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Jun 23, 2021 · Pure brilliance that will inspire artists for decades to come. We are taking a look back at one of the most innovative musical movements of all time, Krautrock, and picking out the 10 best albums of the scene.
Krautrock is that wonderful, cosmic expression of music that emerges in the late 1960s. One of those interesting tributaries that feed into that oceanic swe...
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- Can – “Father Cannot Yell” (from Monster Movie, 1969) 1968 apparently wasn’t ready for Can: When they shopped a session they cut that year, Prepared To Meet Thy Pnoom (eventually released in 1981 as Delay 1968), it was rejected by every label they gave it to.
- Amon Düül II – “Archangels Thunderbird” (from Yeti, 1970) Amon Düül originally formed as a commune of radical leftist artists based in Munich, taking on the name of an Egyptian god a la Sun Ra (though the “Düül” part was less immediately definable) and working to invent a new German identity as a clean break from everything, especially war, that had come before it.
- Embryo – “You Don’t Know What’s Happening” (from Opal, 1970) Krautrock’s stylistic breadth meant that even a contentious genre name wasn’t nearly enough to make bands in the scene easy to pigeonhole.
- Guru Guru – “Girl Call” (from UFO, 1970) A band that leavened its spacey, jam-heavy tendencies with an unholy guitar squall worthy of Paranoid or Fun House, Guru Guru’s first album hit the same year as those epochal Sabbath and Stooges LPs and damn near outdid them in pure chaos and noise.
- Association. Earwax. (Munich,1970) A highly obscure LP, of which I have only ever seen two copies – including this one! This record is a heady brew of distorted guitars, avant-garde free jazz and off-kilter keys.
- Tangerine dream. Zeit. (Ohr, 1972) When a good friend of mine made the transition from punk rock and skateboards to quiet, subdued conversations and sneaky, private ‘Tang’ sessions, I was worried.
- Embryo. Rocksession. (Brain, 1972) Another of my all-time favourite kraut bands, Embryo celebrate everything that gets me excited about this music. ‘ Rocksession’ is straight up, no messin’ space-rock.
- Gomorrha. Trauma. BASF/Comet, 1970. Originally recorded in 1969 for Gomorrha’s self-titled LP but re-recorded a year later with English vocals and released as ‘Trauma’, this was transformed from average pseudo-pyschedelia into heavy freak rock by legendary producer Conny Plank.
Jan 11, 2024 · Born out of a radical time in the history of post-war Germany, this loosely connected group of artists – including Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, Tangerine Dream and Amon Düül II – created a sound...
Nov 24, 2021 · Classic Rock. The Krautrock albums you should definitely own. By Chris Roberts. ( Classic Rock ) published 24 November 2021. Krautrock runs a truly revolutionary gamut from avant-garde dance to proggy space rock to minimalist electronica and beyond – and these are its best albums.
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Jun 7, 2023 · From Joy Division to PIL’s Metal Box, from goth to post-rock to techno, the colours of Krautrock thereafter ran through music like veins in a leaf, discernible in all corners from LCD Soundsystem to Stereolab to The War On Drugs.
