ABOUT THIS ITEM

German Rock and experimental electronic music grew out of the worldwide counter-cultural revolution of 1968. The objectives were to create a new music, ‘free’ from the past. A music that gave seed out of the cultural ‘nothingness’ that young Germans felt as a consequence of Germany’s role in the Second World War. A generation who grew up stifled by the recent history of Nazi atrocities, the guilt of their parents’ generation and their disillusionment at the reintegration of old Nazis into mainstream society. From the opening of the first collective / cooperative in 1967, Commune 1, in Berlin, to the formation of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group and the bombings, kidnappings and killings of the Red Army Faction (RAF), young Germans sought out new values and a lifestyle outside of ‘the system’.

These co-operative and communal experiences led to a number of new radical collective German bands forming such as Amon Duul, Faust, Can and others and these ideals drove this new musical movement. Influenced equally by the electronic experimentalism of Stockhausen, the progressive rock of Pink Floyd and the black American jazz and soul music played at the occupying armed forces bases, young German artists seamlessly created out of this a new unique music with its own unique identity.

Side A:
1. Cluster - Heisse Lippen (2.21)
2. Ibliss - High Life (13.01)

Side B:
1. Moebius - Hasenheide (2.36)
2. Amon Duul II - Fly United (3.29)
3. Popol Vuh - Aguirre 1 (6.13)

Side C:
1. Ash Ra Tempel - Daydream (5.22)
2. Tangerine Dream - No Man's Land (9.05)

Side D:
8. Amon Duul II - Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse (5.43)
9. Roedelius - Geradewohl (3.31)
10. Can - I Want More (3.30)
11. Deuter - Soham (4.55)