Chapter Nine
Sci-Fi Musik to the End of a Career
The producer who invented Kosmische Musik as a brand, then dissolved his own label in a haze of acid, unpaid musicians and five Cosmic Jokers LPs.
The records — In the order the chapter names them, each with the sentence that names it.
12 releases on this page
01
Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary
7Up
One night, during the chaotic aftermath of the 7Up session Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser had a Dream, a Vision.
02
Walter Wegmüller
Tarot
Golowin’s Lé Krishna Von Goloka and Wegmuller’s epic Tarot would be second and third releases respectively.
03
Sergius Golowin
Lord Krishna von Goloka
Golowin’s Krishna Von Goloka and Wegmuller’s epic Tarot would be second and third releases respectively.
04
Ash Ra Tempel
Join Inn
During the Tarot sessions, they had recorded a brand new album called Join Inn and wanted to release on the Cosmic Couriers label.
05
Klaus Schulze
Cyborg
Cyborg was born — a pulsing undulating landscape of chines and synthesizers.
06
Wallenstein
Mother Universe
Wallenstein were by now far better their recent and ultra stodgy Mother Universe LP on Records.
07
Tangerine Dream
Atem
His Tangerine Dre: plans had soon lain in ruins when Edgar Froese refused to The Kaiser release their forthcoming LP Atem on the Kos che Musik label.
08
The Cosmic Jokers
The Cosmic Jokers
Jat of all shambolic glory, something lent itself to chaos.” a Divine instant, born more out of necessity and desperatrue vision, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser decided to sell his s out and formed The Cosmic Jokers... Cosmic Jokers album is sheer genius But...
09
The Cosmic Jokers
Galactic Supermarket
A second Cosmic Jokers’ LP was releas called Galactic Supermarket, and it was another funky 2 x minute Kosmische mother-fucking wa-phase classic, and time full of Jürgen Dollase’s great Mellotron swirls.
10
The Cosmic Jokers
Sci-Fi Party
Sci-Fi Party soon followed — a Kosmische Musik samp with tracks from previous releases combined and re-edit with new pieces like Brian Barritt’s spoken word “The El tronic Scene”, in which he explained how the Leary Mob greatest discovery of all during the 7Up sessions was the sy thesizer, and how he was drawn to Berlin by the promise working in this field.
11
The Cosmic Jokers
Planeten Sit-In
The Kaiser did a deal with magazine and out came The Cosmic Jokers’ fourth Planeten Sit-In as a quadrophonic demonstration i!
12
Cosmic Jokers & Sternmädchen
Gilles Zeitschiff
Here was the final indignity — the CosJokers were now backing band on the Starmaiden’s -guide! Gilles Zeitschiff (Gille’s Timeship) was yet anothilliant LP in a brilliant career now in freefall.
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