Ejwuusl Wessahqqan - 1975 - s/t

Style: Krautrock, Improv
Label:Private Press/Garden of Delight ReRelease
Similar Artists:early Tangerine Dream, Amon Düül etc.

One of my favorite Krautrock records. While nearly every german jazzy/blues rock/heavy rock fart, pressed on vinyl from 1970-1978 is labeled as Krautrock, this is the "real" stuff.

Yes, these are completely stoned, improvised sessions recorded in a cellar onto reel to reel tape and pressed in a private edition of 300 records. Shitty rehearsal tracks just on drums, heavy organs and bass/filouphon. Very raw, I love it. Forget the Amon Düül crap ;-).

The rerelease comes with some additional tracks - recorded as Koala Bär (yes, it's maybe one of the first Bear bands ;-)), with some more organ improv, an folky psych song and electronic sequezer lines

Tracklisting

1. Die Geborstenen Kuppeln Von Yethlyreom
   
2. Die Orangefarbene Wüste Südwestlich Von Ignarh
   
3. Thuloneas Körper
   
4. Hobbl-Di-Wobbl
   
5. Passaceety
   
6. AFN
   
7. The Crystal
   
8. La Mer
   

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Physics - 1998 - Physics 1, 1999 - Physics 2

Genre: Post Rock, Space Rock, Electronic, Math Rock
Label: Flapping Jet Records/Gravity records

Similar Artists: AshRaTemple, Tortoise, Trans Am

I think Epitonic.com introduced me to this band nearly 10 years ago.

Well, this Band doesn't exist anymore, but reincarnated into Aspects of Physics, a more electronic, but still outer space project.

Physics 1 is a compilation of live tracks and singles. They play a very spacey Post-Rock in vein of Krautrock groups like AshRaTemple or Can. Lot of synthie-swirrls, that special groovey drums, echoed guitars and endless space rock jams.

Oh and if you wanna see a website from 10 years ago and need more infos about the project, visit the old Bandwebsite

Tracklisting - Physics 1

1. Second 7 - Side 1
   
2. Second 7 - Side 2
   
3. Delayed Drone 
   
4. First 7 - Side 1
   
5. First 7 - Side 2
   
6. Song From Video
   
7. Live At The Casbah
   

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Tracklisting - Physics 2

1. Positive Heterodyne
   
2. Delayed Drone
   
3. Wave File 3 
   
4. Level 2 Part A
   
5. Level 2 Part B
   
6. +⇄−
   
7. Proper
   
8. Neutralogue
   
9. Negative Heterodyne
   

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Anubian Lights - 1998 - Let Not The Flame Die Out, 2001 Naz Bar

Genre: Space Rock, 60ies Agent&Spy Lounge Soundtrack, Ambient Electronica, Dance
Label:Hypnotic/Cleopatra (US), Crippled Dick Hot Wax (GER)

For the 100th post I've got something ehm special... not really, but it's my alltime fave. 10 years ago this retro-space-age revival was in full bloom. These „lounge sounds“, sampled sixties tunes mixed with some light beats, where played everywhere. Anubian Lights started as these traditional Space Rock projects in Hawkwind tradition, but turned to the light weight chilling tunes. Both records are the best. A cool mixture of space rock, pure sequencer electronics, some techno/electronic/breakbeats, sampled sixties tunes, spacey synths and grooves. Check it, it's fun!

Hey order Naz Bar for just 5 EUR the CD at the Labelwebsite!

Tracklisting 1998 - Let Not The Flame Die Out

1. The Fire Breathes
   
2. South Of Dashur
   
3. The Locusts Call
   
4. One Eye To The Sky
   
5. Ali Mamoun's Broken Entranceway
   
6. Frequency Of Sand
   
7. Mutashaker (Thank You)
   
8. Our Man In Baghdad
   
9. Atoms Of The Gods
   
10. As Seen In 822 A.D.
    
11. Sanctuaries Of Jupiter
    
12. Nara - Yana
    
13. Vision Of A New Homeland
    
14. Let Not The Flame Die Out
    

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Tracklisting - 2001 - Naz Bar

1. Introduction
   
2. What A Bagdad Had
   
3. Smoke And Mirrors
   
4. In Flight
   
5. Out Flight
   
6. Epsilon
   
7. Dreamstate In The Mainframe
   
8. Micronite
   
9. Hot Sand
   
10. Starvox
    
11. Lazytown
    
12. The 3-Step Formula
    
13. Smoothing Out Of The Curve
    
14. Outer Space Music

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Wizardzz - 2006 - Hidden City Of Taurmond

Genre: Space Rock
Label: Load Records (US)

Synth + Drum Duo, related to Lightning Bolt and Bug Sized Mind. Sailship got a great synthie lead. check this!

...a smooth, dreamy, synth driven album that keeps the listener interested in exploring further...

Tracklisting

1. Disembark 
   
2. Sailship 
   
3. Whispers From Wallface 
   
4. Glimpse Of The Hidden City 
   
5. Jelipper-Lilly Field 
   
6. Do Come In (Tea And Chullwigs) 
   
7. Sea Battle At Orkusk 
   
8. Diamond Mirror 
   
9. Chasing Our Shadows 
   
10. Ambused By Time Quagga 
    
11. The Bubiliad Woods Of Taurmond 
    
12. Ladydragons 
    
13. Rest At The Gate 
    
14. Mimi Vivian Sunrise - (Live) 
    

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Titan - 2007 - A Raining Sun Of Light & Love For You & You & You

Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock
Label: TeePee Records

Similar Artists: Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Ashra Temple

Nice classic Psych/Prog-Rock, with that typical heavy guitars and organlines. The last track is more far away from that Prog Rock Sound because it sounds like the german NEU! and that is really refreshing beside that oldschool sound.

Tracklisting

1. Annals Of The Former Work
   
2. Hashishin Ohel Acide Cerveau Fracas Du RAyonnement Uchuu Iv
   
3. Obelisk Orbit Overdrive
   
4. Aufruf Der Pilze 
   

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Droids - 1978 - Star Peace

Genre: Italo Space Disco
Label: Cherry Red Records

Similar Artists: Aavikko, some 70ies disco music

The first two tracks seems to be the blueprint for Aavikko - Back From The Futer Album or Aavikko in general. That's the soundtrack your parents dance on! yes! Analogue Sequencers and synthswirrls - reminds sometimes on Klaus Schulze and a funky bassline + drums and that's the perfect soundtrack for some retro disco or for a tv documentary from the eighties.

PS: Aavikko new album is out, yhihaaa!

Tracklisting

1. (Do You Have) The Force - Part 1 
   
2. (Do You Have) The Force - Part 2 
   
3. Interspace 
   
4. Tchoung Fou 
   
5. Be Happy 
   
6. Shanti Dance - Part 1 
   
7. Shanti Dance - Part 2 
   
8. Renaissance De L'amour 
   

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Mirza - 1997 - Anadromous

Genre: Free Form Psych Rock, Space Rock
Label: Darla Records (US)

Similar Artists: Hochenkeit, Ash Ra Temple

Mirza is a Free-Form-Psych Rock group with members of Thuja and Skygreen Leopards (Glenn Donaldson).

Trippy Improvisations reminds on german Krautrock stuff like Ash Ra Temple and similar, check it out! More Information

Mirza, which means "royalty" in Persian, are a San Francisco quartet who play ghostly instrumental psychedelic sounds. This is their debut. It's like Magic Hour or Bardo Pond, if either of the aforementioned were from India. Perhaps they are the paisley side Rodan never had. The music is like lying on the grass in Golden Gate Park & watching the sun filter through the big evergreens while Jefferson Airplane blast away at an electric love raga with Ravi Shankar.

Tracklisting

1. Dream of the Fosil Sea 
   
2. Aphasia 
   
3. Bless This Gathering 
   
4. These Are Our Last Days 

(sorry MP3 Tags are Mizra but must be Mirza! ;-))

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Larry And The Lefthanded - 1996 - Diabolika

Genre: Space Rock, Surf, Twang
Label: Jupiter / Texicalli

Larry and the Lefthanded was a Space Rock group from Finland. This is more Surf/Twang than Space Rock (compared to And the Lefthanded ) but it's really good, so check it!

Tracklisting

1. Teenspy Theme 
   
2. Hellfire 
   
3. Flat Out 
   
4. Shecome 
   
5. Babe Is Getting Better 
   
6. Point Blank 
   
7. Moonbase Ball 
   
8. Helsinki Nocturne 
   
9. Secrets 
   
10. Give Me Out 
    
11. Wheel Of Fortune 
    
12. El Fantasma Del Italpark 
    
13. Hideous You 

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We Are Wolves - Non-Stop Je Te Plie En Deux (2005), Total Magique (2007)

Genre: Post-Punk/Rock, Space Rock
Label: Dare To Care (CAN)

Similar Artists: Trans Am

Energic Post Punk with heavy analogue synthie/organ, a bass player and a drummer. No guitar needed! Superb!

A gang of three, four including rock. We are Wolves imposes a music that's both free and honest, like the celestial lightning on the mystic mountain. It's a post-punk landscape filled with analogue trees. It's like rock after the post-modern explosion.

Tracklisting - Non-Stop Je Te Plie En Deux

1. Little Birds 
   
2. L.L. Romeo 
   
3. La Nature 
   
4. Snare Me 
   
5. Namaï-Taïla-Cambodge (Go-Tabla-Go) 
   
6. Non Stop 
   
7. Moi, Rythme Magique 
   
8. Vosotros, Monstruos 
   
9. T.R.O.U.B.L.E. 
   
10. We Are All Winners 
    
11. Glazé, Blazé (Glazed The Blazed) 
    

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Tracklisting - Total Magique

1. Fight & Kiss 
   
2. Magique 
   
3. Some Words 
   
4. Coconut Night 
   
5. I Wrote Your Name On My Kite 
   
6. Vietnam 
   
7. Walk Away Walk 
   
8. So Nice, So Cold 
   
9. Psychic Kids 
   
10. Teenage, Bats & Anthropology 
    
11. Vamos A La Playa 
    
12. The Piper 
    
13. Total Solide 

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And The Lefthanded - In The Kingdom Of Shadows (2004)

Genre: Space Rock
Label: Lefta Records (FI)

Space-Rock from Finlandia. Related to Op:l Bastards and follower of Larry and the Lefthanded.

Synthie Swirrls, eastern melodies, fuzz. Great Record!!

(write request in comment section if you interested in Larry and the Lefthanded! It's more less Space Rock and more that Lounge, sixties Spy&Agent Movie soundtrack style)

Tracklisting

1. Love Me Now 
   
2. Disturbing You 
   
3. Yin & Yang 
   
4. Rocket Rock 
   
5. Two Masters 
   
6. L.V.K.M. 1972 
   
7. Cheap Cigar 
   
8. Carnival 
   
9. Monday Boy 
   
10. 5 ½ 

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Hochenkeit - omu4h 4aholab / 400 boys (2000)

Genre: Space Rock, Psychedelic, Experimental
Label: Road Cone (US) 

After the first, more acoustic release I love you (to be found here), this is more rock music in the widest sense. Krautrock jams, drones and space rock by this obscure project.

Tracklisting

1. Seen 
   
2. Two Fish Kissing 
   
3. To Be Born Drunk And Die Dreaming 
   
4. Give Them To The Ants 
   
5. 400 Boys 
   
6. Please Turn Out The Sun 

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The 63 Crayons - Spoils For Survivors (2007)

In former days The 63 Crayons playing some kind of sixties influenced Indie-Pop, always with some spacey synth swirls. With their last album they add a The in front of their name and go into a more darker, danceable, more psychoactive direction. Revolution Fight Song, reminds in the drumming style on of Montreal (and The 63 Crayons are from Athens, Georgia too ;-), Devils is a dark floating number. Save us kicks you completly out of this world. This is a perfect space trip and the bouncing beat in style of The Can Drummer Jaki Liebezeit show their roots in some ways. (There is a bit longer version named Heal us on a compilation called „Death Before Distemper 2“). This is a really great record! Dancing don't Trust!

Label: Self Release?!

Genre: Indie, Psychedelic, Post-Punk, Space-Rock

Tracklisting:

1. Revolution Fight Song
   
2. Forget About The War, Lets Go Shopping!
   
3. Devils
   
4. Save Us
   
5. Let Fission Ring
   
6. Spoils For Survivors
   
7. Science
   
8. Well Fall Down
   
9. The Squeeze
   
10. Just Relax and Float
    
11. Crisis Nerviosa
    
12. Dancing Don't Trust 
    

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The Skygreen Leopards - Jehovah Surrender (2005)

Genre: Freak Folk, Psych Rock
Label: jagjaguwar (US)

My favorite Skygreen Leopards record. This is special because of the raw sounding Psych Rock they played here. Fuzzy bass, the strange singing voice by Glenn Donaldson and Donovan Quinn and drums that sounds always delayed from the rest of music and a bit awkward but very well played.

Electric guitar howl like a farmers hound, fuzz bass stampedes, and drums trot and gallop like the finest of wild horses. Donovan & Glenn write: "Not long ago the band was visiting a friend in Port Costa, CA. After sharing a bottle of wine and enjoying the moonlight dances of his two daughters--the friend wanted to share a secret. He pulled an oversized key out of his overalls pocket and lead them out back to his shed. In the shed was an ancient drumset and a cobwebby electric guitar. The man said he knew Arlo Guthrie and that he was once in a band called "Hobo Splendor". Well thats all it took for the Skygreen's to lose their hearts and heads to a new muse. We played "All the Young Dudes" and "Hobo Jesus Blues" all night long and the daughters danced ballroom. This e.p. is inspired by the man from Hobo Splendor--get better my friend!"

Tracklisting

1. Jehovah I Surrender 
   
2. Julie-Anne, Patron Of Thieves 
   
3. Play For The Spring 
   
4. Apparition Of Suns (A.K.A. The Ferryman's Long Arms) 
   
5. Let The Lion Be Swallowed By A Dove 
   
6. I Was A Thief 
   

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Domotic - Ask For Tiger (2005)

Genre: Electronic, Space-Pop
Label: Active Suspension
Similar Artists: Bidibop, Köhn

Wonderful digital Pop Music. Sweet and sour. Distorted harmonies, grained acoustic guitars, drumboxes and nice songwriting. Turquoise/Trotzdem at example turns from a ballade into a electronic sequenz which is so far out and reminds on early 70ies Krautrock electronics in the best sense and merge finally into a drum driven electro space rock track full of swirlling noise. And see the great nerd video at bottom of this post ;-)

It is definitely a songwriter’s record, also. It is full of stupid melodies to get all emotional. Full of guitars to knock your head off. Full of noise for exultation. It is also tinted with an urge to create new forms, new means, to fulfill envies, methods of work. There are, eventually, stories to be heard, whether in the form of cryptic lyrics or barenaked melodies.

Tracklisting

1. Meanwhile, In The Woods (A Boyscout's Day Out) 
   
2. I Hate You For Ever (If You Think I'm So Nice, Why Am I Alone All The Time ?) 
   
3. Tonsil 
   
4. Hugs And Kisses 
   
5. Turquoise / Trotzdem 
   
6. Self-Service And Robots 
   
7. Not The Movie You Expected 
   
8. Captain Forest's Word Of Advice 
   
9. Nyeps Club 
   
10. There May Be A Tiger 
    
11. Animals Are Ugly And So Am I 

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Aavikko - History Of Muysic (2003)

Genre: LoFi, Electronica, Easy Listening
Label: Solnze Records

Don't miss this hissing, noisy outtakes and alternative recordings from Synthy Ensemble Finland. Buy all of their records! especially Derek! and their latest - Back from Futer

A truly awesome compilation including material from their very beginnings, rare singles, remixes, sold-out releases (like their first single, the "Oriental Baby"-ep and the "Kabar"-single). Definitely recommended.

Tracklisting

1. Siperian Rata 
   
2. Alas Volgaa 
   
3. Samojedien Keskuudessa 
   
4. Krakovan Niityt 
   
5. Viiden Asteen Pakkanen 
   
6. Aavikko 
   
7. Tyttöystävä 
   
8. Sibiri 
   
9. Oblomovin Henki 
   
10. Cafe Panama 
    
11. Seikkailu Villi 
    
12. Holiday Inn 
    
13. Oriental Baby 
    
14. Oaxaca 
    
15. Kova Lääkitys 
    
16. Boa 
    
17. Pelihelvetti 
    
18. Entinen Mies 
    
19. Superlake Beat 
    
20. Antarktis Slow Rock 
    
21. Kumman Kaa 
    
22. Of Stomping Men 
    
23. Kova Lääkitys 
    
24. My Yamaha 
    
25. Eye Of The Leopard 
    

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Apparat Organ Quartet - s/t (2002)

Genre: Organ Driven Space Rock
Label: TMT Entertainment

Similar Artists: Aavikko, Add N To X

Four E-Organs on one Beat!

In the past various AOQ members have worked with the likes of Marc Almond, Hafler Trio, Sigur Ros, Barry Adamson, Stillupsteypa, Mum, Pan Sonic and even Hermann Nitsch! But you won't find any blood soaked cacophony here. Nope, this is all warm and warbly, dreamy and bouncy, fun and fuzzy.

Tracklisting

1. Romantika 
   
2. The Anguish of Space-Time 
   
3. Cruise Control 
   
4. Ondula Nova 
   
5. Global Capital 
   
6. Seremonia 
   
7. Charlie Tango # 2 
   
8. Sofðu Litla Vél 
   
9. Stereo Rock & Roll 
   

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