Five For Friday

Our weekly round up of five musical offerings to fill your collections with.

1. S.F.V Acid : Acid #2 CD / LP
Straight up no nonsense acid. Contender for the best cover artwork this week as well
Available either on CD and LP

2. Can : The Lost Tapes 3CD
3CD set housed in a gorgeous 10" boxset with 28 page booklet. Includes 30 unreleased tracks
Available from Amazon, Juno or Norman Records + numerous other nice retailers.

3. Gorgon Sound / Dubkasm : Find Jah Way 12"
We previously had this as our release of the day a month or so back when the first press dropped, that was quickly snapped up so Peng Sound records have repressed this killer 12"
Available at Juno

4. Richard Sen Presents : This Ain't Chicago 2CD
If you want an education in early underground UK house and acid house then look no further than this compilation on Strut. Classics,,real classics not just that word that's often used nowadays.
Available from Juno / Amazon

5. Galactic Zoo Dossier #9 : Magazine + CD.
After a 3 year hiatus, the US magazine Galactic Zoo Dossier is back with over 100 pages on overlooked freak rock bands, heady comics & populist pop-psych.
Available from Norman Records & Spin CDs

Amon Guru : Space Explosion LP

The Russian Lilith label has over the past eight years been reissuing a choice roster of hard to find and essential LP's from the likes of Cluster, Harmonia, Faust, Brainticket and Can to name a few.

The latest release on the label is a reissue of the 2007 compilation originally on the US Cleopatra label entitled Die Krautrock Explosion from Amon Guru (a krautrock supergroup featuring members of Cluster, Guru Guru, Die Krupps, Amon Düül II and Faust).

Now available for the first time on LP and including a CD copy of the release with an additional 4 tracks originally released on their album Other Places

Available now at Juno

Can - The Lost Tapes

Can - The Lost Tapes 3CD Boxset 18th June 2012 

Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can – The Lost Tapes, the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material.
The Lost Tapes, out on 18 June 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore.

When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau.

Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music.

What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.