Deutsche elektronische Musik 4 : experimental German rock and electronic music 1971-83

"Soul Jazz's fourth dive into the kosmische beyond ... [A] contrast-savvy, intelligently sequenced comp. If Can, Harmonia and Amon Düül II are essential but familiar, the pleasing jolts come when, for example, Conrad Schnitzler's electronic minimalism from 1978 segues into Kalacakra's Tibetan ethno-forgery from 1972. Encompassing acoustic repose, jazz and Beat Club organ wailing, it also includes tracks by Witthüser & Westrupp, Agitation Free and Alex, whose vegetable man pulsator "Patella Black" features the Czukay/Liebezeit Can rhythm section chasing a Vitamin C-like trance state".

"It's testament to the vision and quality control of the Soul Jazz team that they've made it to four volumes of Deutsche Elektronische Musik without scraping the bottom of the krautrock or kosmische barrels ... The ultimate take home of the set is that the canonical names of German underground music are canonical for a reason; the strongest cuts here, by the likes of Michael Rother, Can and Harmonia, all reassert these artists' dominance of the field".