"The fact the keepers of the Can vault have been sitting on a recording as transcendent as this for nearly half a century seems someweher between absurd and criminal. Nevertheless, devotees will forgive that once they experience the first of the long-promised series of live albums shepherded by Irmin Schmidt and longtime engineer René Tinner ... The five instrumental pieces are a mesmerising mélange of first-division psych boogie, spacy langour and the thunderous assaults known to the players as "Godzillas". Though fans will be thrilled to catch passages of staples like "Vitamin C" and "Bel Air" amid the swirl, more startling is how funky the band could be, with the most strident moments achieving the same apotheosis of strut and skronk as electric-era Miles Davis. Indispensable, but that's no surprise".