Music from Germany

"The story of each re-release begins with the original. In the late 90s, Uwe Zahn (Arovane), along with Robert Henke (Monolake) and Stefan Betke (Pole), began releasing music on Torsten Pröfrock’s (Dynamo) newly launched DIN label. This was a very in…

*2026 stock* Last time, RLW (Ralf Wehowsky—active years ago on P16.D4 and since then releasing a largely uncategorizable brand of noise music across numerous publications) thrilled us on these pages with his album Satanic Inventions. Now, again on St…

The album ‘November 89’ comprises a selection of very early GAS tracks, some of which date back to the late 1980s. They were first released in 2008 as a CD insert in the art book ‘Wolfgang Voigt GAS’, published on Raster-Noton. Just like the photogra…

*2026 repress* 1973s brilliant Celestial Ocean, by the legendary Swiss krautrock band Brainticket, is a concept album that details an ancient pharoahs journey into the afterlife (substitute the word "journey" for "trip" and youll get what they were d…

Electric Sandwich were founded in Bonn in 1967 and played sophisticated progressive rock. Their first gigs were in 1968. At a band competition on 16 October 1971, they shared second place with the Scorpions and impressed so much that they immediately…

On Music Compilation: 12 Dances, TRJJ turn disguised authorship into groove: twelve slow, zoned, sample‑rich “dances” that treat anonymity as a filter, stitching African and American folk, free improv and loner ambient into one beautifully crooked co…

Seventh entry in the essential Can live series, and one of the great ones. A hot August night in 1975, the Roman Théâtre Antique in Arles, the core four locked in: Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay. No safety net, just t…

Night Sky marbled vinyò edition. 350 copies. Discovery Zone is the project of JJ Weihl, the New York-born, Berlin-based musician and former member of Fenster. In 2023 she was commissioned to perform inside the dome of the historic Zeiss-Groß Planetar…

Limited and numbered edition, featuring original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector’s sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, and pressed on 180g vinyl. Includes hi-res audio download. Among the most playful and point…

Rare original first edition on Metronome of the most extreme and ground-breaking album of Krautrock and psychedelic music in general released in 1969, one of the essential items on the NWW list for whom it was a major influence.

First CD re-issue on Captain Trip from 1995 of the most extreme and ground-breaking album of Krautrock and psychedelic music in general released in 1969, one of the essential items on the NWW list for whom it was a major influence.

First CD re-issue on Spalax from 1988 of the debut album by one of the weirdest and most radical groups linked to krautrock, the free improvising duo of Paul and Limpe Fuchs.

Original edition on CBS with embosseed sleeve of the 1974 album by progressive hard-rock band, introducing maverick keyboard player and producer Zeus B. Held.

Sole edition of the 1972 compilation on Ohr of the best of the first two years of the progressive hard-rock band.

1982 re-issue on Bellaphon of Joel Vandroogenbroeck's band's second album from 1972, a psychedelic space-rock classic on the NWW list.

2010 grey area re-issue on 180g vinyl of Joel Vandroogenbroeck's band's second album from 1972, a psychedelic space-rock classic on the NWW list. No CD included.

Rare original 1970 edition on Liberty of the outstanding first album, simply essential and on the NWW list.

Rare UK edition with non-textured gimmick sleeve of the spectacular second double album from 1971, simply essential and on the NWW list.

1981 Italian re-issue on Spoon/Base of the magnificent third album from 1972, simply essential and on the NWW list.

Original 1974 US edition on Liberty of the superlative fourth album, simply essential and on the NWW list.