30th anniversary edition. Revised and expanded printed book edition of The Crack In The Cosmic Egg. Thirty years after its original publication, Steve Freeman and Alan Freeman return to print with an anniversary edition of their encyclopaedic work on Krautrock - the most comprehensive and authoritative ever published on the subject. A long-awaited return: previous printed editions have been out of print for years and are now collector's items.

This new edition - A4, perfect-bound, 404 pages - is in many ways a hybrid: it draws on the vast body of material accumulated across successive CD-Rom and DVD-Rom editions over the past two decades, now restored to book form and vastly expanded from the 1996 original. Not a reprint, but a substantial rewrite: 1,587 artists covered, 4,039 albums, 516 singles, with complete updated discographies, dedicated sections on New Wave & Industrial, Synthesizer & Ambient, across the full spectrum of the scene - from the canonical (Can, Amon Düül II, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel) to the obscure, the peripheral, and the international. Separate sections address Jazz & Fusions, Kosmische, Neue Deutsche Welle, Sonic Art & Noise, and a vastly expanded survey of related music from Austria, Switzerland, the DDR, and further afield.

A labour of love without equal - and, thirty years on, still the essential reference for anyone navigating this music.