Birth Control

Great set featuring the best tracks from the 1972 to 1975 period including the group's signature track "Gamma Ray". Birth Control is among the longest running german bands and were formed wayback in 1968 in Berlin. The group had several line-up changes over the years and fused Krautrock with progressive rock and the blues rock genre, with percussive keyboards & synthesizer effects an unique sound was created.

1977's Increase has Germany's Birth Control producing a sound that is a little less progressive than their earlier work, although the body of this album still incorporates strong doses of Moog and Hammond keyboard undertakings from Zeus B. Held. The songs have a more established and structural feel to them, especially pieces like "Fight for You" and "Until the Night." Birth Control's sense of humor is still prevalent as well, brought about in the lyrics of the opening "Skate-Board Sue," but where the music is concerned, they began to reveal influences from Western '70s rock, even though their fundamental progressive sound remains at the forefront. There's a definitive jazz lean which surfaces through most of the tracks, while the guitar-led rhythms are steady and dominating…