Category: Psychedelic

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 [...]

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, [...]

Cosmic Music, Psychedelic, Science Fiction

Unter den Sternen von Tha – Ein Science Fiction Roman von Heribert Kurth

AndroSF 105-ISBN 978-3-95765169-3 erschienen im Juni 2020. Der Navigator Ttrebi H*tr ist als Chronist der Menschheit auf dem Planeten Tha in geradezu mönchischer Klausur unterwegs. Unbekannte Auftraggeber erwarten von ihm innerhalb eines Tha-Jahres die Niederschrift der technischen, sozialen und spirituellen Evolution der Menschheitsgeschichte der letzten 500.000 Jahre einer so genannten multiversalen Hintergrundzeit. Während er die [...]

Cosmic Music, Krautrock, Psychedelic, Underground, Vinyl

Kalacacra – Crawling to Lhasa

Kalacakra Their name is Tibetan, and means “wheel of time”, more or less. It was the name adopted at the start of the 70s by two friends from Duisburg: Claus Rauschenbach, on guitar, congas, mouth-organ and vocals, and Heinz Martin – who was already an experienced live performer – on electric guitar, flute, shawm, violin, [...]

Cosmic Music, Krautrock, Psychedelic, Vinyl

Kluster – Klopfzeichen + Kluster – Zwei Osterei

KLUSTER with “K” was the brainchild of CONRAD SCHNITZLER, who, with the help of the later much more successful MÖBIUS & RÖDELIUS, practised his exciting but occasionally quite alienating principle of “random music” hic et nunc & completely without electronics. SCHNITZLER, born in ’34, released Klopfzeichen in 1971 the first, and shortly afterwards Kluster Zwei-Osterei [...]

Progressive, Psychedelic, Underground, Vertigo, Vinyl

CATAPILLA – Changes – Vertigo 6360 074

This is Catapilla`s 2nd album. Catapilla plough ahead on their own scary road. Meek’s exorcising and often wordless vocals still dominate the soundscape, as do Calvert’s ubiquitous saxophones – frequently with two of them playing at the same time. There is no sign anywhere of concessions being made to sales figures: this music aims at [...]

Cosmic Music, Krautrock, Psychedelic, Underground, Vinyl

XHOL CARAVAN – Electrip

This band, from Wiesbaden, were originally called Soul Caravan. The band had made one fairly lacklustre LP, upon which they accompanied two black GIs who seemed to think they were Sam and Dave. After the two Americans had returned home, the rest of the band fell under the influence of Pink Floyd, acid and Rolf [...]

Cosmic Music, Krautrock, Psychedelic, Underground, Vinyl

Achim Reichel & Machines

Achim Reichel & Machines came from my home town of Hamburg. The blond-haired Achim was the figurehead of the Rattles in the 60s, and later he was part of the wonderful Wonderland (who had a hit with “Moscow”). In 1971, he seems to have been evidently under the influence of certain chemical substances when he [...]

Krautrock, Psychedelic, Underground, Vinyl

Schlager & Psychedelic

Was hat die PSYCHEDELIC mit dem deutschen SCHLAGER gemein? Howard Carpendale/Michael Holm/Joachim Heider Du Hast Mich aka Glory Be 7“ Single, Das Schöne Mädchen Von Seite 1 / Du Hast Mich, Columbia 1C 006-28 756, 1970 7“ Single, Love Needs Love / Glory Be, Golden 12 G12/96, 1970 Wir schreiben das Jahr 1970, Hochzeit der [...]