl

ROLLING STONES – Their Satanic Majesties Request-UK-Mono DECCA TXL 403 / Stereo DECCA TXS 403-English version

The UK first edition of Satanic… is available in both mono and stereo. Both editions have the famous beautiful 3D cover in common. This, of course, does not exist on any CD edition that I know of. The original album is light years ahead of the CD not only sound-wise, but also haptically and visually, [...]