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Rating: A courageous album released in 1970, where I feel the influence of the Floyd's "A Saucerful of Secrets" from '68, with the addition of extreme improvisation and experimentation. It starts with a brutal cover and progresses into a work that's not easy to listen to, where harmony is hard to find, filled with noise, acidic and harsh moments accompanied by a dizzying guitar. A convoluted work with industrial sounds where the band is clearly still searching for the electronic atmospheres that will come in the following years, which I personally love. We should give it historical value for its year of release. In the CD reissue, there's a very interesting commentary by Julian Cope taken from his book "Krautrocksampler", and I find it adorable when he writes: "E' un cazzo di rissa a cui nemmeno i gruppi texani si sono mai avvicinati". An album absolutely not for everyone, but capable of stepping out from the circle of krautrock insiders to capture the prototype of the emerging genre. I conclude by remembering that the lineup on this album is: Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze, the legendary founders of the Berlin school of krautrock.
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