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• Phil Manzanera, England, 1975.…

  Roxy Music lead guitarist's fine-ass debut solo LP, with help from fools like Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine, Matching Mole, etc.), Brian Eno, and John Wetton (King Crimson, Family), among others. This track (featured below) representing Manzanera's pre-Roxy outfit Quiet Sun; which he left to form Roxy Music, but reassembled for a proper LP in … read more

• Magical Power Mako, Japan, 1973.…

  DEFINITELY not an LP for everyone (or rather just anyone), but shamelessly hanging onto its beauty for any brave travelers lost or found enough to come or go wandering up or down this path... Comprised of a Cat Side (Side A) and a Dog Side (Side B), the 2nd happens to be a lot … read more

• Wonderland Band, No. 1, Germany, 1971.…

  Precursor to AR & The Machines and where you'll find Achim Reichel before blowing the mind of the universe with The Machines. Wonderland Band, Germany, … read more

• Listen to Tokyo's superb Kikagaku Moyo…

  Picture dreamy, groovy, spacey, and sometimes even folk-driven journeys splashed across the desert shore of Krautrock minimalism with a nucleic oasis at the core that is Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様. From Tokyo, playing on DHR right this very millisecond. Tune in … read more

• Sunbirds, Germany, 1971.…

  Tasty slice from Kraut-jazz fusion act's debut. Sunbirds, Germany, … read more

• Trúbrot (Iceland, 1969)…

  Couldn't say proper if it's a cover of The Beatles "Things We Said Today," just can't seem to understand Icelandic very well... Another good band all the same ! Trúbrot , Iceland, 1969. … read more

• Krzysztof Klenczon & Trzy Korony (Pola…

  Perhaps one of the most unassuming album covers ever... Especially for what's lurking behind the benign facade of this wild 60s meets 70s Eastern European treat. Krzysztof Klenczon & Trzy Korony, Poland, … read more

• Better Than Floyd & Oz, Achim Reichel …

  WHOA! Whoa. Whoa... Whoa. So we made a discovery. Not like how good cottage cheese actually goes with papaya (truly, it does); but more like how good pornography goes with the volume turned up. No, we're not that awful, just referring to combined stimuli banging on the senses. (Okay, so we are bad.) At any rate, … read more

• Album Covers We Love: Witthüser & Wes…

  More album covers we love :). First and best of a few from the way hypnotic acid folk side of Krautland... Witthüser & Westrupp, Germany, … read more