someone once declared that, in the beginning, there was jack, and jack had a groove. and from this groove came the groove of all grooves. and while one day viciously throwing down on his box, jack boldly declared, let there be house! and house music was born. but before jack had his groove, there was disco, and before disco, there was krautrock!newcastles flight recorder label, home to modern interpretations of other european genres of dance music, italo, new beat, and ebm, in conjunction with radio oscillations on intergalactic fm, brings together a collection of music by those producers inspired by these >krautrock< pioneers of the early to mid 1970s on obliged to space – a heartfelt and beautifully written love letter to those cosmic sounds of the 1970s