The Brain box : cerebral sounds of Brain Records 1972-1979

"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".

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