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The Brain box : cerebral sounds of Brain Records 1972-1979
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Anmeldelser (3)
Rolling stone [Tyskland]
d. 18. maj 2017
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Marc Vetter
d. 18. maj 2017
"Boxset mit vielen essenziellen Aufnahmen des Krautrock-Labels ... Es ist längst kein Geheimnis mehr, dass der Begriff 'Krautrock" eigentlich ironisch ausdrückte, dass man hierzulande zwar die leistungsstärksten Autos herstellte, auf dem Gebiet der Pop- und Rockmusik aber schlichtweg hinterherhinkte. Vorarbeiter für die gesamte Szene war das Brain-Label ... Ein sorgfältig kommentiertes und bebildertes Buch ergänzt die Box".
goldminemag.com
d. 20. apr. 2017
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Dave Thompson
d. 20. apr. 2017
"Throughout the first half of the 1970s, and on from there, too, Germany's Brain label was one of the pillars of the Krautrock community - at least among those overseas fans who subscribed to the notion that there was such a thing as Krautrock, and didn't feel too weird about calling it that ... Then and now. The Brain Box is a glorious-looking thing, eight CDs stuffed with the best of Brain's output throughout the 1970s, with the lion's share of goodies spread across the first five discs. The sixth rounds up some of the acts that the label licensed from other lands (Steamhammer, Atomic Rooster and Finland's marvelous Tasavallan Presidentti among them); the seventh and eighth reprise an old vinyl recounting of the label's festival spectaculars of 1977 and 1978, by which time even the most dedicated practitioners were rocking more than anything else".
Mojo
2017 June
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Jim Irwin
2017 June
"You'll hear a lot of flute solos, jazzy wig-outs, wah wah guitar, cinematic synths and electric bass lines. Like the company's oft garish sleeves it hasn't all aged well, but is still a joyous, generous sample of a stimulating time time and place where rock was let out to do as it pleased".