Various Artists – Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume Two (Germany)

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With his ongoing commitment to like-minded archivist label Finders Keepers Records, industrialmusic pioneer Steven Stapleton further entrusts us to lift the veil and expose the right tracks from his uber-legendary and oft misinterpreted psych/prog/punk peculiarityshopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List.

Following the critically lauded first instalment and its exclusively French tracklisting both parties now combine their vinyl-vulturous penchants to bring you the next Strain Crack & Break edition which consists of twelve lesser-known German records that played a hugelyimportant part in the initial foundations of the list which began to unfold when Stapletonwas just thirteen years old.

From the perspective of a schoolboy Amon Dl (ONE) victim, at the start of a journey
that commenced before phrases like kosmische and the xeno-ignant Krautrock tag had becomemag hack currency, this compendium is devoid of the tropes that united what manywould accurately argue to be the greatest progressive pop bands in Europe (namely CAN, Neu! and Kraftwerk) and rather shatters the ingredients across a ground zerolandscape for both inquisitive fans and socially rehabbing musos to begin to assemblea unique self-styled identity. If Krautrock was the music that journalist told us lurkedbehind schlager (German pop) in the 1970s, then this record includes the music thatskulked behind Krautrock and perhaps refused to polish its backhanded name belt.

From the perspective of a schoolboy Amon Dl (ONE) victim, at the start of a journey
that commenced before phrases like kosmische and the xeno-ignant Krautrock tag had becomemag hack currency, this compendium is devoid of the tropes that united what manywould accurately argue to be the greatest progressive pop bands in Europe (namely CAN, Neu! and Kraftwerk) and rather shatters the ingredients across a ground zerolandscape for both inquisitive fans and socially rehabbing musos to begin to assemblea unique self-styled identity. If Krautrock was the music that journalist told us lurked behind schlager (German pop) in the 1970s, then this record includes the music that skulked behind Krautrock and perhaps refused to polish its backhanded name belt.

After Strain Crack & Break: Volume One merely scratched the surface of this DIY dossier of elongated punk-prog peculiarities, this second lavish metallic gatefold double vinyl compendium drives a much deeper groove which, in accordance with Steves wishes, focusses exclusively on individual tracks of German origin – the country whose music forged the prototype of the NWW inventory in the form of his secondary school vinyl wantlist in the early 1970s, comprised of disassembled free jazz, unshowered stoner psych, hypnotic prog, deranged monk funk and fuzzed out Deutschmark bin bonzo beats.