Various Electric Junk - A Journey Through Deutsche Rock (4-CD Box)

(Cherry Red Records) 41 tracks

4-Cd set exploring the formative German rock underground of the 1970s.
- Star performance with Tangerine Dream, Faust, Roedelius, Conrad Schnitzler,
Popol Vuh, Edgar Froese, Cluster, Klaus Schulze, Guru Guru, Agitation Free
And many others.
- Complete with detailed travelogues in the margin notes.
- Lyrics And Design By The Incomparable Cally.
- Curated By The Team Behind Many Of Our Most Popular Rock, Prog And
electronic samplers.
Grab a ticket, find a comfy seat and embark on a musical journey through the underground musical landscape
of the musical underground landscape of the 1970s in Germany....
As the sound of the 1960s faded into the background, open-minded musicians across Germany - in East
and West - forged their own unique path into the 1970s and beyond, strangely free from the overtly commercial and conformist concerns of their neighbors across Europe.
Why this generation from this
particular country may no longer be impressionable is a topic for another place, but for their
their own reasons, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Faust, Conrad Schnitzler and their contemporaries didn't want to get
the pop charts, but to explore the boundaries of inner space and intellectual curiosity, to move with wild
and free abandon, moving from rock to jazz to lengthy progressive freak-outs and formative electronics.
Many never returned, lost and adrift on a sea of haze and Moog arpeggios, but
“Electric Junk” charts their journey nonetheless, documenting it for future generations.
Compiled and sequenced with your own journey into inner space in mind, we proudly present a
remarkable snapshot of a movement like no other. Rebellious, politically charged, collaborative and
lysergically informed, these artists carried their unmacho, long-haired proto-punk attitude into the world in
its many forms to the world and resonated across Europe, Asia and the USA. Critical acclaim and the
and the occasional hit were their rewards, alongside the unintended invention and influence of countless niche genres,
questionable fashion statements and must-listen bands.