sorry but what is Kraut rock?

It's a very psychedelic form of Prog and very experimental expecially with forms such as electronic music (Kraftwerk is a good example) and industrial forms of music.
Since your a beginner I'd start off with something by Can...try Tago Mago or Future Days.

Kraut Rock was a derogatory term set about in reference to the growing music scene in Germany.

Some excellent German bands are Faust, Can,Tangerine Dream, Eloy, Amon Duul...just too name a few. If you want to start slowly try Can-Tago Mago, or Ege Bamyasi. If you like atomspheric or ambient music Tangerine Dream is good start. Bands like Faust are avante garde and not for the faint of heart. Good psyche rock can be found in bands like Eloy and Amon Duul.

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A lot of things people refer to as Krautrock, aren't in fact Krautrock as I see it (e.g. Grobschnitt, Eloy, etc...). 'Tis a wonderful genre of music, and personally, I prefer the spacier Kraut music, like Conrad Schnitzler, all Cluster related projects, Popol Vuh, etc... Great Stuff!!!

Try Zeit, or Rubycon. Alpha Centauri is good aswell. Zeit has great atomshere.

Krautrock is the best!!!

Aaron

Zac M wrote: A lot of things people refer to as Krautrock, aren't in fact Krautrock as I see it (e.g. Grobschnitt, Eloy, etc...). 'Tis a wonderful genre of music, and personally, I prefer the spacier Kraut music, like Conrad Schnitzler, all Cluster related projects, Popol Vuh, etc... Great Stuff!!!

The early Grobschnitt were quite spacy too, especially their "Solar Music Suite".

Other bands and artists definitely worth checking out, which have not been named so far: Guru Guru, Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Kraan, Annexus Quam, Anima, Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese, Embryo (an often overlooked band, but very important), Between, Deuter. I could continue the list endlessly...
And notice there are 3 bands named Amon Düül,which must not be cnfused with each other. Amon Düül (German), Amon Düül 2 (German), and in the 80s a British Amon Düül were formed by former Amon Düül 2 members Dave Aderson and John Weinzeirl. Guy Evans of Van der Graaf Generator and Ed Wynne and Joie Hinton of the Ozric Tentacles were part of their line-up, as well as the late Robert Calvert of Hawkwind. All from very spaced-out bands too.

BaldFriede wrote: Other bands and artists definitely worth checking out, which have not been named so far: Guru Guru, Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, Kraan, Annexus Quam, Anima, Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese, Embryo (an often overlooked band, but very important), Between, Deuter. I could continue the list endlessly... And notice there are 3 bands named Amon Düül,which must not be cnfused with each other. Amon Düül (German), Amon Düül 2 (German), and in the 80s a British Amon Düül were formed by former Amon Düül 2 members Dave Aderson and John Weinzeirl. Guy Evans of Van der Graaf Generator and Ed Wynne and Joie Hinton of the Ozric Tentacles were part of their line-up, as well as the late Robert Calvert of Hawkwind. All from very spaced-out bands too.

I totally agree with that, excellent band with a HUGE body of work, incapsulating various styles from Jazz-Rock to World Music to Krautrock and everything in between.

In the late Seventies my favorite record-shop Moonlight Records in The Hague started to sell Krautrock LP's. I bought albums from Grobschnitt, Jane, Novalis, Eloy, Hoelderlin and Ramses, all has a sticker with Krautrock put on the front cover. Later I discovered that the genuine Krautrock music came from earlier bands like Tangerine Dream, Amon Duul, Can and Guru Guru who were more into psychedelic and experimental (Bob Moog his synthesizers) . In the book Rock Made In Germany (Rainer M. Schroder) you can read that in the second half of the Sixties these bands got their inspiration from the protest movements and some bands even lived in communes (like Amon Duul).

 It is a bit confusing .. .. but in fact Jane, Eloy and Wallenstein are no Krautrock bands.

By the way, the name Krautrock is rooted in the nickname Kraut (derived from the vegetable Sauerkraut) that was given to the Germans by the USA soldiers in the Second World war.