2-CD (6-page digisleeve) with 100-page booklet, 22 tracks. Total playing time approx. 137 minutes.

• Progressive Rock from Germany!

• Never before has there been a comparable compilation!

• Towards the end of the 1960s, German bands began their first attempts to emancipate themselves stylistically from their US and British role models.

• ProgRock and Pchychedelia from our country were initially smiled at internationally and disparagingly called 'Krautrock' by cult DeeJay John Peel, among others.

• Unorthodox formations could not be pigeonholed, and so a scene with a wide musical range was created.

With the release of the first of a total of four issues, Bear Family marks another milestone on the way to a comprehensive documentation of the history of popular music in Germany from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s.

'Smash! Boom! Bang!' covers the complete history of Beat music in Germany on a total of 30 individual CDs; the CD documentation 'Für wen wir singen - Liedermacher in Deutschland', consisting of four triple CDs, describes the singer/songwriter scene with 274 individual songs, supplemented by the 10 CD box set 'Die Burg Waldeck Festivals 1964-1969'. And finally 'Aus grauer Städte Mauern - Die Neue Deutsche Welle 1997-1985', Bear Family's four-part double CD series with popular and weird sound examples and a total of about 600(!) pages of accompanying text.

With 'Kraut! Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979' we will release a double CD every three months in 2020 with a booklet of about 100 pages and biographies of each band, an exquisite selection of the exciting and influential bands of those days, some of which caused a sensation far beyond Germany.

Track Listing

• Lucifer's Friend - Ride The Sky
• Atlantis - Rock'n Roll Preacher
• Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen
• Tomorrow's Gift - Ants
• Ikarus - Mesentery
• Cravinkel - Keep On Running
• Silberbart - Chub Chub Cherry
• Novalis - Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört
• Ougenweide - Ouwe
• Ramses - La Leyla
• Frumpy - How The Gipsy Was Born

• AR & Machines - Schönes Babylon (Beautiful Babylon)
• Nektar - Desolation Valley
• Eloy - The Light From Deep Darkness
• Galaxy - Supermarket
• Gash - A Young Man's Gash (Part 2)
• Thirsty Moon - Big City
• Percewood's Onagram - Braindrops Won't Kill The Fire
• Missus Beastly - Uncle Sam
• Abacus - Capuccino
• Abacus - Souls Married To The Wind

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Psychedelic

Language: English

Run Time: 137 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/13/20

UPC: 5397102176210