Chapter One
W. Germany in the early ’60s
Before any of it had a name: Stockhausen’s studio in Cologne, and five American GIs in Hamburg making the most hostile record of the decade.
The records — In the order the chapter names them, each with the sentence that names it.
2 releases on this page
01
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte
By 1960, he had performed the outrageous sonic klang called Kontakte, an electronic piece that sounds overtly modern even today.
02
The Monks
Black Monk Time ⚠️
But there is one much greater proof of Germany’s Out-there-ness in the mid*60s, in the form of a 1965 album called Black Monk Time*. Recorded by The Monks, an out-there collaboration of five young American ground crew from a U.S. airbase in West Germany, their album is one of the most chilling electrifying freakouts of all time.
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