Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fuelled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks’ studio near Cologne, Cosmic Jokers was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Klaus Schulze and Manuel Göttsching (of Ash Ra Tempel) and Jürgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf (of Wallenstein). This free-form freak out, consisting of two epic tracks—the 22-min “Galactic Joke” and the 19-min “Cosmic Joy”—was first of five albums by the group to be released on Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser’s Kosmische Kuriere label. A first rate slab of space rock up there with other classics of the genre!