| # | Artist | Song (click to play) | Album | Year | CD label |
| 1 | Eiliff | Gammeloni | Eiliff | 1971 | World Wide Records |
| An absolute killer progressive album of fantastic keyboard, guitar, and sax interplay. After playing this album a dozen times in the past few weeks it has moved up into my top 100 favorite progressive albums. Comparisons might be Soft Machine, Supersister, and Kraan. Very complex grooves, extended jams. The keyboardist Rainer Brüninghaus went on to play on Eberhard Weber's classic albums _The Colours of Chloe_ and _Yellow Fields_. | |||||
| 2 | McChurch Soundroom | Trouble - Part 1 | Delusion | 1971 | Ohrwaschl |
| A heavy jazzy blues prog album with some early Tull and Blodwyn Pig influence. The vocalist often sounds like Ian Anderson, but, the music is mostly instrumental. It's a nice album, but, not essential. Perhaps more like a British blues proto-prog album than Krautrock. | |||||
| 3 | Organisation | Silver Forest | Tone Float | 1970 | Germanofon (boot) |
| Organisation is Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider pre-Kraftwerk. I have only heard a handful of Kraftwerk albums, but, this one is my favorite. It is obviously inspired by Pink Floyd's early experimental jams, but, perhaps even more experimental. A great album that is only available as a boot CD. | |||||
| 4 | Nosferatu | Vanity Fair | Nosferatu | 1970 | Ohrwaschl |
| A good hard-rock progressive item. Some things I am reminded of are Steppenwolf, early 70's Golden Earring, Soft Machine, and Jethro Tull (every group with flute must be compared to JT, you know). This album is a hard rocker with heavy organ, guitar and sax. Not particularly adventurous except for the long track "Willie the Fox". | |||||
| 5 | Virus | Burning Candle | Revelation | 1971 | Spalax |
| Heavy and dark kayboard and guitar based bluesy progressive. The first track of the album has them doing a take on the Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black", which I could do without, really. But something else that I recognized in that first song is a classic blues-rock cover song from the 1960's called "Stop", which you may know from the first James Gang _Yer Album_ or the Bloomfield-Kooper-Stills _Super Session_ album. Anyway, Virus stretches out for some nice relaxed spacey guitar jams ala Pink Floyd and also digs into some hard and heavy stuff. | |||||
| 6 | Gila | Kollektivitat | Free Electric Sound | 1971 | Second Battle |
| A classic Kraut Kosmiche space rock album. I am reminded mostly of early Pink Floyd with long extended instrumentals with emphasis on guitar and spaced out effects. The guitarist Conny Veit later joined Popul Vuh. The extended guitar jams often remind me of Quicksilver Messenger Service. Recommended! | |||||