Psychedelia & Kraut / Experimental

Between 1970 and 1973 Soft Machine recorded five albums for CBS, and across those five records the band changed almost beyond recognition. Third still had Robert Wyatt singing on one side of it; by Seven there were no vocals, no Wyatt, no Elton Dean and no Hugh Hopper, and the group was playing a dense, written, riff-driven music that had more to do with Miles Davis's electric bands than with anything else coming out of England. This box follows that arc in detail. All five albums are here, rema…

*2025 stock. 150 copies limited edition* In 1972, four design students at the now defunct Hornsey College of Art (HCA) in London decided to make a record; neither the result of nascent dreams of stardom nor of fastidiously developed musi-cianship. Bowes Road Band’s sole LP was simply the result of an impulse to create. With only fifty copies originally pressed, the LP’s Berlin flea market discovery revealed a foray into a delicately balanced world of psycho-trip meltdowns, rich jazz improvisatio…

More than 25 years after the start of collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple mastermind Makoto Kawabata (including the INUI series and the classic Kawabata/Youngs release) comes the first proper VHF LP by the prolific quintet. One of an occasional series of “minimalism” inspired LPs by the group, In A Not C is a not a barely changing drone, but a wild ride with the band in full flight, rushing along in a glorious swirl of psychedelic madness. Like the band’s well-known 2001 version of Terry Rile…

Songs Before Bed (2022) marks Otto Benson’s first physical release under his own name, following earlier work under aliases including Memo Boy, OTTO, and Pudding Club. Originally published as a digital-only release through Otto's own WNOADIARWB website and platforms on New Year's Eve 2022, Songs Before Bed bridges the gap between the more experimental psychedelic electronic works of OTTO and his most recent release, the acclaimed Peanut, released on NYE 2025. Blending brief pop fragments with me…

Super Tip! LP version. Re-release of the second album by Annexus Quam, originally released in 1972. Transferred from the original master tapes and carefully remastered by HaGü Schmitz and Dieter Wegner. The timing was right: Five years earlier would have been too early, five years later would have been too late. But Annexus Quam from Kamp-Lintfort near Düsseldorf came along with the right music at the right moment. The seven-piece band formed in 1967 as Ambition Of Music; they were what was then…

LP version. Reissue of the 1970 krautrock classic. The timing was right: Five years earlier would have been too early, five years later would have been too late. But Annexus Quam from Kamp-Lintfort near Düsseldorf came along with the right music at the right moment. The seven-piece band formed in 1967 as Ambition Of Music; they were what was then called a "beat group." In 1970, working with a local trombone choir led to a dramatic change of direction. Trombone, clarinet, saxophone, scat-like voc…

LP version. 2022 remastered edition. In 1975, the second album of the Berlin based electronic group Mythos was released. Mastermind Stephan Kaske and his band present the typical sound cascades and sequences of the Berlin school. Similar to the works of several other fellow artists on the same label, the album develops a science fiction concept around the story of an extraterrestrial visitor on a journey to Earth. Dreamlab is predominantly made up of peaceful and relaxed music. The meter is ofte…

** Special edition of 300 copies on Transparent/black marbled vinyl housed in reverseboard printed sleave with printed inner sleave. Comes with lyric booklet, poster and postcard inserts  ** Formed in 1968, The Plastic People Of The Universe – named after a Mothers of Invention song and heavily influenced by Frank Zappa and The Velvet Underground – were iconic figureheads of the Prague Underground, a loose collective of Czech poets, philosophers and artists considered a threat by the Communist g…

** 300 copies, red vinyl, 180g ** Nearly five decades after its original release, Pepe Maina’s enchanting debut album, Il Canto dell’Arpa e del Flauto, emerges from the archives as a limited-edition transparent red vinyl (180g), strictly limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, each signed by the artist himself. Originally released in 1977 on the Ascolto label—the only non-self-produced work in Maina’s discography—this album remains a singular blend of ambient, world music, folk, and psychedelia, we…

Enigmatic UK-based singer and pianist Bill Fay's dark and haunting work gained him a strong cult following in the late 60s and early 70s. He released two albums on the Deram label in the early 70s and promptly disappeared into relative obscurity for 30+ years. In the last decade, those albums have finally begun to get the recognition they deserve, and Proper Records is proud to bring them back into circulation on 180g vinyl. First up is his self-titled 13-track debut from 1970, an absolute class…

Time of the Last Persecution is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Bill Fay, released in 1971 by Deram Records. Following the baroque pop tendencies of his self-titled debut, Fay stripped away the orchestral arrangements for a darker, more intimate vision that would prove to be his most enduring work. Proper Records is proud to present this apocalyptic folk-rock masterpiece on 180g vinyl. Written and recorded during a time when Fay was obsessing over the Biblical books of Danie…

Musically, YaHoWa13 go it on their own, with Octavius, Sunflower, Djinn, and Rhythm collaborating with Electron, who supplies powerful lead vocals. What's here is a collection of powerful rock songs that will echo in your consciousness, like the opening track, 'Edge of a Dream,' and the refrain 'I want to see/What's going on.' The guttural nature of Electron's vocal sound may recall the name of Beefheart to some, and Electron is occupying the same unconsciousness, free in the communal slipstream…

First issued in 1978 as the second Vanity Records release, Crystallization was the sole album by SAB, a teenage prodigy who vanished to follow Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. A mineral, slow-building work of proto-ambient electronics, sitar and piano. Reissued from the master tapes by EM Records.

Edition of 300 copies, white vinyl. In the sprawling catalog of Franco Battiato's remarkable career, certain artifacts remain tantalizingly out of reach—works that slip between the cracks of official discographies yet represent crucial moments in the evolution of one of Italy's most visionary artists. M.Elle Le Gladiator stands as one such treasure, released in 1975 as the final and most controversial work of Battiato's experimental period for the Bla Bla label, marking the end of what many cons…

On Master of all Times, Paul Chain sinks deep into his singular doom‑psych continuum, braiding monolithic riffs, church‑organ atmospheres and glossolalic vocals into a slow, occult spiral where time feels stretched, fractured and finally irrelevant.

For some fans, Health And Efficiency is This Heat's peak achievement - their most concentrated blast of visceral intensity and wayward experimentalism. Featuring two long pieces, the EP came out in September 1980. It was released on Piano, the imprint founded by David Cunningham of Flying Lizards, and distributed by Rough Trade, home of the burgeoning post-punk movement and fellow travelers like The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Cabaret Voltaire and The Red Crayola. Lead track Health And Efficienc…

*2026 stock* Certainly one of the greatest UFOs in music history—Cromagnon and its concept album “Orgasm” dating back to 1969—about what was to happen thirty years later: a blend of industrial, metal, and experimental music, bathed in improvised LSD-fueled experiences. “The project wasn’t supposed to be smooth, otherwise humanity is lost. There’s room for computers, but the soul is gone.”

This well recorded and carefully mastered set captures the most famous version of the band (the ‘classic quartet') on their final European tour on two consecutive nights on February 27 and 28, 1971. While the two sets from the second night (February 28, 1971) have been released before, this is the first time that the entire two-night stand has been released. So half of this is previously completely unreleased. This is a excellent, stereo recording of the band performing in a relatively small hal…

Originally self-produced in 150 copies (1977), Mar-Vista’s only album is one of France’s most strange and radical records. Psychedelic electronic music, experimental, and acid folk — a collector’s grail for fans of Klaus Schulze, Terry Riley, Neu, Heldon and Silver Apples.

**Limited edition 350 copies clear vinyl**  Kosmose were a Belgian cosmic collective formed in Charleroi and active across the 1970s, a loose and more or less leaderless group of local players anchored around multi-instrumentalist Alain Neffe (later of Insane Music and the Belgian wave underground) and bassist Francis Pourcel, with the young Guy Marc Hinant, later a co-founder of Sub Rosa, among their number. First Time Out captures a session recorded and mixed in March 1975, entirely unreleased…

The album “St. John Green” is the only release by the American band of the same name, and is regarded as a minor cult classic of 1960s psychedelia. It was released in 1968 by the small label Flick-disc. Released at the height of the flower power era, the record perfectly captures the musical and cultural atmosphere of the late 1960s. The album blends various elements typical of psychedelia with sonic experimentation, garage lysergic influences and a free-spirited approach to songwriting.

Brussels captures Lard Free in raw, exploratory mode: a live document where jazz‑rock, minimalism and proto‑industrial textures blur into long, evolving jams that feel like they’re testing the limits of what a band can do with repetition and noise.

Faust and Keiji Haino live at the Tomorrow Festival in Shenzhen, China, in May 2016.

France's near-revolution of May '68 kicked the country's small but vibrant counter-culture into overdrive and birthed a local underground music scene. The bands it spawned made music with far less rock purity than groups from the UK and US - their influences foregrounded improvisation, disjunction and genre-blending: Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, free jazz and radical politics. The introduction of the synthesiser in the early 1970s added fuel to the fire. This six-track compilation inau…

Expo 70, held in Osaka, was a pivotal event for the Japanese people and their relationship with the rest of the world, demonstrating both the nation’s ongoing economic recovery from World War Two and the creative spirit of Japanese society and its artists. The event gained international acclaim for its adventurous architectural design, visual art and electronic music. Some of Japan’s most renowned composers were involved, but also present were the now-legendary rockers, the Flower Travellin' Ban…

There’s a mystery to Vanishing Twin – from their name to the multitude of sounds that inhabit their music. They don’t sound like many but they hint at plenty. ‘Ookii Gekkou’ (Japanese for Big Moonlight) is the sound of ordinary life under a different set of rules, a record conceived and created in dark times – a sort of dream catcher for all the madness of the past year. Vanishing Twin explore new ground on ‘Ookii Gekkou’ incorporating elements of afrofunk, outer jazz and avant-garde, all while …

*300 copies limited release* Cheval Fou was one of the most important, prolific and authentic psychedelic outfits that thrived on the margins of the French underground during the first half of the 70s. A precursor to the by now more well-known and equally outstanding space-rock formation NYL, Cheval Fou’s salvaged recordings are a testament to the purest made-in-Europe free-form, freak-out psychedelia. Just picture an amalgamation between Group 1850’s Agemo and Amon Duul’s Phallus Dei, with Dash…

Limited Edition 300 Copies in White viny.  Formed in 2016, Others is the project of two artists longing for something more experimental in their musical work. Lesli Wood (Cobra Family Picnic) and Daniel Martin Diaz (Trees Speak, Amelia Poe) began these recordings in Wood’s warehouse studio, inviting one guest musician to sit in for each live session. Abstract violinist Vicki Brown, known for her "psychosonic visualizations," is featured throughout the record, along with guest artists Ben Nisbett…

*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as first edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for full contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.Audion 85 contents... The interstellar cementmixers - 20 questions with Japanese oddities and curiosities, Norway - scandinavian fusion legends 12, Panzerpappa - unclassifiable music from Norway; choice french label classics: Gratte-Ciel…

*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Spectrum Orchestrum - French underground today. Plus: Celebrating 5 years since the Audion relaunch as a complete multimedia archive, and with 25 new issues!, Denmark - Scandinavian fusion legends 10, Phog - a French one-man band,…

Audion 69 opens on a sustained chord of Italo-symphonic grandeur and slowly fans out across Europe’s most fertile borderlands, using a handful of key case studies to prise open the archive. At its centre is an extended feature on Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, here framed unapologetically as “the Italian masters of classical rock” during their 1970s peak. The article doesn’t simply rehearse the usual praise quotes: it walks album by album through the original run, unpicking how Banco welded conservat…

Audion 30 ((2/1995) 40 pages. Cover article: Rock In Opposition, part 1 - Univers Zero/Present/Daniel Denisplus: Made In Sweden 90s Style, Art Zoyd - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Electronic Music From Cologne: Stockhausen, Eimert, etc., Morphogenesis - Conway Hall 3/11/94, New Perspectives In Music, New Synth from Europe: Ron Boots, Frank Quasar, etc., 5uu's, The Hafler Trio, Rufus Zuphall - Avalon And On, etc.

Audion 39 (2/1998) 44 pages. Cover article: Space Explosion - The ultimate Krautrock Supergroup plus: Rock In Opposition - Part 5: Stormy Six, Burg Herzberg - Open Air Festival 1997, Silver Apples & Support,Crevice, Bondage Fruit, RLW, Premiata Forneria Marconi "10 Anni Live", Captain Trip, Space Dreams, Volcano The Bear - Physio & Firkin, Leicester, 5/9/97, Brian Barritt - Memoirs Of A Cosmic Joker, reviews, etc.

Audion 40 (11/1998) 44 pages. Cover article: 30 Years of Krautrock with Guru Guru, Mani Neumeier, Uli Trepteplus: Igor Wakhevitch "Donc...", Krautrock Reissues, RIO - Revisions And Additions: Bruniferd + Octavo, Gazul Records, Repertoire's Krautrock Archive, Rescued Relics, Hans-Joachim Roedelius - 30 Years On (interview), Brainville - Physio & Firkin, Leicester 19/6/98, Helmut Wenske - The Visionary Art Of, Cuneiform Records, Graham Bowers - Eternal Ghosts,  articles & interviews, RIO - The Aft…

Audion 47 (12/2002) 40 pages. Cover article: A Little Bit Of Spaghetti: New Trolls, Nuova Idea, Osanna, Novaplus: Dweller At The Threshold (interview), Eleni Karaindrou - Film Music, Nurse With Wound (9 reviews), Cuneiform Records, Musea Records, Relics Revisited, Garden Of Delights, Some Choice Leicester Talent Volcano The Bear & others, Oöphoi, IQ In Concert - Sat 29th June 2002, Electroshock, etc.

Famed Jazz pianist Keith Tippett is one of the greatest and most innovative figures in modern jazz. His work has also seen him cross into the world of Progressive Rock, working with King Crimson and his own outfit Centipede. ‘Dedicated to You, But You Weren’t Listening’ took its name from the Soft Machine track of the same name and was the group’s second album. Recorded for the legendary Vertigo label, the album featured such celebrated alumni as Elton Dean on Alto Saxophone, Marc Charig on Corn…

A real masterpiece....dreamy improvised music with eastern influences and electronics!! "Before his magnificent experiments with electronic music on Elektrictus (previously reissued on Wah Wah), Andrea Centazzo was already an accomplished musician who had issued his recorded works on the PDU and RCA labels. His first release was Ictus, a free-form avantgarde jazz oddessey on which he already started to experiment with electronic generated sounds.  Ictus was a band formed by Centazzo, Armando Bat…

This is the final offering  before entering the new wave of the failed future from MMOB. Totem Three journeys from quiet Bardo womb choosing meditations and instrumental mantras to the delusional glee of Kali Yugafied Indian rock. Totem Three is the most diverse and heartfelt of the Totem trilogy. A steady pulsating musical mirror prison expressing the atrophy of our "modern world" through No-Age hallucinations of passionate and unfolding melodies. A blissful mirage filled caravan with no destin…

Lucky restock. Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the history of underground music. Originally released by Japan's P.S.F. Records, Tokyo Flashback defined the breathtakingly unique and previously obscured musical movement that had been developing in Japan since the late 1970s. The compi…

2026 Repress Black vinyl. LP + Download Card. Hard cardboard sleeve + OBI. Insert with liner notes by Richard Allen & rare photos. Sourced from the original master tapes. Part-time farmer / musician Oliver Chaplin is the person behind one of the rarest private pressings from the UK. His cult masterpiece “Standing Stone” was recorded in early 1974 at a remote farm in Wales, using a portable 4-track Teac reel-to-reel machine. Helped by his brother Chris at the controls (an experienced BBC engineer…