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Garage galore from The A-Bones -- one of the few groups who manage to get a sound like this right on the money -- with a searing edge that never fails to grab our ears! The approach here is stark, simple, and plenty darn effective -- plenty of raspy guitar and keyboard lines, driven by rattletrap... read more

Weird funky rock album by this obscure band on Kama Sutra. The music's pretty funky and instrumental at times, but at other times, there's sort of these bad soulful rock vocals. The best tracks on here are the minute-long interludes between songs. They're all pretty funky, and they have no vocals... read more

Incredible sounds from the team of Paul and Limpe Fuchs -- a record that's filled with unusual improvisations on a variety of instruments -- including some of the pair's own creations! The record's much more outside than most of the German generation of the time -- proggish in its sonic approach,... read more

Freaky fuzzy guitars from the great Jerry Cole -- working here under the name of The Animated Egg -- not a real group, but a one-off studio project! The music is much trippier than Jerry's famous surf work -- more fuzz on the amps, and a romping sort of rhythm that often takes these tunes right... read more

An excellent collection of work from Spanish combo Barrabas -- and one that really has a focus on the group's most groove-heavy tracks! Barrabas were as much of a rock group as a funk combo -- but their more soulful sides managed to cross over big here in the US in the early 70s -- and a good... read more

A harmony heaven way to enjoy the Holiday! The group's version of Christmas has to be one of the best-ever recorded in rock and roll -- and given the undercurrent of sadness that was coming forth in their non-Holiday hits of the period, the style here is perfect to fit the melancholy mood of the... read more

An incredible record -- and quite possibly our favorite Beach Boys album ever! Sunflower is the kind of record that's easy to pass by when you're first getting into the group, but later on -- after digging for gems on records like Wild Honey or Friends, you'll come back to it as a totally solid... read more

Groovy Eastern sounds from John Berberian -- a musician we know from more rockish projects, but who steps out here on a relatively traditional set of tunes! As you'd guess from the title, Berberian's instrument is the oud -- that weird stringed instrument we probably know best from Ahmed Abdul-Mali... read more

A ferocious, noisy EP from Chicago underground legends Big Black -- more ominous, angry and foreboding and less all out buzzing and aurally asaultive then Atomizer or Songs About F**cking -- an essential firing from the noise rock cannon of one of the most important and uncompromising bands of the... read more

Steve Albini's early loner version of Big Black -- ferocious, jagged metal bucket postpunk that holds up strongly to this day and is the blueprint for the full sensory onslaught to come! Albini recorded Lungs mostly on his own, save for his once and future pal Roland, of course, a little blurting... read more

Big Black's live album -- captured at the London date of the hugely influential, fiercely independent, unprecedently brilliant Chicago noise rock genius final tour in 1987 and postumously released in the early 90s by Touch & Go. 1, 2, 1-2 F** YOU! Includes "Fist Of Love", "L... read more

Perhaps the definitive Big Black LP -- the searing, shrapnel inflected, jackhammer noise rock masterpiece from Steve Albini, Santiago Durango, Dave Riley and Roland -- a drum machine that just so happens to be one of the most influential postpunk drummers of the 1980s! Big Black most notorious... read more

One of 70s rock's finest moments -- the second album from Big Star! With Chris Bell out of the picture, one could successfully argue the traits lacking from the first album, but this thing stands up as work of genius all its own -- with a raw, shambling immediacy to the songs that cuts incredibly... read more

The fourth nearly flawless album of heavy genius from Black Sabbath -- featuring some of the mightiest rock riffs ever! Vol 4 is just the tiniest of notches below Master Of Reality and Paranoid in overall greatness -- which is the tiniest of possible complaints given that those previous two albums... read more

Tight rhythms, anthemic melodies, and postpunk dynamics from South Africa's Blk Jks -- delivering on the earlier EP and positioning themselves as one of most unique groups in the indie scene -- on any continent! The group generally works with rock instrumentation of lead & rhythmic guitars,... read more

Late 60s psyche pop on Atco from Bo Grumpus -- a Boston group who only ever cut this one LP that we know of -- and it's a groovy one! The sound has kind of tight pop combo groove with catchy melodies -- fleshed out into trippier territory with some keys, trumpet, and overall bigger arrangements --... read more

The funky freaky soundtrack to Ralph Bakshi's animated feature Fritz The Cat -- a really messed-up little film based around the original character created by Robert Crumb! Like the movie, the album's got a very skittish kind of feel -- leaping from one genre to the next with each different track --... read more

Funky rock from The Bosom Blues -- a group with a lot more grit than you might expect from their name! The "blues" in their groove comes mostly from some strong use of electric bass -- more funky than bluesy on a lot of the numbers here -- creating a strong rumble on up from the bottom,... read more

Quite possibly David Bowie's first complete moment of genius -- an incredibly-formed album that's filled with tunes beyond definition and description! There's still some traces of the earlier madman in the mix, but the overall sound is much more rock-heavy -- although not without the fuzzed-up and... read more

An amazing departure for David Bowie -- hardly the kind of record you would expect from his oboe-filled tunes of a few years before -- and really the start of the groundbreaking, earthshaking, reinventionist era of his genius! There's a spacious, soaring quality to Space Oddity that's every bit... read more

One of Tim Buckley's greatest albums ever -- thanks to some incredible work by Dave Friedman on vibes! Friedman's sound really brings out the jazziness in Buckley's writing and phrasing -- making for a beautiful blend with the album's 12 string guitar work and acoustic percussion -- and giving the... read more

Sandy Bull's third album -- a pair of long pieces that combine the multicultural folk instrumental experimentation -- with Bull playing guitar, bass, bass drum, oud and hand percussion -- rolling in a bit more electric blues on one side, and meandering psychedelic impulses on the other! The album... read more

Breaks, beats and funky drums from Bumps -- aka Dan Bitney, John Herndon and John McEntire of Tortoise -- a mightily thumping set that sounds very little like their much vaunted flagship operation -- serving up raw, funky beatcraft all the way through! Tortoise has always worked with bottom heavy... read more

The album that started it all for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band -- the monumental Safe As Milk -- a more focused effort the epic strangeness to come, but still a freak rock masterpiece! Don Van Vliet and the first Magic Band get loose on some messed up, raw white boy blues, filterede... read more

Fantastic Turkish psychedelia from the 70s -- the rare LP from Cem Karaca and his group Kardaslar -- with moody melodies and fuzzed out strings, blendded with more traditional Turkish sounds & rhythms! Those rhythms are totally arresting -- kind of hinting at funk sometimes in the way the... read more

A pretty amazing snapshot of the post punk/post disco era NYC scene -- danceable synth and unclassifiable avant pop that's unlike anything else -- especially given that the singer is 12-year-old Chandra Oppenheim! Chandra's father is artist Dennis Oppenheim, whose friends Eugenie Diserio and... read more

The third album from the mighty Chase -- proof that the group was still going strong several years after their groundbreaking debut! The grooves here are almost tighter than before -- a bit more complicated instrumentally, with some of the trumpets backed off a bit, to leave more room for great... read more

A mix of spiraling psychedelia and grittier garagey rock from Chocolate Watch Band! No Way Out has a bit more grit than the more mystical follow up LP, but we wouldn't complain about that -- the mix of more tripped out organ and atmospheric touches paired with harder hitting, sweaty r&b and... read more

Dark and moody folk-psyche from the American underground -- a record once included on a list of "Top Ten Records Most Likely To Be Owned By A Serial Killer"! We're not sure if the set's as nasty as that might imply -- as there's actually a heartfelt, almost earnest quality to the vocals -... read more

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Beautiful spare electronics, art rock, and even a little bit of avant funk from the Cluster team of Rodelius & Moebius! Grosses Wasser is an underrated effort from a combo that's been consistently underappreciated -- one of the non-Eno collaborations, and showing that Cluster is a formidable... read more

A key chapter in the career of the legendary Cluster -- one that has the German duo of Hans-Joachim Rodelius and Dieter Moebius stepping back from their fuller sound of records past -- hitting a spare, spacious, lightly electronic sound that would have a huge impact on modern music for many years... read more

A key meeting between 2 important forces in electronic music in the 70s -- the increasingly-experimental Brian Eno and the Cluster team of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius! Unlike the trio's other album, this one's an all-instrumental affair -- one that takes the atmospherics of Cluster,... read more

The second album from Leonard Cohen -- a more stripped down effort produced by Bob Johnston, with some really odd washes of sound on the outer edges of the sound -- adding some slightly uneasy atmosphere that's paired masterfully with Cohen's moody pen. An album full of subtle triumphs, with a few... read more

Leonard Cohen's debut for Columbia, one of the most astounding first albums if its era, and to this day a towering achievement in both songwriting and myth making! The production is that perfectly haunting mix of sparseness and grandeur, with Cohen's lyricism piercing and penetrating wonderfully -... read more

One of the more heavily brooding albums ever cut by Leonard Cohen -- and also one of the best -- the iconic Songs Of Love And Hate from 1971! Cohen's aptly titled third LP, with the nice spare approach to production that most of his early work had, even more stripped down, with voice and acoustic... read more

A taster of tracks from this cool Estonian jazz collective -- a very unique group whose sound reminds us of work we've heard from hip French soundtracks, and from some of the cooler reaches of the European jazz scene in the 60s! Most tracks here have vocals -- kind of scatted, with a breezy feel... read more

A Chilean group with a really wonderful sound -- one that mixes familiar folksy guitar and flute with some larger string arrangements -- in a style that's quite sublime, and which echoes strongly with the British acid folk generation! Lyrics are all in Spanish, but there's a timeless universality... read more

Nothing that's too filthy here, but an album that's one of the best of Papa John Creach's 70s run -- bluesy at points, but a bit funkier at others -- with Creach on both vocals and violin, with support from a hip batch of younger players! Arrangements are by Papa John with Miles Grayson and Roger... read more

Beautiful work from The Cyrkle -- post-folk, partly-sunshine, and a treasure trove of really groovy tunes! The record features a fair number of covers, but they're really redone here by the group in a mode that mixes youthful harmonies with slight acoustic guitar touches and some occasional more... read more

The 1969 debut studio album from Karen Dalton -- one of the most unique voices of the 60s folk scene, and one of the most emotionally rich, blue & soulful -- a heroine to many artists to come, and one of the (sadly) very few pieces of music she made in a professional studio she made in her... read more

Spare instrumental soundscapes from David Daniell & Doug McCombs -- the former a goto figure in the avant garde guitar underground, having worked with players from Thurston Moore, to Alan Licht, to Rhys Chatham, and the latter deservedly reknowned for his work with/as Brokeback, in Tortoise,... read more

Mod mod 60s jazz -- and 12 tight-as-can-be instrumentals from London's Dave Davani combo! Dave's a Hammond player with a great mix of soul jazz and R&B in his grooves -- very much the best sort of instrumental work you might expect from London in the swinging 60s -- a great blend of American... read more

The Dutch sure had this whole punk rock thing figured out in the 80s and onward -- recorded evidence of this is ample -- and this blast from De Kift is one tremendous example! Tightly wound and frenzious, with pummeling rhythms, bursts of dissonance and unexpected sounds around every corner. ... read more

One of the headier groups in the Mainstream Records psychedelic scene of the late 60s -- and that's saying a lot, considering the company the act were keeping on the label! December's Children features both a male and female vocalist, each of whom sing a bit solo, but also come together in... read more

The heavy groove of Deep Purple continues -- in a style that's a bit more song-focused and guitar-led than the group's debut -- but still pretty darn great nonetheless! Some of the rumbling bass of before has been toned down a bit, but that leaves plenty of space for more jamming guitar work from... read more

The mighty '69 self-titled set from Deep Purple -- not as metallic or hard rock radio ready as their subsequent hit LPs -- a deep effort that combined walloping intensity with a far flung blend classical element, proggy changes and bluesy rock! Deep Purple moved on to a much more mainstream ready... read more

The birth of a legend, and easily one of the heaviest records to hit the mainstream in the late 60s! The album's got a sinister quality that you can hear on the first few notes -- a low-end, rumbling approach that brings in a lot more fuzzy bass than other groups of the time had ever thought to... read more

The era that catapulted cult heroes Devo into pop culture history -- with bubblier synths, catchier hooks, and crazier multimedia shenanigans than ever before from these pioneers of the video era -- and time capsule pop angle aside, it's still one of the best and most innovate albums of its time! ... read more

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, Y- Y- Y- Y- Y- Y- Y-eah, this is one of best art rock albums of all time -- the Eno produced full length debut of Devo -- the caustic, sarcastic and fun soundtrack to society's devolution! There's nothing we don't love about Devo at this point, from their unprecedented use of... read more

Donovan at his jazzy best -- really picking up where Mellow Yellow left off, and pushing the jazz influences in his sound to deeper lengths! Mr Leitch is a million miles away from his Dylanesque early roots on the set -- and is working in territory that's completely his own -- a beautiful blend of... read more

A heady bit of mid-70s psych from Connecticut -- the second album from Dr Hooker Band -- recorded in 1974, but not issued until many years later! The album's a true treasure that deserves wider recognition -- at some level as heady as any of the best known indie psych sets from the late 60s, but... read more

A nice little funky fusion set by Dreams -- who were basically the Brecker Brothers, before they stepped out on their own and started calling themselves by that name! The fusion super group actually hews a little closer to the rock side of the fusion game at times, but there's no shortage of jazzy... read more

A seminal album by El Kinto -- a short-lived but crucially important group in the Uruguay rock scene of the late 60s! El Kinto were a seminal link between the beat group sounds of the earlier South American scene, and some of the headier, tripper work to come in the psychedelic years -- and their... read more

A beautifully baroque batch of tracks, written and arranged for the Electric Prunes by the great David Axelrod. The record shows Axelrod's perpetual fascination with the spiritual -- mixed with that great modern style of funk that he was forging at Capitol during the late 60s. The record's not... read more

An excellent bit of funky acoustic Latin from South America -- with a sound that's quite unique! At some level, these guys sound like acoustic guitar-driven US Latin soul acts -- like Jose Feliciano or Alzo & Udine -- but at another level, there's a lot more complicated instrumentation going... read more

Tight grooving benga funk rock from Extra Golden -- the third, and to date the best album from the cross cultural combo! At this point, it's not fair to simply call the group's sound a seamless blend of disparate styles, as we've been tempted to in the past -- they've found their own unique... read more

A bit of jazzy magic from Fagen -- stepping out from the cover of Steely Dan after the Gaucho album, and sounding pretty darn great on his own! The record is almost nostalgic, going back to a 50s of Brubeck, abstract expressionism, and pre-Castro Havana -- filled with images that are a bit less... read more

Crazy rhythms, joyous postpunk, frenetically catchy melodies -- and to put it all simply, one of the best albums of its time! The jittery guitars by Glenn Mercer and Bill Million pretty much pave the way for indie rock guitar for the 2 decades to come, all of the oddball additional percussion by... read more

A fantastic mid 80s set from the deservedly worshipped Feelies -- a record we'll go on the record as loving just as deeply as the even more iconic Crazy Rhythms from a half dozen years earlier! Good Earth is a more jangly gem than Crazy Rhythms, and it's a record that somehow makes a fairly simple... read more

Late 60s psyche from Texas -- the self-titled set from Fever Tree -- which finds group adapting some outside penned tunes of the day nicely into the good natured psychedelic groove. The arrangements are what make the group special, rolling from soaring pop sounds into harder edged TX school of... read more

Sparse, arresting songwriting and hypnotic electronic flourishes from Fink -- who has been evolving wonderfully as a songwriter over the past few releases -- and really finding moody comfort zone on Sort Of Revolution. One of the things that we admire most about this phase of Fink's recorded... read more

Early 70s psychedelia from Sevile's Flamenco -- a group that's by no means a traditional flamenco music group by any stretch of the imagination -- actually a hard grooving 5 piece that mixed psyche, folk and Latin rock impressively! Fuzzed out guitars, heavy organ grooves and bass, boisterous... read more

Some of wildest music we've ever heard from Henry Flynt -- several lost experimental pieces that touch on Eastern influenced off tuned ragas, bloodcurdling vocalese, freewheeling primitive psychedelia, and wailing strains of free jazz. Raga Electric Includes "Marine Hymn" from 1971,... read more

Avant garde aggro protest rock from the Henry Flynt archives -- his 1966 blues & folk freak out I Don't Wanna with his group the Insurrections! It's a loose, aggressive and fairly wild outsider take on post protest folk and the outer fringes of small combo primitive rock -- Flynt on vocals and... read more

Buried treasures from artist, producer, arranger, promoter, raconteur, and most entertaining character Kim Fowley-- fiery pre garage, fuzzed out surf styled numbers, raw novelty pop, and storming groovers all around -- with some of Kim's own headliner credits plus tunes by Gamblers, Cover Girls,... read more

A decade of Kim Fowley produced, arranged and recorded madness -- proto garage, sleazy surf styled rumbles, pulpy vocal pop, and fuzzy tunes galore -- some credited to Kim Fowley and more savage tunes from Bruce & Jerry, Renegades, Mo And Jo, Blue Bells, Althea And The Memories and more! It's... read more

An incredible record from The Free Design -- the group's third album, and a real departure from the first two! The group are almost (if possible) hipper, with a more sophisticated approach to their material -- gentler grooving, in a way that's really wonderful. The album's filled with some great... read more

A pretty rough and rugged set of rock tracks -- performed by a trio who were all prisoners at London's legendary Borstal! The title makes you think this might be some sort of Clash-type record, but the date belies the difference -- and the overall approach is kind of in the Rolling... read more

Fantastic stuff -- and a record that may well be the greatest ever from the mighty Serge Gainsbourg -- high praise indeed, considering the greatness of Gainsbourg's other music! The album is one long suite built around a spare, electric bass-driven theme -- a slow funk riff that's been sampled... read more

A fantastic lost psych album -- with a moody spacey sound augmented by lots of organ, harpsichord, and electric piano! The best cuts are short and echoey -- with kind of a trippy pop feel that sounds like post-Brit invasion lyricism, mixed with LA stoner freedom, and a good dash of Love-esque soul.... read more

A great bit of glam pop from the mid 70s -- presented with a tightly focused sound that's got plenty of grooves on the bottom, and sweetly compressed guitars and vocals over the top! Mike Leander's at the production helm, and the album's kind of a further popification of the older Gary Glitter... read more

One of the first great horror soundtracks by the legendary Goblin! The group penned this odd batch of tracks for the follow up to Night Of The Living Dead, and the music is an odd mix of the band's usual spacey keyboard work, along with other tracks that have a harder rocking sound. If you've... read more

Great guitar sounds from 60s Iran -- the kind of music you'd hardly expect to hear from the nation in the 21st Century! Back in the years of the Shah, Iran was plenty focused on sounds from the west -- and Golden Ring were one of the hippest groups of their surprisingly good scene -- a guitar-heavy... read more

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Raw, but nicely melodic psyche rock from the early 70s Peruvian scene -- with a loose groove that ranges from catchy rawness to a little bit tripped out, thanks to some spacey keyboards! Most of the tracks are sung in Spanish, but the sound is universally groovy -- indebted to the later, long... read more

Mad electronics from the legendary Bruce Haack -- easily one of the most unusual talents to ever pick up a moog! The set brings together numbers from a range of sources -- Haack's classic Electric Lucifer album, and a host of his more obscure private recordings too -- an amazing array of unusual... read more

An electronic prog classic -- served up by the Harmonia trio of Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius from Cluster, plus Michael Rother of Neu! The tracks here have a definite Cluster-like sound -- instrumentals that use organ, keyboards, guitar, and electronic percussion to build up some... read more

Pretty stunning work from the team of Richard Harris & Jimmy Webb -- a shining point in both of their careers! Harris wasn't much of a singer, and was mostly known as an actor before these two albums. He teamed up with Jimmy Webb as the perfect foil for some of Webb's late sixties song-stories... read more

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The lone, wonderful album by early 70s UK chanteuse Christine Harwood -- a batch of soulful, sophisticated post folk groove backed by a great group of players -- with wonderfully sultry vocals from Christine and a lightly funky sound! Christine was reportedly a young teenager when these tracks... read more

These Hellers are pretty darn hip fellers -- way more than just singers, talkers, players, swingers, and doers -- and also experimentalists with a very groovy approach to their music! At one level, the record's got a dreamy pop feel that's very much in keeping with the album's inclusion on the... read more

An overlooked gem from The Holy Modal Rounders -- the group's fifth album, and a set that shows them moving into a slightly more subtle style than before -- but still with plenty of their trademark touches intact! The work often has a sweetly folksy feel -- one that conjures up the city-to-country... read more

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Trippy psychedelic folk tunes from Peter Howell & John Ferdinando -- music for the Ditchling Players' production of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking Glass from 1969 -- plus additionally material that didn't end up in the play! Overall, an evocative mix of traditional folky touches... read more

Some strange and others straight and impassioned, all spare guitar and a vocal tunes from outsider folk genius Michael Hurley -- material recorded between 1965 and 1972. From homespun strummed numbers, to more eccentric freakouts (re: "Big Black Crow"), it's essential Hurley as far as we'... read more

An incredible treasure from the late 60s underground -- the one and only album from the Jelly Bean Bandits, a group who really should have been huge! These guys are hardly the sweeter pop act you might expect from their name -- and instead, they've got a rock-solid sound that's very heavy on the... read more

A second volume of nice drum beats for production. Like the first, this one features a spoken intro, then goes into a variety of different beats, each with it's own flavor, ready for you to sample or go to work cutting up. This volume has a couple of especially dope beats, like the "Country... read more

A massive look at the music of rockabilly legend Benny Joy -- hardly a household name in the 50s, but a killer figure in the rock and roll underground of the time! The package is a beautifully-done tribute to Benny's genius -- and aims to present all of his important 50s recordings, as well as a... read more

A massive look at the music of rockabilly legend Benny Joy -- hardly a household name in the 50s, but a killer figure in the rock and roll underground of the time! The package is a beautifully-done tribute to Benny's genius -- and aims to present all of his important 50s recordings, as well as a... read more

A massive look at the music of rockabilly legend Benny Joy -- hardly a household name in the 50s, but a killer figure in the rock and roll underground of the time! The package is a beautifully-done tribute to Benny's genius -- and aims to present all of his important 50s recordings, as well as a... read more

A massive look at the music of rockabilly legend Benny Joy -- hardly a household name in the 50s, but a killer figure in the rock and roll underground of the time! The package is a beautifully-done tribute to Benny's genius -- and aims to present all of his important 50s recordings, as well as a... read more

A massive look at the music of rockabilly legend Benny Joy -- hardly a household name in the 50s, but a killer figure in the rock and roll underground of the time! The package is a beautifully-done tribute to Benny's genius -- and aims to present all of his important 50s recordings, as well as a... read more

Beat group grooving from Uruguay -- a scrappy little combo who definitely live up to their bulldog name! The album's got a rough-edged groove that's mighty nice -- the same sort of jangly pop you'd find from the UK scene of the mid 60s, with lots of catchy guitar twanging alongside the vocals. ... read more

Righteous earth mama vibes from our hometown sweetheart Bonnie Koloc. Bonnie was part of the original folk cabaret scene around old town here in Chicago, and this is her first album, with her gutsy, folky vocals and songwriting underpinned by a groovy rock-inflected backing band, that features... read more

Mid 70s material by Erkin Koray -- hypnotic melodies, leftfield elements and psychedelia soaked grooves from Turkey! The Turkish and other points Middle Eastern sounds are in effect, with resonant strings and great percussion, but Koray cross cultural elements of folk, rock, bits of funk and... read more

Excellent mid 70s work from one of the hippest dudes in Turkey -- guitarist Erik Koray, a player who had a wonderful talent for mixing together a range of cross-cultural influences! The style here is a lot more sophisticated than that of Koray's first album -- in a mode that shakes off some of the... read more

An incredibly lovely record from Kraftwerk -- fashioned along the same suite-like style as Radio Activity, and served up with some haunting and charming tunes throughout! The electronics are quite spare, yet very thoughtful -- never a note out of place, as the quartet build their careful efforts... read more

Damn soulful work from Marta Kubisova -- a late 60s singer from Czechoslovakia who was so groovy, she was banned by the Communist Party! This excellent set brings together rare tracks by Marta from the prime early years of her career -- all numbers that feature very Western soul-styled backings,... read more

One of the hippest groups of the 70s German scene -- and one of the few to break out of the prog underground and really have a larger global influence! This first set by La Dusseldorf is pure genius through and through -- a spare trio set that's propelled along with simple, but effective drum work... read more