Famous ( perhaps infamous) Quotes

Here's a quote one of the people i work with is fond of attaching to his e-mails...

"The Music Business is a cruel and shallow Money trench, a long plastic Hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like Dogs. There's also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson (R.I.P.)

BTW...did ya know good 'ol Hunter's last wish was to have his remains blown from a cannon ? It's true....his Friend Johnny Depp ( who played him in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" ) is looking after the arrangements....


I'm going to see Robert Zimmerman @ the Orpheum this Tuesday and the other day i was listening to the great SACD re-issues in the car.....while listening to "It's allright Ma, i'm only bleeding" ( from "Bringing it all back home" ), it occured to me how it has been 40 ( FORTY) years since he first recorded that song and it is as revelant today as it was when he wrote it......have we learned NOTHING ???

"Those to busy being born are busy dieing"......Bob Dylan 1965

Can Remasters

Yeah, those must be the second batch of the SACD re-masters i was anxiously awaiting !! Hey Thomas, are you holding out on me ...?? -:)
My friend Doug Caldwell @ EMI Canada who is also a huge Can & Krautrock Fan is hoping to see them released in Canada soon, preferably as domestic releases.
Watch for Doug to be a Contributor to this Blog soon !

BTW......Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Soundtracks and Monster Movie are out already,the one's above are the next batch as it were.....more to come, i'm sure ! (i hope)

Speaking of Damo...

Hey, check out pitchfork's review of the re-releases of Future Days, Soon Over Babaluma, Unlimited Edition and Landed.

Damo Suzuki, Peter & Mariano before Show October 11th, 2000 

New Releases

DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK DNW 026/027
"HOLLYARIS"

Damo's latest release from his neverending World Tour !
This time the 2 disc set is the musical travelogue from Hollywood and Paris. Disc one covers the Hollywood show, featuring his "american band" which includes Len del Rio and Tommy Grenas (FARFLUNG, CHROME) and the Paris Cd is his "pick up" band of french musicians..
The neat thing about Damo's travels is he is so eager to play with different musicians from as many countries, in turn it must be a thrill for these guys to play with a CAN Legend....

find out more about Damo and his philosophy and visit his website


SECRET MACHINES CDW 49333
"The Road leads where it's led"

This british outfit makes no secret of who influenced their style.....NEU & Harmonia !...(unlike Tim Gane Of Stereolab who pretended not to be...yeah, like "Jenny ondoline" does not at all sound like NEU! )
This ( to my knowledge ) second outing see's the band cover Dylan (Girl from the North Country) , Van Morrisson's "Astral Weeks", and "money. that's what i want", but the whole disc is worth buying for their INCREDIBLE cover of " IMMER WIEDER" by Harmonia, from the "Deluxe" album. Ultracool !
( i can hear Mariano saying...."where's my copy ??"
find out more about these guys from www.secretmachines.com

Enjoy !

Cover of a classic 3 disc sampler on Brain 

Popol Vuh re-issues

Hello again....in my earlier post, the link to SPV was missing, here it is !

www.spv.de

go there and via the artist link, find out about all the cool POPOL VUH re-issues, as well as the Krautrock DVD....

happy browsing !

Krautrock part one...

In the coming weeks, we will talk about some of the great music being re-issued and where to find it....
for excellent re-issues of POPOL VUH with Bonus tracks..they also have a great Krautrock re-union DVD featuring Guru Guru, Amon Duul, Karthago, Birth Control, Jane & others.

www.insideout.de has all the great new Klaus Schulze re-issues via their REVISITED label..beautiful digipacks and Bonus tracks on all, well done ! (they are also releasing the Amon Duul 2 catalogue, as well as KRAAN and more....watch this label.

Of course you have to visit Spoon records for all things CAN....www.spoonrecords.com

check these out for starters..there's LOT'S more

Peter

The Universe is unfolding as it should.....

Well, here we are, in Cyberspace, reviving a concept that became a Radio Show for 18 long years on CFRO 102.7 in Vancouver , Canada, called ALIEN SOUNDTRACKS.
Most likely the first show in Canada which in the mid seventies to the late mid nineties brought "non commercial" sounds to the airwaves.
It's first incarnation was actually called "New Music from Europe" and heavily featured the emerging new scene in Germany, France & England, steering away from the then popular "beat music", ie: Blues and Rock and all manner of "schlock" in between....

Peter Moser, ( that would be your's truly) started playing early Tangerine Dream, Can, Neu, Klaus Schulze, Faust, Magma, Heldon, Univers Zero and all manner of progressive and psychedelic stuff like Amon Düül 2, Gong, Hawkwind etc....every saturday night between 7 and 9 pm the airwaves would be filled with strange sounds not found elsewhere on the FM dial.

These were indeed humble beginnings which would lead to newfound Friendships and relationships that endure to this day. So consider this part one of a journey which through music, became a Forum for sharing music and ideas, forging Friendships, helping musicians find a home and an outlet. Perhaps one day Peter, Alex & Mariano will revive the actual show itself, perhaps on line perhaps on the analog or digital airwaves, for now the dialog is open, the links to where we found our music, what we are listening to now is a good start. We may even re-connect with friends who used to send us the music we played or whom we interviewed on the air....quite the number of people over the course of 18 years.

Today a show like ours is not nearly as unique as it was when we started in the mid seventies, but we have been told that we were truly ground breaking in our mix, our presentation and feeling. In a nutshell, we really did not focus on one genre of music, the criteria was more along the lines of bringing in the new stuff we had just aqquired and then "chomping at the bit" to share it with people over the air..you know, the feeling you get when you tell a friend : "you gotta listen to this, man, ultracool...!!

So, consequently, a show could start off spacey and electronic, subtly fuse in to some avant garde stuff, some prog, some folky stuff like Pearls before swine for example or Nick Drake, to Throbbing Gristle and neo chamber music like Univers Zero, to World music and back in to the cosmos again....it was always great to have people calling in to say..: "what the hell is that ???" and of course digging it and wanting more.....none of us got paid for what we did, we just did it for the love of the music and the thrill of sharing it.

Part 2 coming soon.....

best,

Krautrock1 a.k.a Peter

Origins - aka Live test #1

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