Kraftwerk, das sind im Wesentlichen Ralf Hütter und Florian Schneider-Esleben. Anfang 1970 erscheint unter dem Namen Organisation das Album Tone-Float, das nur in Großbritannien bei RCA veröffentlicht wird und heute ein begehrtes Sammlerstück ist. Unter dem Namen Kraftwerk und mit Unterstützung von Klaus Dinger und Andreas Hohmann erscheint schließlich am 01. Dezember 1970 das berühmte [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
My first concert was Kraftwerk, 1971. They played at our place in Reinbek (Hamburg East) in the auditorium of the Sachsenwald-Oberschule (SOS). The auditorium was packed. On the stage the musicians sounded with exotic instruments. I was 14 years young at the time and found the concert to be rather horrible noise, until I saw [...]
THE SHIVER from St. Gallen were, along with KISS INC. and PACIFIC SOUND, one of the Swiss bands coached by STEFAN SULKE, and – in this case – richly crude & clumsily produced. Musically they oscillated between PROCOL HARUM and CREAM; and according to everything you read, they must have been real hitters live. At [...]
Original UK-Pressung, rel. November 1967 Verve VLP 9184 (Mono) Verve SVLP 9184 (Stereo) Most of us have known this album for decades.It was released in 1967 in the USA in a gatefold cover with a banana on the front, designed by none other than Andy Warhol. Not only can this banana be peeled off easily, [...]
Together with TANGERINE DREAM and ASH RA TEMPEL, AGITATION FREE formed the spearhead of the Berlin underground of the late 60s. Their experiments, oscillating between free rock, electronic music, ethno influences and free jazz, set them apart from inferior imitators of Anglo-American models and earned them a tour of the Middle East sponsored by the [...]
Vertigo 6360 050 Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality. Released with two different posters. one with a height of 35 inches, and one of only 24 inches. This is a leap forward for the Sabbies, no doubt about it. The interplay is more mature, as is illustrated by ‘After Forever’. They’ve even made room for [...]
The story of Tangerine Dream is essentially the story of the late Edgar Froese. At the beginning of the 60s, Edgar Froese was studying art in Berlin. He made the acquaintance of Salvador Dali, and in 1967 he took up the latter’s invitation to visit Dali’s villa, where he gave a number of private concerts. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
English Version Kraftwerk (‘Power Station’) are essentially Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Essleben, both of whom came from well-to-do families. Rather than having to struggle to survive, they could afford to kit out their famous Kling-Klang studio with first-class equipment. In 1969, under the name of Organisation, they made the album “Tone-Float”, which was only released [...]
Kraftwerk sind im Wesentlichen Ralf Hütter und Florian Schneider-Essleben. Beide kommen aus betuchtem Hause. Statt ums Überleben kämpfen zu müssen, konnten sie sich eher um erstklassiges Equipment für ihr berühmtes Kling-Klang Studio kümmern. 1969 erschien unter dem Namen Organisation das Album „Tone-Float“, welches nur in Großbritannien auf RCA veröffentlicht wurde, heute ein gesuchtes Sammlerstück. 1970 [...]
