Electric Junk: Deutsche Rock, Psych and Kosmiche 1970-1978 Various Artists (4CD)

4CD set exploring the thriving 1970s German rock underground.
Stellar line-up includes Tangerine Dream, Faust, Roedelius, Conrad Schnitzler, Popol Vuh, Edgar Froese, Cluster, Klaus Schulze, Guru Guru, Agitation Free and many more.
Complete with extensive travelogue sleevenotes.
Texts and design by the inimitable Cally.
Curated by the team behind many of our most popular rock, prog and electronica compilations.
Take a ticket, find yourself a comfortable seat and embark on a musical journey across the underground musical landscape of 1970s Germany….
As the sound of the 1960s drifted off into outer space, open-minded musicians across Germany - East and West - forged their own unique path into the 1970s and beyond, strangely free of the overtly commercial and conformist concerns of their neighbours around Europe.
Why this generation from this particular nation might be beyond giving a ficken is a topic for someplace else, but for reasons of their own Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Faust, Conrad Schnitzler and their contemporaries sought not to explore the pop charts but the boundaries of inner space and intellectual curiosity, veering with wild and free abandon from rock to jazz to lengthy progressive wig outs and formative electronica in the process.
Many never returned, lost and adrift on a sea of dope smoke and Moog arpeggios, but ‘Electric Junk’ nevertheless charts and documents their journey for future generations.
Compiled and sequenced with your own journey into inner space in mind, we proudly present a remarkable snapshot of a movement like no other.
Rebellious, politically charged, communal and lysergically informed, these artists took their non-macho, long-haired proto punk outlook around the world in its many forms, finding favour throughout Europe, Asia and the US.
Critical acclaim and the occasional hit were their rewards, alongside inadvertently inventing and influencing uncountable niche genres, questionable fashion statements and must-hear bands.

Tracklisting

Disc One
1 Guru Guru - Electric Junk
2 Jane - Early In The Morning
3 Brainticket - Black Sand
4 Kraan - Head
5 Karthago - Why Don't You Stop Buggin' Me
6 Epsilon - She Belongs To Me
7 Eloy - Daybreak
8 Message - Dreams And Nightmares (Dreams)
9 Nosferatu - Highway
10 La Düsseldorf - Silver Cloud

Disc Two
1 Klaus Schulze - Satz Gewitter (Energy Rise, Energy Collapse)
2 Lava - Piece Of Peace
3 Tangerine Dream - Movements Of A Visionary
4 Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Regenmacher
5 Conrad Schnitzler - Wild Space 6
6 Nine Days' Wonder - Moment
7 Faust - Jennifer
8 Novalis - Dronsz
9 Agitation Free - You Play For Us Today
10 Silberbart - Brain Brain

Disc Three
1 Edgar Froese - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
2 Cluster - Georgel
3 My Solid Ground - The Executioner
4 Popol Vuh - Ah!
5 Klaus Schulze - Some Velvet Phasing
6 Triumvirat - March To The Eternal City
7 Tangerine Dream - Ultima Thule Pt 1
8 Embryo - A Place To Go
9 Faust - On The Way To Abamae
10 Electric Sandwich - China (Single Version)
11 My Solid Ground - Dirty Yellow Mist

Disc Four
1 Ramses - La Leyla
2 Frame - Frame Of Mind
3 A.R. & Machines – Als Häite Ich Das Alles Schon 'Mal Gesehen
4 Janus - Red Sun (2013 Remix)
5 Guru Guru - Stone In
6 Hoelderlin - Schwebebahn
7 Orange Peel - We Still Try To Change
8 Pell Mell - City Monster
9 Os Mundi - A Question Of Decision
10 Sweet Smoke - Darkness To Light