Dive into the archives.

• In the beginning there was the machine…

  automat - the rise, the advance, the genus (mp3)
  back in 1978 romano musumarra and claudio gizzi concieved, arranged and played all the music on their self titled ‘automat’ album. using a mcs-70 synthesiser, the album was created around the concept of the ‘machine’, and the dependency of the human on such machines. a little […]

  Posted by Mr Schools on Jul 24.07 to Cosmic | 2 Comments »  

• The fool on the hillage

  steve hillage - octave doctors (mp3)
  a lovely beach-kissed balearic instrumenal for a rare sunny day here in manchester, this is taken from steve hillage’s 1977 album ‘motivation radio’. what starts off like a cosmic excursion into nick drake’s ‘joey’ continues to build with multiple layers of echo and guitar licks into a psychedelic haze […]

  Posted by Kev on Jul 24.07 to Music | 3 Comments »  

• Roche de l’espace…

  rockets - space rock (mp3)
  top, top track from the bizarre alien esque french rockers, the rockets. taking their influences from disco, prog, rock and space/alien mystique, these guys were - how shall i put this - a little bit mental. after changing their names more times than is necessary, they finally settled on the rockets […]

  Posted by Mr Schools on Jun 21.07 to Cosmic | 3 Comments »  

• Music between genius and nonsense…

  richard wahnfried - druck (@33+6) (mp3)
  considering our bandwidth problems of late, i shouldn’t really be posting an epic 22 minute track. so to keep things running smoothly, i think this one might have to be for a limited time only…
  for anyone who knows me (and cares to listen), i have been banging on about […]

  Posted by Mr Schools on Jun 06.07 to Cosmic, Krautrock | No Comments »  

• Black moon…

  force of nature - blackmoon (long version) (mp3)
  following on from kev’s manuel g�ttsching post, i thought i’d instill a bit of continuity in these here posts, and put up a track that is without a shadow of a doubt inspired by mr g�ttsching…
  blackmoon is from the recent ep on mule musiq records and comes from […]

  Posted by Mr Schools on Dec 07.06 to Music | 2 Comments »  

• Love guitar…?

  steve hillage - palm trees (love guitar)
  first track im posting up is by steve hillage and is called ‘palm trees (love guitar)’………and as the picture shows, he clearly does….
  iv’e had the ‘green’ album for ages now, but nearly always play out the ‘unidentified (flying being)’ track……however, after having the album on play today, i thought […]

  Posted by Mr Schools on Jun 22.06 to Music | No Comments »