At times, Klaus Schulze’s synthesizer is so loud that it swamps everything in its path. It’s the sheer unbalance that makes this record such a delight. The women scream ‘Schnell Schnell!’ and the helicopter drums of Harald Grosskopf propel us once more into a hectic frantic major-chord trance out. The female voices take a while to assimilate after the austerity of the first Cosmic Jokers LP, and the opening track wanders around for a while before ascending to its righteous groove. Again, it’s just two huge tracks - this time the ever shifting ‘Kinder Des Als’ and the title track ‘Galactic Supermarket’. Gille Letmann says a couple of words before the breakdown into Clangerland, a place where goofy synthesizers call to each other over exquisite mellotrons and tinkling spacey grand piano. Julian Cope’s review of the album on Head Heritage: “Starting with a heavy piano-drums groove like John Cale and Terry Riley’s ‘The Protégé’ from their classic LP Church Of Anthrax, The Cosmic Jokers return to their trip with an un-cosmic dub beginning, melodicas and guitars spinning off all over the place. Victory present a reissue of The Cosmic Jokers’ Galactic Supermarket, originally released on Komische Musik in 1974. Coincidence? Probably.Ĭosmic Jokers: Galactic Supermarket (Victory) LP However, there is the long awaited new LCD Soundsystem, which ironically is in #808. Probably cuz there’s next to nothing in this week. Well, after the gong show (on going) of some of last week’s new arrivals.
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