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01. Astral Army - Interstellar Shortwave (Original Version)
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02. Cozmic Corridors - Daruber (Cherrystones A Powerful Light Rework)
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03. Astral Army - Interstellar Shortwave (Cherrystones "GG Top" Edit)
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04. The Nazgûl - The Dead Marshes (Cherrystones Alive and Well Edit)
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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Pyramid Edits
FORMAT
12"
LABEL
MENTAL EXPERIENCE
CATALOG #
MENT 033EP
MENT 033EP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/29/2021
Pyramid was an underground/homemade label created by
Toby Robinson
and his friend
Robin Page
(the Fluxus artist) while they were living in Cologne, Germany, in the '70s. Toby -- aka
The Mad Twiddler
, aka
Genius P. Orridge
-- is well-known to krautrock collectors as one of a number of engineers working at Stockhausen's WDR and Dierks Studio in Cologne in the mid-1970s, where he assisted on recordings by many famous kraut bands such as
Can
,
Birth Control
,
Mythos
, or
Dzyan
. Pyramid was home to a series of fascinating homemade albums by impossible and lost-in-time kraut-kosmische bands like
Cozmic Corridors
,
Golem
,
Nazgul
... all of them reissued by Mental Experience in the last years. One of the most celebrated tracks from the Pyramid catalog is "Interstellar Shortwave" by
The Astral Army
, originally included on the
Cologne Curiosities
comp (MENT 005CD/LP, 2016). It's a heavy-disco-kraut-groove, DJ friendly,
Hawkwind
-inspired track recorded circa mid-70s, and it's presented here in its original version -- pressed at 45rpm for maximum and expanding sound quality -- and also as an edit by
Gareth Goddard
, aka
Cherrystones
, who also offers another edit of "The Dead Marshes", one of the tracks included on The Nazgul album (MENT 016CD/LP). Here, Cherrystones transforms the spooky, avant-garde sound of the track into a kind of cinematic, horror spaghetti western soundtrack. To round up the 12", there's an experimental Cherrystones rework of "Daruber", a dark ambient/kosmische classic by
Cozmic Corridors
. Includes download card; edition of 300.
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