Amon Düül – Snow Your Thirst And Sun Your Open Mouth

A beautiful Psyche Folk piece from ‘Paradieswärts Düül’ (1970) that just moves and flows in an unmistakably Teutonic manner, and leaves you wishing for albums and albums of material in this vein.
The freak-folk scene that flourished in the noughties owed a lot to stunning tunes like this.

Amon Düül – Kaskados Minnelied

Monomaniacal Caveman Rock from the collective’s first “album”, 1969’s ‘Psychedelic Underground’. Apparently all of their first three album releases were reported to have been recorded over one extremely Psychedelic weekend.

Amon Düül ‎- Paramechanische Welt

The final track on the bands 1970 album ‘Paradieswärts Düül’, where they put aside the collective freak out method, and went for some beautiful Psych Folk. The album is really special, and hard to believe it comes from the same people who brought out those dense, caveman Avant-Rock albums they were so famous for.

Amon Düül – Ein Wunderhübsches Mädchen Träumt Von Sandosa

Vast, sprawling, monolithic Caveman Rock from one of THE original Krautrock collectives. This is from their “first” album, ‘Psychedelic Underground’, which was released in 1969.

Nurse With Wound – White Light From The Stars In Your Mind (A Paramechanical Development)

Deep into the outer limits with the final track on Nurse With Wound’s brilliant, top-tier 2002 album, ‘Man With The Woman Face’. Dig those Amon Düül samples; Rainer Bauer gets Nursed!

Amon Düül – Frequency (Entzwei)

Stone age Krautrock from the hardcore freak out collective. This was their “3rd” album ‘Disaster’, which was from the recording sessions of the one hugely psychedelic weekend that the first two albums were taken from. Dig that bass frequency at the tail end of the track.

Amon Düül – Bitterlings Verwandlung

The closing track to the band’s debut album, 1969’s ‘Psychedelic Underground’ sums up this ramshackle, brutal, direct Krautrock collective perfectly. After a sample snippet the caveman Kraut kicks into full effect. Wonderful, wonderful stuff and the essence of the slew of German Avant-Rock that was to follow. Tough as old boots.

Amon Düül – Ein Wunderhübsches Mädchen Träumt von Sandosa

The original Amon Düül may have been a ramshackle hippy collective, and the music may be even more ramshackle than one would expect knowing this about the band, but they managed to make music that was pure get-on-your-knees-and-fucking-pray. This opening colossus from their ‘debut’* album ‘Psychedelic Underground’ certainly falls into that description.

*all of their first three albums were recorded over one long weekend trip and jam session.

Amon Düül – Drum Things

Caveman Kraut from the Düül’s ‘3rd’ album, 1969’s ‘Disaster’. 

Amon Düül – Love is Peace

The opening track from 1970’s ‘Paradieswärts Düül’ (which took up the whole of side 1) sets the tone for Amon Düül’s only real studio album (the others were all taken from jams played over one very psychedelic weekend). Instead of the primitive, though effective, stone age Kraut of the jam albums, ‘Paradieswärts Düül’ is Teutonic psyche folk of the highest order. A really beautiful album that is aided, not hindered, by the naive lyrics sang in pigeon English.