Guru Guru - Hinten LP. The ever-changing line-up of Guru Guru produced some of the most innovative albums in German music history. The band’s music has been referred to as many things (usually containing the word “acid” in the description); quite simply, it was music that had no rules, which made it free and inspirational. The will to experiment, the creation of sound collages, the non-song structured tracks, and the use of noise (at least on their first two albums, “UFO” and “Hinten”) can be seen in retrospect as the birthplace of industrial-electronic music. Welcomed gate-fold cover vinyl reissue of their 1971 release, originally on the Ohr label. Limited edition of 500. (sealed)

"Instead of waiting one more year for Alien Starfleet Command to beam them up, Guru Guru set all their energies into priming a furious lift-off on their second LP, “Hinten.” And here they sound less lumpen/trudging than on their stellar “UFO” LP but every bit as Frei-Rock and exploratory. But unlike “UFO,” “Hinten” exhibits a more flexible and plastic structure: it’s loose, yet tight. It’s free flowing, yet scripted enough to accommodate a free-fall of freak outs; they allowed themselves all the space in the universe yet managed to combine together with such effectively precise riffing just off enough to allow all concerned to wander off the path as many times as they liked without leaving a trail of breadcrumbs behind and never getting lost. There are also more vocals present here, but only if you can call murmuring song titles over ten-plus-minutes’ worth of an ensemble jumble of detuned, skittering guitars shrieking and groaning feedback with an overlay of contact microphone hi-jinks with jarring percussive strikes ‘vocals.’ And this was presented in a far clearer sonic image than ever before, courtesy of its self-production ably assisted by engineer Conrad Plank." -the Seth Man, Head Heritage.co.uk.