DEUTSCH ROCK and The Birth of Experimental Sound

So, Die Deutsch Rock Szene, we’ve covered it before, discussed it, referenced it and even become a part of it but what is it and how did it affect the whole Prog Rock movement or at least a good part of it? Personally I love, LOVE it because it’s so avant-garde and beyond left field…

Künstler Scheiße….. Could It Be Any More? Yes, Yes It Could with Alex’s Hand

Album artwork often speaks volumes to the future and potential listener and this one is a perfect example of, “You MUST listen to this record!” Why? Just look at it!  It’s so funky it smells of pure Zappa-esque cartooning meets Fritz the Cat animation style with a distant but subtle touch to hardcore English band…

Tangerine Dream has Thermal Inversion to Your Kiew Mission at Newcastle’s City Hall in ’81

“Tangerine Dream“, the name is synonymous with space itself and generally the first name one thinks of when electronic music is mentioned aside from Kraftwerk. Formed in Berlin in 1967 at the height of the psychedelic movement by Edgar Froese(whom we lost in 2015)  along with Chris Franke and Peter Baumann became “The Ones” two…

Mauerspechte mit Das Pink Floyd (’71 Live Show Review)

June 5th 1971, where were you? I wasn’t born yet for a couple of years and if you were around you may have not been at West Germany’s Berliner Sportpalast when The Pink Floyd to the stage that night. It was the first rock concert to be held there using Quadraphonic sound and The Floyd…

Experimentalism Extreme with Sand the Ultrasonic Seraphim

For a band to release one album then disappear off the radar almost entirely is really quite common. How many bands put out one record and break up or just vanish? Thousands by today’s standards probably, kids putting out albums with the advent of easy to use technology and cheap gear to record right there…