Amon Düül II are a German rock band that was born out of the radical West German commune scene of the sixties. Responsible for laying the foundations of the Krautrock scene, the track 'No Sushi For Camels' is taken from the reissue of their twelfth album ' Only Human ' originally released in 1979, all the tracks of which are as wonderfully genre bending as this. Amon Düül II - No Sushi For Camels
German flautist and saxophonist Ralf Nowy is probably best know for his legendary underground Krautrock album 'Lucifer's Dream', recorded in 1973 with guest spots by Lothar Meid and Al Gromer of Amon Düül II. For me it was his splash into tropical midi plastic-disco that I really love. This cut comes off his notoriously hard to track down 1987 album 'Colours Of Holidays', released on Palm Records. Ralf Nowy - Holidays In Kenia
Amon Duul II - Another Morning Thanks to JG for pointing me back to this one. It's all about the choral vocal part that kicks in at 1:37. Sounds like Ariel Pink or something?
Amon Duul II - Kirk Morgan Thanks to Sorcerer for this one. The song structure is something like ABABCDCE and parts A,B,C,D, & E are all great. The rhythm guitar player in the right channel is a genius, as is pretty much everyone else involved in this, evidently. Lyrics and album cover impenetrable.
Fierce Teutonic warriors, gather at my side! Grip tight your spears and let us enter the ice cave to slay the wooly beast that has terrorized our people for too long. In the movie this song creates in my head, every character looks like a variation on Conan the Barbarian, pre-paternity suit. Yeti is a pretty great album overall, well worth absorbing for those who think Germans are all about sleek precision. Amon Düül II - Pale Gallery
Teenage Panzerkorps are more than revivalists in the songwriting sense. Their sounds recall the kraut-rock of Can and Neu! with a cutting-edge lo-fi allure, vast and tributary enough to appear like a fusion of albums one obtained through trading cassette tapes in the '80s. If you were a punk enthusiast born in the late '60s/early [...]
Sometimes you think to yourself, just how extreme can one push his electric guitar. You feel that after so many years since this instrument was invented, there'll be an end to the damage mankind can cause the deafening ears of the listeners. And then, you realized that what you saw so far, was just the beginning. [...]
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Romulan Records' mission statement: "Your trash, our treasure since 1987!" Amazingly, 1987 doesn't seem that long ago to me. I sorta remember it. Football strike, Reagan, hot dogs and ketchup; that kinda thing. It was also, apparently, the year of Romulan Records' trekky beginnings. The Boss Instrumentals EP , the label's 22nd release, collects four "bitchin' B sides" from the mid-to-late '60s by Move Over , Deceased , Fireball and U.F.O. [...]
![Silvester Anfang – "Satanische Vrede" – KRAAK [Out Of Print #1 / Daily MP3 #30]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2377163_lg.jpg)
Silvester Anfang - "Satanische Vrede" - KRAAK Records Sylvester Anfang II - "Na Regen Komt Zondvloed" MP3/download Sylvester Anfang II - "Vainomoinen Nacht" MP3/download Sylvester Anfang II - "The [...]
1. The more ambient stuff I've been getting into, coupled with the renewed desire for more krautrock and early electronica pioneers, has led me to finally giving Klaus Schulze a try. I've never really given Schulze much serious consideration before—a quick look at this 100+ album discography was enough to scare me off—but he's been on my periphery for a while. With no real sense of how to enter such a sprawling discography that spans 40 years, I figured the best thing to do was start at the beginning and pick up Irrlicht , from 1972—three tracks adding up [...]
INTERNATIONAL WEREWOLF CONSPIRACY "Hip Revolutionaries have the power to strike FEAR!" We are the ultimate Horror Show…Hideous Hair and Dangerous Drugs…Armed Love striking terror into the vacant hearts of the plastic Mother and pig-faced Father. The future of our struggle is the future of fear, FEAR!! The fear of free love, fear of not working, fear of YOUTH …We drink the magic potion and become the spectre that haunts Amerika. We are WEREWOLVES baying at [...]
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The build-up to Sylvester Anfang II - from the band of the same name, formerly just Sylvester Anfang - has been ridiculous. I saw it in a record store about 6 months ago and became obsessed with obtaining it once it absconded from said record store upon my next trip. Now that I have it in my hands I must admit, the art is better than I imagined, a cross between Earthless ' album covers, Cypress Hill 's Temple of [...]
A mysterious window to the supernatural in mid-America has been the scene of many bizarre, unexplained UFO and Bigfoot events for more than 100 years. So strange and bewildering are the events in the area of southwest Michigan that before the white man came, the native Indians called one body of water Magician Lake. "There are too many reports from this small area over a long period of time to simply dismiss them as unrelated incidents—or the ravings of crackpots," says David Fideler, a scholar who has devoted years to the study of the [...]
The people of South America known collectively as the Jivaro are well know for their practice of shrinking the heads of their enemies. Raids on alien tribes are carried out specifically to secure tsantsas , or shrunken head trophies. The attacks are usually small and are usually carried out on one house where the victim may be caught unaware. The trophies bring prestige to the head takers and trap the avenging souls of their victims. The first step is the removal of the head of the unfortunate victim. The skin is cut around the top [...]
Eine Band, die von sich selbst behauptet, dass sie klingt wie Prince mit Amon Duul II, Hot Chip, Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, Pere Ubu, Danielson Famile, Scritti Politti, Boards of Canada, The Blow und Pulp, muß ich Euch einfach vorstellen. Oder um es in den Worten von Fol Chen zu sagen: „We are cryptic and joyful and we would like you to dance." [mp3] Fol Chen / Cable TV (Liars Remix)
Eine Band, die von sich selbst behauptet, dass sie klingt wie Prince mit Amon Duul II, Hot Chip, Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, Pere Ubu, Danielson Famile, Scritti Politti, Boards of Canada, The Blow und Pulp, muß ich Euch einfach vorstellen. Oder um es in den Worten von Fol Chen zu sagen: „We are cryptic and joyful and we would like you to dance." [mp3] Fol Chen / Cable TV (Liars Remix)
Usually I follow up "the rest" with a brief rundown of "the worst"—albums I picked up that I wound up actively disliking. Happily for me, that didn't really happen in the last three months. That said, there were plenty of albums that I just didn't connect with. Maybe it's their fault, maybe it's mine. Maybe they're actually mediocre; maybe I just need to hear them in another mindset, some other month or year. I'd still recommend most or all of these albums, with reservations and/or personal caveats that may not apply to you. [...]
...saw this title as a Facebook photo album and wondered whether my old haunt, the cross-legged, hook-nosed, broken-backed Butcher's Arms was finally giving up the ghost; twinged by the Weatherspoons (jackboot on every face etc), tossed to the door dogs... Oh well. Haven't been there for almost ten years; don't know what I'm moaning about. In the photo album there was certainly some people I recognise being there from years back ( Kek 'll know 'em) - some of the wreckers of civilization from a party that inadvertently shunted some [...]
pic: Micah Lidberg Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix - Time Centre ( alt link ) Time Centre originally featured on a 1982 compilation put together by prolific space-rockers Hawkwind. Moorcock himself collaborated with Hawkwind but is mainly renowned for his works as a sci-fi novelist. His own music project was known as Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix , the track Time [...]
One thing about krautrock: so many of these bands were dark, hypnotic, experimental, epic—and also full of humor. Faust, Neu!, and Amon Düül II all regularly featured total goofball vocals or musical interludes. The unfortunate thing is that really Faust was the only band that could pull it off consistently. Neu! was successful about half the time, and Amon Düül II essentially ruined every single song in which they tried to inject anything resembling levity. That was my main complaint when I first heard them last year, picking up their second album, Yeti . That album had enough mindblowing [...]
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