The key word there is "Hobby". 3 records in and already the Cosmic Jokers have given up on the Joke. What Dieter does on this is beyond me and presumably this record is the cutting room floor personified as the Kaiser scrapes the bottom of the barrel for the last few shreds of Cosmic goodness. The next two LPs are "samplers" so perhaps that cosmic jam session was just a regular Jam session which Dieter dressed up and stretched out to 3 LPs.
Anyway, gone are the side long tracks and in their place are 13 vignettes of cosmic weirdness which gets over the "going nowhere" issues of the last two LPs but not far enough over. It still feels like a weird cosmic mess - lots of noodling and too much drugs no doubt. The titles are like some great Library LP which doesn't deliver: "Intergalactic Nightclub", "Loving Frequencies", "Electronic News". Despite having listened to this several times over the last week I can't recall anything about it, and it ends up being a fairly hollow experience.
The ultimate problem is simply this: Not enough Gille. After her quality warbling on Galactic Supermarket, I was looking forward to some more bonkers insightfulness. Alas, though being last on the bill on the sleeve, she has little to say on this. A great cosmic record but ultimately unfulfilling. Great cover though.
Am now wondering if you might do another run-though of Julian's Top 50 - except on your second pass, blogging exclusively ON ACID. Surely "weird cosmic mess" would then sound a bit different?
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