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18 Karat Gold : All bumm

An official reissue of the legendary album 'All Bumm' by German supergroup 18 Karat Gold. Featuring studio musician Keith Forsey on drums (Hallelujah/Amon Düül II), bass genius Lothar Meid (Amon Düül II), Jörg Evers (guitar) from Embryo and American-German guitar talent Klaus Ebert on lead guitar, the idea behind 18 Karat Gold seems to have been to present a krautrock influenced take on English icons like David Bowie, Roxy Music and perhaps T.Rex and Slade. Stunning instrumentals, catchy pop and gaudy rock, and the ocassional cosmic murmur à la Amon Düül II will satisfy all your musical needs. The CD comes in special gold coloured packaging.

Aera (GER) : Mechelwind

Altona : Altona

The first ever CD-reissue of the self-titled debut-LP by Altona. Featuring former Thrice Mice-members Karl Heinz Blumenberg (vocals and sax) and Werner von Gosen (guitar), this album could be experienced as "Thrice Mice deluxe", still showcasing the relation with Blodwyn Pig. The material was remastered from the original master tapes and the booklet includes the band's story and photos.

Altona : Altona

The first ever vinyl reissue of the self-titled debut-LP by Altona. Featuring former Thrice Mice members Karl Heinz Blumenberg (vocals and sax) and Werner von Gosen (guitar), this album could be experienced as "Thrice Mice deluxe", still showcasing the relation with Blodwyn Pig. The LP comes includes an insert with the band's story and photos and sound remastered from the original mastertapes.

Amos Key : First key

Apocalypse : Apocalypse -2nd-

Arktis (GER) : Arktis tapes

Ars Nova : Ars nova

B.B. Blunder : Worker's playtime

Beck, Joe : Nature boy

Blonde On Blonde : Contrasts

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Burnin Red Ivanhoe : Burnin red ivanhoe

Burnin Red Ivanhoe : W.W.W.

Chicken Bones : Hardrock in concert

Reissued on CD, this is the 1976 album by Chicken Bones. Though the title of the german band's sole full-length, 'Hardrock In Concert', may raise the impression that the band's style was rather mundane, the music in fact is rather creative, at times reminding of early UFO, Wishbone Ash, or May Blitz. It'n not without reason that this album has become quite sought after as time passed. The CD comes with 6 bonus tracks by Revanche, a unit featuring Chicken Bones' leader Rainer Geuecke. The release also includes a band story, written in cooperation with guitar player Hilmar Szameitat, and rare photos..

Cliffsight : Soulful man

Complex : Way we feel

Concept : Invasion

Coupla Prog : Death is a great...

Cravinkel : Cravinkel

Dauner, Wolfgang : Knirsch

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Dauner, Wolfgang : Rischka's soul

Dear Mr. Time : Grandfather

Drosselbart : Drosselbart

Dzyan : Mandala - swf sessions 1972

Dzyan : Electric silence

Dzyan : Mandala - swf sessions 1972

Emerald Web : Dragon wings and wizard tales

Emergency : Entrance

Ft. Udo Lindenberg

Epizootic : Daybreak

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Eulenspygel : Eulenspygel 2

Eulenspygel : Auschuss

Exmagma : Exmagma

Exmagma's eponymous first album, recorded in 1972 and released in 1973, reminds a lot of late '60s Soft Machine. Others compare the album to Wolfgang Dauner's output or tracks by Et Cetera. Exmagma's music goes beyond jazz and rock, using a wealth of effects and electronic gadgets. This reissue comes with a replica of the original 8 page insert and sticker.

Fruupp : Modern Masquerades

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Gebarvaterli : Im tal der emmen

This is the first official reissue of this extremely rare album, originally released in 1978 on the Brutkasten label. A very varied fusion album, 'Im Tal Der Emmen' blends Embryo and Zappa/Mothers like rock and jazz mixtures, with a rich instrumental palette, full of solos and invention. Mostly it intended to sound like an instrumental Out Of Focus (Freeman Brothers in 'The Crack In The Cosmic Egg'). The album has this charming kraut/fusion style. The sextet line-up resulted in a very rich sound with technical drumming, smooth instrumental interactions and loose executions on flute, guitars and organ, not to mention the scratching sax soloing of Mandi Riedelbauch (who also played on Marsupilami's 'Arena' album from 1971). Moreover there are slight psychedelic underlines over a jazzy attitude, typical of the kraut rock stylings, featuring steady but frenetic rhythmic parts over extended instrumental solos. The band had however a good sense of melody to support their jazzy style with melodic trombones and some delicate flute lines in the more mellow segments. Every track in here seems to have its own hero, no matter if it's the keyboardist, the flutist or the sax player. They do remind of classic acts such as Kraan and Embryo pretty often with a touch of Supersister in the furious interplays. Interesting and at moments fascinating kraut fusion with decent interplays and plenty of well-performed solos. Recommended both to krautrock and jazz/fusion fans (Apps79, Progarchives reviewer). The LP comes with 6-sided cover sized insert sheet with bandstory, many photos and other memorabilia.

Gift : Blue apple

Gomorrha (GER) : I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was

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Gomorrha (GER) : Trauma

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Gravestone (ger) : Doomsday

Haboob : Haboob

Hairy Chapter : Can't get through

Hard Meat : Hard meat

First official reissue

Improved Sound Limited : Catch a singing bird on

Improved Sound Limited : The final foreword 1966-1972

The 5th album of Neurenberg's greatest contending their early singles, soundtracks to films and TV productions. Featuring a lot of previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1966 and 1972. Wonderful songs influenced by the Beat era and with the psychedelic music of the late 60s. Funny and competent lyrics combined with fresh and well played music, showing the great talent of the band, playing on a high standard. Excellent sound quality plus a highly informative booklet!

Jonesy : Keeping up

Jonesy : Growing

Jud's Gallery : Swf sessions, vol. 1

Newly released 2nd eddition!!! Pulled from the archives from the legendary SWF-Radio sessions and remastered to their original glory comes a session-broadcast from a Offenburg/Germany band. Juds Gallery who recorded 9 long tracks over 2 SWF sessions in 1972/74. Excellent intelligent progressive-Krautrock, with self composed long tracks drenched in occasional classic and heavy blues rock. A truly amazing discovery and a must for all Krautrock fans. Over 78 minutes superb rock, with superb guitar, bass, violin, organ and piano. This 2nd edition comes with 13 minutes bonus track "New Days Dawning" and revised booklet with full band story and more photos. Digitally remastered from original tape.

Karthago : Rock 'n' roll testament

Krokodil : Getting up for the morning

Lily : V.c.u. we see you

Man : 2 ozs of plastic with a hole in the middle

This is an official re-release on vinyl under licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management, UK, remastered from an original master copy out of the vaults of BMG. The album was originally released in 1969 on Pye records. Man are a rock band from Wales whose style is a mixture of American West Coast psychedelia, progressive rock, and blues. As most of you know Man have an enormous back catalogue with a big list of albums that proved that they are one of the greatest bands to emerge from Wales and the UK. Still active today after countless line-up changes they are still part of the psychedelic, progressive jam rock scene. Let's go back to September 1969 when '2 Ozs Of Plastic...' was released on Pye Records (home of The Kinks). The band's second album is a vast improvement from their debut album 'Revelation'. Still heavily influenced by their west coast psych peers, the performances have tightened and great experimental ideas were flowing. The LP starts with the magnificent 'Prelude/The Storm', which lasts for over 12 minutes. A really unusual piece to kick off an album with, but it works. It's so full of atmosphere from all musicians. Crashing cymbals, a wall of noise from the Hammond and unusual sounds from Deke Leonard on guitar, making convincing seagull noises. The whole track emulates a storm perfectly as the title would suggest. Things continue to build towards a seemingly limitless crescendo before easing off to an altogether more relaxing, almost ambient phase. As we move into 'It Is As It Must Be' (originally to be titled 'Shit On The World' till the record company took fright), we begin to uncover what would become the essence of the band. Here we have a heavy, bluesy guitar driven riff laden number with the first vocals of the album. Apart from that brief vocal excursion, the track is primarily an elongated jam featuring lead guitar and harmonica. Other highlights include 'Spunk Box' (known as 'Spunk Rock' to the band and fans). A killer riff opens the first track on side two followed by some dirty soun...