Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
CAN - The Lost Tapes
A.R. & Machines - Die Grüne Reise
Highdelberg - s/t
Witthüser & Westrupp - Trips und Träume
Camera - Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide
Datashock - Keine Oase in Sicht
Here is my 'Krautrockday' al-a Floyd's The Man:
Daybreak: Amon Duul: Tanz der Lemminge
Morning: Kraftwerk: Ralf and Florian
Afternoon: Embryo: Bad Heads And Bad Cats
Drive Home: Kraan: Andy Nogger
Evening Meal: Can: Future Days
Sleep: Popol Vuh: Affenstunde
Grobschnitt's debut of course Ballerman and Solar Music Live. Embryo Stieg Aus, Agitation Free At the Cliffs of the River Rhine, Malesch and 2nd just to name a few. And I must not forget Walter Wegmuller Tarot.
Last edited by old school; 02-22-2015 at 02:32 PM.
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Genre labels are always going to be somewhat fuzzy, and bands aren't necessarily going to adhere to a specific genre for the whole of their careers. I'm okay with the idea of contemporary Krautrock (see above) or even non-German Krautrock and I'd certainly prefer not to use labels to designate a time and place.
Fine - personally I'm going by what's defined by books like The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and Krautrocksampler, which use time and place to help describe a socio historical context within which Krautrock "happened."
Because, of course, Krautrock is a subset of the "style" known as prog.
Yeah, me too. But Julian Cope relates the extreme creativity and I guess the degree to which they just went with it to the Holocaust guilt from which the generation was trying to separate itself. Also, the fact it was one of them (Conny Plank?) who first used the term Kraut self-referentially in a song title or similar.
^^
Some folks tend to steer away from the German-language Kraut bands, often due to not understanding the lyrics or feeling generally estranged to vocals in that tongue. And of course, some of the so-called "polit-rock" Kraut acts were apparently less immediately adventurous in terms of their music, but many still made some pretty darn relevant contributions of the day (Ihre Kinder, Oktober, Scherben, Floh de Cologne etc.).
It probably also alienates SOME listeners to know that Scherben were as "proto-punk" as they were "progressive", but so were The Plastic People of the Universe in Czechoslowakia, Buldozer in Yugoslavia and the (still) little known Komintern in France.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
You just got me in the mood to revisit some stuff. My krautrock turntable menu of the day:
1. SPARIFANKAL "Huraxdax drudnhax"
2. SILOAH "Surkam gurk"
3. LOKOMOTIVE KREUZBERG "Kollege klatt"
4. TAU "Tau"
What, no Spermüll or Cravinkel??!
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Spermüll !
Spermüll !
Spermüll !
Spermüll !
Spermüll !
Spermüll !
"Only SPERMÜLL are allowed from now!" - Ed, chief of staff of official joint committee of Moral High Office at PE.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
It must be - if you pile together the genre's most famous names, such as Can, Neu!, Amon Duul II, Faust, Popol Vuh, and Cluster, NONE of these bands sound a thing alike - there's so much more similarity among say, the "big 7" of prog (or whatever you call 'em). A lot of modern groups get described as having a big Krautrock influence, which means pretty much nothing to me, a guy who's listened to over a hundred LPs described as "Krautrock" - though lately I've come to understand it usually just means they have listened to "Hallo Gallo"
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