not what i had hoped
as a fan of most of the krautrock records i've heard i was anxious to finally check out this cd reissue. the old version on sequel was impossible to find. once i gave it a listen i realized i'd have to ignore the julian cope hyperbole liner notes. this disc simply doesn't live up to the hype. the recording is very high end and brittle. that, in itself, could be overlooked if the group's excursions jelled once in a while. what you get is weak saucerful of secrets keyboards and pretty uninteresting faust/velvets fuzz tone guitar. the whole thing struck me as really disjointed. this music works when there are sympathetic performences and some kind of intuitive connection between the players. this disc seems like a 3 guys playing at each other. true, the sounds are there, but they never jell convincingly. save your cash for ash ra tempel or faust.