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The Ultimate Transmissions CD label for Krautrock releases/reissues, classic Kosmische, German experimental music, etc....

Cosmic Egg label

Releases to date...
1. Out Of Focus - Not Too Late (UTCE 001) 41'05"
2. Günter Schickert & GAM - Eiszeit (UTCE 002) 42'36"
3. Kontrast (ex Out Of Focus) - Kontrast Vol. 1&2 (UTCE 003) 77'32"

Auricle...
Günter Schickert - Kinder In Der Wildnis (AMCDR 020) 56'27"
Günter Schickert - GAM 1976 (AMCDR 021) 45'52"
Aussenminister/Model 81 (AMCDR 101/102) 2xCDR 99'44"
Con-Hertz - Face On Radio (AMCDR 131) 76'53"
The Cosmic Auricle & Other Eggshells (AMSCDR 015) 59'57"

related...
The Crack In The Cosmic Egg (Audion Publications)

Ever since the late 1970's a prime passion of ours has been "Krautrock" - that is the music that grew out of the German and related scenes of the late-1960's psychedelic era. Amon Düül, Ash Ra Tempel, Can, Embryo, Faust, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, etc., etc. Innovative, groundbreaking, often so "ahead of its time" such music has become the benchmark that people aspire to. Witness Julian Cope's book "Krautrocksampler" for instance! A unique explorative and innovative genre (but also unclassifiable because of that) Krautrock continues to influence and have repercussions in the wider musical world in almost all adventurous rock and experimental genres. Aside from the numerous articles in Audion magazine dedicated to such music, and our own musical efforts (some Endgame and Extremities especially are Krautrock inspired), we always wanted to publish a book on the subject and issue some Krautrock LP's.

The eventually realised book was the universally acclaimed "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" Krautrock encyclopedia, published in 1996 (now out of print) since re-published as an exhaustively in-depth CD-Rom and as a series of magazines. You'll find a "light version" of The Crack In The Cosmic Egg on this web-site for easy reference.

Whilst we could never afford to branch out into releasing LP's, we issued a number of Krautrock and German experimental releases on our Auricle cassette label in the 1980's: Aussenminister, Con-Hertz, Peter Frohmader, GAM, Günter Schickert, Asmus Tietchens, etc., and more recently invested in publishing CD's establishing the Cosmic Egg label, debuting in 2000 with the previously unreleased Kraut-fusion album "Not Too Late" by the legendary Out Of Focus. Eventually we also got to issue the lost GAM album, from Günter Schickert and co., a sizzling piece of pure angst-Kosmische-agit-psych Krautrock! Another pet-baby, since we discovered the LP is the obscure but widely acclaimed 1980's Kraut-fusion gem by Kontrast.

If funds permit there will inevitably be more releases from Cosmic Egg! In fact we'd like to hear from anyone able to licence or offer rights for release of similar material. I'm thinking of things like Panko Musik, Circles, L.S. Bearforce and such-like, independent and/or unreleased material, as licensing through majors like Universal is too much of a logistical nightmare!