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Artist:	CARPENBORG & THE ELECTRIC CORONA, STAFF
Title:	Fantastic Party
Label:	NO LABEL
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	DR 47102CD

"Listening to this record the very first time we thought that the history of Krautrock has to be rewritten. While this may have been some kind of over-enthusiastic, spontaneous reaction, it seems to be about time to share one of the last great Kraut secrets with the rest of the world. After more than a decade of countless re-releases in this field (and quite a couple of stinkers among them) you might be tempted to believe that there can hardly be any more undiscovered jewels out there which are worth your attention. But wait: some of the real stuff refused to catch your eye and ear because you wouldn't expect to look for it on conservative labels notorious for classical music only (e.g. 'Wired' on Deutsche Grammophon), in avantgarde-jazz surroundings (e.g. the first 'Et Cetera' Album) or like in this case hidden in an inconceivably disgusting cover on a cheapo label like Maritim, usually known for James Last impersonators and Humba-Tätärä Bierzeltmuzak. The Electric Corona's Fantastic Party was their strangest and most outrageous attempt to cash in with one of such party records in 1970. And while the average customer of that kind of crap has probably lost all his friends and the party was over soon as the needle hit the grooves, these weird sounds make perfect sense for more sophisticated party animals who could imagine to have a hell of a good time while Hapshash & The Coloured Coat are jamming with Can (or whatever your own associations may be. The heavy noodling of Staff Carpenborg defies description because nothing else really sounds like it.) This forgotten and overlooked artefact of Teutonic freakness would be regarded as a Krautrock classic nowadays had it been released on Ohr, Brain or Pilz."

Artist:	CARPENBORG & THE ELECTRIC CORONA, STAFF
Title:	Fantastic Party!
Label:	WAH WAH RECORDS (SPAIN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	WLP 007LP

"Probably one of the weirdest discoveries in the field of collectable German albums in recent years, Staff Carpenborg's sole output was first brought to the spotlight by the compilers of the celebrated Kraut! Demons! Kraut! CD series in the mid-'90s. Since then, rumors and interest about the album have risen exponentially since this weird record (and we mean WEIRD) is one of the earliest known examples of Kraut rock. How such a demented collection of tunes found their way on the budget Maritim label is up to everyone's guess, specially if one takes into account the label's typical output of schlager, mariachi songs, children tales and similar all-ages budget shmaltz. This may also be the reason why Fantastic Party went under the radar for so many diggers and record collectors as little did they expect such craziness would hide in the grooves on this otherwise crappy-looking album. No one knows who was behind this weird studio project except a certain Paul Bucher credited on the record as the composer of all tracks. Anyway, what this anonymous bunch of musicians left behind was a puzzling set of psychedelic jams choked with an overdose of effects which can be easily labelled as proto-Kraut. Like the bastard son of Can (or better, The Inner Space) scoring a weird sexadelic Euro flick, this is the missing link connecting a whole string of renegade, left-field German music, from The Vampires of Dartmoore to Amon Düül, that is, from psych-exploitation experiments to bona fide Kraut rock. So open your ears to the sounds of the strangest and most fantastic party you're ever to attend with our reissue of this obscure artifact brought back to life for your aural delight. Available in a limited issue of 500 copies bearing the usual Wah Wah trademark of quality. Cover art reproduces the original artwork from the 1970s Maritim LP. Remastered sound by Dennis Blackham @ Skye Mastering."

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