ULTIMA THULE SALE LIST
# 118 (September-November 2009), web version# at the start of a line indicates a new arrival, see: mail-order info & abbreviations pages for how to order & full lay-out details.
Compact Discs
Krautrock & Kosmische Musik
Canterbury, Gong, Zeuhl, RIO
General Rock, Prog & Psych
Jazzy, Fusions, ECM, Folk
Synth, Ambient, New-Age, etc.
The Grey Area / Weird Musics
Various Artists
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# AGITATION FREE - MALESCH (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - The lesser-known innovators of Kosmische Krautrock. A masterpiece of ethnic-spiced, electronic, space cosmic & raga rock tripping! Well, maybe? Pink Floyd meets Embryo?! Terry Riley meets Ash Ra Tempel? Plus bonus track "Music Facory Live" (15'15") & "Live at Sakkara" Qtvideo.
AGITATION FREE - 2ND (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - The closest Agitation Free got to a conventional type of studio album, with careful composition, strong themes, cosmic & weird invention. Extensive use of VCS3's from Michael Hoenig, & great interactive dual guitars, as well as Mellotrons, etc. Plus bonus track "Laila '74" (7'42").
AGITATION FREE - LAST (Revisited: DP,1xBT) CD £13.50 - The third original album, available again on CD after being out of print for several years. Newly remastered, with new redrafted cover art, which means we can now read the musician and track details easily! Booklet has lots of pictures and even cover notes from your's truly :) AF.
AGITATION FREE - FRAGMENTS (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Recorded 1974, sessions & impromptu reformations with earlier members, featuring Chris Franke & John L., this is their most diverse album, stoned, freaky, & tripped-out! The CD-ROM track has been replaced with bonus track "Crashending" (13'31") & Qtvideo "Agitation Free At Work" (11'20").
AGITATION FREE - RIVER OF RETURN (Prudence) CD £10.75 - 1999 reformation! I expected the worst, but there's some brilliant stuff here, along with some cliched kinda instrumental pop Ashra-gone-Latino-jazzy. It's very patchy & very varied, but not cosmic!
# AGITATION FREE - RIVER OF RETURN (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Plus live version of "First Communication" (Moers, 16/2/1972).
# ALCATRAZ - VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING (Long Hair: 1xBT) CD £14.00 - Recorded at Faust's Wumme Studio, & you can tell by the fried edges to the Faust meets Out Of Focus type sound, with a dash of Frumpy too. A powerful sizzler!
ALTONA - CHICKENFARM (Disconforme) CD £9.00 - Their 2nd LP showed a mellowing of style, to funky edged jazz-rock with blues & soul tendencies. Ex-Thrice Mice, © 1975.
AMON DÜÜL - PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND (Repertoire) CD £12.75 - The original Amon Düül, far more aggressive, wild & demented than "Phallus Dei".
AMON DÜÜL - COLLAPSING (Polydor, Japan) CD m/m £50.00 - An all-time underground psych Krautrock classic, notable for its patchwork nature, with shorter snippets sewn together with tricky studio editing, sound effects, loops, joke glitches & the likes! Very rare original CD issue!
AMON DÜÜL - EXPERIMENTE (Captain Trip, Japan) CD m/m £20.00 - (Spalax) CD £12.00 - Complete rare 2LP set (issued on the Timewind label) on 1 CD, documenting sessions from 1969, in which you can hear some of the original unedited tapes that make up "Psychedelic Underground", "Collapsing" & "Disaster".
AMON DÜÜL II - PHALLUS DEI (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Their dark Hapshash meets Pink Floyd at an "acid-Wagnerian psych freak-out" debut! 2006 reissue, with 2 (obviously very recent recordings) bonus tracks (20'49").
AMON DÜÜL II - YETI (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Monumental set from the German masters of psychedelic-space-underground, a stoned weird trip beyond Hawkwind.
AMON DÜÜL II - TANZ DER LEMMINGE (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Aka "Dance Of The Lemmings" & the one that's so schizophrenic & twisted, on to deep space with the instrumental 2nd LP, with ethnic psych moving towards Cosmic Jokers territory.
# AMON DÜÜL II - CARNIVAL IN BABYLON (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - 4th album, featuring Danny Fichelscher & Renate Knaup, both later of Popol Vuh. Plus 2 nice bonus tracks: "Skylight" & "Tanzelwurmloch".
AMON DÜÜL II - VIVE LA TRANCE (Repertoire) CD £12.75 - Arguably the last of the classic era of Düül, with lots of nice weird edges still poking through.
AMON DÜÜL II - VIVE LA TRANCE (Gammarock: 3xBT) CD £7.85 - Note: 2 of the bonus tracks are 90's AD2 tracks, the other is "Cerberus" taken from "Yeti"!
# AMON DÜÜL II - LEMMINGMANIA (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Excellent United Artists era singles collection. Plus 4 bonus tracks & video of "All The Years Round".
AMON DÜÜL II - PYRAGONY X (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - 10th album, a more ethnic fusion & hard-rock album. Some great tracks.
ANABIS - THEATRE (WMMS) CD £10.75 - Diverse & inventive 1988 album. Last copy!
ANALOGY - ANALOGY (Garden of Delights: 1xBT) CD £13.00 - German/Italian progressive in Sandrose vein but with Pink Floyd styling as well.
ANIMA - STÜRMISCHER HIMMEL (Spalax: DP) CD £12.00 - One of those early weird Ohr albums, & I mean weird! Bizarre avant-folk-jazz with lotsa homemade instruments.
ANYONE'S DAUGHTER - NEUE STERNE (WMMS) CD £12.75 - 5th album (1983), like Grobschnitt or Eloy, Anyone's Daughter here moved on to a more commercial song based style.
ANYONE'S DAUGHTER - LIVE (WMMS) CD £12.75 - Features very different versions of their best tracks. 2LP set on 1 CD!
ARDO DOMBEC - ARDO DOMBEC (Garden of Delights: 4xBT) CD £13.00 - Bluesy/jazz & varied prrog with 2 very different lead singers, between Creative Rock & McChurch Soundroom, with roots from BS&T, Chicago type brassy rock. Pilz LP © 1971.
ARMAGGEDON - ARMAGGEDON (Ohrwaschl/Kuckuck: #495/1000) CD m/ex+ £18.00 - Heavy German progressive, featuring Frank Diez. With excellent version of Jeff Beck's "Rice Pudding"!
# ASH RA TEMPEL - ASH RA TEMPEL (Spalax) CD £13.00 - The legendary acid-space-rock trio: Manuel Göttsching, Klaus Schulze & Hartmut Enke.
# ASH RA TEMPEL - SCHWINGUNGEN (Spalax) CD £13.00 - Cosmic blues in a acid daze! A true cosmic-Krautrock classic.
# ASH RA TEMPEL - SEVEN UP (Spalax) CD £13.00 - Tripped-out beyond the realms of Pink Floyd, an electronic space-rock delight featuring "acid" guru Timothy Leary.
# ASH RA TEMPEL - LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL (Spalax) CD £13.00 - Previously unreleased 1975 album, probably the most cosmic Ash Ra Tempel album.
AUSSENMINISTER/MODEL 81 - AUSSENMINISTER/MODEL 81 (Auricle) 2CDR £9.80 - All the recordings we have from Wolfgang Hertz & co. An extended version of Aussenminister's contribution to the above cassette (plus a demo recording), the complete side by Model 81, contributions to our "A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird", "Journey To The End Of Night" & "Historical Auricle" samplers by Aussenminister, Wolfgang Hertz & Input.
BAKU - SEQUENCES OF MY BEQUEST (WMMS) CD £9.00 - Teutonic concept progressive in the spirit of Eloy, Grobschnitt, Anyone's Daughter but with an 80's sound towards Marillion.
BIRTH CONTROL - REBIRTH (Repertoire) CD £12.75 - Move into brassy rock realms, still a few classic moments though..
BIRTH CONTROL - LIVE 79 (Green Tree) CD £12.75 - Long deleted CD!
THE BLACKBIRDS - NO DESTINATION (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - 1968 debut of soul-beat & psychedelia, plus their "Sherry Baby/Lead On Light" (1969) & "Sherry Baby/Burning Out For Rock'n Roll" (1982) singles.
THE BLACKBIRDS - TOUCH OF MUSIC (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - Classical spided rock music of great invention, blending heavy & spacey styles: close to Italian bands of the era like New Trolls, Panna Fredda, Hero, etc. Plus their "Let's Do It Together/Preludium" single.
BRAINSTORM - SECOND SMILE (Garden of Delights: 1xBT) CD £13.00 - The Caravan/Hatfield & the North/Supersister vein Krautrock prog-fusion style. © 1973.
BRAINSTORM - FASHION PINK TO BRAINSTORM (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - 3 unreleased SWF Radio sessions: Fashion Pink (22/4/70 & 5/2/71) & Brainstorm (9/7/71).
BRAINSTORM - LAST SMILE (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - WDR concert recording 6/4/74. Includes 3 very different versions of LP tracks plus 2 brand new numbers.
BRAINSTORM - BREMEN 1973 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Excellent document of Brainstorm live, including a storning 21 minute version of "Hirnwind".
CASPAR BROTZMANN - MUTE MASSAKER (Our Choice: DP) CD £10.75 - Massaker sans the vocals, very moody & surprisingly restrained.
CAN - MONSTER MOVIE (Spoon: remastered) SACD £11.00 - 1969 debut, wild & manic, aggressive psychy sound.
CAN - TAGO MAGO (Spoon: remastered) CD £11.00 - Can's ultimate classic! Starting intensively mantric, this gets weirder & weirder, radical to the extreme. Great too! © 1971.
CAN - EGE BAMYASI (Spoon: remastered) CD £11.00 - A collection of mostly shorter accessible songs, though still odd & uniquely Can, unexpectedly breaking-out with the avant-garde "Soup".
CAN - FUTURE DAYS (Spoon: remastered) SACD £11.00 - At their most spacious & flowing, featuring understated songs & strong melodic content. © 1973.
# CAN - UNLIMITED EDITION (Spoon) CD ex+/m £9.00 - Archive recordings (1970-1975), featuring "Limited Edition" LP plus an LP of previously unreleased material.
CHICKEN BONES - HARDROCK IN CONCERT (Second Battle: 6xBT) CD m/ex £20.00 - Extremely obscure 1972 heavy Krautrock/progressive in May Blitz, Weed vein.
CLUSTER - CLUSTER 71 (Sky) CD ex+/m £10.00 - The original Cluster (originally on Philips © 1971), fantastic industrial cosmic music! (Different cover to either LP issue!)
# CLUSTER - CLUSTER 2 (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00, ex+/ex+ £7.50 - Industrial space-electronics: tripped-out, free floating processed organ, guitar, etc.
CLUSTER - ZUCKERZEIT (Lilith: DP) CD £11.50 - More diverse 3rd LP, produced by Michael Rother. For Kraftwerk "Komettenmelodie" fans.
CLUSTER - APROPOS CLUSTER (Curious) CD ex+/ex £18.00 - 1st Cluster album in a decade, good & strange too!
CLUSTER - ONE HOUR (Musica Secreta/Prudence) CD £10.75 - Cluster 1994! Strange, atmospheric & very inventive. Just what you'd expect really. And yes! It's 1 hour long.
CON-HERTZ - FACE ON RADIO (Auricle: 2xBT) CDR £6.85 - Conrad Schnitzler + Wolfgang Hertz = Con-Hertz! This contains extracts (chosen by Auricle) from 6 hours of Wolfgang's remixes of archive recordings by Con in the style of "Conal".
CORPORAL GANDER'S FIRE DOG BRIGADE - ON THE ROCKS (Trick Music) CD £10.75 - Obscure pop exploitation album, pre-Wind, produced by Jochen Petersen.
# THE COSMIC JOKERS - THE COSMIC JOKERS (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00 - Classic space-rock from Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching, Jürgen Dollase, etc.
# THE COSMIC JOKERS - GALACTIC SUPERMARKET (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00, ex+/ex+ £7.50 - 2nd from the Ash Ra Tempel/Wallenstein supergroup, & another cosmic classic!
# THE COSMIC JOKERS - PLANETEN SIT-IN (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00 - The most haphazard & surprising Cosmic Jokers trip, overloaded with electronics!
CRYSTAL MAZE - WAITING IN THE SPIDER'S WEB (WMMS) CD £10.75 - German 80's progressive with symphonic & heavy touches. Hints of Grobschnitt, Yes, Ramses, etc.
HOLGER CZUKAY - LA LUNA (Tone Casualties) CD ex+/ex+ £9.00 - (Revisited: DP,1xBT) CD £13.50 - Unlikely trance-space effort, live May 1996, starting in the realms of Dome & Schulze’s "Babel", this oozes & rhythmically grows in a very restrained fashion.
HOLGER CZUKAY & ROLF DAMMERS - CANAXIS (Spoon: 1xBT) CD £12.75 - Aka Technical Space Composers Crew "Canaxis 5", pre-Can weirdness in Stockhausen vein.
WOLFGANG DAUNER QUINTET - THE OIMELS (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - This delightful 1970 psychedelic jazz-pop album is full or surprises, pastiche & unique invention.
DEUTER - HALEAKALA (Kuckuck/Ohrwaschl) CD ex+/ex+ £9.00 - Subdued ethnic ambient & meditation music, hinting at Stephan Micus.
DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT - DIE KLEINEN UND DIE BOSEN (Mute) CD £11.00 - 2nd LP of aggressive industrial rock & electronics.
EILIFF - CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH THEIR THIRD ONE (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Live at the WDR (18/10/72), with 1 unique track & 3 extended album cuts, this is a sizzler! Note: minor flaws in the recording!
EILIFF - BREMEN 1972 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Note: the track details on the CD are incorrect, this is a 41½ minute version of "Suite" from their debut LP.
EJWUUSL WESSAHQQAN - EJWUUSL WESSAHQQAN (Garden of Delights: 4xBT) CD £13.00 - Munich 1975 underground. German Oak/Bodkin/Ainigma realms & beyond!
ELOY - ELOY (Second Battle) CD m/m £15.00 - With Eric Schriever as lead singer & a heavier guitar-based style, hints of early Deep Purple, Orange Peel, etc. Original CD release.
ELOY - ELOY (Revisited: DP) CD £14.00 - With Eric Schriever as lead singer & a heavier guitar-based style, hints of early Deep Purple, Orange Peel, etc. In special deluxe cover, & 3 bonus tracks: "Walk Alone / Daybreak" single & previously unreleased "Vibrations Of My Mind".
# ELOY - INSIDE (Harvest: remastered) CD £9.00 - Plus "Daybreak/On The Road" single tracks. Enter Eloy the space-rock band, an astounding LP with long trips of organ based rock & a mix of heavy & cosmic styles.
# ELOY - FLOATING (Harvest: remastered) CD £9.00 - Plus 3 tracks (16’37") live in Krefeld (9/73). Further developing the style of "Inside" on a heavier level, featuring much more guitar & multi-percussives, lengthy instrumentals (heavy Pink Floyd, trippy Santana touches).
# ELOY - POWER & THE PASSION (Harvest: remastered) CD £9.00 - 4th album (1975), sci-fi concept, taking the heavy "Floating" style to lighter realms, prequel to "Dawn". Plus 1999 remix of "The Bells of Notre Dame" track.
# ELOY - SILENT CRIES & MIGHTY ECHOES (Harvest: remastered) CD £9.00 - 7th album (1979), very Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here", & even a touch of Tangerine Dream! Plus: "Child Migration/Let The Sun Rise In Your Brain" single.
# ELOY - COLOURS (Harvest: remastered) CD £9.00 - After Schmidtchen & Rosenthal formed Ego On The Rocks, Eloy moved onto a heavier "Animals" (Floyd) type style. Plus: "Wings Of Vision/Silhouette" single.
# ELOY - PLANETS (Harvest: remastered) CD £9.00 - Heavy space-rock with Pink Floyd & Hawkwind feel. Plus 1983 live version of "On The Verge Of Darkening Lights".
# ELOY - TIME TO TURN (Harvest: remastered) CD £9.00 - Continuation of the "Planets" concept, all very elaborately mystical & lyrical. © 1982.
ELOY - RA (ACI) CD £8.80 - 1988 reformation, Frank Bornemann & Michael Gerlach, plus guests.
ELOY - CHRONICLES I (SPV) CD £10.75 - Re-recorded 1993 versions of tracks circa 1977-82.
ELOY - CHRONICLES II (SPV) CD £10.75 - Re-recorded 1994 versions of tracks circa 1983-92.
# EMBRYO - STEIG AUS (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Incredible supersession of Embryo+Mal Waldron+Jimmy Jackson = ethno Kraut fusion nirvana! Recorded December 1971, released on Brain in 1972.
EMBRYO - LA BLAMA SPAROZZI (Disconforme: DP,2xBT) 2CD £18.60 - Documenting Embryo's adventures in North Africa. 2 very different LP's, one of lop-sided ethno-punk experiments, the other with more traditional world music concoctions.
EMBRYO - EMBRYO & YORUBA DUN DUN ORCHESTRA (Schneeball: 2xBT) CD £11.75 - An interesting experiment by Embryo with African musicians.
EMBRYO - LIVE IN BERLIN (United One) CD £12.75 - Aka "Jazz Buhne Berlin '89" (on Amiga). More Yoruba Dun Dun Orchestra & guests than an Embryo album really, it surprisingly sizzles in places, & Chris Karrer's contributions are so cool!
EMBRYO - IBN BATTUTA (Indigo: DP) CD £11.75 - Excellent 1993 ethnic trip, a step back to "Zack Glück" era, but with a much more spacey ethnic feel.
EMBRYO - NI HAU (Indigo: DP) CD £11.75 - Superb 1996 Embryo world cross-culture trip.
EMBRYO - INVISIBLE DOCUMENTS (Disconforme: DP) 2CD £18.60 - Live at Die Fabrik, Hamburg 1974. Unreleased recordings, developing themes from "Surfin'" & even pre-empting "Apo-Calypso", Burchard/Bunka/Hofmann joined by Missus Beastly bassist Norbert Domling!
EMBRYO - ONE NIGHT IN BARCELONA (Disconforme) 2CD £18.60 - Live in 1999. Aka "One Night At The Joan Miro Foundation".
EMBRYO - 2000 LIVE, VOL. 1 (Schneeball) CD £11.75 - In Instanbul & Germany, very jazzy on the Turkey stuff with Marty Cook on trombone to the fore, elsewhere the mood is more varied, with a lot of musicians I've never heard of involved!
EMBRYO - WIESBADEN 1972 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Excellent unreleased live set, largely in "Steig Aus" to "We Keep On" vein, an ethnic sizzler! Plus a bonus track from Embryo related Aus Dem Nichts, who seem to have been the headline act at this concert.
EMMA MYLDENBERGER - EMMA MYLDENBERGER (Garden of Delights: 5xBT) CD £13.00 - Classic 1978 all acoustic folk/prog band, hints of Bröselmaschine/Ougenweide, but with their own sound. One of the finest German folky outfits.
EMMA MYLDENBERGER - TOUR DE TRANCE (Garden of Delights: 4xBT) CD £13.00 - LP #2, with considerably longer tracks & much more instrumental interplay, going beyond the pioneering music of Between or Third Ear Band, mysteriously ethnic & medieval, not really rock but with a lively rock energy, surprising for what was still a totally acoustic ensemble.
EMMA MYLDENBERGER - EMMAZ LIVE! (Garden of Delights: 3xBT) CD £13.00 - Excellent live set, a largely instrumental fusion of folk cultures. Originally an obscure cassette-only release.
EMTIDI - SAAT (Galaxis) CD ex+/m £25.00 - (Spalax: DP) CD £12.00 - Not really a folk album, nor exactly cosmic rock, but a rare unique music transcending both genres, with the superb Dolly Holmes.
EPIDAURUS - EARTHLY PARADISE (Penner) CD m/m £13.00 - (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Excellent late-70's German symphonic progressive, with Novalis, Jane style.
EPIDERMIS - FEEL ME (WMMS: 6xBT) CD £12.75 - 1991 album, original line-up plus guests. Limited deluxe 7" book sleeve. Note: P&P = 3 units!
EPSILON - EPSILON (Bacillus) CD m/m £15.00 - Heavy Krautrockers with a thick wedge of classical music mixed in, heady sound.
EPSILON - MOVE ON (Bacillus) CD £11.75 - 2nd album, a much more varied collection of hard-rock, psych & folky tracks.
ERLKOENIG - ERLKOENIG (Garden of Delights: 4xBT) CD £13.00 - 1973 private pressing rarity, a little towards bands like Murphy Blend, Hanuman & more folky/classical spiced German underground. This is a mellow haunting gem with lots of unique touches.
ERNA SCHMIDT - LIVE 69-71 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Unreleased Krautrock obscurity, from friends of Kraan, with a heavy flute rock akin to Rufus Zuphall, but all instrumental.
EROC - ZWEI (Universal Brain: DP,8xBT) CD £13.50 - Grobschnitt drummer/multi-instrumentalist here inspired by Zappa's "Lumpy Gravy".
EULENSPYGEL - STAUB AUF DEINEM HAAR (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Live on WDR 13/1/73 from keyboardless 5-piece line-up, the tail-end of the original Eulenspygel history.
FAITHFUL BREATH - FADING BEAUTY (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Long lost progressive debut by German 70's band, mostly instrumental & flowing.
FASHION PINK - FASHION PINK TO BRAINSTORM (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - 3 unreleased SWF Radio sessions: Fashion Pink (22/4/70 & 5/2/71) & Brainstorm (9/7/71).
FASHION PINK - ENCORE (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - The band before Brainstorm. Live 1969-71, plus a Brainstorn track from 29/6/1975. Not heard at time of going to press!
FAUST - FAUST (RéR: DP) CD £10.75, ex+/m £7.00 - Fuzzed-out Krautrock weird classic, a totally revolutionary album. Pure experimentation on the rock form, beyond Can. Extraordinary!
FAUST - SO FAR (RéR: DP) CD £10.75 - Excessive, bizarre, brazen, full of invention. Though more musical here, even when doing songs, Faust continued to break the rules.
FAUST - FAUST IV (Virgin) CD £8.80 - The magical weirdness of Faust, in a more laid-back mysterious mood.
FAUST - 71 MINUTES OF (RéR) CD ex+/m £8.00 - (RéR: RE,DP) CD £10.75 - Collecting the "Faust Party" & "Munich & Elsewhere" tapes from the mid-70's. Nearly all unique Faust studio, demo & live recordings. And all excellent! The material here was previously issued on two LP's by RéR.
# FAUST - WAKES NOSFERATU (Klangblad: CC) CD £13.00 - Live score to the film in 1997.
FAUST - RAVVIVANDO (Klangbad: DP) CD £10.75 - © 1999. I'm not quite sure what to make of this one, as it does get a little 60's cheesy, & there's a track with glam-rock feel!
FAUST - BBC SESSIONS + (RéR: DP) CD £10.75 - The legendary 1/3/73 Peel session, plus 7 extra tracks: the 2 missing tracks from "Munic & Elsewhere" & "The Last LP" - omitted from the "71 Minutes Of" CD; alternative versions of "So Far" & "Meer", plus 3 recently unearthed tracks.
FLOH DE COLOGNE - FLEIßBANDBABYS BEAT-SHOW (ZYX) CD £12.00 - Their 1970 Ohr classic, on CD at last! Devishly satirical & outrageous.
FLOH DE COLOGNE - ROCKOPER PROFITGEIER (Spalax) CD £12.00 - © 1971, originally on Ohr, & a strange psychedelic polit-rock opera! Definitive Floh De Cologne with a complex concept booklet featuring all the lyrics, but no giblets!
FLOH DE COLOGNE - LUCKY STREIK (Spalax: CC) CD £10.75 - (Spalax: DP) CD £12.00 - Rock cabaret in concert. Beyond the The Fugs, The Mothers, The Residents, towards Faust.
# FLOH DE COLOGNE - MUMIEN & VIETNAM (Plane) CD £16.00 - 2 LP's on 1 CD! "Vietnam" is their 1968 debut, "Mumien" is their bizarrely conceptualized rock & prog LP from 1974.
FLOH DE COLOGNE - GEYER-SYMPHONIE (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00 - Strangest LP from this pioneering polit-rock cum musical theatre band. Often quoted as German Mothers Of Invention.
FLOH DE COLOGNE - KOSLOWSKI & FAATERLAND (Plane) CD £15.65 - Their final 2 LP's (1980 & 1983), only "Koslowski" is complete.
# FRAME - FRAME OF MIND (Bacillus) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - A masterpiece of heavy psychedelic Krautrock, essential for Deep Purple fans!
FROB - FROB (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Extremely obscure prog fusion (1976) featuring French guitarist Philippe Caillat. Catherine/Towner/Dutch prog mix.
# PETER FROHMADER - NEKROPOLIS LIVE (Ohrwaschl: 2xBT) CD £11.75 - Frohmader's live band from 1983, heavy Krautrock sounds, hints of Spacebox, Guru Guru, Zeuhl & agit-rock touches.
# PETER FROHMADER - HOMUNCULUS/RITUAL (Multimood) 2CD m/ex+ £30.00 - The complete gothic symphony opus "Homunculus, Parts 1-4" & the intensive rhythmic "Ritual". 3 LP's on 2 CD's!
# PETER FROHMADER - 3RD MILLENIUM'S CHOICE, VOL. 1 (Nekropolis) CD ex+/ex+ £15.00 - Dark, menacing, Teutonic rock & electronic music, new & re-recorded works (1983-1990).
PETER FROHMADER - THE AWAKENING: NEKROPOLIS LIVE '79 (Ohrwaschl) CD £11.75 - Technically by Kanaan & CIA, heavy Krautrock with a Metabolist/Zeuhl edge.
PETER FROHMADER - EISMEER (Gazul) CD £10.75 - 1996-97 E.A. Poe concept.
PETER FROHMADER - ANUBIS DANCE (Nekropolis) CD £12.75 - © 2003, but recorded in 1997. Slight techno touches in a music that sounds like a step-on from "The Ritual" if a lot more cliched & obviously programmed, with some amusing samples in there!
# FRUMPY - ALL WILL BE CHANGED (Repertoire) CD £13.00 - (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Featuring the extraordinary voice of Inga Rumpf & the classical keyboards of Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Frumpy played a powerful blues-spiced prog, with lots of Krautrock invention and experimentation. This also includes their debut single "Roadriding/Time Makes Wise".
# FRUMPY - FRUMPY 2 (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Heavy Krautrock classic, with the inimitable Inga Rumpf on vocals. First by the expanded 4-piece line-up with Rainer Baumann on guitar.
# FRUMPY - LIVE (Repertoire) 2CD m/m £18.00 - Lengthy concert recordings capturing all their facets. Plus their 2 contributions to the "Pop & Blues Festival 1970" 2LP set.
# GÄA - AUF DER BAHN ZUM URANUS (Ohrwaschl) CD ex+/ex+ £15.00 - Heavy & spacey psych-Krautrock with great space-outs a la Pink Floyd.
GÄA - ALRAUNES ALPTRAUM (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Demos for a second album (circa 1975), & 80's reformation recordings.
GAM - 1976 (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - This unique archive session recording is high fired improvised rock with lots of psychedelic fire! A lost Krautrock legend!
GAM - EISZEIT (Cosmic Egg) CD £10.75 - Think one part Günter Schickert, one part Ash Ra Tempel, with unique & raw energy, pure innovation & more guitars than you could wish for!
# AX GENRICH - PSYCHEDELIC GUITAR (ATM) CD ex+/ex+ £15.00 - The return of Guru Guru's Ax Genrich. An eccentric blend, recalling classic Guru's & more.
GILA - NIGHT WORKS (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Live at the WDR (26/2/72), in the style of their debut, a mostly instrumental set with superb freaky jams & space-drives, a little Pink Floyd but uniquely Gila! Note: their are some flaws & drop-outs in the recording!
# GROBSCHNITT - GROBSCHNITT (Repertoire) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - Debut of amazing space-rock trips, psychedelia, folk & humour - unique! With bonus 29 minute live version of "Symphony".
# GROBSCHNITT - BALLERMANN (Brain) CD £10.00 - Often quoted as the German hybrid of Yes & The Mothers, this is eclectic & full of invention.
# GROBSCHNITT - JUMBO (Repertoire) CD m/m £15.00 - Both versions on 1 CD! Very stylishly commercial, yet also complex & creative progressive. With Eroc's unique CD ending!
GROBSCHNITT - JUMBO (Universal Brain: DP) CD £13.50 - Both versions on 1 CD, plus single version of "Der Clown"! With myriads of unique moves.
# GROBSCHNITT - SOLAR MUSIC LIVE (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Extended version with 13 minute encore jam on "Symphony" riff. Remastering includes preamble & a different mix!
# GURU GURU - UFO (ZYX) CD £13.00 - (Spalax) CD £13.00 - Incredible Krautrock freaked-out space-music trip, way beyond Pink Floyd. The pure, ecstatic demented acid-rock trip, a guitar freaks delight!
# GURU GURU - HINTEN (ZYX) CD £13.00 - 2nd album, & another classic slab of acid-space-rock.
GURU GURU - KÄNGURU (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - 3rd album, incredible tripped-out space-rock, full of invention & incredible guitar work!
# GURU GURU - DANCE OF THE FLAMES (Revisited: DP) CD m/ex £9.00 - © 1974, moving towards Mahavishnu Orchestra style. Plus bonus track: "Doing" (live 1975).
GURU GURU - HEY DU (Revisited: DP,1xBT) CD £13.50 - Credited to Guru Guru Sun Band. Last for Brain & very commercial too! Fun, but too poppy for me. Last track is a killer though!
GURU GURU - MANI IN GERMANI (Fünfundvierzig: DP) CD £10.75 - © 1981.
GURU GURU - WAH WAH (Think Progressive) CD £12.75 - Guru Guru 1995! Back on form, with a new style! Radical, creative, eccentric! So hip & so unhip! Great!
GURU GURU - MOSHI MOSHI (Think Progressive) CD £11.75, ex+/m £8.00 - Extremely vared 1979 album, with Luigi Archetti (Tiere Der Nacht) replacing Dieter Bornschlegel.
GURU GURU - WIESBADEN 1972 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - one of the very first gigs with Bruno Schaab on bass, & thus very different to what you know! Vastly extended "Kanguru" material (3 tracks: 28'32", 23'50" & 22'05").
HANUMAN/LIED DES TEUFELS - HANUMAN/LIED DES TEUFELS (Ohrwasch) 2CD £18.60 - A bit of history: Wolf-Rüdiger Uhlig came from Murphy Blend & was also the front man in Hanuman, when he left the group became Lied Des Teufels. Hanuman sound like a angst ridden Murphy Blend, Lied Des Teufels are closer to Nosferatu, Lokomotive Kreuzberg, Out Of Focus, etc., with a jazzy polit-rock sound.
HARMONIA - DELUXE (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - 2nd album from Cluster (Moebius & Roedelius) & Rother (½ of Neu!), here with Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) guesting on drums.
# HOENIG/GOTTSCHING - EARLY WATER (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00 - Imagine the perfect hybrid of Ashra's "Nightdust" & Hoenig's "Departure From The Northern Wasteland" as one single CD opus. Cosmic nirvana or what!?
I.D. COMPANY - I.D. COMPANY (Germanofon) CD m/m £20.00 - Inga Rumpf (Frumpy) & Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy) plus backing band. Their weirdest moment. 1970 underground. Psych/jazz-fusion/blues/dadaist mixture.
HANS JOACHIM IRMLER - LIFE LIKE (Staubgold: DP) CD £11.75 - 2003 debut solo from Faust member. Abstract & minimal musics.
JANE - HERE WE ARE (Revisited: 2xBT,DP) CD £13.50 - 2nd album, varied heavy & bluesy prog, with Pink Floyd & psychedelic/symphonic moods.
JANE - LADY (Universal Brain: DP) CD £13.50 - Very varied & schizophrenic heavy/bluesy styles, with Gottfried Jahnko & Martin Hesse (both ex-Dull Knife).
# JOIN IN - KENTALOPE ISLAND (Garden of Delights: 8xBT) CD £13.00, m/m £9.50 - Obscure & varied prog/fusion combo interconnected with Think, & comparable to Dutch fusion bands.
JOY UNLIMITED - SCHMETTERLINGE (Garden of Delights: 4xBT) CD £13.00 - Ambitious conceptual rock ballad suite that runs from spacious jazz (hints of Xhol & Out Of Focus), via psych onto a wild tongue-in-cheek raunchy blues, etc. Originally on the Pilz label.
JOY UNLIMITED - REFLECTIONS (Garden of Delights: 10xBT) CD £13.00 - 3rd LP, with Joy Flemming being replaced by Ken Traylor, alin to Colosseum, Gravy Train, Raw Material, etc.
JOY UNLIMITED - MINNE (Garden of Delights: 9xBT) CD £13.00 - A very Teutonic, slightly Floh De Cologne like, progressive folk-rock, fleshed-out by a near-on mini orchestra version of Joy Unlimited, with German vocals.
# KARTHAGO - ROCK 'N ROLL TESTAMENT (Bacillus) CD £12.00 - 70's band interconnected with Guru Guru & Kraan, inspired by Hendrix, Chicago, etc.
KLUSTER - VULCANO (Important: CC) CD £14.70 - Actually Eruption live in Wuppertal (1971 or 1972?). Just 1 sprawling kinda Taj Mahal Travellers meets Kluster, & abstract scuttle/sonics, much of it is quiet & well cosmic, almost acoustic TD "Alpha Centauri" like realms.
KONTRAST - KONTRAST, VOLUME I & II (Cosmic Egg) CD £10.75 - One of the finest examples of 80's Krautrock (alongside Embryo's "Zack Gluck"), featuring Remigius Drechsler, Ingo-Schmidt Neuhaus & Moran Neumuller (all ex-Out Of Focus). Reissue of the LP plus 29'21" (5 tracks) of unreleased bonus material.
KRAFTWERK - RADIO-ACTIVITY (Capitol) CD £8.80 - © 1975, inventive & varied album, with weird bits.
# LILIENTAL - LILIENTAL (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Legendary supergroup cosmic outing, featuring: Dieter Moebius (of Cluster), Helmutt Hattler & Johannes Pappert (both from Kraan), Conny Plank, Okko Bekker, Asmus Tietchens.
LILY - V.C.U. (WE SEE YOU) (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Bacillus rarity, slightly jazzy & totally eccentric, with an air of Zappa, but in that typical heavy German Bacillus rock style, kind of betwixt Nosferatu, Cornucopia & Nektar. Plus 4 bonus tracks (38½ minutes).
# LIMBUS 4 - MANDALAS (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00 - Weird tripped-out ethnic/jazz/folk/cosmic? Ohr Records avant-garde psychedelic. Challenging!
MESSAGE - MESSAGE (EastWest) CD £14.70 - Message #3, © 1975. Much lighter than their Bacillus LP's, with orchestrations, keyboards & backing singers.
MISSING LINK - NEVERGREEN! (Garden of Delights: 1xBT) CD £13.00 - Munich prog-fusion with jazzy & classical edges, hints of Embryo & Pell Mell, along with hard-rock edges & good songs. © 1972.
MISSUS BEASTLY - MISSUS BEASTLY (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Strangely off-key, out-on-a-limb, jazz/bluesy psych sounds, kinda Hendrix gone Kraut meets Embryo & Dauner. Very dated, but nicely so! Aka "Nara Asst Incense".
MISSUS BEASTLY - MISSUS BEASTLY (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Top rate 1974 Kraut jazz-fusion. Plus 17 minutes live 13/4/1974, & their "Vlotho-Winterberg" festival track.
MISSUS BEASTLY - BREMEN 1974 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Excellent quality live, with unique line-up featuring Eddy Marron from Dzyan! Just 3 big tracks - all unique!
NECRONOMICON - TIPS ZUM SELBSTMORT (Garden of Delights: 4xBT) CD £13.00 - Dark progressive Krautrock from 1972, demented & aggressive, with German vocals.
NEU! - NEU! 2 (Grönland) CD £12.75 - Featuring more atypical Kraftwerk drum riffing, walls of guitar & much weirdness.
NEU! - NEU! 75 (Grönland) CD £12.75 - The embryo of La Dusseldorf: Dinger, Rother, Dinger & Lampe. Varied album with atypical Neu! & Rother solo styles.
MANI NEUMEIER - BIRTHDAY! (Funfundvierzig: DP) CD £11.75 - Mani's 60th birthday concert, with: Guru Guru, Tiere Der Nachte, Lover 303 & Hans Reffert.
MANI NEUMEIER - SKETCHES (Important: CC) CD £12.75 - Varied 2007 album, with drums, jungles, fusions & more. There's even a mass body drum bit!
MANI NEUMEIER & GUESTS - TERRA AMPHIBIA 2 (Captain Trip, Japan) CD £14.70 - More of a hybrid of recent Guru Guru incarnations than #1, with Archetti (Guru Guru & Tiere Der Nacht) & Reffert (Flute & Voice & late-80's Guru Guru) making a more upbeat music.
NINE DAYS WONDER - WE NEVER LOST CONTROL (Bacillus) CD £11.75 - 2nd album, still quite eccentric but much more controlled & rock based, with keyboards added.
NINE DAYS WONDER - ONLY THE DANCERS (Bacillus) CD £11.75 - 3rd album, more sophisticated with stronger, yet still strange, songs. Features Dave Jackson (Van Der Graaf) & Steve Robinson (2066 & Then) as guests
RALF NOWY - LUCIFER'S DREAM (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - A big melting pot of almost everything from psychedelic pop onto big band jazz, with experimental & ethnic diversions, a complex musical suite with a great deal of invention.
OUT OF FOCUS - WAKE UP! (Kuckuck) CD £12.75 - 1970 debut from these legendary Krautrockers, very underground & still with an air of psychedelia.
OUT OF FOCUS - NOT TOO LATE (Cosmic Egg) CD £10.75 - Lost for 25 years, this is very much in the spirit of LP1 from "Four Letter Monday Afternoon" with great Out Of Focus songs, & brilliant Softs "Third" era cum Embryo instrumentals!
OUT OF FOCUS - RAT ROADS (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Lots more material recorded during the "Four Letter Monday Afternoon" sessions. All excellent, definitive Munich Kraut-fusion.
OUT OF FOCUS - PALERMO 1972 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Really nice previously unreleased live document (26/5/1972). Some of Moran's vocals are a bit wonky, but that's live music for you!
PANCAKE - ROXY ELEPHANT (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Mid-70's German progressive with Jane, Eloy, early Epitaph touches, but mostly unique & some instrumentals.
PANCAKE - OUT OF THE ASHES (Garden of Delights: 1xBT) CD £13.00 - Mid-70's German dreamy progressive, hints of Eloy, Pulsar & Camel.
ROEDELIUS - SINFONIA CONTEMPORA NO. 1 (Prudence: RE) CD £10.75 - Very strange 1994 album, like a mixture of "Der Ohrenspiegel", Kluster/Cluster & all sorts of other musics.
ROEDELIUS, BONERZ, WAY, BINKLEY, MARLYN & CAPANNI - AMERICAN STEAMBOAT (SpaceForMusic) CDR £8.80 - Extremely varied & odd, © 2003.
RUFUS ZUPHALL - AVALON & ON (Long Hair) CD £14.00 - 1972 demos for a 3rd LP plus live material from 1970 & 1971, LP2 of the Little Wing rip-off box set release plus 3 live tracks from 1993 & 1999 reformations.
GÜNTER SCHICKERT - KINDER IN DER WILDNIS (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - 3rd album (originally cassette only, after LP releases on Brain & Sky) by the Teutonic master of the echo-guitar. Günter is also a member of GAM, we have 2 releases available, please look under "G".
# KLAUS SCHULZE - IRRLICHT (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Debut by master synthesist (not actually synth music though). Plus 24 minute bonus track "Dungeon".
# KLAUS SCHULZE - BLACKDANCE (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Odd diversion for Klaus, with acoustic guitar, hand percussion, organ, etc. Plus "Foreplay" & "Synthies Have (no) Balls?".
# KLAUS SCHULZE - PICTURE MUSIC (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - The album that defined the Schulze synth-sequencer style. Plus "C'est Pas La Meme Chose" (33'00").
# KLAUS SCHULZE - TIMEWIND (Revisited: DP) 2CD £16.00 - Amongst the ultimate in 70's synth-sequencer cosmic masterpieces. CD2 contains 3 bonus tracks (56'24").
# KLAUS SCHULZE - MOONDAWN (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - The classic 1975 album with Harald Grosskopf on drums. Plus 21'11" bonus track "Floating Sequence", © 1976.
# KLAUS SCHULZE - MIRAGE (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Deluxe edition of the classic cosmic dreamscape. Plus 19½ minute bonus track "In Cosa Crede Chi Non Crede?"
# KLAUS SCHULZE - BODY LOVE (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - The classic original soundtrack, definitive cosmic music in 3 phases. Plus "Lasse Braun" (22'26").
# KLAUS SCHULZE - ...LIVE... (Revisited: DP) 2CD £16.00 - Containes the full-length (51 minute) version of "Sense", plus 17'58" bonus track "Le Mans Au Premier".
KLAUS SCHULZE - MIDITERRANEAN PADS (Brain: 1xBT) CD £8.80 - (Thunderbolt: 1xBT) CD m/m £6.00 - © 1990.
KLAUS SCHULZE - BEYOND RECALL (Venture) CD £8.80 - Space treks onto ethnic realms...
KLAUS SCHULZE - ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, VOLUME 1 (Venture) CD £8.80 - Classic live 10/9/91. Both volumes feature studio works too!
# KLAUS SCHULZE - LA VIE ELECTRONIQUE 3 (Revisited: DP) 3CD £17.50 - More tracks from the 50 CD "editions". Note: P&P = 4 units!
# KLAUS SCHULZE - LA VIE ELECTRONIQUE 4 (Revisited: DP) 3CD £17.50 - P&P = 4 units!
SCORPIONS - LONESOME CROW (Universal Brain: DP) CD £13.50 - Their Krautrock classic! Heavy, yes - but complex & very creative. The first release on the Brain label.
# SHADES OF DAWN - THE DAWN OF TIME (Early Birds) CD £10.75 - New German prog with hints of Eloy & Ramses, but with a more neo-prog edge.
SPERRMÜLL - SPERRMÜLL (Universal Brain: DP) CD £13.50 - Brain hard-rock & psych legend, whose best LP track was the oddly titled "No Freak Out".
STREETMARK - NORDLAND (Sky: 1xBT) CD £10.75 - Mid-70's German progressive, with complex The Nice & heavier stylings.
STREETMARK - DRY (Sky) CD £10.75 - 3rd album. A smoother style with synths & female vocals.
SUB - IN CONCERT (Garden of Delights: 5xBT) CD £13.00 - 1970 German heavy progressive-psych, mock-live actually, with lots of free riffing.
TANGERINE DREAM - ELECTRONIC MEDITATION (Castle: remaster,boxed issue) CD ex+/m £8.00 - (Castle: remaster) CD £8.80 - Debut of power acid-psych underground, like instrumental Pink Floyd meets Hendrix or Guru Guru! Not synth music at all!
# TANGERINE DREAM - RICOCHET (Virgin: remastered) CD £8.00 - Live on their 1975 French & Britain tour.
# TANGERINE DREAM - STRATOSFEAR (Virgin: remastered) CD £8.00 - © 1976.
# TANGERINE DREAM - ENCORE (Virgin: remastered) CD £8.00 - Live in USA 1977.
# TANGERINE DREAM - CYCLONE (Virgin: remastered) CD £8.00 - The rockiest TD line-up, with Steve Jolliffe on winds/synths/etc. © 1978.
# TANGERINE DREAM - FORCE MAJEURE (Virgin: remastered) CD £8.00 - The last powerful TD space-trek.
TANGERINE DREAM - TURN OF THE TIDES (Coast To Coast/Zabo) CD m/m £9.00 - 1994 TD, kinda 80's Eloy & "Exit" mixed with "Rockoon".
TANGERINE DREAM - TYRANNY OF BEAUTY (AMP) CD ex+/ex+ £8.00 - (les folies art) CD ex+/m £8.00 - © 1994.
TANGERINE DREAM - TRANSSIBERIA (TDI) CD ex+/ex £6.50 - © 1998 travelogue soundtrack.
TANGERINE DREAM - ARCHITECTURE IN MOTION (Miramar) CD m/m £9.00 - © 1999. Film soundtrack. Released in Germany as "What A Blast".
TON STEINE SCHERBEN - IV (Volksmund) 2CD £14.70 - Mentors of the cliché "agit-rock", © 1981.
TRIGON - NOVA (Face Music) CD £10.75 - Trigon are one of the hottest, raunchiest, sizzliest guitar fronted rock trios around, to quote "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" CD-Rom. 1990 live in the studio excursion.
TROYA - POINT OF ERUPTION (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Rupetedly a sympho-prog classic, but not so, in sub Faithful Breath/Jane territory.
VINEGAR - VINEGAR (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Psychedelic spiced rock circa 1971, in the realms of Tractor or Elias Hulk, but with a very Teutonic sound, lots of instrumentals & guitar textures akin to Gomorrha.
WALLENSTEIN - MOTHER UNIVERSE (Spalax) CD £12.00 - 2nd album (1972), more varied & eclectic than "Blitzkrieg", with folky touches, hints of Supersister, Pink Floyd, etc.
WANIYETULA - A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM (Garden of Delights: 3xBT) CD £13.00 - The same band as Galaxy on Import/Venus. This is much closer to mid-1970's Gentle Giant or Birth Control than Yes, with liberal pillaging of Edgar Allan Poe for the lyrics!
WALTER WEGMÜLLER - TAROT (Spalax: DP) 2CD £18.50 - The ultimate Cosmic Jokers session, with Jerry Berkers, Jürgen Dollase, Hartmut Enke, Manuel Göttsching, Harald Grosskopf, Klaus Schulze & Walter Westrupp.
XHOL - HAU-RUK (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Live in concert, the Ohr LP (just 2 tracks): "Breit" is cosmic jazz whereas "Schaudel" is dirty Faustian/Alcatraz type blues; plus a 21 minute bonus track from their 1974 reformation attempt.
XHOL CARAVAN - ALTENA 1969 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Transitional Soul Caravan to Xhol Caravan concert recording. Note: "Freedom Opera" is the same as that released on the "Motherf#@kers Live" 2CD set, meaning there is only 19 minutes of unreleased material here.
XHOL - ALTENA 1970 (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - 81½ minutes (3 tracks) of classic Xhol, 5-piece line-up with Hansi Fischer. Typically trippy fusion that's really out-there, hints of early Mothers of Invention, Embryo, Missus Beastly, Opposum, etc.
YATHA SIDHRA - A MEDITATION MASS (Universal Brain: DP) CD £13.50 - The legendary cosmic cult classic: cosmic rock, jazz, Indian music & lots of flute make this a timeless classic & probably one of the finest albums ever made!
ART BEARS - HOPES & FEARS (RéR: DP,remaster) CD £10.75 - Born out of Henry Cow & Slapp Happy, at the same time as "Western Culture". Featuring Dagmar Krause extensively.
IL BERLIONE - IN 453 MINUTES INFERNAL COOKING (Belle Antique, Japan) CD ex+/m £12.00 - Offbeat RIO & Zeulh-ish Japanese fusion. 1994 album.
BRABENEC-KOMAREK-TOPOL-OPLISTILOVA-KARAFIAT-BRABEC - KONEC LETA (Black Point) CD £12.75 - Eccentric ex-Plastic People project: radical & complex blend of Czech underground, jazz, folk & archetypal multi-cultural RIO styles.
CAMIZOLE - CAMIZOLE (Spalax) CD £12.00 - Historic recordings of 70's French underground band. This CD fills in the gaps between Etron Fou & Video-Aventures histories.
CARAVAN - WATERLOO LILY (Mantra) CD £11.50 - Another classic, with guest appearances by Lol Coxhill, Phil Miller, Jimmy Hastings, etc. © 1972. Note: 1 copy only!
CARAVAN - CUNNING STUNTS (Repertoire) CD m/m £9.00 - © 1974, with the classic "Dabsong Conshirtoe".
CASSIBER - MAN OR MONKEY (RéR) CD ex+/ex+ £6.00 - A jazzy/radical Teutonic twist on the Henry Cow sound. Anders' vocals a a touch plodding/angry/political.
CASSIBER - A FACE WE ALL KNOW (RéR) CD £10.75, ex+/ex+ £6.50 - Christoph Anders, Chris Cutler & Heiner Goebbels. Eccentric & obscure/Political & radical. Intense. © 1990.
GUIGOU CHENEVIER - LES RUMEURS DE LA VILLE (Cuneiform) CD £11.75, ex+/m £7.50 - © 1998. Strongly featuring winds players Laurent Bigot & Michel Mandel. That old French spirit (Mahjun, Komintern, Etron Fou) with a little more modern-day pazazz.
COS - POSTAEOLIAN TRAIN ROBBERY (Musea) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - Legendary Belgian band fronted by Daniel Schell, offering a complex fusion with French & Canterbury stylings. Note: 1 track is omitted, but there are 4 bonus tracks by pre-Cos band Classroom!
CHRIS CUTLER - P53 (RéR) CD m/m £7.50 - A meeting of disparate musics: rock, classical, noise, art, etc. Very strange & uncompromisingly serious attempt to break new boundaries.
DECIBEL - FURTUNA VIRILIS PLUS... (MIO, Israel) CD £10.75 - 1998 album that we knew nothing about, in a much more jazzy avant-garde style. Also included 2 unreleased studio demo tracks (1992) & the 1996 tracks from "Mensaje Desde Formalhault".
DECIBEL - IN CONCERT PLUS... (MIO, Israel) CD £10.75 - 2000 live recording, taking in much more Mexican culture, ethnic & jazziness, plus the usual offbeat electronics. A challenging listen! Plus 2 tracks from a cassette demo (1978) & a 1979 Mexican Radio session.
THE (EC) NUDES - VANISHING POINT (RéR) CD £10.75, ex+/m £7.00 - Eccentric twist on Art Bears & Thinking Plague type sound, international trio spurred on by Chris Cutler's unique drums.
EGG - THE POLITE FORCE (Deram, Japan) CD m/ex+ £20.00 - (Eclectic) CD £11.75 - Their 2nd classic (from 1970) & even more creative than their debut, a much more instrumental outing with greater depth &.complexity, not least the remarkable 9 minute weird excursion "Boilk".
EGG - THE CIVIL SURFACE (Esoteric) CD £11.75 - More subdued, varied & eccentric LP than earlier ones. With extensive booklet notes. © 1974.
ENCORE+GRANDE - TOTAL BLISS (Gazul) CD m/m £8.00 - Obscure 80's quartet who sound like the French answer to Pere Ubu. Produced by Tim Hodgkinson.
ERGO SUM - MEXICO (Musea: 3xBT) CD m/m £15.00 - Extraordinary early-70's French progressive fusion, featuring Jean Guerin. For those who like early Magma, Family & the Canterbury scene. Inventive & radical - great!
FAR CORNER - ENDANGERED (Cuneiform) CD ex+/m £7.50 - 2nd album by one of the finest USA bands around, with a chamber RIO meets classical prog mix, © 2007.
FOREVER EINSTEIN - ARTIFICIAL HORIZON (Cuneiform) CD m/m £9.00 - Inventive & very lively fusion from Charles Vrtacek & co.
FRED FRITH - THE TECHNOLOGY OF TEARS (Rec Rec) CD £10.75 - Sides 1-3 of 2LP set! And, some of the most radical rock-fusion, bringing in sound-collage, live sampling & all sorts of things into a purely innovative music. Features: Tenko, John Zorn, etc.
FRED FRITH - STEP ACROSS THE BORDER (RéR/Fred: DP) CD £10.75 - Superbly conceived anthology for a film soundtrack. © 1990.
FRED FRITH - ACCIDENTAL (RéR/Fred: DP) CD £10.75 - Unreleased 1995-96 solo works: diverse, weird, atmospheric & untimately unique!.
FRED FRITH - PRINTS (RéR/Fred: DP) CD £10.75 - Promoted as Fred's first collection of songs since "Cheap At Half The Price" - don't let that put you off!
FRED FRITH GUITAR QUARTET - AYAYA MOSES (Ambiances Magnetiques) CD m/m £9.00 - Varied thematic works, scores & adaptations, one that was originally composed for the Rova Saxophone Quartet transposed to guitars. Odd, radical & eccentric stuff!
FRED FRITH & RENE LUSSIER - NOUS AUTRES (Victo) CD m/ex+ £8.00 - Radical RIO from this talented multi-guitar duo. Live at Victoriaville Festival 1986 & New York 1992.
FRED FRITH & JOHN ZORN - THE ART OF MEMORY II (RéR/Fred: DP) CD £10.75 - © 2008.
GOEBBELS & HARTH - HOMMAGE/VIER FÄUSTE FÜR HANNS EISLER & VON SPRENGEN DES GARTENS (RéR) 2CD £17.65 - Their 1st 2 LP's (on FMP). Odd Brecht/Eisler-isms, saxes/accordion/piano/clarinets/etc. Quite eccentric & varied.
# GONG - CAMEMBERT ELECTRIQUE (Decal) CD ex+/ex+ £7.00 - Start of the psych-space-trip with Flying Teapot's & Zero The Hero!
# GONG - CONTINENTAL CIRCUS (Giacomo: 2xBT) CD m/ex+ £20.00 - Classic, mainly instrumental, soundtrack circa 1972.
# GONG - FLYING TEAPOT (Decal) CD £9.00 - Classic trippy space-rock, with Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, etc.
# GONG - LIVE AU BATACLAN 1973 (Mantra) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - Classic live set.
# GONG - THE PEEL SESSIONS (Strange Fruit) CD m/m £15.00 - Aka "Pre-Modernist Wireless." 1¼ hours of Gong at the BBC, all previously unreleased recordings, featuring Kevin Ayers, Steve Hillage, etc.
GONG - ACID MOTHERHOOD (Voiceprint) CD £12.75 - Gong? Not really, but a hybrid that sounds very Gong! This sees Acid Mothers people (Kawabata & Cotton) in a new Gong with Daevid Allen's son Orlando at the drums & other people I've never heard of! © 2003.
GUAPO - BLACK ONI (Ipecac) CD ex+/ex+ £9.00 - Zeuhly & metal classical mixture.
# DASHIEL HEDAYAT - OBSOLETE (Mantra: CC) CD £13.00 - His tripped-out psychedelic trip with Gong members. A weird twist on the classic early Gong sound, with an overdose of psychedelia, effects collage & phenomenal space-rock trips!
HENRY COW - CONCERTS (RéR) 2CD £15.65 - Excellent reworks of studio material & lengthy improvisations. Note: also features their 4 "Greasy Truckers Party" contributions!
HENRY COW - STOCKHOLM & GOTEBORG (RéR) CD £10.75 - Swedish radio concerts. Experimental stuff & a few LP classics. Feat. Dagmar Krause & Georgie Born.
HENRY COW & SLAPP HAPPY - IN PRAISE OF LEARNING (RéR) CD £10.75 - The birthplace of Art Bears, combining Slapp Happy elements into some of the most radical & complexly conceived Henry Cow music. Innovative & still remarkably fresh!
LARS HOLLMER - TONOGA, FRAN NATT IDAG, VENDELTID (Resource) 2CD £17.65, m/m £15.00 - 3 Krax LP's + 7 bonus tracks! An eccentric collection of ditties & weird fusions.
HUGH HOPPER - HOPPERTUNITY BOX (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Classic 1977 fusion from ex-Softs bassist with Dave Stewart (Egg), Frank Roberts & Nigel Morris (Isotope), etc.
HUGH HOPPER BAND - MECCANO PELORUS (WMAS) CD £11.75 - Hugh & his Franco-Dutch fusion band live 1987+1989, playing some old favorites with new twists.
HUGH HOPPER BAND - CAROUSEL (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Live & studio: 1993 & 1994. More from Hugh & his Franco-Dutch jazz fusion band, this time with mostly original material.
HOPPER/DEAN/TIPPETT/GALLIVAN - MERCY DASH (Culture Press) CD £10.75 - © 1985. Radical & inventive jazzy stuff by a fearsome foursome!
HUGHSCORE - DELTA FLORA (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Hugh Hopper with Seattle musicians. Between underground psych-pop & weird jazz forms, via dub, RIO & Soft Machine styles.
LACH'N JONSSON - SONGS FROM CITIES OF DECAY (Bauta: 1xBT) CD £11.75 - Gloomy visions depicted via strange songs & esoteric instrumentals blending Swedish folk & rock fusion.
# MAGMA - KÖHNTARKÖSZ (Seventh: remastered) CD £13.00 - (Seventh/Chant du Monde: DP) CD £15.00 - The definitive Zeuhl masterwork. The lion’s share is a stunning creation full of complexities, solos & weird edges.
MAGMA - UDU WUDU (Seventh: remastered,1xBT) CD £12.75 - Amongst Magma's finest moments, with numerous different incarnations documented here. This gave birth to Weidorje & the Vander Top partnership.
ALBERT MARCOEUR - MA VIE AVEC ELLES (Baillemont) CD ex+/ex+ £9.00 - Probably his finest album yet. From Zamla Mammaz Manna to Philippe Doray to...
MASSACRE - KILLING TIME (RéR/Fred: DP,8xBT) CD £10.75 - Furious rock-noise-jazz with manic guitars from Fred Frith & ex-Material.
MATCHING MOLE - SMOKE SIGNALS (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Previously unreleased live in Europe 1972, with selections from both LP's plus lots of unique material. Excellent stuff!
MIRIODOR - MEKANO (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Turntables, samplers & crazy (Samlas or Nimal style) "chicken organ" all take the lead, & add to a real fun music, with quirky pogo rhythms, a boogie, a polka, chirpy melodies... Distinctly tongue-in-cheek.
MIRIODOR - PARADE + LIVE AT NEARFEST (Cuneiform) 2CD m/m £12.50 - © 2005.
MNEMONISTS - GYROMANCY (RéR) CD £10.75 - Pre-Biota, © 1983. LP + "Nailed/Tic" single tracks (why these weren't put on the "Horde" CD I've no idea).
MNEMONISTS - HORDE (RéR) CD £10.75 - A bizarre sonic soup of rock rhythms, twisted jazz & electronic effects, amounting to a dark & surreal experience beyond classification. © 1984.
ANTHONY MOORE - PIECES FROM THE CLOUDLAND BALLROOM (Blueprint) CD m/m £9.00 - The Slapp Happy man gets serious & intense with a very different systemic music, notably towards Tony Conrad. Features Werner Diermeier of Faust. © 1971.
MOVING GELATINE PLATES - THE WORLD OF GENIUS HANS (Musea: 5xBT) CD £10.75 - 2nd album from the French answer to Soft Machine. Supersister or Caravan.
THE MUFFINS - MANNA/MIRAGE (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Legendary band dubbed as the American Henry Cow, with notable Zappa/Mothers fusion touches.
THE MUFFINS - CHRONOMETERS (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Archive recordings from the great American answer to Henry Cow & Matching Mole, mostly previously unreleased.
# NA MARGON - DEATH'S ANGEL (Bauta) CDM ex+/m £10.00 - 17 minutes. Ronnie Ehrs project featuring Lars Jonsson. © 1993.
NE ZHDALI - WHATEVER HAPPENS, TWIST! (Rec Rec) CD m/m £10.00 - 1994 recordings.
LA 1919 - JOEUR. SPIELEN, TO PLAY (Materiali Sonori) CD ex+/ex+ £7.00 - For Henry Cow/This Heat collectors, with Chris Cutler & Charles Hayward.
NON CREDO - HAPPY WRETCHED FAMILY (Victo) CD m/ex+ £9.00 - In RIO mould, the Los Angeles answer to Slapp Happy & Debile Menthol, also hints of Lemon Kittens, L. Voag.
OCTAVO - DES PIEDS ET DES MAINS (Gazul) CD £10.75 - Eccentric & lively RIO fusions (ex-Etron Fou), full of surprises & diverse counterpoints.
PICCHIO DAL POZZO - ABBIAMO TUTTI I SUONI PROBLEMI (RéR: remaster) CD £10.75 - LP #2, & a treat for Hatfields/Henry Cow/ Stormy Six fans, this blends all those & more!
PICCHIO DAL POZZO - CAMERE ZIMMER ROOMS (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Unreleased 1977-80 recordings, a bit more Hatfield & The North/National Health than their LP's.
PLASTIC PEOPLE - BEZOHNU JE UNDERGROUND (Globus) CD £12.75 - "Out Of The Underground". 1992 reformation concert recording, with Doors/Velvets/Fugs covers!
POLYSOFT - TRIBUTE TO SOFT MACHINE (Le Triton) CD £12.75 - Intriguing French Soft Machine tribute project, with special guests: Hugh Hopper & Elton Dean.
POTEMKINE - NICHOLAS II (Soleil Zeuhl) CD £12.75 - Smoother 1978 LP plus the remaining tracks from "Foetus". More introspective with Canterbury (Gilgamesh/etc.) type edges.
JEAN-PAUL PRAT - MASAL (Musea: 4xBT) CD £10.75 - Mix late-70's instrumental Eloy with Magma/ZAO/Bringolf fusion, let it ferment - the result could well be this!
PRESENT - TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIE/LE POISON QUI REND FOU (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Roger Trigaux's band after leaving Univers Zero, almost like King Crimson meets Univers Zero - sparks fly! 2 LP's on 1 CD!
PRESENT - C.O.D. PERFORMANCE (Musea) CD £10.75 - Devasting 1993 album from Roger Trigaux & son, menacing & totally unique.
PRESENT - CERTITUDES (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - © 1997, dark & powerful Univers Zero diversion, "Fracture" King Crimson meets RIO's dark zone.
PRESENT - A GREAT INHUMANE ADVENTURE (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Live in USA (6/6/98), a notably more rock angled & heavy album, with material from their 1st 3 albums, all pretty anguished & aggressive, & the vocals are slightly off - but it is live!.
THE RESIDENTS - HAVE A BAD DAY (Euro Ralph: DP) CD £9.00 - © 1996.
THE RESIDENTS - ROADWORMS (Euro Ralph: DP) CD £9.00 - © 2000, new recordings of works from the 1998 studio album "Wormwood".
PAU RIBA - LICORS (Fonomusic) CD £9.00 - Pau Riba takes a trip to the Bananamoon Observatory & Daevid Allen lends a hand! Euterpian Gong folk & psych.
YOCHK'O SEFFER - GHILGOUL (Musea: 3xBT) CD £10.75 - Former Magma & Zao member. Weird Zeuhl fusion circa 1978. Classical/jazz/baroque strangeness!
SHAPESHIFTER - UNWRAPPING THE FAMILIAR (Ultima Thule/Shapeshifter) CD £9.80 - A creative mix of poetry, ethnic & psychedelic, by leading 90's Leicester band.
SHAPESHIFTER - TIME CAPSULE (Ultima Thule) 2CD £14.70 - Disc 1: "Easier To Feel" cosmic improvisation sessions (January-March 1999), Disc 2: "Live At The Physio & Firkin" (1998).
SHAPESHIFTER - MAUREEN ANDERSON’S SHAPESHIFTER (-) CD £9.80 - Maybe I could describe this as... "Nico & The Faction meet a cabaret act, an Elton John/Keith Emerson personallity at the keys, a jazz-punk drummer & a wannabe prog bass/guitarist".
SHAPESHIFTER - LIVE 1997 (Ultima Thule) CDR £5.00 - Official bootleg series. Live & session tapes (March-November 1997). Freaky jams & unique works included.
SHAPESHIFTER - SHIFTING GEAR (-) CD £7.00 - Recorded in 1 day in Spring 2007, this is the rough 'n' ready live sound of Shapeshifter today, but with Maureen's vocals to the fore!
SHAPESHIFTER - LOOKING GLASS TIES (Ultima Thule/Shapeshifter) CDR £6.85 - 1999 live in studio recordings, with some overdubs (2007-08). Featuring Alan Freeman & Jim Tetlow.
SOFT MACHINE - THIRD (Columbia) CD £8.80 - (Columbia Rewind) CD £8.80 - Arguably the most radical & inventive of Softs albums: avant-psych-fusion magic.
SOFT MACHINE - VIRTUALLY (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Live 1971 Radio Bremen, some of the very last Wyatt & Dean Soft Machine, fiery & inventive too!
SOFT MACHINE - BACKWARDS (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Unreleased 1968-70 archives. Excellent material that is radically different to what you know!
SOFT MACHINE - BRITISH TOUR '75 (MLP) CD £13.00 - "Bundles" & "Softs" material live, with John Etheridge on guitar, both sizzling & floaty, full of invention.
# SOFT MACHINE - KINGS OF CANTERBURY (Snapper) 2CD m/m £5.00 - Sampler!
# SONGS BETWEEN - CITIES & WATERHOLES (Bauta) CDM ex/ex+ £10.00 - 19 minutes. Niklas Billström, Chris Cutler, Lars Jonsson & Sten Sandell. With press info & souvenir photo. © 1993.
SOTOS - PLATYPUS (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Two huge doses of fiery & dynamic Zeuhl meets chamber-rock, Univers Zero gone twisted? Lots of noodly & riffing/complex-drive work-outs with all sorts of fiddly stuff. Stunning!
STORMY SIX - MACCHINA MACCHERONICA (BTF/L'Orchestra: CC) CD £13.70 - © 1980. From the time they joined in the RIO tours, with ex-Henry Cow member: Georgie Born & a Futurist twist. Their most experimental & diverse album.
STORMY SIX - UN CONCERTO (Arpa) CD £11.75, m/m £9.00 - Reformation concert recordings in the classic late 70's - early 80's style. Lyrical & warmly crafted authentic Stormy Six sound.
STORMY SIX - MEGAFONO (Diva) 2CD £17.65 - Live anthology 1976-82, from underground folk to unique RIO! A must for the fanatic, but a little heavy-going in the politico-theatrical sections.
THINKING PLAGUE - IN EXTREMIS (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - For those liking the old Thinking Plague but with a heavy dose of 5uu's "Hunger's Teeth". Henry Cow meets a Yes/Muffins/Caravan mix?!
THIS HEAT - THIS HEAT (This Is: DP) CD £10.75 - Innovation beyond the rock idiom: one part industrial, one part Canterbury-ish, & the other part radical use of the studio as an instrument.
THIS HEAT - HEALTH & EFFICIENCY (This Is: DP) CDM £6.85 - The legendary EP/LP split oddity. © 1980.
THIS HEAT - DECEIT (This Is: DP) CD £10.75 - 2nd album, with more songs, more new-wave & agnst than their debut. © 1982.
THIS HEAT - REPEAT (This Is: DP) CD £10.75 - 2 previously unreleased archive works, plus "Graphic/Varispeed" from the "Health & Efficiency" mini-LP.
THIS HEAT - MADE AVAILABLE (These: DP) CD ex+/m £9.00 - The complete John Peel sessions (March & October 1977). Imaculate sound & amazing radical music.
FRANCOIS THOLLOT - CEUX D'EN FACE (Soleil Zeuhl) CD £12.75 - A one-man Zeuhl band, an adept pianist (akin to Art Zoyd's Patricia Dallio), with nimble Stravinsky attacks, percussion & bass, plus Frippian guitar work. © 2000.
UNIVERIA ZEKT - THE UNNAMEABLES (Musea) CD £10.75 - Almost Magma circa "1001° Centigrades", featuring Zabu, Teddy Lasry, Christian Vander, etc.
UNIVERS ZERO - UNIVERS ZERO (Cuneiform: 1xBT) CD £12.00 - Belgian fusion pioneers, Third Ear Band meets Henry Cow, Art Zoyd & Magma. Different remix to "1313" version.
UNIVERS ZERO - CEUX DU DEHORS (Cuneiform) CD £12.00 - At their peak, with Andy Kirk on keyboards, 21st Century chamber rock?! Complete version, with "Triomphe des Mouches" track.
UNIVERS ZERO - CRAWLING WIND (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Their 12" EP, previously only released in Japan, a superbly spooky slice of Univers Zero. Plus "Influences" (from the "Recommended Records Sampler"), & two previously unreleased live tracks.
UNIVERS ZERO - UZED (Cuneiform) CD £12.00 - A more complexly jazzy & classical mood, close to Art Zoyd. Imagine Henry Cow gone seriously classical.
UNIVERS ZERO - HEATWAVE (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - © 1986, & back with a vengeance, this startled everybody! An incredibly powerful album.
UPPSALA - UPPSALA (Musea: 3xBT) CD £10.75 - Philippe Cauvin's Samlas inspired band, but more oddly French with a bit of Zeuhl & offbeat jazziness.
VIDEO-AVENTURES - MUSIQUES POUR GARCONS ET FILLES (Spalax) CD £12.00 - The original Recommended 10" LP plus 10 bonus tracks. Eccentric pop/underground/electronic.
WHEN - BLACK WHITE & GREY (RéR) CD £10.75 - Musique-concrete & high-art collage meets Robert Wyatt circa "Rock Bottom"! Plus the gothic "Death in a Blue Lake" suite.
BENOIT WIDEMANN - STRESS! (Musea) CD £10.75 - © 1977. Mixing notable folky references into an often funky synth based hybrid of Magma & Heldon styles.
ZAO - TYPARETH (Musea) CD £10.75 - Last LP by 70's ZAO (no Yochk'o Seffer!), not so Zeuhl & smooth compared to early albums.
ZAO - LIVE! (Musea) CD £10.75 - Previously unreleased. L'Ouest de la Grosne (5/12/76). Just after "Shekina" (when Yochk'o Seffer had left) they existed without winds, thus it's pretty unique!
ZNR - BARRICADE 3 (RéR) CD £10.75 - Hector Zazou & Joseph Racaille (ex-Barricade). Delightful French Satie/Zappa/Residents-like synths/jazz/chamber music.
ACIDMOTHERSGURUGURU - PSYCHEDELIC NAVIGATOR (Important: CC) CD £15.00 - Mani Neumeier + Kawabata Makoto & Atsushi Tsuyama of Acid Mothers Temple. © 2008.
ALUMBRADOS - A GENERATION OF VIPERS (Important: CC) CD £13.00 - Another side-project from Bardo Pond members: John & Michael Gibbons (Alasehir was another one).
ANEKDOTEN - NUCLEUS (Vitalevy) CD m/m £11.00 - 2nd album, even more "in yer face" than "Vermod", power Crimson progressive, superb & a grower!
ANGE - TOME VI (Musea) CD £10.75 - Classic live in 1977. This is Ange at their most refined & at the peak of their popularity (in prog circles).
ARACHNOID - ARACHNOID (Musea: 5xBT) CD m/ex+ £20.00 - Arachnoid were unique in progressive-rock, with nods to King Crimson, Pulsar, Pink Floyd & Heldon: a fiery & mainly instrumental space-progressive. Deleted now for at least 6 years!
AREA - ARBEIT MACHT FREI (Cramps CRSCD 001) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - Innovative Italian fusion, beyond Passport & Perigeo, with outrageous vocals courtesy of Demetrio Stratos!
AREA - CAUTION RADIATION AREA (Cramps CRSCD 002) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - 2nd & most experimental album, with more use of electronics & avant-garde techniques.
AREA - MALADETTI (Cramps CRSCD 005) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - One of the most avant-garde & extreme of Area albums, this covers a lot of ground: from jazz-rock through to free-jazz.
ARKUS - 1914 (SI Music: 2xBT) CD £10.75 - Soft Dutch prog circa 1981. Soft & complex style, Kayak & Focus touches, Camel, Canterbury & French styles too. Long deleted CD issue.
ARS NOVA - THE GODDESS OF DARKNESS (Musea) CD £10.75 - 1996 Japanese all-female ELP reincarnation!?? All instrumental progressive trio with energy.
FRANCO BATTIATO - CLIC (BMG Ricordi) CD £9.80 - 4th album, different to the LP released in the UK on Island (which was compiled from "Feed Back", a 2LP set of alternative takes), dedicated to Karlheinz Stockhausen!
# BEDOUIN - EXTREMELY LIVE 2003 (Hawkwind) CD ex+/m £9.00 - Ex-Hawkwind.
ARLO BIGAZZI - POLVERE NELLA MENTE (Materiali Sonori) CD ex+/m £11.00 - Inventive atmospheric cross-culture music, ethnic, ancient & avant-garde feel. With Arturo Stalteri, etc.
BIS DE BUSE - JOUE SA MUSIQUE (Musea) CD £9.00 - Seemingly unreleased originally (recorded in 1981), nice lightweight Noco Music cum Julverne vein, with a few covers.
BLACK CARROT - CLUK (Moon City) CD £9.80 - 1 part RIO, 1 part a la Volcano The Bear, 1 part kinda Canterbury = a unique & unclassifiable concoction, full of invention & lots of surprises. An odd one that's sure to be a grower.
BLACK CARROT - THE MARINER'S REST (Moon City) CDR £5.90 - 2nd release with Nigel Parkin (narrator/actor). A macabre tale with Black Carrot in improvised mode. One 30'40" piece.
BLACK CARROT - HANSEL & GRETAL (Moon City) CDR £5.90 - 3rd release with Nigel Parkin.
BLACK CARROT - METAMORPHOSIS (Moon City) CDR £5.90 - 4th with Nigel Parkin. "An improvised exploration of Franz Kafka". © 2006.
BLACK CARROT - DRINK THE BLACK FOREST (Tin Angel: DP) CD £9.80 - © 2008. Excellent follow-up to "Cluk", with 2nd drummer, again full of invention & lots of surprises.
BOARDS OF CANADA - THE CAMPFIRE HEADPHASE (Warp: DP) CD m/m £6.00 - Ambient lounge psych-fusion, slinky groovy stuff, & quite soundtracky really.
BOUD DEUN - THE STOLEN BICYCLE (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Final 1998 album. Not only a stolen bicycle (a little Etron Fou in here) but lots of influences melted into the unique Boud Deun sound: rock-jazz/bluegrass/avant/cross-culture instrumental fusion.
# BRAST BURN - DEBON (Paradigm) CD £10.00 - A Shamanistic Faust? Japanese avant-rock sans the drum set, with guitars, electronics, hand percussives, & a Amon Düül/Magical Power Mako do a grungy hybrid trip! Digitally processed from an LP, yet you'd never guess! Another of those famed NWW list bands!
TIM BURNESS - FINDING NEW WAYS TO LOVE (Expanding Consciousness) CD ex+/m £6.50 - 2004 solo from Burnescense leader, inspired by Peter Gabriel, etc.
CAM BUTLER - GO SLOW (Broken Horse) CD ex+/ex+ £5.00 - Sympho & downbeat odd-rock.
CAM BUTLER - SEE (SYMPHONY NO.1) (Pharmacy) CD ex+/ex-co £5.00 - Guitarist of Silver Ray does a symphony? Well, kind of! © 2006.
CARPE DIEM - EN REGARDENT PASSER LE TEMPS (Musea) CD £11.50 - Classic French space-rock & progressive-fusion for Gong, Khan or Ozrics fans.
CARPE DIEM - CUEILLE LE JOUR (Musea: 1xBT) CD ex+/m £13.00 - 2nd album, a touch more Gong/Soft Machine/Clearlight styled, but typically Carpe Diem though more varied.
ALFREDO CARRION - LOS ANDARES DEL ALQUIMISTA (Fonomusic) CD £11.75 - Legendary Spanish symphonic rock, strong Spanish flavour & classical touches (ex-Canarios).
# CATHARSIS - ILLUMINATIONS (Spalax) CD £13.00 - Classic trippy cosmic prog, from the same line-up as "Masq".
# CATHARSIS - LE BOLERO DU VEAU DES DAMES (Spalax) CD £13.00 - Legendary 70's French progressive, for Pink Floyd, Wapassou, Camel, etc., fans.
CIRCUS 2000 - AN ESCAPE FROM A BOX (Vinyl Magic) CD m/m £13.00 - 2nd album, not unlike Sandrose, yet without keyboards, instead lotsa guitar!
# CLEARLIGHT - SYMPHONY (Spalax) CD £13.00 - (Clearlight 888 Music: enhanced,CC) CD £13.70 - Classic debut of classical rock from Cyrille Verdeaux plus Tim Blake, Steve Hillage, Didier Malherbe, Gilbert Artman, etc.
# CLEARLIGHT - FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES (Spalax: 3xBT) CD £13.00 - 2nd album, classical space-fusion, with Jöel Dugrenot, David Cross, etc.
CLEARLIGHT - LES CONTES DU SINGE FOU (Spalax) CD £12.00 - 3rd, much more prog-rock Genesis/Machiavel type style, with added classical edges. © 1977.
CLEARLIGHT MOSAIQUE - IN YOUR HANDS (Legend) CD m/m £12.00 - Cyrille Verdeaux & Gunnar Admunson (plus guests) re-visit the music of "Les Contes Du Singe Fou". More neo-prog & high-tech than the original version.
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM - KONVERGENCIE (Opus) 2CD m/ex+ £45.00 - The most innovative Czechoslovakian 70's progressive band, with an amazing classical rock fronted by the extraordinary organist Marian Varga. A delight for The Nice, Egg, Le Orme, Colleseum, etc. fans. This 2CD set also contains their debut EP "Hommage a J.S. Bach" & their epynomous debut LP making this a phenomenal 3½ LP's worth.
COMPANYIA ELECTRICA DHARMA - L'ANGEL DE LA DANSA (PDI) CD £10.75 - © 1978, with complex classical & folk themes blending in. Amongst their most ambitious.
CONTINUUM - NEPTUNE (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Chris Conway's new improv trio, Continuum head out in to space (and some) tripping along with Chris Conway's Theremin & Simon Styring's infinite guitar, backed up by John Runcie's drums, which are more free-form and scattering. It's timeless but powerful stuff, kind of Rypdal cum Fripp doing a 50's sci-fi soundtrack for ECM!
CONTINUUM - BEST KEPT SECRET (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - More abstraction & diversity this time, from sonic gliss to cutting-edge electronic free-jazz, psychedelic high-paced "bop" & on to lots of other places - all the more unique being fronted by Chris' wailing banshee Theremin.
CORTE DEI MIRACOLI - DIMENSIONE ONIRICA (Mellow) CD £11.75 - Live recordings, over 70 minutes with many unique non-LP compositions.
CRIUM DELIRIUM - LIVE CONCERTS (Legend) CD m/m £15.00 - Radical space fusion trippiness from France circa 1970-75. Typically French classic stuff, in Ame Son, Nyl, Carpe Diem vein, with Gong influence too! Another mythical band unearthed!!!
CRUCIS - CRUCIS (Edison, Japan) CD m/m £25.00 - The classic Argentinian progressive, a kind of potpouri of Italian prog complexities, with cosmic Pink Floyd cum Eloy edges.
CURVED AIR - AIRCONDITIONING (Collectors Choice) CD £11.00 - Highly creative 1970 debut, featuring Francis Monkman & Daryl Way, with Sonja Kristina on vocals.
DEDALUS - DEDALUS (Vinyl Magic) CD m/m £15.00 - Exceptional Italian jazz-fusion, in instrumental Area/Perigeo realms.
DEYSS - VISION IN THE DARK (-) CD £11.75 - Swiss neo-prog, originally this was a 3-sided 2LP set, & contains their finest work.
DJAM KARET - SUSPENSION & DISPLACEMENT/BURNING THE HARD CITY (HCP) 2CD m/m £30.00 - Now rare 2CD edition with matching covers of 2 very different Djam Karet classics!
DJAM KARET - SUSPENSION & DISPLACEMENT (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Abstract & cosmic music, on the borderline of rock.
DJAM KARET - RECOLLECTION HARVEST (Cuneiform) CD ex+/m £7.50 - © 2005.
DRUM CIRCUS - MAGIC THEATRE (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Previously unreleased Peter Giger project from 1971, fronted by 3 drummers, with the prolific jazz winds player Gerd Dudek, & Brainticket members Joel Vandroogenbroeck & Carole Muriel. Pre-empting "Celestial Ocean" in some ways, but much more jazz & ethnic than electronic. Well-worth checking-out!
# EARTHLING SOCIETY - SCI-FI HI-FI (4zero) CD £9.00 - UK space-rock. © 2009.
EAST OF EDEN - MERCATOR PROJECTED (Esoteric: 3xBT) CD £11.75 - 1969 debut, a classic slice of psychedelia - full of invention, with Soft Machine, Krautrocky-fusion edges, etc.
EELA CRAIG - EELA CRAIG (Garden of Delights: 4xBT) CD £13.00 - Obscure 1971 debut. Krautrocky blues & classical rock/psych/underground hybrid. Essential 70's prog.
EELA CRAIG - MISSA UNIVERSALIS (Erdenklang) CD £9.00 - Austrian symphonic rock mass, featuring Bognermayr & Zuschrader.
ELECTRIC PRUNES - UNDERGROUND (Collectors Choice: 2xBT) CD £13.00 - Definitive early US psychedelia with pop music going underground & trippy.
ELECTRIC PRUNES - MASS IN F MINOR (Collectors Choice: 2xBT) CD £13.00 - The revolutionary 1967 rock mass, it sounds remarkably fresh even 34 years on! Superb psychedelic rock.
ELECTRIC PRUNES - RELEASE OF AN OATH (Collectors Choice) CD £13.00 - In the spirit of "Mass In F Minor" but more symphonic & vocals in English.
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (Castle: remastered,1xBT) CD m/m £6.50 - Classic live set based on Mussorgsky's classic suite.
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - BRAIN SALAD SURGERY (Castle: remaster,3xBT) CD ex+/m £5.50 - © 1973.
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS (Essential) 2CD m/m £9.00 - (Castle: remaster) 2CD £11.75 - Live in 1974.
ERRATA CORRIGE - SIEGFRIED IL DRAGO (Vinyl Magic) CD m/m £15.00 - Excellent Italian progressive, a step on from PFM or Pierrot Lunaire.
ESCAPADE - SEARCHING FOR THE ELUSIVE RAINBOW (Mother West) CD m/m £15.00 - High-flying instrumental space-rock from New York. Old Djam Karet meets Guru Guru & Loch Ness?
ESCAPADE - CITRUS CLOUD COVER (Mother West) 2CD £18.60 - © 1998. With one foot in the early Guru Guru groove, with the power of Janick Top era freak-out Magma, & the ghost of old Djam Karet getting a look-in, we then venture to space!
ESCAPADE - DUETOAFAULTYPREMONITION (Mother West) CD £12.75 - © 1999. This trip gets deeper, more condensed & responsive. It's really out there!
ESCAPADE - IF/OR (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Very first Escapade gig, just 1 track, awesome guitar freak-out from the current masters of the genre! Think Ash Ra Tempel, Mahavishnu Orchestra, early Djam Karet & you'll be getting close. #75 copy limited edition!
ESCAPADE - BUT DISTRACTIONS ABOUND (Submergence) CD £10.75 - This 2006 release is seemingly deliberately different, almost raw, chunky, aggressive, with many new directions in the albums 6 tracks, less Kraut/prog, more art/avant.
FIFTY FOOT HOSE - LIVE & UNRELEASED (Captain Trip, Japan) CD £12.75 - Extraordinary new incarnation (live August 1995) but old sound! A psychedelic legend.
FILLE QUI MOUSSE - TRIXIE STAPLETON 291, SE TAIRE POUR UNE FEMME... (Spalax) CD £12.00 - The legendary Futura album. Faust meets Komintern at an avant-garde jazz festival - or something like that - a strange experience!
FLAMENGO - KURE V HODINKACH (Supraphon) CD m/m £15.00 - Legendary Czech rock band who had success in the Czech pop charts in the 60's, but in the 70's they became too risque & this LP was withdrawn.
FONYA - UPPER LEVEL OPEN SPACE (Musea) CD m/m £9.00 - Finest yet from this solo multi-instrumentalist, being really complexly crafted. © 1998.
FOOD BRAIN - SOCIAL GATHERING (Polydor, Japan) CD m/ex+ £30.00 - The legendary Japanese 70's underground classic. Weird psychedelic & fusion hybrids.
# FUSIOON - FUSIOON (Divucsa) CD ex+/ex+ £11.00 - Extraordinary & diverse debut by 70's Spanish prog/underground maestro's. Though psychedelic & jazzy, it's uniquely Fusioon.
# FUSIOON - FUSIOON (Divucsa) CD m/m £15.00 - Spanish progressive classic. Their 2nd circa 1974, blending complex Egg, Collegium Musicum, Granada, Ibio & uniquely Fusioon styles.
# GARYBALDI - ASTROLABIO (Fonit) CD ex+/m £15.00 - Classic Italian Hendrix inspired space-rock.
RON GEESIN - RIGHT THROUGH AND BEYOND (Headscope) CD £9.80 - Sonic collage, outlandish prose & cut-up verbals, electronics, concrete, banjo's & big doses of unclassifiable uniqueness. Complete 1977 album "Right Through" + BBC recordings!
RON GEESIN - BLUE FUSE (Headscope) CD £8.80 - Ron defuses the blues, sucks it up & snorts it out, twists it up & plays with it... © 1993.
# IL GIRO STRANO - LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (Mellow) CD ex+/m £17.00 - Demos from 1972 & 1973 by an Italian band who never recorded an album. Complex, dynamic & heavy but variable quality!
# GNIDROLOG - IN SPITE OF HARRY'S TOE-NAIL (Audio Archives) CD £15.00 - © 1972. On one-hand the avant-gardism of early King Crimson, on the other a mutation of Nine Days Wonder & purely underground wackiness. Bizarre, eclectic & still very fresh. Plus 2 demos from 1969 & 2 tracks from their 1971 BBC Session.
# GOBLIN - ZOMBI: DAWN OF THE DEAD (Cinevox) CD £13.00 - Complete 17 track score, © 1978. Probably their second most famous soundtrack, this CD also includes a number of weirder snippets heard in the film but not on the original LP. The range of styles is very wide.
GOBLIN - AMO NON AMO (Cinevox) CD £11.75 - Complete soundtrack (the original LP release only featured 4 tracks from the film) to the Italian version of an Armenia Balducci film.
GOBLIN - PATRICK (Cinevox: 10xBT) CD £11.75 - 1979 soundtrack to Richard Franklin's horror movie (circa 1978), versions released in the UK & USA featured music by Brian May.
GOBLIN - NOTTURNO (Cinevox) CD £11.75 - Complete 14 track soundtrack, © 1983. Often in the vein of "Tenebre" & extremely varied, with some almost disco cheesy instrumentals!
GOBLIN - PHENOMENA (Cinevox) CD £11.75 - "Previously unreleased" 1985 soundtrack. The original LP released (aka "Creepers") also featured music by other bands!
GOBLIN - BUIO OMEGA (Cinevox) CD £11.75 - Lost "previously unreleased" soundtrack from 1979, in a similar vein to "Contamination".
GOBLIN - LA VIA DELLA DROGIA (Cinevox) CD £11.75 - Previously unreleased soundtrack from 1977, lots of those older Goblin trademarks mix-in here with themes reminiscent of "Zombi" or "Contamination", with prog-rock & funky edges & the accent on synth solos.
GOBLIN - NONHOSONNO (Cinevox: DP) CD £11.75 - 2001 Argento film soundtrack.
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR - LIFT YR. SKINNY FISTS LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN! (Kranky: CC) 2CD ex/m £10.00 - © 2000?
# GOMA - 14 ABRIL (Lost Vinyl) CD m/m £15.00 - Extremely obscure Spanish 70's heavy/jazzy prog, with Iceberg/Osanna touches. Some people quote King Crimson as comparison.
GOSTA BERLINGS SAGA - TID AR LJUD (Transubstans: DP) CD £12.00 - Stunning Samla's like prog from Sweden, covering a lot of ground, with psych & Canterbury touches.
# GRACIOUS! - GRACIOUS! (Repertoire) CD m/ex+ £9.50 - Classic complex progressive/psych with Mellotron, lotsa guitars, satire & theatre, onto weird realms.
# GRANADA - VALLE DEL PAS (Fonomusic) CD ex/ex+ £5.00 - Legendary Spanish progressive, 3rd album, an instrumental progressive rock/folk fusion masterpiece.
# GRAVY TRAIN - GRAVY TRAIN (Repertoire) CD m/m £10.00 - One of the finest Vertigo progressives, with lengthy tracks & great work-outs, in the vein of Raw Material, Thirsty Moon, Jade Warrior, Tonton Macoute, etc.
# GRIME - GRIME (Musea: 6xBT) CD m/m £15.00 - Grime were in the classic tradition of French 70's progressive, like Ange, Memoriance, etc.
GROUNDHOGS - ECCENTRIC MAN (Prism) CD ex+/ex+ £6.00 - London Marquee 21/4/1993.
# GROUP 1850 - AGEMO'S TRIP TO MOTHER EARTH (Pseudonym: 3D cover) CD m/m £15.00 - The Dutch psychedelic classic. From Moody Blues/Beatles roots via Pink Floyd & White Noise realms onto Krautrocky space-rock. Plus 13 singles tracks (2 being previously unreleased).
# GRYPHON - MIDNIGHT MUSHRUMPS (Progressive) CD m/ex+ £12.00 - Excellent blend of medieval, folk & progressive styles, mainly instrumental too.
# GRYPHON - RED QUEEN TO GRYPHON THREE (Progressive) CD m/ex+ £12.00 - Their grand opus, a symphonic rock suite with a wealth of folk touches, betwixt SFF, Clearlight, Mike Oldfield & Jade Warrior.
# GUALBERTO - VERICUETOS (Lost Vinyl) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - Folk/ethnic cross-culture symphonic progressive classic, a feast of guitars, sitar, keyboards, for Catharsis, Gotic, Granada fans.
GUNESH - RISHAD SHAFI PRESENTS GUNESH (Boheme) CD £10.75 - Slightly extended version of their 2nd LP "Looking At The Earth" plus 6 bonus tracks.
GUNESH & RISHAD SHAFI - 45° IN A SHADOW (Boheme) CD £10.75 - 1984-90 unreleased recordings, getting more eccentric/diverse in ethnic roots + jazz-rock fusions, with synths/funk, Dissidenten/Jonas Hellborg/Lounge Lizards/etc. vein.
KENNY HAKANSSON - SPRINGLEKAR OCH GANGLATAR (Silence) CD £10.75 - Folk themes played on multi-electric guitars with a Mike Oldfield feel. Kebnekaise member.
PETER HAMMILL - IN CAMERA (Virgin) CD ex+/m £5.50 - VdGG vocalist. © 1974.
PETER HAMMILL - NADIR'S BIG CHANCE (Virgin) CD m/m £6.50 - © 1975.
PETER HAMMILL - THE NOISE (Fie) CD ex+/m £7.00 - © 1993.
# PETER HAMMILL - THE COMPLETE CONCERT ON TWO COMPACT DISCS (Enigma) 2CD ex+/ex+-co £7.50 - "Roomtemparaturelive", wth Stuart Gordon & Nic Potter. © 1990.
# PETER HAMMILL WITH STUART GORDON - VERACIOUS (Fie) CD m/m £6.50 - Live, © 2006.
COL. BRUCE HAMPTON - ONE RUINED LIFE OF A BRONZE TOURIST (Terminus: DP) CD ex+/vg £5.00 - Kinda Pere Ubu, Ron Pate, Beefheart realms, ex-Hampton Grease Band.
HAWKWIND - IN SEARCH OF SPACE (EMI: RE) CD m/m £6.50 - © 1971. Remastered version, plus 3 singles tracks.
HAWKWIND - SPACE RITUAL (EMI: RE) 2CD ex+/m £9.00 - Live 1972, © 1973. Remastered version, plus their 3 "Greasy Truckers Party" contributions.
HAWKWIND - DOREMI FASOL LATIDO (EMI: RE) CD £8.80 - © 1972. Remastered version, plus 3 single tracks & an unreleased version of "Ejection".
HAWKWIND - HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN GRILL (EMI) CD m/m £7.00 - © 1974.
HAWKWIND - HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN GRILL (EMI: RE) CD £8.80 - © 1974. Remastered version, plus 3 singles tracks & a remix of "Paradox".
HAWKWIND - PXR5 (Virgin) CD ex+/m £6.00 - © 1979.
HAWKWIND - LIVE CHRONICLES (Griffin: 4xBT) 2CD vg+-m/ex+ £6.00 - The 2LP set plus a reprint of Michael Moorcock's short story "The Dreaming City". Note: P&P = 5 units!
# HAWKWIND - LOVE IN SPACE (EBS: CC,1xBT) 2CD ex+/vg+ £6.00 - Live 1995 concept opus, kinda "X File" story.
# HAWKWIND - COLLECTORS SERIES, VOL. 1: COMPLETE ’79 (Hawk) 2CD ex+/m £7.50 - Moderate quality sound! For completists only!
# HAWKWIND - DAWN OF HAWKWIND (Blueprint) CD ex/ex £5.00 - Various oddments: radio curios, rehearsals, "Greasy Truckers", etc.
# HAWKWIND - MINNEAPOLIS 1989 (Hawk) 2CD m/ex+ £7.50 - Live 4/10/89.
HAWKWIND - MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (Laserlight) CD m/m £4.00 - Cheap intro.
HAWKWIND - LIVE & RARE "ONWARD FLIES THE BIRD" (Emporio) CD ex+/m £4.00 - Sampler.
HAZCHEM - STRANGE ATTRACTOR (SPM) CD £14.70 - Strange, very strange indeed! Ethnic jazz & raga space-rock &...??? Dracken Theaker & co.
HELDON - ALLEZ-TEIA (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - "Heldon 2". The duo of Richard Pinhas & Georges Grunblatt in a largely moody frame of mind, with Frippian guitar tones, lots of Mellotron & electronics.
# HELDON - AGNETA NILSSON (Spalax) CD ex/m £5.00 - "Heldon 4", transitional Heldon, with a bigger more powerful sound: Mellotron, synths, Frippian guitars galore!
HERBE ROUGE - HERBE ROUGE (Legend: 12xBT) CD ex+/m £13.00 - Superb Zappa-esque fusion/prog French styled, in Ma Banlieue Flasque/Supersister area.
JACQUES HIGELIN & ARESKI - HIGELIN & ARESKI (Saravah) CD £9.00 - Ethno-psych trip.
# HIGH TIDE - THE REASON OF SUCCESS (SPM) CD £12.75, ex/ex+ £6.50 - 1990 recordings of heavy psych freak-outs. Tony Hill & Drachen Theaker, plus Simon House, Peter Pavli, etc.
H.P. LOVECRAFT - TWO CLASSIC ALBUMS FROM... (Collector's Choice) CD £11.00 - One of the most innovative of US 60's bands. Their debut & second LP's plus a rare single on 1 CD! Special offer!
INDIGO - SHORT STORIES (Indigo) CD £9.00 - Debut by Austrian 80's Genesis inspired band, ex-Kyrie Eleison, with high-tech style.
# L'INFONIE - L'INFONIE (VOLUME 3) (Tir Groupe/Mucho Gusto: 3xBT) CD £13.70 - Very varied debut by the French-Canadian avant-fusion/RIO/psych emsemble.
# DAVE JACKSON - FRACTAL BRIDGE (Fie) CD ex/m £6.00 - Lively fusion & synths.
JACULA - TARDO PEDE IN MAGIAM VERSUS (Mellow) CD m/ex+ £25.00 - Italian dazzling gothic creation, lots of church organ & strange otherworldly feeling.
KANSAS - TWO FOR THE SHOW (Kirshner) CD ex/ex+ £4.00 - © 1978.
KENSO - KENSO (Arcangelo, Japan: 6xBT) CD £17.65 - Rare 1980 debut.
# KING CRIMSON - IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON (Virgin) CD m/m £6.50 - 30th anniversary edition!
KING CRIMSON - THE CONSTRUKCTION OF LIGHT (Virgin) CD m/ex+ £7.00 - © 2000.
ROLAND KOVAC NEW SET - THE MASTER SAID (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Austrian keyboard players 1971 Selected Sound library LP featuring Siegfried Schwab.
ROLAND KOVAC NEW SET - LOVE THAT (Garden of Delights) CD £13.00 - Austrian keyboard players 1972 Selected Sound library LP, with Brian Auger, Siegfried Schwab, Peter Trunk & Keith Forsey.
# LARD FREE - LARD FREE "3" (Spalax) CD £13.00, m/m £9.50 - The totally unique 1977 opus with a great cyclical deep & resonant atmosphere. Menacingly vivid sound!
LUNAR DUNES - FROM ABOVE (Dune: CC) CD £9.80 - 2007 British trip-rock, one part instrumental Porcupine Tree meets Secret Saucer.
MAD PUPPET - MASQUE (WMMS) CD £10.75 - 1982 Germano-Italian progressive that sounds more 1972! Hints of Birth Control, Novalis, Alphataurus, etc.
MAHOGANY BRAIN - WITH (JUNK SAUCEPAN) WHEN (SPOON-TRIGGER) (Mellow) CD £11.75 - The legendary Futura debut by this weirdo French underground band, rough & low-fi!
KAWABATA MAKOTO - O SI AMES A SIGHIRE A ESSERE DUAS UMBRAS? (Important) CD £12.75 - Acid Mothers Temple member.
MANEIGE - LIVE MONTREAL 1974/1975 (Fonovox) CD £12.75 - Unreleased live recordings from this seminal Canadian band, bridging classical prog & RIO genres, from melodic Henry Cow realms, jazzy Mothers-isms, akin to l’Infonie, & precursor to the Miriodor style.
MARILLION - MARBLES LIVE (Intact) CD ex+/m £5.00 - © 2005.
MAXWELLS - MAXWELLS (Long Hair: 4xBT) CD £14.00 - Odd album out on MPS, as these were a Danish beat band turned fusion, akin to Burnin' Red Ivanhoe.
METABOLISME - TEMPUS FUGIT (Musea) CD £10.75 - Typically French 70's prog, but also a unique mix, with Atoll, Visitors, Traingle touches & Italian stylisms.
MIDNIGHT SUN - WALKING CIRCLES/MIDNIGHT DREAMS (Free) CD £13.70 - Danish brassy soul & blues rock circa 1972-73, in early Chicago & Emergency territory.
MODRY EFEKT - SVET HLEDACU (Bonton: 6xBT) CD £12.75 - With addition of 2nd keyboard player, onto prog-space-rock in Eloy, East realms.
MONA LISA - L'ESCAPADE (Musea: 2xBT) CD £10.75 - Innovative French progressive who stepped on from their Ange influences & created their own genre with folk & classical references.
MOORE/MYERS - REACHING BEYOND THE SPHERE (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Amazingly fiery instrumental progressive rock, with all the right moves: Camel, Egg, ELP, Finch, King Crimson, Shylock similarities. Previously only on cassette!
MOORE/MYERS - NINE DAY'S WONDER (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Unreleased 1988 album by amazing USA instrumental prog duo. A sizzling guitar delight, with organ, drums, etc., in classic Eurorock vein.
MR BROWN - MELLAN TRE OGON (Transubstans) CD m/m £9.00 - Swedish prog, © 1977.
MUSHROOM - REALLY DON’T MIND IF YOU SIT THIS ONE OUT (4Zero: DP) CD £10.75 - Excellent early Mushroom live recordings, freaky jams & Krautrocky stuff.
NEED NEW BODY - NEED NEW BODY (Pickled Egg: DP) CD £11.75 - Friends of Bablicon, & as fresh as Bablicon were when they started, though much more eccentric & scrappy, with Henry Cow, This Heat & Residents edges too!
NEKTAR - REMEMBER THE FUTURE (Dream Nebula) SACD £13.70 - Another sci-fi story told in music, just 1 track really. Kinda Nektar's "Dark Side Of The Moon". Plus 5.1 mix.
NEKTAR - LIVE IN NEW YORK (Bacillus: 2 tracks omitted) CD £11.75 - Recordings from their last American tour with Roye Albrighton.
NEKTAR - MAGIC IS A CHILD (Bacillus) CD £9.80 - USA album, © 1977.
LEO NERO - VERO (Mellow) CD £11.75 - Aka Gianni Leone (ex-Il Balletto Di Bronzo keyboardist). Varied styles, from Pink Floyd to symphonic bombast.
NEW 7TH MUSIC & THE EXPLODING HEADBAND - NEW 7TH MUSIC & THE EXPLODING HEADBAND (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Take one part Third Ear Band, one part early Hapshash & The Coloured Coat, season with a small amount of Hawkwind & Rustic Hinge. This is the result!
NICO - THE MARBLE INDEX (Elektra: 2xBT) CD £8.80 - Classic Nico, music by John Cale.
CZESLAW NIEMEN - CZLOWIEK JAM NIEWDZIECZNY (Green Tree) CD £13.70 - 1971 (not 1973 as it says on the cover) 2LP set "Enigmatic" (red cover) on 1CD.
CZESLAW NIEMEN - STRANGE IS THIS WORLD (Green Tree) CD £13.70 - Virtually an English vocal version of "Niemen, Vol. 2" with the SBB trio & experimental double-bass player Helmut Nadolski. Originally released on CBS, this is one of his well-known albums.
MIKE OLDFIELD - TUBULAR BELLS (Virgin) CD ex/m £5.00 - The Mike Oldfield classic! © 1973.
OPUS AVANTRA - DONELLA DEL MONACO (BTF/Trident) CD £11.75 - Extraordinary blend of rock, classical, opera, contemporary, jazz, etc. Aka "Introspezione" without the extra track!
OPUS AVANTRA - INTROSPEZIONE (Artis) CD £14.70 - Extraordinary blend of rock, classical, opera, contemporary, jazz, electronic, etc. "Donella Del Monaco" extended! Note: 1 copy only!
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE - IT'S ALL ABOUT DELAY (Transubstans) 2CD £18.00 - 2nd album by this Danish international trip-rock/free-psych outfit, with Krautrock feel, towards Ozric Tentacles, Secret Saucer, etc. 12 tracks in 155 minutes! Housed in a DVD case!
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE - THE BLACK TOMATO (Transubstans: DP) CD £12.00 - 3rd album, in Ozric Tentacles, Hawkwind & Escapade realms.
OUTER LIMITS - MISTY MOON (Musea: extended) CD £10.75 - Spacey King Crimson/Grobschnitt/Yes inspired Japanese progressive. © 1985
OUTER LIMITS - THE SCENE OF PALE BLUE (Musea: 1xBT) CD £10.75 - © 1987. Hints of Grobschnitt & King Crimson, in a hybrid of French prog styles, with peculiar English vocals.
OZRIC TENTACLES - STRANGEITUDE (Dovetail: 1xBT) CD £11.75 - Further treks into space, even moving towards Heldon!
OZRIC TENTACLES - JURASSIC SHIFT (Dovetail: hemp cover!: 1xBT) CD m/m £15.00 - A heady trip with much more lively sound & heavy guitar. Rare!
MICHAL PAVLICEK - BIG HEADS (Bonton) CD ex/m £9.00 - Varied guitars & fusions, hints of Alain Markusfeld, David Torn, Anthony Phillips.
PERE UBU - THE MODERN DANCE (Cooking Vinyl) CD ex+/m £8.00 - © 1978.
PERE UBU - THE TENEMENT YEAR (Fontana: 5xBT) CD m/m £8.00 - © 1988.
# RICHARD PINHAS - RHIZOSPHERE (Spalax: DP) CD £13.00 - Like Heldon "Interface" but without guitar, instead a real heavy dose of synths!
RICHARD PINHAS - CHRONOLYSE (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - With 7 synthesizer themes & the 30 minute opus "Paul Atredies" performed by Heldon.
RICHARD PINHAS - EAST WEST/LIVE IN PARIS 1982 (Spalax) CD £12.00 - A lot more logical coupling than the Cuneiform "Rhizosphere" release!
PINK FLOYD - ECHOES (EMI) 2CD m/m £15.00 - Segued sampler.
THE PLANET SCANNERS - LIVE & SCANNING (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Excellent document of Chris Conway's improvising space music trio, with Theremin, violin, synths, percussion, etc.
THE PLANET SCANNERS - IN ORBIT (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Chris Conway's improv/space-fusion trio, again captured live, but even more esoteric than before.
THE PLANET SCANNERS - THE THIRD EXPEDITION (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Now a quartet & getting stranger: cosmic music has taken a big step sideways! Live @ Bambu (15/8/07).
# PORCUPINE TREE - SIGNIFY (Delerium) CD ex+/m £6.00 - 1996 kinda concept opus. Very varied & inventive, familiar themes/variations & many new ideas.
PORCUPINE TREE - COMA DIVINE (Delerium) 2CD ex+/m/m £9.00 - 1997 "Signify" European tour, highlights from Rome 25-27 March. Charged atmosphere & enthusiastic audience!
# PRETTY THINGS - S.F. SORROW (Snapper Music: 4xBT) CD ex+/ex+ £5.50 - © 1968.
# PRETTY THINGS - RESSURECTION (worldwidetribe) CD ex+/m £5.50 - 1998 live version of "S.F. Sorrow", with guests: Arthur Brown (narration) & Dave Gilmour (guitar).
# PTOSE - IGNOBLES LIMACES (Gazul) CD £10.75 - In many ways the Galic Der Plan or Yello meets...?? Kinda French techno-pop & pastische/satire, hints of The Residents, Renaldo & The Loaf, etc. Plus their "Night Of The Reptiles" cassette release.
QUINTESSENCE - DIVE DEEP (Repertoire: DP) CD £12.75 - Their 3rd classic, © 1971.
RADIOMOBEL - GUDANG GARAM (Transubstans) CD £11.75 - 1978 Swedish prog, varied varied: sympho & folky, hard-rock mix.
# RAIN - LIVE, CHRISTMAS NIGHT (Radioactive) CD ex+/m £5.00 - Reputedly killer Canadian psych/heavy rarity.Sounded like almost any US 70's rock band to me!
# RAISON DE PLUS - AU BOUT DU COULOIR (Musea) CD £10.75 - French 1995 progressive, hints of Ange, Atoll, Versailles, nicely crafted & strong.
RICORDI D'INFANZIA - IO UOMO (Warner Fonit) CD £11.75 - Obscure Italian heavy progressive with lotsa organ & lyrical style.
SBB - GRUPA SBB (Muza) CD £8.80 - The full concert recording of SBB's 1974 debut LP, with bonus of 20 minutes more classic SBB & a 13 minute blues/rock 'n' roll medley.
SBB - ZE SLOWEM BIEGNE DO CIEBIE (Muza) CD £8.80, ex+/m £5.50 - More keyboards and SBB drives in a proggy mix & a trippy album it is too!
SBB - MEMENTO Z BANALNYM TRYPTYKIEM (Muza) CD £8.80 - © 1980, made after a couple of Jozef Skrzek solos, with a Pink Floyd edge & additional 2nd guitarist.
SECRET OYSTER - SEA SON (Lasers Edge: 3xBT) CD £12.75 - LP #2 (© 1974), wickedly complex Canterburyesque fusion, often very close to Soft Machine from the same time, & just as good.
SILVER RAY - THIS IS SILVER RAY (Pharmacy) CD m/ex+ £9.00 - In dreamy GSYBE vein.
SINKADUS - LIVE AT PROGFEST '97 (Cyclops) 2CD ex+/ex+ £10.00 - Live version of their album "Aurum Nostrum" plus a new work. Also with a bonus CD of their 1996 demo.
SMALL FACES - OGDENS NUT GONE FLAKE (Castle) CD m/ex+ £6.00 - Their celebrated eccentric album featuring Stanley Unwin. © 1968.
DOUG SNYDER & BOB THOMPSON - THE RULES OF PLAY (Dead Earnest) CD £10.75 - One side of the cassette-only release, plus 2 shorter works.
SOMNAMBULIST - SOMNAMBULIST (Laser's Edge: DP) CD ex/ex+ £7.00 - © 1996.
ARTURO STALTERI - SYRIARISE (Materiali Sonori) CD £11.75 - Ambient, semi-classical & systemic music for piano & other keyboards from ex-Pierrot Lunaire member.
STEAMHAMMER - SPEECH (Repertoire: DP) CD £12.75 - Their last & their best, very progressive psych space trek, with long tracks & instrumentals.
# STRAY - DANGEROUS GAMES (Receiver) 2CD m/m £5.00 - © 2001.
SUBARACHNOID SPACE - ALSO RISING (Strange Attractors) CD £11.75 - A collection of shorter (seemingly composed) pieces, offering a new twist of lighter SubArachnoid Space.
# SUPERSISTER - PRESENT FROM NANCY/TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER (Polydor) CD ex+/ex+ £7.00 - Legendary Dutch progressive. LP's #1 & #2 on 1 CD. Caravan meets Zappa?! Superb!
SUPERSISTER - TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER (Esoteric) CD £11.75 - Their most esoteric & trippy Caravan flavoured outing. Plus 2 bonus singles (A & B sides).
SUPERSISTER - PUDDING & GISTEREN (Esoteric) CD £11.75 - More diverse/eclectic, with some nice pastiche, & a side-long ballet suite. Plus rare single B side & live version of "Wow".
SUPERSISTER - ISKANDER (Esoteric) CD £11.75 - With Charlie Mariano = more fusion styled, more Embryo/Alquin/Caravan-ish. Plus 2 rare singles, never on CD before!
THORS HAMMER - THORS HAMMER (Thors Hammer) CD £13.00 - Obscure Danish prog circa 1971, in Burnin’ Red Ivanhoe/Hurdy Gurdy vein.
THREE DAY BAND - FILE UNDER JOHN FAHEY (Important) CD ex/m £5.00 - 2 noodly tracks of improv Limbus 4/Grateful Dead oddness, but all rather scrappy/incoherent.
TIEMKO - OCEAN (Musea) CD £10.75 - High-flying instrumental progressive fusion hinting at Steve Hackett, Solaris, East, Halloween. Very complex & high-tech.
TIEMKO - CA TOURNE... (Musea) CD £10.75 - © 2003. Inc. PC multimedia bonus.
TRAD, GRAS OCH STENAR - MORS MORS (½ Special) CD £13.70 - Live 1972, some of this is very turgid & drab, with an horrendous cover of Rolling Stone's "Last Time". However, the 26'41" bonus track proves that they could still trip-out!
TRIANA - HIJOS DEL AGOBIO (Fonomusic: RE) CD £10.75 - Their 2nd, © 1977, & their most complex & unusual, lots of fast fiddly guitars, complex time changes, chop & change schizo invention, etc.
THE TRIP - TIME OF CHANGE (Vinyl Magic) CD £11.75 - Aptly titled 4th album by Italian early-70's progressives, moving to more Yes styled realms.
VAN DER GRAAF - THE AEROSOL GREY MACHINE (Fie) CD ex+/ex+ £7.50 - © 1968.
VAN DER GRAAF - VITAL (Charisma: edited version) CD ex/ex+ £4.50 - Live 1978.
VAN DER GRAAF - FIRST GENERATION (Charisma) CD ex+/ex+ £4.00 - 1 rare track.
VAN DER GRAAF - SECOND GENERATION (Virgin) CD ex+/ex+ £4.00 - "Scenes from 1975-77".
VAN DER GRAAF - I PROPHESY DISASTER (Virgin) CD ex/ex £3.00 - Sampler with rarities.
VISITORS - VISITORS (Musea) CD £10.75 - 1974 French psych-prog classic obscurity, conceived by Jean-Pierre Massiera (the man behind "Horiffic Child" - which definitely needs reissuing, what about it Musea?). Much of this sounds more Italian than French, especially "Dies Irae" - all a kind of space trip! A supergroup really, featuring the Lockwood brothers.
BUDDY WAKEFIELD - RUN ON ANYTHING (SFR) CD vg+/vg £2.00 - A US Kevin Coyne?
WAPASSOU - MESSE EN RE MINEUR (Musea) CD £11.00, m/m £8.00 - The "new formula" Wapassou (1976) created an even more unique & eclectic blend than the original, devoid of percussion, spacey, with just 1 track per side.
WAPASSOU - SALAMMBO (Musea) CD £11.00 - Part 2 of the "Messe" trilogy, the most anguished & dramatic of the 3, exquisite yet dark & disturbing symphonic & baroque progressive. © 1977.
DARRYL WAY'S WOLF - CANIS LUPUS (Esoteric: 2xBT) CD £11.75 - After departing Curved Air, Daryl Way his own proto-supergroup prog outfit, with unique style. With John Etheridge. © 1972.
DARRYL WAY'S WOLF - SATURATION POINT (Esoteric: 3xBT) CD £11.75 - Their 2nd is our favourite, a classic, furious outing, full of solos, dynamics, surprises galore. © 1973.
WLUD - CARRYCROCH' (Musea: 1xBT) CD £10.75 - Unique instrumental 70's French progressive from near Strasbourg (Leicester's French twin town)!
WLUD - SECOND (Musea) CD £10.75 - Note: this also features their 2 singles from 1981 & a previously unreleased track from 1983, these tracks are not instrumental!
YES - CLOSE TO THE EDGE (Atlantic) CD ex+/ex+ £5.00 - (Elektra/Rhino: remaster,DP,4xBT) CD m/m £9.00 - © 1972.
YES - GOING FOR THE ONE (Atlantic) CD m/m £5.00 - (Atlantic, Germany) CD ex/ex+ £4.50 - © 1977.
YEZDA URFA - BORIS (Syn-Phonic: 1xBT) CD £11.75 - US prog obscurity, often quite Yes-like, if very varied & with many unusual touches/diversions. Their 1975 debut.
FRANK ZAPPA - WAKA/JAWAKA (Zappa) CD ex+/m £10.00 - Companion to "Hot Rats" & "The Grand Wazoo". © 1972.
# FRANK ZAPPA - SHEIK YERBOUTI (RYKO) CD ex+/m £6.00 - © 1979.
AQUABATS - SEQUOIA (Aquabats) CD £10.75 - 1999 album, with more accent on power & rhythm, with a huge range of weird processed acoustic instruments.
JEAN-PIERRE ARNOUX - GIFT (Alpha Bravo) CD ex+/m £9.00 - Atmos jazzy stuff from one-time Catalogue/Mahjun/Malicorne drummer. Quite noodly & soundtracky. © 2002.
ARSENAL - SCORCHED BY TIME... 3 (Boheme) CD £10.75 - 1984-85 recordings, from their 3rd LP "Second Wind" & TV/film works. By this time they had a much more tuneful & funky edge.
COB - MOYSHE McSTIFF & THE TARTAN LANCERS OF THE SACRED HEART (Sunbeam: 7xBT) CD £13.00 - Isle of Man 1972 folk-prog legend, unusual as well.
BILLY COBHAM'S GLASSMENAGERIE - STRATUS (INAK) CD £8.80 - Legendary fusion.
CHRIS CONWAY - FLYING HOME (Oblong) CD £9.80 - Folk songs with a hint of jazz. Very straight for Chris Conway. Featuring Talking Fish members.
CHRIS CONWAY - STORMING (Oblong) CD £9.80 - Chris' alter-ego as a singer/songwriter (& multi-instrumental folky band leader).
JESSE ALLEN COOPER & BUDDY KITHARA - HEAVEN SENT (Cooper Sound Waves) CD ex+/m £6.50 - John Surman/Stephan Micus-ish lightweight stuff.
WOLFGANG DAUNER SEPTET - FREE ACTION (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - © 1967. With Jean-Luc Ponty, Gerd Dudek, Eberhard Weber, Jurgen Karg, Mani Neumeier, Fred Braceful.
# FORREST FANG - WORLD DIARY (Ominous Thud) CD £10.75 - An oriental, ethnic, esoteric world journey with lotsa invention.
TOUFIC FARROUKH - DRAB ZEEN (Chant du Monde: DP) CD ex+/ex+ £8.00 - Very unusual French ethno/North African zonk fusion. © 2002.
MATTHIAS FREY - TRAILS & TRACES (Inak: DP) CD £12.75 - A mixture of ethnic & classical jazz musics, fusions that often remind of Leicester's Chris Conway, ex-PSI.
STU GOLDBERG - EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - © Symphonic fusion outing from well-known jazz-fusion keyboard player (a member of Toto Blanke's Electric Circus & Mahavishnu Orchestra) with 8-piece band. © 1982.
JAN HAMMER TRIO - MALINY MALINY (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - © 1969. In his pre-Mahavishnu Orchestra days, playing a lively modern jazz-fusion. Aka "Make Love".
MICKEY HART - AT THE EDGE (RYKO) CD ex+/m £8.00 - Drummer from Grateful Dead moves into ethno-synth-world musics. © 1990.
HASEGAWA-SHIZUO - GENE PACKS (PSF, Japan) CD m/m £9.00 - Weird squonks & jazz plonks.
ICEBERG - EN DIRECTE (Actual) CD £11.75 - Spanish jazz-fusion, 1978 live album.
ICEBERG - ARC-EN-CIEL (Actual) CD £11.75 - 4th album, © 1978.
IONA WITH THE ALL SOULS ORCHESTRA - WOVEN CORD (Alliance) CD ex+/m £5.00 - Symphonic folk/world musics. © 1999.
# JAZZ Q - ALBUM, KTERE NIKDY NEVYSLO/POZOROVATELNA (Bonton) 2CD ex+/m £12.00 - 2001 compilation of singles plus their classic "The Watch-Tower" from 1973.
MARK LOCKETT - HOLLOWED GROUND (Wriggly Pig) CD ex+/m £6.50 - Nice mix of Gamelan & world musics, ethnic, etc., including accordion!
MAKAM - 9 COLINDA (Fono: DP) CD £14.70 - Makam 9 has only 2 original mambers, & finds them turned into a folky combo. 2001 Balkan/Transylvanian crpss-culture.
CHARLIE MARIANO - HELEN 12 TREES (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - © 1976. With Zbigniew Seifert, Jan Hammer, Jack Bruce, John Marshall, Nippy Noya.
CHARLIE MARIANO & THE KARNATAKA COLLEGE OF PERCUSSION - JYOTHI (ECM) CD £14.00 - Cross-culture jazz meets India. © 1983.
STEPHAN MICUS - EAST OF THE NIGHT (ECM) CD £14.00 - 2 long tracks with multi acoustic guitars & shakuhachi's. © 1985.
STEPHAN MICUS - TO THE EVENING CHILD (ECM) CD £14.00 - A very different, almost folky classical outing. © 1992.
ALPHONSE MOUZON - VIRTUE (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - © 1977. Varied fusion outing from the Weather Report drummer & co. (inc. Stu Goldberg). It starts funky then gets better...
NAPOLI CENTRALE - NAPOLI CENTRALE (BMG Ricordi) CD ex+/m £6.00 - Italian fusion with a very odd lead singer, © 1975.
DAVE PIKE SET - LIVE AT THE PHILHARMONIE (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - © 1969. Rather straight live outing from American vibes player & Kraut-jazz band.
TERJE RYPDAL - SKYWARDS (ECM) CD ex/ex+ £7.50 - © 1997. Really varied excursion by Norwegian guitar legend: fusions, avant-garde & proto-classical.
SAMKHA - SAMKHA (Boheme) CD £10.75 - Ethnic music from St. Petersburg, an acoustic ensemble with the panache of The Rain Garden, Aquabats, Oregon, & the likes.
JASPER VAN'T HOF'S PORK PIE - TRANSITORY (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - Really creative supersession from original Association PC keyboard player & luminary band, notably Philip Catherine who donates another version of the classic "Angel Wings".
BARNEY WILEN & HIS AMAZING FREE ROCK BAND - DEAR PROF. LEARY (Promising Music: CC) CD £12.75 - Trippy psych, imaginative pop/jazz covers, etc., & lots of weird jazzy angles. Pre-Drum Circus & Brainticket related project from an international supergroup.
ZENTRALQUARTETT/SYNOPSIS - AUF DER ELBE SCHWIMMT EIN ROSA KROKODIL (Intakt) CD £12.25 - Crazy DDR jazz outfit (Conrad Bauer, etc.). Not quite free-jazz. Originally on FMP.
ALIEN NATURE - ANNA (SynGate) CDR ex+/m £5.50, ex+/ex+ £5.00 - Synth in Kitaro/Jarre vein
ARCANE - GATHER DARKNESS (Neu Harmony) CD ex+/m £8.00 - Teutonic styled synth by UK soloist, © 1999.
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV - MYSTICISM OF SOUND (Electroshock) CD £11.75 - #5, © 1999. Based on the CD rear this is constructed with the aid of sounds supplied by: Edward Artemiev, Francis Dhomont, Brian Eno, Peter Frohmader, Rudiger Gleisberg, etc.
THE ATMAN PROJECT - LOVE & PAIN (Wergo) CD m/ex+ £13.00, ex+/ex+ £11.00 - Unique & spacious, semi melodic/atonal synth music. Don't be put off by the title!
DANIEL BIRY - YS (AMP) CD £9.00 - Exploring Celtic/Breton roots in a lively/varied melodic new-age setting, sounding like Mike Oldfield meets Alan Stivell.
IAN BODDY - THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE (Something Else) CD £10.75 - Extremely varied album with almost every style Ian has tried over the years!
IAN BODDY - CHIASMATA (DiN) CD £11.75 - Compiled from Ian's November 2003 gig at the National Space Centre, Leicester.
IAN BODDY - ELEMENTAL (DiN) CD £11.75 - © 2006.
IAN BODDY & MARKUS REUTER - DISTANT RITUALS (DiN) CD £10.75, ex+/m £8.00 - Unlikely collaboration yielding interesting results. Reuter is a graduate from Robert Fripp's guitar academy, so the textures are no surprise.
IAN BODDY & MARKUS REUTER - JODRELL BANK CONCERT (SpaceForMusic) CDR £10.75 - Cosmic synths & touch guitar - trip out!
IAN BODDY : MARKUS REUTER : NIGEL MULLANEY - TRIPTYCH (DiN) CD £11.75 - E-Live in Eindhoven, Holland (10/9/00). A very varied set from an unlikely trio.
BRAINWORK - SUNRISE (-) CD m/m £8.00 - German synthesist Uwe Saher. © 1991.
BRAINWORK - BRAINOTRONIC (-) CD ex+/m £7.00 - German upbeat synth/drums. © 1992.
BRAINWORK - BACK TO THE ROOTS (-) CD ex+/m £7.00 - © 1993.
BRAINWORK - LIVE & UNRELEASED (CUE) CD ex+/m £7.00 - © 1996.
BRAINWORK - SENSUAL REFLECTIONS (CUE) CD ex+/m £7.00 - © 1997.
THOM BRENNAN - MIST (SpaceForMusic) CDR £10.75 - US synthesist, vast sonic voids & mists.
CENTROZOON - BLAST (DiN) CD £11.75 - Markus Reuter & co. For me this is the finest issue to date on Ian Boddy's DiN label, in that it's innovative & darkly abstract/melodic, & not what you'd expect from an "ambient trance" label! © 2000.
CENTROZOON - THE CULT OF BIBBIBOO (Burning Shed: DP) CD £11.75 - Weird guitar sonics & recycled rhythms.
CERULEAN - THIS LEVEL EARTH (-) CD ex+/m £8.00 - Clicked sci-fi concept techno/ambient stuff, with texts about flying saucers, etc. © 1999.
CHRIS CONWAY - AYURVEDA (New World) CD £9.80 - Music for relaxation, sounds like a mix of everyone from Deuter to... © 2003.
CHRIS CONWAY - SCANNING PLANET 3 (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - A vast CD-long cosmic opus, with synths, theremin & guitar, lots of electroacoustic elements, melodic yet elusive.
CHRIS CONWAY - CONTACT LIGHT (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Outer space music for Theramin & electronics. Special CDR release.
EARTHSTAR - FRENCH SKYLINE (Musique Intemporelle) CD £10.75 - An American cosmic classic, made in France & at Klaus Schulze's studio, for a hybrid of classic Teutonic Schulze/TD styles, with trippy prog "Mellotrons in space" edge!
EBIA - ELOSOPHY (SynGate) CDR ex+/m £5.50 - Varied melodic German synth. © 2004.
BRIAN ENO - MUSIC FOR FILMS (EG) CD m/m £6.50 - The classic ambient picture music album, with Robert Fripp, Fred Frith, Phil Collins, etc.
BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE - MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS (EG) CD ex+/m £5.50 - The first techno-dance sampling album? © 1981.
F.G. EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY - JOURNEY INTO A DREAM (Thors Hammer) CD £13.00 - Swiss solo multi-instrumentalist: organ/synth/guitar in classic Klaus Schulze/Tangerine Dream/Ash Ra Tempel cosmic vein, © 1975. Plus 1976 single tracks.
HANS FISCHER & FRIENDS - WINDPRAYER (Sonnengel) CD £12.75 - Atmospheric flutes, etc., from ex-Xhol Caravan member Hansi Fischer & co.
# CHRISTOPHER FRANKE - BABYLON 5 (Sonic Images) CD m/ex+ £9.00 - TV series soundtrack.
SVEN GRUNBERG - HINGUS (Boheme) CD £10.75 - Estonian electronic music pioneer who began his career with E. Artemiev & V. Martinov. Kinda Schulze/Vangelis/Micus hybrids = unique synth music with ethnic overtones. © 1981.
SVEN GRUNBERG - OM (Boheme) CD £10.75 - 2nd LP of cosmic electronic music, & bittersweet engrossing concoction of Schulze/Vangelis/Micus hybrids.
OLE HØJER HANSEN - NUDITY (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Undoubtedly amongst the greats of European synth music (though in debt to Klaus Schulze) with a unique angle of his own, beyond the realms of "X" or "Mirage" to where Klaus only hinted. It's wondrous space music, often very understated & mysterious, yet on occasions greatly dynamic & powerful.
DAVID HELPLING/JON JENKINS - TREASURE (Spotted Peccary) CD ex+/m £8.00 - Reverberous synths/percussion, etc. A bit Roach/Rich but more lush.
HEMISPHERE - NOW (Groove) CD ex+/ex+-co £7.50 - © 2001. A different diversion again, this has new-age guitars, worldbeat feel & lush female vocals.
LINDA & STEVE HILLMAN - ASHTAR (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - 50 copy numbered edition special reissue - serene & blissful cosmic flute and electronics, esoteric & out-of-this-world.
# EPPIE E. HULSHOF - FLOATING WAVES (Quantum) CDR ex+/ex £5.00 - Nice Schulzey synth.
HYBRID MACHINE - DEBUT (EAR) CD ex/m £6.00 - Lively Austrian synth, a bit Jarre/Tangerine Dream vein & new-age. © 1996. Demo copy!
INTERSTELLAR CEMENTMIXERS - NIGHT RADIATION (Planet X) CDR £6.85 - This takes another twist to more ethereal & abstract realms, again refining their style, with analogue & digital synths, guitars & loads of processing. © 2001.
JAFNI - A NOTION OF AN OCEAN (Tore Jamne) CD ex+/m £7.00 - Atmos/ambient synth.
JEAN MICHEL JARRE - METAMORPHOSES (Epic) CD m/m £9.00 - Extremely varied 2000 album featuring female vocalist Laurie Anderson & many others.
JAY B. JAY - OVER SEAS (IC) CD ex+/m £10.00 - American born synthesist, lives in Israel. In lush Jarre/Tangerine Dream/Kitaro vein. © 1988.
JAMES JOHNSON - ENTERING TWILIGHT (Hypnos) CD £11.75 - In Eno's "The Pearl" realms, a sedate new-age music with just enough darkness & mystery to keep the interest.
KEVOZ - INTO ORBIT (-) CD m/m £5.00 - USA kinda techno-lounge synth. © 2001.
KOMAKINO - YNOS (Hypnotic) CD ex+/m £5.00 - Techno synth, too trancey.
HEINZ LEONHARDSBERGER - IT IS (Erdenklang) CD £10.75 - The weird eccentric Austrian yoedler & musique-concret/synth sonic artist.
LIGHTWAVE - NACHTMUSIK (Erdenklang) CD £10.75 - An incredible cosmic excursion, beyond the realms of the Teutonic explorers, blending in INA· GRM sounds too!
LIGHTWAVE - CANTUS UMBRARUM (Horizon Music) CD £10.75 - An album that surprises & takes Lightwave to regions unheard before! Snatches of text (in English & French) against electroacoustic/neo-classical textures reminds of Redolfi or Parmegiani.
LYNNE - DREAMSTATE (Centaur) CD ex/m £7.00 - Techno-synth-prog-pop in Pickford, Shreeve, Boddy/Pickford vein. © 1994.
LYNNE - THE VOID (Cyclops) CD ex+/m £7.00 - Instrumental synth+rock from Norwegian soloist Bjorn Lynne.
DEBORAH MARTIN/J. ARIF VERNER - ANNO DOMINI (Spotted Peccary) CD m/m £9.00 - Mostly atmos dark/majestic theme/soundtrack like.
M.A.S.S. - MYSTERIA (Membran: DP) 3CD m/m £16.00, ex+-m/ex+ £12.00 - Bright/varied synth/romantic/easy listening by Stephan Kaske (aka Mythos). © 2006.
MIND OVER MATTER - SHAMBALA (In Balance) CD £11.75 - In a really relaxed mood, deep & spacious, with just 5 flowing tracks, inc. new versions of early classics.
PHILIPP MUNCH & BERNHARD WOSTHEINRICH - SHOW OF EXAGGERATION (The Rectrix/Force of Nature: CC) CD £8.80 - Weird sonics, abstractions, etc.
MYTHOS - THE DRAMATIC AND FANTASTIC STORIES OF EGDAR ALLAN POE (Membran: DP) 2CD ex+/m/ex+ £10.00 - Aka Stephan Kaske. © 2004.
MYTHOS - SURROUND SOUND OFFENSIVE (-) CD m/m £9.00 - "Energetic electronic music."
NEURONIUM - EXTRISIMO (Tuxedo) CD ex/ex+ £6.00 - Spanish synth. Sampler.
HARALD NIES - MAGNETIC DEFLECTION (SynGate) CDR ex+/m £5.50 - Sounds quite Jarre to me, seems to be performed on guitar synthesizer. © 2006.
ERIK NORLANDER - SEAS OF ORION (Quantum) CD ex+/ex+ £8.00 - Varied/upbeat synth-sequencer with Synergy-like classical edge. Much too techno however!
O·HEAD - SILENT UNIVERSE (Centaur) CD ex+/m £9.00 - Rather ploddy TD copyist. © 1998.
POND - MASCHINENMENSCH (Zong) CD ex+/vg+ £7.50 - DDR synth, 1990 album in upbeat style.
DAVID PRESCOTT - FOUR MILLION YEARS (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - The nearest any American synthesist has come to the classic cosmic synth of Klaus Schulze, with massed string synths to the fore, accompanied by gentle sequential patterns, rambling melodies & wafts of sound reverberating into the distance.
DAVID PRESCOTT - NEOLOGISMS (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - "Neologisms In E" was his first published recording in 1985, reissued by ourselves in 1987 as "Neologisms". This release displays David’s affinity with the early-70’s Berlin school of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze et al., as well as his liking for the avant-garde electronic composers.
DAVID PRESCOTT - THE DREAMER (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - More subtle & sequential is "The Dreamer", a more reflective work that while being similar in structure to "Neologisms" is very different in sound. A lot more expressive keyboard soloing here, meandering, intricate yet spacious. This is one for late night peaceful listening that won’t send you to sleep!
DAVID PRESCOTT - NEW MUSIC FOR CATHEDRALS (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - This finds David teaming up his synths with his trusty bass guitar for some atmospheric ramblings that uncannily resemble the quieter moments of Tangerine Dream live circa 1974. David’s fluid bass style complements his synths perfectly. No doubt this should win David a lot of convertees.
PROTOGONOS - STRANGE GEOGRAPHIE (DiN) CD £10.75 - Interesting sound fabrics of synths, samplers & sound processing, with the accent on texture & mood rather than melody.
FRANK QUASAR - INFINITY (QUA) CD vg+/m £5.50 - 2nd album, varied Belgian synth. © 1994.
RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL - SEPTENTRONIAL (DiN) CD £10.75 - 2006 album edited, arranged & mixed by Ian Boddy. It's not the RMI you know!
MARKUS REUTER - DIGITALIS (Hypnos) CD £11.75 - The man with the "Warr Guitar" goes totally ambient! You can tell he's got Frippian roots, but scarcely would you guess that a guitar was at work here, as this is more MIDI-digital synthesis, like the softest Laraaji, Eno or Roach.
MARKUS REUTER - THE LONGEST IN TERMS OF BEING (-) CD £11.75 - Darker Frippian tonalities, with more recognisable guitar elements, but still very very ambient.
MARKUS REUTER & IAN BODDY - PURE (DiN) CD £10.75 - No idea what to make of this 2004 collaboration, it's just so peculiar! Kinda Frippertronic & fusion & ambient techno.
ROBERT RICH - NUMENA+GEOMETRY (Fathom) 2CD ex+/ex+ £15.00 - The remixed (1993) version of "Numena" & "Geometry" with 4 tracks remastered.
ROBERT RICH - INNER LANDSCAPES (Hypnos) CD £11.75 - For those that don't like cassettes, this shorter version (than our own Auricle cassette release) may be of interest. Excellent instrumental flutes, organ, percussion, synths, etc.
ROBERT RICH - GEOMETRY (Spalax) CD £12.00 - (Linden) CD £10.75 - Recorded 1986-87 but only released in 1991, it now features 4 extra tracks to the demo Robert sent us years ago!
ROBERT RICH - BESTIARY (Release) CD £11.75, ex+/m £7.50 - A very different album involving lots of sound sampling & weirdly twisted sounds, all in a vaguely melodic/ambient setting.
ROBERT RICH - OPEN WINDOW (Soundscape) CD £10.75 - Sedate piano album.
ROBERT RICH & ALIO DIE - FISSURES (Fathom) CD £11.75 - Very ambient in Lull/Main minimal vein, © 1997.
ROBERT RICH & B. LUSTMORD - STALKER (Fathom) CD £10.75 - Ethereal & ethnic sounds by Robert Rich with dark & visionary sculpting by Lustmord.
STEVE ROACH - DREAMTIME RETURN (Fortuna: extended) 2CD ex+/m £12.00 - A massive opus of otherworldly music inspired by the Aboriginal dreamtime.
STEVE ROACH - ORIGINS (Fortuna) CD £12.75 - Deeply evocative of ancient mysterious cultures. With Jorge Reyes & Suso Saiz make this unlike any other Roach album!
STEVE ROACH/DAVID HUDSON/SARAH HOPKINS - AUSTRALIA: SOUND OF THE EARTH (Fortuna) CD ex+/ex+ £8.00 - Unusual collaboration, further explorations of the "dreamtime".
STEVE ROACH & VIDNA OBMANA - WELL OF SOULS (Projekt: DP) 2CD ex+/m £15.00 - © 1995.
PETER SEILER - FLYING FRAMES (IC) CD m/ex+ £9.00 - Debut synth solo from former Tritonus leader, with a soundtracky mix of styles. © 1986.
MARK SHREEVE - EMBRYO (Anna Log) CD £10.75, m/m £8.00 - RE of rare cassette! Cosmic analogue synth (circa 1980), Teutonic styled, with sequencers, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, & slight Vangelis edges. Remastered & revamped - with new cover art.
SINE WAVE - SINE WAVE 1 (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - A multi-instrumental talent from the West Midlands, following his own unique vision, featuring guitars, synthesizers, Mellotron, etc. Passionate, melodic, but also quite experimental, the spirit of Heldon and Fripp & Eno perhaps.
MICHAEL STEARNS - SUSTAINING CYLINDERS (Groove) CD £11.75 - 2 very minimal, slowly moving & almost ambient soundscapes. © 1977.
MICHAEL STEARNS - MORNING JEWEL (Groove) CD £11.75 - 1979 classic, just 2 long pieces of deep/etheral/powerful proto "new-age" without the pretty bits.
MICHAEL STEARNS - M'OCEAN (Groove) CD £11.75 - Quite a change here, with 7 tracks of melodic, rhythmic & celestial music. © 1984.
MICHAEL STEARNS - PLUNGE (Sonic Atmospheres) CD m/m £9.00 - Totally different for Stearns, with rock, fusion & new-age edges, sounds almost like a Long Hello album! © 1987.
MICHAEL STEARNS - THE LOST WORLD (Fathom) CD ex+/m £8.00 - A more mysterious outing (© 1995), a blend of ancient, modern & the unreal.
MICHAEL STEARNS - SPIRITS OF THE VOYAGE (Earth Turtle) CD m/m £9.00 - 1996 soundtrack that combines typical Stearns, native chants & odd hybrids.
SYNERGY - COMPUTER EXPERIMENTS, VOL. 1 (Audion) CD ex+/ex+ £10.00 - (Voiceprint) CD £12.75 - 1981 totally out of character ambient album.
SYNTECH - ATMOSPHERES (Hotsound) CD ex+/ex+ £8.00 - Jarre/Jenkins/Nagle thype synth.
MATTHIAS THUROW - CORNUCOPIA (Erdenklang) CD ex+/m £7.00 - Inventive synth with lots of unique touches, i.e. hints of classical & jazz.
DAVID TOLLEFSON - NEAR & FAR (Hypnos) CD £11.75 - Varied guitar performances, swamped in a myriad effects & processing. Dark & mysterious stuff, but with an underlying melodic focus.
DAVID TOLLEFSON - NEW EYES ON THE UNIVERSE (Hypnos) CD £11.75 - Minimal Frippian soundscapes, with Schulzian edges & barely recognisable as guitar.
NIK TYNDALL - MUSIK ZUR ENTSPANNUNG (Sky) CD ex+/m £9.00 - A collection of tracks & alternative versions from his LP releases. Ideal introduction to a talented musician.
# NIK TYNDALL - PLEJADEN SUITE (Sky) CD ex+/ex+ £8.00 - Shimmering melodic tones run off into the cosmos: one on the Recommended list!
NIK TYNDALL - VOICES OF ASIA (Musique Intemporelle) CD £14.70 - © 1993, atypical Nik Tyndall style, but with an ethnic flair. (With PC ROM info/media track.)
ED VAN FLEET - OCEANS (Elfin) CD m/m £9.00 - Pretty USA 1992 synth & flutey new-age stuff.
VENJA - CURVES (IC) CD ex+/ex £7.00 - Sleazy/techno-trance stuff from Holland.
CYRILLE VERDEAUX - NOCTURNES DIGITALES (Clearlight 888 Music) CD £12.75, ex+/m £7.50 - © 1981. In a very sedate classical mood, with tinkling ivories & flutey synths.
CYRILLE VERDEAUX & PASCAL MENETREY - ETHNICOLORS (Clearlight 888 Music) CD £12.75 - Combining Africa, Aboriginal & South American cultures with synths & sound sampling, this is very much wildlife/geographic documentary type music.
BIL VERMETTE - VOYAGER (Rainforest) CD ex+/m £8.00 - 1994 USA rhythmic & melodic synth.
BIL VERMETTE - EMOCEAN (Rainforest) CD ex+/m £8.00 - © 1995, nice varied picture music.
ADRIAN WAGNER - KARMING THE ELEMENTS (Music Suite) CD £10.75 - Inventive melodic synth with ecological theme.
BEKKI WILLIAMS - ELYSIAN FIELDS (AD Music) CD ex+/ex+ £7.00 - Varied tuneful synth with soundtracky feel. © 1996.
ERIK WOLLO - ELEVATIONS (Brain Laughter) CD ex+/m £9.00 - Varied synths & ethnic edged travelogue/soundtracky from Norwegian guitarist/synthesist. 2004-06 recordings.
DAVID WRIGHT - DISSIMILAR VIEWS (AD Music) CD ex+/ex+ £7.00 - 80 minutes of melodic synth. © 1995.
ZERO OHMS - SWEVEN (SpaceForMusic) CDR ex+/m £4.00 - Tranquil new-age.
# ACEZANTEZ - DUBRAVKO DETONI WITH ACEZANTEZ (Paradigm) CD £10.00 - Legendary Yugoslavian avant-garde LP + 3 bonus tracks! Eccentric weirdness betwixt Stockhausen, Musica Elettronica Viva & the INA.GRM realms of sonic reconstruction. 1973-76 recordings.
A HAWK & A HACKSAW - A HAWK & A HACKSAW (Cloud Recordings) CD £10.75 - Project of Jeremy Barnes (aka Marta Tenae of Bablicon). Eccentric & Samlas-esque at times.
ALTO STRATUS are in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
APM - SPIRIT MILL (ICR) CD m/m £7.00 - APM = Chris Atkins, Colin Potter & Phil Mouldycliff. Close miked & amplified machinery, metal, etc., & some voice, a bit Tietchens-ish. © 2006.
LUIGI ARCHETTI - TRANSIENT PIECES (Unit: DP) CD £12.75 - ½ of Tiere Der Nacht. © 2004.
LUIGI ARCHETTI/BO WIGET - LOW TIDE DIGITALS II (Rune Grammophon: DP) CD £12.75
GRAHAM BOWERS - OF MARY'S BLOOD (Red Wharf) CD £11.75, m/ex+ £8.00 - Sonic excursion of disturbing surreal quality, dark melodic/abstract, for NWW & weird TG fans.
GRAHAM BOWERS - TRANSGRESSION (Red Wharf) CD £11.75 - Part 2 of the trilogy. Sinister excursion of avant-garde & weird art-rock, diverting to eccentric realms.
GRAHAM BOWERS - ETERNAL GHOSTS (Red Wharf) CD £11.75 - Part 3 of the trilogy. An oozing thunderous crashing vivid soundscape! Betwixt Xenakis & atmospheric NWW.
GRAHAM BOWERS - PILGRIM (Red Wharf) CD £11.75 - This guy gets weirder & weirder! Free-jazz meets psychedeila in an avant-garde & electroacoustic convention? Extreme use of processing in a single album-length opus.
C.O. CASPAR - THUS LONG LIGHTS LIGHT (KAON) CD m/m £9.00 - Obscure late-90's collection of oddities & installations by Berlin experimentalist.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - PORUGANIE PATSIPHIKA (Eurock) CDR £9.80 - © 2005.
MIKHAIL CHEKALIN - PARADIGM TRANSITION (Eurock) CDR £9.80 - © 2007. These 2 Eurock releases are pretty bombastic avant-synth from this Russian artist.
ALPHONSE DE MONTFROYD - SILENCE (Adnoiseam: CC) 3"CDR vg+/ex £1.50 - #50/50. Ambient/industrial/tonal stuff. Disc marked but plays fine.
DIGNOSIS - DIGNOSIS (Don't Recordings: CC) 3"CDR ex+/m £2.50 - Atmos improv. © 2006.
# THOMAS DIMUZIO - KARKOFF PROCESS (RRR) CD £10.75 - Experimental sonic/electronic from the USA. © 1991.
DITHER - UREI (M-Tronic: DP) CD ex+/ex+ £2.00 - Digital synth sampling, etc. Too techno!
DOME - 1 & 2 (Mute) CD £9.00 - Industrial rock & new-wave from Wire members Bruce Gilbert & Graham Lewis. Their 1st 2 LP's complete on 1 CD!
DOME - 3 & 4 (Mute) CD £9.00 - Experimental industrial venturing onto systemic rock realms.
ROGER DOYLE - THALIA · OIZZO NO (Silverdoor) CD £10.75 - Remastered versions of his two LP's (1 track from "Oizzo No" is omitted), every track a different avenue of exploration, Roger comes across as an experimentalist akin to Ron Geesin when in non-musical mode, whilst also classical, electronic & totally weird!
BERTRAND DUBEDOUT - AUX LAMPIONS (Metamkine) 3"CD £4.40 - Often, this reminds me of Pierre Henry's "Variations For A Door & A Sigh", however this is much more serious & lacks Pierre's humour. (19 minutes duration.)
EARTH TRUMPET - EARTH TRUMPET (-) CDR m/ex+ £5.00 - Loz Coleman of Volcano The Bear. Extremely creative & diverse mix of Volcano-isms, sonic collage, rock, etc.
ENDGAME are in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
EXTREMITIES are in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
LUC FERRARI - DANSES ORGANIQUES (Elica: DP) CD £11.75 - Extraordinary & bizarre creations in the realms of "Presque Rien (Avec Filles)".
46,000 FIBRES - THE FREEDOM OFFENSIVE (MTB) CDR £7.85 - The London Krauty jammers get a jazzy edge, © 2003.
ALAN FREEMAN is in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
STEVE FREEMAN is in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
REV. DWIGHT FRIZZELL - NATURAL SELECTION (Paradigm) CD £10.75 - From the eccentric American with Anal Magic, this is a diverse mix of avant-garde, sonic bric-a-brac & such-like.
# BRUCE GILBERT - THIS WAY TO THE SHIVERING MAN (Mute) CD ex+/ex+ £10.00 - Excellent industrial soundscapes cum ballet music. Almost 2 LP's on 1 CD.
# BRUCE GILBERT - INSIDING (Mute) CD m/ex+ £12.00 - Instrumental industrial. © 1991.
# BRUCE GILBERT - MUSIC FOR FRUIT (Mute) CD m/ex+ £10.00 - Unusual sonic conceptions, more electronic than his usual works. © 1991.
# GILBERT & LEWIS - 8 TIME (4AD) CD £14.00 - Aka Dome. Experimental & ambient industrial sonic excursions: all excellent. This collects all their 4AD releases. Long deleted & rare CD!
GILBERT, LEWIS, MILLS - MZUI (Boutique) CD ex+/m £8.00 - Extraordinary 1982 sonic art work. On vinyl, you could tell that it was great, but it always sounded dull & flat.
# GRAVITY ADJUSTERS EXPANSION BAND - ONE (Paradigm) CD £10.00 - 1973 avant/cosmic/abstract ensemble, kinda AMM/Taj Mahal Travellers/Sonde territory.
# LILY GREENHAM - LINGUAL MUSIC (Paradigm) 2CD £15.00 - Little-known British female pioneer of "concrete poetry", i.e. voice/instruments/electronics. 1968-1976 recordings.
# RAGNAR GRIPPE - TEN TEMPERAMENTS (Bis) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - Fantastic abstract/melodic synth & avant-garde musics. Unclassifiable! Plus 2 tracks from "Electronic Compositions".
HAIR & SKIN TRADING CO. - JO IN NINE G HELL (Situation Two) CD m/m £9.00 - Weird underground 90's "new-wave". Loop/Main cohorts, in PiL, Five or Six, Wire realms.
GREG HEADLEY - A TABLE OF OPPOSITES (28 Angles: CC) CDR ex+/ex+ £2.00 - American sonic/noise/abstract stuff.
HEMAMORPHITE - AWAITING LEWIN (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - An ex-Shapeshifter, proto-Endgame project, from Jim Tetlow & co., in the vein of atmospheric "Easier To Feel" Shapeshifter.
PIERRE HENRY - APOCALYPSE DE JEAN Philips) 2CD ex+/m £13.00 - Radical & far from easy listening: electronics, collage & text. Very obscure 1968 album.
PIERRE HENRY - MESSE DE LIVERPOOL/PIERRES REFLECHIES (Mantra) CD £11.50 - "Messe de Liverpool" is a bizarre vocal/electronic work, "Pierre Reflechies" seems to be a previously unreleased work of soundscaping.
PIERRE HENRY - INTERIEUR EXTERIEUR (Philips) CD ex+/m £12.00 - Obscure 1996 album that redefines the genre, especially in the use of avant/post-rock band Violent Femmes, recalling 60's works in rock/EM hybrids, but radical & very new!
HISATO HIGUCHI - BUTTERFLY HORSE STREET (Family Vineyard) CD m/ex+ £8.00 - In tortured Hosono vein, raw & fried!
DAVID HINDMARCH - THE DEVIL'S WAVE (-) CDR £6.85 - Electroacoustic works of great invention by Leicester's uniquely talented blind musician... definitely very Bayle, Smalley, Wishart inspired, & lots of unique new ideas too! © 2004.
DAVID HINDMARCH - THE LONG TRICK (-) CDR £6.85 - Dave's 2nd electroacoustic outing finds him exploring voice collage & sonic mutation, with aplomb!
# HOLY TOY - WARSZAWA (Tatra: 7xBT) CD m/m £8.00 - Highly inventive Polish/Norse experimental new-wave, Yello meets D-A-F & Wire?
MAYA HOMBURGER & BARRY GUY - CEREMONY (ECM) CD ex+/ex+ £9.00 - Kinda classical moody scrappy violins & double bass.
INSTANT DRONE FACTORY - CRITICAL MASS (Funfundvierzig) CD £11.75 - Kind of freak-out Die Haut/Public Image Ltd./Stooges vein, with hints of Can, Glenn Branca, Casper Brotzmann.
INSTANT DRONE FACTORY - LIVE (Funfundvierzig) CD ex+/m £6.50 - Live in 2006.
# AKEMI ISHIJIMA - TIME DROPS (Paradigm) CDM £6.00 - Fascinating electroacoustic works akin to Denis Smalley or Michel Redolfi in the use of sonic cementing & fragmentation.
KRISTOFF K. ROLL... - DES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA NUIT A L'AMIE DES OBJETS (Metamkine) 3"CD £4.40 - For the "Cinema for your ears" series, this is an odd one, as it's like being a blind person experiencing some bizarre French underground film. (22 minutes duration.)
SERGEY KURYOKHIN - THE RICH'S OPERA (SoLyd) CD vg+/ex £5.00 - Doesn't sound a bit like an opera to me! Typically odd Kuryokhin, but much more synthesized & accessible.
LARSEN & FRIENDS - ABECEDA (Important) CD+DVD m/m £15.00 - Italian neo-classical & gothic, with David Tibet. Vaguely atmos GSYBE feel & Arvo Part meets C93 realms.
EDVARD GRAHAM LEWIS - PRE>HE (WMO) CD £10.75 - Experimental recordings by Wire & Dome member, quite noisy stuff!
ANDREW LILES - MY LONG ACCUMULATING DISCONTENT (Nextera) CD £10.75 - Odd is too simple a word for this wide ranging mix of styles. © 2004.
ANDREW LILES - IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS (Fourth Dimension) CD £10.75 - Really a various artists collection with: Colin Potter, Aaron Moore, Jonathan Coleclough, Aranos, Darren Tate, Nurse With Wound, The Hafler Trio, Vidna Obmana, etc.
RALPH LUNDSTEN - ELEKTRONISK MUSIK FRAN 60-OCH 70-TALEN (Andromeda) 4CD £35.25 - Anthology of early works, inc. "Tellus/Fagel Bla" from Lundsten & Nilsson, unreleased obscurities, "Gustav III", "Nattmara", the unique "Suite For Electronic Accordion" & lots more!
LIONEL MARCHETTI - MUE (Metamkine) 3"CD £4.40 - Totally abstract, without any real focus, this weirdly choppy montage of French texts, electronic & sonic effects, is quite startling to say the least. (21 minutes duration.)
WALTER MARCHETTI - DE MUSICORUM INFELICITATE (Alga Marghen: DP) CD £12.75
MERZBOW - SENMAIDA (Blossoming Noise: DP) CD £9.80 - 2005 recordings.
MERZBOW - MINAZO VOL. 1 (Important: CC) CD £12.75
ADRIAN MOORE - TRACES (emprientes DIGITALes: CC) CD £12.75 - Highly creative electroacoustic avant-garde, from one of the "BEAST" electronic composers.
# MORPHOGENESIS - CHARIVARI MUSIC (Paradigm) CD £10.00 - Amazing sonic constructions, with vivid sound & hybrid electronic improv style. Kinda Stockhausen meets AMM/MEV.
MORPHOGENESIS - STROMATOLITES (VER) CD £10.75 - Kinda Stockhausen/Xenakis semi/part improv & studio constructed electroacoustic in AMM/MEV vein. Extended version of the Direction Music cassette release.
MORPHOGENESIS - IN STREAMS, VOL. 1: 1996-1999 (Paradigm: DP) CD £10.75 - A much more challenging concoction than usual, quite diverse & schizophrenic.
MORPHOGENESIS - IN STREAMS, VOL. 2: 1997-2000 (Paradigm: DP) CD £10.75 - Very varied selection of fragmentary sonic oozes & abstract excursions.
MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO. - 1970-1973 (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - The trio of: David Borden, Linda Fisher & Steve Drews, pioneering synth-based systemic music, every bit as good as early Terry Riley or Philip Glass & a moog fans delight! Their 1973 debut LP plus 2 bonus tracks.
MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO. - 1974-1976 (Cuneiform) CD £11.75 - Their "Like A Duck To Water" LP plus 4 shorter tracks. Includes a small "Quick Time" movie.
MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA - LEAVE THE CITY (Spalax) CD £12.00 - Classic spacey album from the French incarnation of MEV, featuring Ivan Coaquette (Spacecraft/Fondation/etc).
THE NEWT HOUNDS are in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES - PUBLIC FRONTATION (Twin Tub & Beaver) CD £9.00 - Remarkable 80 minute document of NMF in concert, weird avant soundscaping, collage & fusions, also venturing towards the early atonal edges of Univers Zero. Unique.
NURSE WITH WOUND - HOMOTOPY TO MARIE (United Jnana: extended,DP) CD £13.00 - Ranking easily as one of their top 5 classics, file under: weird, beyond classical & rock, avant-garde dadaist dementia...
NURSE WITH WOUND - CHANCE MEETING OF A DEFECTIVE TAPE MACHINE & MIGRAINE (United Durtro/Anomalous: DP) CD £13.00 - Totally messed about & totally f**ked up!
NURSE WITH WOUND - SHE & ME FELL TOGETHER IN FREE DEATH (Beta-lactam Ring: promo) CDR ex/nc £5.00 - © 2005. Varied & quite rocky in parts.
NURSE WITH WOUND - SHIPWRECK RADIO VOLUME ONE (ICR: DP) 2CD £16.65, ex+/m £12.00 - Specially created soundscapes made at a remote arctic island.
NURSE WITH WOUND - SHIPWRECK RADIO VOLUME TWO (ICR: DP) 2CD £17.00 - Almost totally abstract sequel, of all acoustic manipulated environments, electroacoustic music betwixt Luc Ferrari, The Hafler Trio & NWW's "Soliloquy For Lilith".
NURSE WITH WOUND - SOUNDPOOLING (ICR/UD: DP) CD £13.00 - © 2006.
NURSE WITH WOUND - ECHO POEMS: SEQUENCE N° 2 (United Jnana) CD £13.00 - "Music inspired by the film "Last Year At Marienbad."
NURSE WITH WOUND - RAT TAPES ONE (UD) CD £10.75, ex+/m £7.50 - Apparently "discarded musical vermin 1983-2006", with some "Sucked Orange" & "Metal Men" leftovers, etc.
NURSE WITH WOUND & CYCLOBE - PARAPARAPARALLELOGRAMMATICA (Beta-lactam Ring: DP) CD ex+/m £8.00 - "Angry Eelectric Finger 2". In twisted esoteric mode.
NURSE WITH WOUND & JIM O'ROURKE - TAPE MONKEY MOOCH (Beta-lactam Ring: DP) CD £12.75, m/m £9.00 - "Angry Eelectric Finger 1". NWW bizarely mutated by O'Rourke.
NILS OKLAND - STRAUM (Rune Grammophon: DP) CD m/ex £8.00 - Unusual atmospheric Nordic avant/neo-classical. © 2000.
# PAULINE OLIVEROS - ELECTRONIC WORKS (Paradigm: RE) CD £10.00 - Extraordinary electronic music from 1965 & 1966. 3 works that swell & glide ominously like a cosmic surreal hybrid of Stockhausen & Subotnick, yet unlike either. Groundbreaking & still fresh 30 years on.
ONOMATOPOEIA - A MARBLE HOLDER FROM ANDOVER (Cheeses Int.) CDM m/m £4.00 - 19 minutes of sonic ooze/drone/... in Organum/Morphogenesis vein.
OPERATING THEATRE - RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS (UD: 1xBT) CD £10.75 - Roger Doyle's much celebrated sonic art opus. Created by music-concrete techniques, & often close to Stockhausen's masterwork "Hymnen".
# DAPHNE ORAM - ORAMICS (Paradigm) 2CD £15.00 - Early member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she later established her own studio. 1958-1972 recordings.
DANIEL PADDEN - PAUSE FOR THE JET (Dekorder: CC) CD £11.00 - 2008 solo album from Volcano The Bear member, a selection of songs & bizarre curios.
JEAN-FRANCOIS PAUVROS & GABY BIZIEN - NO MAN'S LAND (Spalax) CD £12.00 - Maniacs of free-jazz or cosmic music gone totally avant-garde? Guitar/percussion duo on the edge.
CARLOS PERON - IMPERSONATOR I (Revisited: DP) CD m/ex+ £9.00 - © 1981. His highly experimental debut in the vein of Pyrolator, Der Plan or D-A-F.
CARLOS PERON - NOTHING IS TRUE; EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED (Revisited: DP) 2CD £16.00 - His 2nd studio album, weird hybrid & industrial mixtures. CD1 = 45rpm version + 5 bonus tracks, CD2 = 33rpm version. © 1983.
CARLOS PERON - DIE SCHOPFUNG DER WELT (Revisited: DP) CD £13.50 - Spooky cinceptual work, with texts & dark symphonic edges. © 1984.
COLIN POTTER - IT WAS LIKE THIS... (ICR) 2CDR ex/nc £6.50 - 6 big sonic wodges of synthetic sound, manipulated noise, & such-like, unlike anything I've heard from Colin before.
DAVE POWELL - FRIED ROSIN (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - The unimaginable sound of the electrified hurdy gurdy from Extremities & Triax member. Tonal sonics & abstract fabrics.
DAVE POWELL - INDUSTRIAL FOLK MUSIC (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - With a wider range of sounds (hurdy gurdy & other instruments) & textures, this is all acoustic music - but not as we know it!
DAVE POWELL - ELECTRONIC ODYSSEYS (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - "Meditations for flute & other instruments" = very much in esoteric Bob Downes vein.
EDDIE PREVOST/ORGANUM - FLAYED/CRUX (Matchless) CD ex+/ex+ £10.00 - Side-long work each: Eddie Prevost's dramatic drum solo "Flayed" & Organum's oozing soundscape "Crux" (featuring Steven Stapleton on squeaky chair). © 1987
MICHAEL PRIME - ELEMENTS 1 (Mycophile: DP) CD £10.75 - Abstract electroacoustic works from former Morphogenesis member.
STAN REED/GREGOR JABS/FRANK ROWENTA - APOPLEXIA 1973 (Jeans) CD m/m £9.00 - This claims to be from 1973, but this H.N.A.S.-like collage includes things that are later!
RLW - EARLY W 4 "AJATOLLAH CARTER" (EditionsZero: CC) CD ex+/ex £9.00 - Collection of 1980 recordings documenting the (d)evolution of P.D.
RLW - THE PLEASURE OF BURNING DOWN (Black Rose: DP) CD ex+/m £9.00 - Abstract sonics by Ralf Wehowsky, lots of small sounds, rumbles/scrapes/shudders, etc. © 2007.
ROWENTA KHAN - TIEFPUNKTE MODERNER TONKOMOSITION (Dom Elchklang: 6xBT) CD £12.75 - Very obscure avant-garde collage project, ex-HNAS.
DENNIS SMALLEY - SOURCES/SCENES (emprientes DIGITALes: CC) CD ex+/m £8.00 - Classic electroacoustic/avant-garde. 1974, 1984, 1997 & 2000 works.
STIMULUS - ULTITLED LANDSCAPE ONE (ICR) CDR m/m £5.00 - Organum-like drones.
# DARREN TATE - STRANGE ARTIFACT (Fungal: CC) CDR m/m £5.00 - Strange indeed, 40 minutes of atmos/ambience fuzz & crackle, by 1-time Andrew Chalk/Organum associate.
JIM TETLOW - SYNAPSE (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Member of: Endgame, Hemamorphite, etc. Talented multi-instrumentalist with a style hinting at Sylvian & Czukay, Coil, Cluster or ????
JIM TETLOW - ONEIROMANCER (Auricle) CDR £6.85, m/m £5.00 - "Electroacoustic Works Vol. 1". Exploring another facet of Endgame, Jim decided to do a CD entirely without instruments.
JIM TETLOW - HEART OF GLASS (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Venturing further into the realms of transformed frequencies & disfigured tonalitles, this is a subtle, yet deep & powerful album.
JIM TETLOW - SLOTH (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Jim's deep ambient album, meditational yet not really soniferous or new-age, hints of the most ethereal Nurse With Wound, yet overall unique!
JIM TETLOW - QUICKSILVER (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - A very varied mixture of styles: floating, rhythmic &... Full of surprises & unique invention, this has Jim inventing a new genre.
JIM TETLOW - SUBSTANCE & ASCENSION (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - 1998-99 archives. Spooky atmospheric works from Endgame member.
THROBBING GRISTLE - D.O.A. THE THIRD & FINAL REPORT (Mute) CD £10.00 - Really varied collection. This also contains their "Five Knuckle Shuffle/We Hate You" single.
THROBBING GRISTLE - HEATHEN EARTH (Mute) CD £10.00 - Possibly the finest example of TG: industrial, electronics & weird rock meets punky psych. Plus the "Adrenalin/Subhuman" single.
THROBBING GRISTLE - IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN (Mute) CD £10.00 - Classic acid industrial space-out & rambling soundtrack to Derek Jarman's film.
THROBBING GRISTLE - JOURNEY THROUGH A BODY (Mute) CD £10.00 - Special project recorded in Italy. Innovative & strange industrial spacey journey, with TG at their most inventive. TG's last proper studio album.
THROBBING GRISTLE - CD1 (Mute) CD £10.00 - All instrumental in "Heathen Earth" vein.
# THROBBING GRISTLE - THE TASTE OF TG (Mute: DP) CD £7.85 - Cheap intro to TG.
ASMUS TIETCHENS & JON MUELLER - 7 STUCKE (AufAbwegen) CD £12.75 - © 2002. Tietchens: scuttling/abstract sonics, Mueller: abstract/scuttling percussives.
TRIAX are in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
VOLCANO THE BEAR - FIVE HUNDRED BOY PIANO (UD) CD £11.00 - Unusually very vocal, angular & scrappy, some familiar gig ideas, but not much rock. It seems to be an initial shocker that grows with subsequent plays.
VOLCANO THE BEAR - CATONAPOTATO (Digitalis) CD £9.80 - As a duo of Aaron & Nick, in largely acoustic & avant-garde mode, live February/April/June 2004. This is more jazzy/avant sounding, towards abstract Henry Cow, some Iskra (Swedish band), some Sun Ra, etc.
VOLCANO THE BEAR - CLASSIC ERASMUS FUSION (Beta-lactam Ring: CC) 2CD £15.65, ex+/m £10.00 - © 2006. A return to form, full of eccentric &unique invention.
WIRKUS/KÜRTEN - HEBAN (A-Version) CDR ex+/- £3.00 - Curious minimal ambiences.
# TREVOR WISHART - JOURNEY INTO SPACE (Paradigm: DP) CD £10.00 - Reissue of the strange atmospheric/collage 2LP set.
# TREVOR WISHART & FRIENDS - MENAGERIE/BEACH SINGULARITY/VOCALISE (Paradigm) CD £10.00 - Bizarre collages with Tony Blackburn's hits for weird sounds & strange events on a beach! Eccentric electroacoustic avant-garde!
ZIRCON & THE BURNING BRAINS are in the "Tachyon Studio" section!
A BREEZE OF TIME (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Long deleted & lost to the world, I revisited it when compiling the original Auricle Archive, & used 2 tracks: Alto Stratus "Troll" & Region 5 "Reise (remix)" which I decided to omit here, as there's no use in duplication. After all, 72 minutes is great value by anyone's standards! Recorded in Leicester 1982-1986. Adhara, Vrije, Alto Stratus (4 tracks), ZBB (3 tracks), Xylem, Region 5 (2 tracks), Scorpio.
A CAGE WENT IN SEARCH OF A BIRD (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Acclaimed international compilation of innovative 80's music, from new-age onto pure avant-garde. Selected tracks: Peter Frohmader (2 tracks), Colin Potter, Alto Stratus (2 tracks), Conrad Schnitzler, Paul Kelday, New 7th Music, Aussenminister, Input, Rollkommando. Digitally remastered at Tachyon Studio.
AMBIENT ECLIPSE (Mirage) CD ex+/m £7.00 - Steve Roach, Danna & Clement, R.S. Thompson, Frank Quasar, David Knight, etc.
ARCANA COELESTIA (Multimood: DP,5xBT) CD m/ex+ £15.00 - Ambient/experimental musics: O Yuki Conjugate, Robert Rich, Asmus Tietchens, Vidna Obmana, Keeler, Peter Frohmader, etc.
AURICLE ARCHIVE: RARITIES (Auricle) CDR+ £6.85 - Rare tracks by Alto Stratus, Annonce Grotesque, Alan Freeman, Steve Freeman, Holy Atheist & ZBB.
AURICLE ARCHIVE: RARITIES #2 (Auricle) CDR+ £6.85 - Rare material from 1983 by early versions of Alto Stratus & related projects. Includes Inkey$ 8 "Dark Star" feature.
AURICLE ARCHIVE SAMPLER (Auricle) CDR £4.90 - Charting ZBB/Alto Stratus history 1981-89.
AURICLE CASSETTES SAMPLER (Auricle) CDR £4.90 - Special price sampler, with selections by: Peter Frohmader, Con-Hertz, GAM, Robert Rich, Asmus Tietchens, Endgame, etc.
AURICLE CDR 2001 SAMPLER (Auricle) CDR £4.90 - Nifty bargain sampler, introducing Alto Stratus, Endgame & solo projects by Alan, Steve & Jim.
AURICLE CDR 2002 SAMPLER (Auricle) CDR £4.90 - Nifty bargain sampler: Jim Tetlow, Endgame (4 tracks), Hemamorphite, Eruption, Polymorph. Plus CD-ROM.
AURICLE 2005 SAMPLER (Auricle) CDR £4.90 - Unique remix/collage samples from 2005 releases by ZBB (2 tracks), Endgame (8 tracks), Extremities (2 tracks), Triax (2 tracks), The Scanner Game (1 track), Jim Tetlow (1 track).
BEYOND ME (Neu Harmony) CD ex+/m £7.00 - Segued synth-sequencer tracks: Paul Ellis, Free System Projekt, Robert Carty, Kubusschnitt, Paul Nagle, Arcane, John Vhristian, etc.
BIJOUTERIE (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Unique new recordings by Endgame & co. 8 diverse tracks, Kosmische, avant-garde, atmos, sound collage, trippy & soteric. Endgame, Steve Freeman, Jim Tetlow, Alto Stratus, Hemamorphite, Alan Freeman, Extremities, Polymorph.
CMCD (RéR: RE) CD £10.75 - Compilation of contemporary music off RéR releases: John Oswald, Georg Katzer, Steve Moore, Lutz Glandein, Jaroslav Krcek, Richard Trythall.
THE COLLECTIVE, VOL. 2 (SynGate) 2CDR ex+/m £10.00 - A guide to 24 modern synth acts: Eric Seifert, Wellenfeld, Alien Nature, Keller & Schonwalder, Rainbow Serpent, Frank Klare, etc.
DREAMS OF MY SPACE 1 (Spheric) CD m/m £9.00 - Produced by Robert Schroeder. Apart from Guido Negraszus, all are synth acts we've not encountered before.
¿DRONSZ? (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Unique unreleased drone & synthesizer works from: Biomechanoid, Alan Freeman, Steve Freeman, Chris Conway, Dave Powell, Steve Hillman, Endgame, Jim Tetlow, Triax, Alto Stratus.
ENCHANTEMENT (Musea: 3xBT) CD £10.75 - Sampler with original: Ange, Atoll, Pulsar, Edhels, Atmosphere, Minimum Vital, Raison De Plus, etc.
ESCAPE FROM THE CAGE - VOL. 1: SPACE-ROCK & BEYOND (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - The Auricle guide to 80's space-rock, progressive & cosmic musics. Selected tracks: Dean Carter, Gunter Schickert, Djam Karet (2 tracks), Ken Moore Group (2 tracks), AMA, Alto Stratus, No Zen Orchestra, Rancid Poultry, Tangle Edge. Digitally remastered.
ESCAPE FROM THE CAGE - VOL. 2: INTO THE UNDERWORLD (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - Experimental sounds for the adventurous, from avant-garde onto industrial. Selected tracks: Morphogenesis, N.R. Hills, Biomechanoid, Sleaze Art, Arcane Device, Michael Winnerholt, Context, Peter Frohmader, Alto Stratus, Limpe Fuchs, Clothearz, Jack Tamul, Asmus Tietchens. Digitally remastered at Tachyon Studio.
ESCAPE FROM THE CAGE - VOL. 3: IMAGES OF INFINITY (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - A rare treat for Teutonic cosmic synth music fan, yet with no German synthesists! Slightly edited versions of all tracks on the cassette. Digitally remastered at Tachyon Studio.
HISTORICAL AURICLE (Auricle) CDR £4.90 - Special price sampler featuring: Aeolian String Ensemble, Alto Stratus, Aussenminister, Con-Hertz, Peter Frohmader, Robert Rich, ZBB, etc.
ILLUMINATED PLEASURES (Auricle) CDR £6.85 - A prime historical artifact from our early days. Way back then we published a number of samplers & "various artists" releases on cassette that were neither really, in that all the material was by ourselves, in various combinations & different concepts: Scorpio, Region Five, Electric Junk, Vrije, ZBB, Xylem, Adhara, Holy Atheist, Alto Stratus, Annonce Grotesque (rare early Nigel Harris solo work).
KRAUT-BLOODY-RAGEOUS! (-) CD £11.75 - 4th volume of the series: The Ravers, Blackbirds 2000, Haboob, Big Bertha, Cannock, Drum, Andorra, Jam, Tusk, Can, Al Capone, etc.
KRAUTROCK, VOL. 2 (Target) 6CD £41.10 - Sampler (59 tracks) featuring: Amon Düül II, Agitation Free, Faust, Kraan, Popol Vuh, Eloy, Triumvirat, Witthuser & Westrupp, Tangerine Dream, Guru Guru, Os Mundi, Silberbart, Frumpy, Kravetz, Wonderland Band, etc.
KRAUTROCK KARNIVAL (SAS) CD £8.80 - Hardly Krautrock if you ask me! Featuring: Damo Suzuki's Network, Circle, Appliance, Foreign Spaces, Cookin' With Kurt, etc.
LUCID DREAMING (NAMA) CD £9.80 - "New Age Music Association" sampler, with much unique music: Symbiosis, Lawrence Ball, Annie Locke, Woo, Mark Jenkins, etc.
MUTANT THROBBING GRISTLE (Mute: DP) CD m/m £6.00 - TG remixes by CarterTutti, etc.
OKEFENOKEE DREAMS 2001 (Neu Harmony/Quantum) CD m/m £9.00, ex+/ex+ £8.00 - Concert of Anglo-USA acts: Free System Projekt, AirSculpture, Dave Brewer, Bill Fox.
PONDER THIS... (Submergence) CD £10.75 - Avant-noise-atmos-experimental collection: Conrad Schnitzler, Mystery Hearsay, Rapoon, Colin Potter, Asmus Tietchens, Merzbow, David Myers & Thomas DiMuzio, F/i, Endgame.
PORTRAITS (In The Bubble Music) CDR ex+/m £5.00 - Atmos synth & new-age, floaty & melodic synth: Saul Stokes, The Circular Ruins, Christopher Short, James Johnson, Interstitial, Vir Unis.
PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND 14 (Garden of Delights) CD £3.90 - Emma Myldenberger, Joy Unlimited, P2O5, Faithful Breath, Out Of Focus, Aqua, Sun, Gravestone, Pancake.
RéR QUARTERLY SELECTIONS FROM VOL. 2 (RéR) CD ex+/m £7.00 - With Robert Wyatt, J. Lachen, Musci/Venosta, Jean Derome, When, & much more. 68 minutes in total.
# ROCK SCENE (Mellow) CD £11.75 - Late-70's Italian album featuring 2 fairly unknown progressive bands: La Statale 17 & Emphasis, with dreamy Pulsar, Asia Minor stylings.
UT GOLDEN HOUR (Auricle) CDR £3.90 - Sampler from CD releases: Alto Stratus, Biomechanoid, ZBB, Shapeshifter, Endgame, The Newt Hounds, Out Of Focus.
VARIATIONS: A LONDON COMPILATION (Paradigm) CD £10.75 - Experimental, avant-garde, industrial, etc. All new music by: John Wall, Andrew Jacques, Crow, Alquimia, John Grieve, Kymatik, Adam Bohman.
VARIATIONS 2 (Paradigm) CD £10.75 - Avant-garde/electronic/bizarre sounds from: Akemi Ishijima, Michael Ormiston, Tom Wallace, Hugh Davies, Bob Cobbing & Lawrence Upton, John Grieve, Clive Graham, Rolf Gehlhaar.
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