DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK 4 - Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-83

Description

This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series, a near-definitive guide to some of the worlds most extraordinary music – The Guardian.

This new Soul Jazz release features many of the classic German electronic and Krautrock groups from the 1970s and 1980s, including Can, Amon Dl II, Harmonia, Conrad Schnitzler, Agitation Free and Roedelius, as well as a host of lesser known artists such as Dzyan, Klaus Weiss, Gruppe Between and many more.

Deutsche Elektronische rarities unearthed on the album include Kalacakra (whose fanbase included the great Moondog) and their superb Nearby Shiras, taken from their super-rare spiritual / psychedelic private press concept album Crawling to Lhasa from 1972.

Deutsche Elektronische 4 includes a wealth of German electronic experimental artists – the seminal pioneering group Harmonia (Roedelius, Moebius and Michael Rother) and avant-garde guru Conrad Schnitzler, as well as lesser known synthetic artists such as Klaus Weiss, Deutsche Wertarbeit, E.M.A.K. (Elektronische Musik Aus Kln), Gnter Schickert and others.

Finally, the album also features an array of heavy and progressive German cosmic rock groups – Dzyan, Virus and the amazing Turkish/German tripped out sound of Alexs Patella Black, recorded at Cans Inner Space in 1973, produced by Holger Czukay and Jackie Liebezeit.

Deutsche Elektronische 4 comes with extensive newly commissioned sleevenotes by David Stubbs, author of the seminal books Future Days: Krautrock and the building of Modern Germany, Mars By 1980: The story of Electronic Music and Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy.

This album comes as a deluxe double CD edition with outsize booklet and slipcase, as well as a heavyweight triple vinyl edition with full colour inner sleeves. Both formats include full liner notes and extensive rare photography.

Tracklist

Patella Black – Alex
Driving Sequences – Klaus Weiss
I’m So Green – Can
Laila, Part II – Agitation Free
Guten Abend, Leute – Deutsche Wertarbeit
Wolf City – Amon Duul II
Flammende Herzen – Michael Rother
Pink Sails – Klaus Weiss
My Strand-Eyed Girl – Virus
Ballet Statique – Conrad Schnitzler
Nearby Shiras – Kalacakra
Tanz In Den Himmel – EMAK
Mellodrama 2a – Et Cetera
Triumphzug Kaiser Maximilian I – Between
Halmharfe – Roedelius Dragonsong – Dzyan
Deluxe (Immer Wieder) – Harmonia
Suleika – Gunter Schickert
Schopfung (1. Mose 1) – Witthuser & Westrupp

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