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Krautrock: Germany Calling

Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 9 December 1972

TIME WAS WHEN a sudden loud crash around West Germany was probably just an other F-One-Eleven. These days it's more likely to be the local amateur group shifting equipment into the Stadthalle for their own economy-priced, self-promoted show. And the sort of rock they're about to play is currently the most frequent flashpoint for furious disagreement between the massed music-critics of the European Economic Community.

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