The definitive reissue of this milestone album of Krautrock, by turns fetishized and demonized for nearly four decades. Plus a second disc of both rare and previously unreleased music. In the booklet guitarist Wolfgang Czaika blames manager and organist Manfred Uhr for the band’s sustained nodding to Nazism, in the past; and titles like Swastika Rising are subbed here (along with the Hitler samples). Still, for The Quietus, these ‘nightmarish proto-industrial space jams’ remain ‘noxious and creepy enough’ on their own account; but still ‘unearthly and ahead of their time’. For example, ‘the nineteen-minute Missile Song, which cycles through clanging metallic percussion, ultra-sparse crypto-jazz drumming, a bass sound beamed in from a deep bath next door, outbreaks of haphazard haunted house onomatopoeia by unnamed instruments. It’s a bit Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, early Faust, Sun Ra even, but sonically stunning for three rudderless rock trippers who basically just tossed this onto tape with no real thought about what might become of it.’

(includes booklet)

• A1 Screaming Skeletons
• A2 Missile Song
• B1 Belle's Song
• B2 Nothing
• C1 Bear Song
• C2 Happy Stripes (On Cats)
• D1 Ghost Guitar
• D2 Bear Song (Alternate)