Electric Junk: Deutsche Rock, Psych & Kosmiche 1970-1978 / Various 4CD (United Kingdom - Import)

Four CD 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. 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 it's 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.

Label: Cherry Red
UPC: 5013929119499
Release Date: April 25, 2025

Track List

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
11. Klaus Schulze - Satz Gewitter (Energy Rise Energy Collapse)
12. Lava - Piece of Peace
13. Tangerine Dream - Movements of a Visionary
14. Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Regenmacher
15. Conrad Schnitzler - Wild Space 6
16. Nine Days' Wonder - Moment
17. Faust - Jennifer
18. Novalis - Dronsz
19. Agitation Free - You Play for Us Today
20. Silberbart - Brain Brain
21. Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
22. Cluster - Georgel
23. My Solid Ground - the Executioner
24. Popol Vuh - Ah!
25. Klaus Schulze - Some Velvet Phasing
26. Triumvirat - March to the Eternal City
27. Tangerine Dream - Ultima Thule PT 1
28. Embryo - a Place to Go
29. Faust - on the Way to Abamae
30. Electric Sandwich - China (Single Version)
31. My Solid Ground - Dirty Yellow Mist
32. Ramses - la Leyla
33. Frame - Frame of Mind
34. A.R. ; Machines - Als Hätte Ich Das Alles Schon 'Mal Gesehen
35. Janus - Red Sun (2013 Remix)
36. Guru Guru - Stone in
37. Hoelderlin - Schwebebahn
38. Orange Peel - We Still Try to Change
39. Pell Mell - City Monster
40. Os Mundi - a Question of Decision
41. Sweet Smoke - Darkness to Light