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The Cosmic Jokers / The Cosmic Jokers
(Vinyl LP – Klimt)
“Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fuelled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks studio near Cologne, Cosmic Jokers was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), Jürgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf (both of Wallenstein).
Popol Vuh / Affenstunde
(Vinyl LP – Klimt)
Brilliant debut by the godfathers of ambient and world music, Popol Vuh! Originally released in 1970, Affenstunde (literally Ape Hour) was the first album by a German band to employ the extraordinary sounds of the Moog synthesizer. Blending electronics with traditional percussion instruments, Popol Vuh – led by the legendary multi-instrumentalist Florian Fricke – created a tribal and dreamlike blanket of sound that would go on to influence many-a-band on the krautrock scene and beyond.
Randy Holden / Population II
(Vinyl LP – Klimt)
Randy Holden is an American guitarist best known for his involvement with the West Coast blues-rock group Blue Cheer on their third album ‘New! Improved!’ (1969). Holden obtained a sponsorship deal with Sunn amplifiers. Through this, he received his legendary sixteen 200 Watt amplifiers. His new band was dubbed Randy Holden – Population II which was a reference to the fact there were only two members in the band as well as being an astronomical term ‘Population II’ that defines a special kind of Star Group cluster type, having heavy metal in its composition.