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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2009 at 17:57
Originally posted by Rivertree Rivertree wrote:

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!
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I liked the Portishead-like moments more than the rest.
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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. LOL
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Points: 2970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2009 at 17:23
Originally posted by sludgecraft sludgecraft wrote:

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. LOL


no argument there, just listened to it again today, no less awesome than last time!!
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Points: 15141 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2009 at 08:56
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!LOL
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Points: 5319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2009 at 13:53
Embryo`s Apo-Calypso from 1977 is recommended listening,  a very under rated band and one of my favorites
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2009 at 14:34
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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Points: 7088 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2009 at 17:38
I've recently picked up the very strange Neumaier/Moebius/Plank album Zero Set, in which 3 krautrock pioneers invented techno several years before anybody else. Neumaier gets medieval on his kit, Moebius and Plank wrap bizarre strands of electronica around his pounding beats and a Senegalese singer adds an extra dimension of otherness to the proceedings on one track. If you like Hoger Czukay's solo albums, some of the post Neu! projects and Kraftwerk in their more experimental moods, it's well worth investigating.
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Points: 732 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2009 at 14:44
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

I've recently picked up the very strange Neumaier/Moebius/Plank album Zero Set, in which 3 krautrock pioneers invented techno several years before anybody else. Neumaier gets medieval on his kit, Moebius and Plank wrap bizarre strands of electronica around his pounding beats and a Senegalese singer adds an extra dimension of otherness to the proceedings on one track. If you like Hoger Czukay's solo albums, some of the post Neu! projects and Kraftwerk in their more experimental moods, it's well worth investigating.

Interesting!  Why don't you review it for us, I notice no one else has...

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11990

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Points: 17660 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2009 at 07:26
German neo krautrock pioneers ELECTRIC ORANGE have announced a new album to be released in early 2010

Krautrock From Hell
official release February 2010 on Sulatron Records (Austria)

http://www.justforkicks.de/images/products/10304_g.jpg

seven new exciting songs (79 minutes) recorded during a period between November 2008 and October 2009

another irresistible blend of hypnotic beats, soaring organ, synths, spacey guitars, recitatives, samples, analogue effects ...
... all you might expect as significant for a (modern) krautrock sound


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Points: 51 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2009 at 11:58
i have just recently started to appreciate krautrock  though i have listend to amon duul's tanz der lemmings for many years and i just love that album. but recently i have been exploring bands like
Can
Neu!
Dzyan
Popol Vuh
Amon duul II (other than tanz der lemmings)
Ash Ra Temple
just those classic ones
these ones or on my to check out list
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Gila
Faust
Guru Guru
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Points: 732 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2010 at 05:58
I've been getting into tagging my mp3s using a more complex editor these days.  The genre "Krautrock" is often unavailable or not used in the tagging "communities" I've so far seen, I guess because it seems not-PC to say "Kraut" in any context.  Though it doesn't make me too uncomfortable (I didn't come up with it), I always felt it might be an issue with people, and I have to say I do sometimes wonder if I should use the term in certain company.  Of course I notice it's used specifically and respectfully here - it's simply the name of a music genre, and a venerable one at that.  Still the conflict persists out in the world.  Thoughts?  Other evidences of the conflict, or of its gaining acceptance?



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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2010 at 08:19
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

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AINIGMA - Diluvium 1973

CORNUCOPIA -  Full Horn
 DA CAPO -  Da Capo
 DEUTER - D
 DROSSELBART - Drosselbart     

 EL SHALOM - Frost
 EMBRYO - Steig Aus
 EMBRYO - Father Son & Holy Ghosts
 EMBRYO - Rocksession
 ERLKONIG - Erlkonig
 EULENSPYGEL - Eulenspygel 2
 FRAME - Frame of Mind
 FRUMPY - All Will Be Changed
 FRUMPY - Frumpy 2
 Peter FROHMADER - Nekropolis 2
 Peter FROHMADER - Eismeer
 GOMORRHA - Trauma Englisch/Deutsch (1970)
  HALLELUJAH - Hallelujah Babe
 HOLDERLIN - Holderlin's Traum
 IKARUS - Ikarus (1971)
 IVORY - Sad Cypress
 LIGHTSHINE - Feeling
 MC CHURCH SOUNDROOM - Delusion
 MESSAGE - Dawn Anew is Coming          

 MY SOLID GROUND - SWR Volume 7

 MY SOLID GROUND - My Solid Ground '71

 MY SOLID GROUND - 2001 Album                           

 OS MUNDI - 43 Minuten

 PELL MELL - Only a Star
 RUFUS ZUPHALL - Weiss Der Teufel
 WIND - Seasons (1971)
 SFF KRAUT SCHICKE FÜHRS FRÖHLING - Sunburst

 
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.
 
 

you are mistaken; Peter Michael Hamel never was involved with Embryo; it always was the brainchild of Christian Burchard. Hamel was involved with the band Between, which I highly recommend


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Points: 6898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2010 at 10:18
Nice to see this thread rejuevenated. I just updated the JANE bio which was really hurting. I wish Klaus Hess could stop being a such a baby and at least make an appearance with them. His Mother Jane is heavier and lacks the expressive emotion  that Peter Panka and the other guys brought to JANE. I'm not sure whether or not Werner Nadolny's JANE is planning an album or they're just a touring unit. 
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Krautrock, to me, isn't really a genre, it's a group of bands from the same country that have a similar nonconformity in their music. I mean, Amon Duul II, Can, Tangerine Dream, and Faust are really COMPLETELY different bands, and while there are similarities in style, they're no more drastic than any they may have with other genres.
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Points: 6898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2010 at 15:51
I agree. I usually refer to it as weird German sh*t. I think the term usually refers to the earlier bands who had more in common with each other than they did with American and British bands of rthe late 60s & early 70s.
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2010 at 15:55
Has anyone listened to Zweistein's album?  I'm intrigued, but the $75 price tag for 3 CDs has really been putting me off. 
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Has anyone listened to Zweistein's album?  I'm intrigued, but the $75 price tag for 3 CDs has really been putting me off. 
 
 
That's the "Trip Flip Out Meditation" album or whatever it's called, right? I heard it and didn't like it at all. I love experimental music, krautrock especially, but I think that album is mostly garbage. Clearly a case of, lets drop acid and make a bunch of noise. Sometimes I like the results of that type of music making, not in this case.
 
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

I agree. I usually refer to it as weird German sh*t. I think the term usually refers to the earlier bands who had more in common with each other than they did with American and British bands of rthe late 60s & early 70s.

yes, the early Krautrock years, until about 1975, were very weird indeed; after that Krautrock loses its fascination, though a few bands carried on the torch, most notably Guru Guru and Embryo. Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru has been invovled in several projects that kept up the spirit of early Kraut, among them Psychedelic Monsterjam and Acid Mothers Guru Guru


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Krautrock rules! My favorite is Can. Smile
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2010 at 17:45
Neu! 2 is awesome. It's almost a decade ahead of it's time, like a sort of post-punk predecessor, early new-wave/post-rock band.
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