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The Truth 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 19 2009 Location: Kansas Status: Offline Points: 21795 |
 Posted: December 12 2009 at 14:34 |
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Krautrock is a strange genre to say the least, and I have always appreciated bands that are as experimental as the ones in the Krautrock genre
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timothy leary
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Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: December 12 2009 at 13:53 |
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Embryo`s Apo-Calypso from 1977 is recommended listening, a very under rated band and one of my favorites
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The Sleepwalker
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Joined: February 03 2009 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 15141 |
Posted: December 12 2009 at 08:56 |
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I got my first Krautrock album today, Wolf City by Amon Duul II.
It's really a shame that it took me a year on PA to discover this lovely music!
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Neurotarkus
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Joined: April 18 2009 Location: Negativland Status: Offline Points: 2970 |
Posted: November 30 2009 at 17:23 |
no argument there, just listened to it again today, no less awesome than last time!! |
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"I cannot grasp the concept of love, for I am a pickle!"
-Neurotarkus I create musics. Good Ones. Contact me if you desire it. |
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sludgecraft
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Joined: November 18 2009 Status: Offline Points: 10 |
Posted: November 30 2009 at 14:42 |
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With regard to my earlier post, I gave Yeti by ADII another go yesterday. my god ITS AMAZING!! all of a sudden it makes sense. What an amazing album. Please ignore any other comment by me about ADII.
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Ricochet
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 27 2005 Location: Nauru Status: Offline Points: 46301 |
Posted: November 29 2009 at 17:57 |
I liked the Portishead-like moments more than the rest. |
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philippe
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 14 2004 Location: noosphere Status: Offline Points: 3597 |
Posted: November 29 2009 at 08:41 |
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^ true. The neo side of the subgenre delivers some astonishing moments. I notably advise to give a listen on Metabolismus, Silvester Anfang, Electric Orange (for their album fleischwerk) Aethenor and Cloudland Canyon (the two last are added in the progressive electronic category)
Edited by philippe - November 29 2009 at 08:42 |
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Rivertree
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Honorary Collaborator / Band Submissions Joined: March 22 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17660 |
Posted: November 29 2009 at 08:07 |
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recently added the band Beak> featuring Geoff Barrow (Portishead)
this project has produced an album with songs reminiscent of German bands like Neu, Harmonia, Can and Kraftwerk - recommended! listen here Edited by Rivertree - November 29 2009 at 08:07 |
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moshkito
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Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18572 |
Posted: November 24 2009 at 19:24 |
I like that album a lot ... and the funny thing is that everyone is not hearing it ... or listening to it ... the "secret" is right there ... and the explanation ... of what this music is all about ...
... using german hi-fi ... to get into the sci-fi ... get into the vibe of the music ...
Never ever, has anything been spoken so clearly and so with it ... the only time when Tim was not full of doodoo and just throwing words out to have fun with people and confuse them ... and ... it made so much sense that it was like a brick hitting you in the face ... from that point on I KNEW what music was all about ... not just a lyric, not just a guitar ... not just a drum beat ... (and today ... Klaus Schulze, Manuel Gottsching and Tangerine Dream ... are the only ones still doing it ... almost all the others are simple copies ... )
All of the best albums in this idiom (krautrock) came out in 1972 ... but that is really just one of those things ... I hardly think that there are too many albums that stand up to Ege Bamyasi, Wolf City, Guru Guru and the Popol Vuh ... and we haven't even listed Ash Ra Tempel and Klaus Schulze yet ... Neu ... and so many others.
What is hard to get people to see, specially anyone labeling things "prog" or anything else ... is what these people were into that helped the scene develop ... and if you check the theater, film and other arts ... these were extending the parallels and exercising their experiments ... and many of these people are remembered for the beauty in those experiments ... krautrock is totally free form ... but even Acid Mothers Guru Guru don't have it ... it's more thrash metal compared to the Ax Gernreich version in those days where it was more of a super extended jam ... the way Jimi could have done it ... and never did ... because we kept wanting him to do blues or some other idiotic music style that had nothing to do with how a person felt and experimented.
The German scene was quite involved ... when you consider that CAN never had a "singer" .. they had an actor and then ... another voice actor ... and that's quite an experiment until you get it down ... and they did. But it also tells you that there was a lot less "fear" to experiment than there is in the more convention rock/progressive modes of music that come out of England or America ... here they call it a "jam" ... and usually that means aimless and unfocused ... which Krautrock never lacked ... it had FOCUS and then some. Edited by moshkito - November 24 2009 at 19:36 |
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moshkito
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Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18572 |
Posted: November 24 2009 at 19:10 |
Georg Deuter has quite a few albums and they are simple keyboard excursions, many of them meditations and he dedicates his music to his spiritual leader.
Embryo is/was Peter Michael Hamel's thing. It is nice stuff, although sometimes I felt that ... I don't know ... I get one of those "detached" feelings while listening to Miles Davis, and at times I get a feeling that this is not "krautrock" at all ... it's "krautmusik" ... and I always felt that there was too much "composition" here ... and if you read Peter's book "From Music To The Self" ... (I won't say any more!)
Frumpy I consider a 2nd tier rock band ... nice, and enjoyable, not great ... but good.
Message ... if this is the album/band I am thinking it is a Nektar sounding band ... it's ok, not great.
Pell Mell ... I had one of their albums ... Marburg? I have to look it up ... and then remember listening to a live album of theirs ... and I think that one qualifies as "weird" for me ... maybe if I heard it today it might make some sense, but it didn't then.
SFF. Instrumental stuff with 3 keyboard players ... Really well done stuff, but not exactly "tops" ...
Of all these listed I would say that Deuter is the best of them ... and the most consistent of the creative hands/forces in this group. Very nice albums and they were distinctive and not quite repetitive or sounding the same. I'll reserve judgement until I hear Embryo again ... I do have 2 of their albums.
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American Khatru
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Joined: March 28 2009 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 732 |
Posted: November 23 2009 at 15:26 |
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I turned a friend on to Brainticket recently, and now he can't stop! His brainticket has been punched!!
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 Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"? |
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Vibrationbaby
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Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6898 |
Posted: November 20 2009 at 15:12 |
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I've got a few hundred on vinyl. I the late seventies Ihad a deal with a second hand shop:Anything that came in that looked weird: Call me. I bought a guy,s Amon Duul II collection oncealong with a whole pile of weird German sh*t that I still have some of it is mega rare. I also bought a whole pile of sealed Brain LPs from a clearinghouse in 1981. Nobody wnted them so I offered the guy a flat rate for the whole shebang. The doubles I traded off over the years and I still have a few sealed albums.
d 70s German Kosmishe Musik. Out there man.With the exception of the Hawks Doesn't get any freakier.
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Neurotarkus
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Joined: April 18 2009 Location: Negativland Status: Offline Points: 2970 |
Posted: November 20 2009 at 14:49 |
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I've been obsessed with krautrock for the past week or two, though it's been mostly Can, ADII, Faust, Kwerk, and Neu!
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"I cannot grasp the concept of love, for I am a pickle!"
-Neurotarkus I create musics. Good Ones. Contact me if you desire it. |
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sludgecraft
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Joined: November 18 2009 Status: Offline Points: 10 |
Posted: November 20 2009 at 05:14 |
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I got into Krautrock after watching the documentary on BBC4, I was already a prog fan, mainly Gabriel era Genesis, VDGG, Tool and Tull, but now all i listen to is early 70's and German. Popol Vuh and Agitation free are now two of my fave bands of all time. Tantric songs is a classic. the strange thing with Krautrock is it doesn't seem to have dated much, the first album by Neu! could have been released a year or two ago, and it would still kick ass! Its only after listening to bands like Ash Ra Tempel that you realise how much influence they had on bands like Tool. I guess its a testament to a bunch of very forward thinking artists that 40 years on it still sounds fresh. Not many genres can boast that.
Ich liebe krautrock, das ist jetzt mein Leben. schade Metall, Sie sind für mich nicht klug genug(my last facebook update) |
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shivayin
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Joined: October 25 2009 Location: Devon UK Status: Offline Points: 7 |
Posted: October 29 2009 at 15:10 |
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Well, if yo're Scottish, we are united forver, I was born and raised in Glasgow as was my wife.
Email me at:
My website is:
www.alistairiwcampbell.com if you want to see Celtic/Krautrock/Psychedelic etc. Art.
If you want to know what musick I have try to visit:
www.alistairsdream.co.uk > 'Alistairs Music' - 40 years of lovingly collecting which I don't reget a day of.
Al
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shivayin
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Joined: October 25 2009 Location: Devon UK Status: Offline Points: 7 |
Posted: October 29 2009 at 15:06 |
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Get in touch with me, a Krautrock fan for 40 years. I will try to help out,
Al
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shivayin
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Joined: October 25 2009 Location: Devon UK Status: Offline Points: 7 |
Posted: October 29 2009 at 15:04 |
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Everything by Ash Ra Tempel, in my book is genius. But if you had to have one album which was the cherry on the cake, it has got to be '7 Up' recorded live in Berne 1972 with Dr. Leary.
Al
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www.alistairiwcampbell.com
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TODDLER
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VIP Member Joined: August 28 2009 Location: Vineland, N.J. Status: Offline Points: 3126 |
Posted: October 27 2009 at 13:04 |
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Lucifer's Friend LP's had an innersleeve style jacket which advertised bands like Guru,Guru and that is what brought my attention to bands of this style. I don't know if Lucifer's Friend would be considered Krautrock. German classical musicians with an English singer. Some songs would sound like your average rock song but develop into Crimson madness. Pink Mice "In Action" was instrumental. Members of Lucifer's Friend on this one minus Lawton. Guru,Guru....Mani and some friends is a krautrock treasure for me.
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shockedjazz
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Joined: March 12 2008 Location: Madrid (spain) Status: Offline Points: 169 |
Posted: October 27 2009 at 12:55 |
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Holderling,s "Holderling traum" is impressive, a special and beatifull disc, folky and experimental at the same time, but what can you expect of a band name like that? Something good for sure.
No one has commented on A.R. & Machines "Echo". Its a wild trip!!
 Can is awesome, specialy with suzuky. He is singing anything? i mean with linguistical content? Absolutely great (specialy for non english listeneres and ocasional wannabe english singers).
But Yeti is the weirdest thing you can hear! incredible "Archangel thunderbird" and asthounding "Soap shop rock...."
A clap for all the krautrock fans
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rick gryphon
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Joined: January 29 2005 Status: Offline Points: 67 |
Posted: October 26 2009 at 05:50 |
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hello there what a collection i am from brechin scotland i dont have any on your wants list but how much is it per cd copy from you i might need some done
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