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    Posted: January 06 2008 at 13:08

Hey, I thought it would be cool to see everyone's 10 favorite albums from this subgenre. Seems to be alot of quite dedicated fans of this genre. Go ahead and include bands on that scene that aren't technically in that genre like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze also!
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Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass
Ashra - Sauce Hollandaise
Amon Düül 2 - Yeti
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Agitation Free - At the cliffs of river Rhine
Prosper - Broken Door
Electric Orange - Morbus
Obskuria - Discovery of Obskuria
Manuel Göttsching - Inventions For Electric Guitar
Gila - Free Electric Sound


This is a spontaneous reply - I'm quite sure I forgot something important ...


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tough cookie. but let's see what I come up with- in no particular order:

Amon Düül 2 - Tanz der Lemminge
Guru Guru - Känguru
Can - Tago Mago
Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn
Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
Popol Vuh - In den Gärten Pharaos
Annexus Quam - Osmose
Embryo - Rocksession (Embryo are actually listed under jazz-rock/fusion, but they might as well be listed under Kraut)
Faust - same
Kraan - Wintrup

by the way: lately the term "Kraut" seems to be used for all bands of German origin, and a lot of bands have been added under that moniker that have nothing to do with this, although certainly diffuse, categorization at all. "Kraut" refers to a certain style, not to origin of the band


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Shocked I didn't mention EMBRYO - KRAAN ... because they are not listed under Kraut here ...  Shocked

it's really difficult to define Krautrock!



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Impossible, but I'll try anyway:

Can: Ege Bamyasi (Tago Mago)
Amon D��l II - Yeti
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Klaus Schulze - Blackdance
Deuter - D
A+R & Machines - Die Grune Reise
Agitation Free - Malesch
Ash Ra Tempel - St
Embryo - Opal

Added some not considered kraut.


Edited by Rocktopus - January 06 2008 at 15:18
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Can - Future Days
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Ashra - Blackouts
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
Ashra - New Age of Earth
Neu! - Neu!
Cluster - Zuckerzeit

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It's difficult but I'm going to restrict myself to one album per band. In no particular order:
 
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Popol Vuh - In den Gärten Pharaos
Neu! - Neu!
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
Can - Monster Movie
Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
Klaus Schulze - X
Faust - IV
Amon Düül 2 - Tanz der Lemminge
Agitation Free - Malesch
 
 
 
 
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  1. Faust - Faust So far
  2. Can - Tago Mago
  3. Ashra - New Age Of Earth
  4. Popol Vuh - Last Days Last Nights
  5. Yatha Sidra - Meditation Mass
  6. Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia
  7. Kraan - Live 75
  8. Neu! - Neu!75
  9. Tangerine Dream - Zeit
  10. Guru Guru - UFO

In no particular order. Hard to limit it to just 10, but they're the ones I'd rescue from a burning building (this week).  
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Amon Düül II - Yeti
Peter Frohmader/Nekropolis - Musik aus dem Schattenreich
Can - Future Days
Guru Guru - UFO
Kraan - Live 75
Embryo - Rocksession
Tangerine Dream - Atem
Agitation Free - Malesch
Dzyan - Electric Silence
Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn
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German Oak - German Oak  / Cluster - II / Brave New World - Impressions on reading Aldous Huxley / Dom - Edge of time / Gaa - Alraunes Alptraum / My Solid Ground - My solid Ground / Gunter Schickert - Samtvogel /  Kalacakra - Crawling to Lhasa / Brainticket - psychonaut / Mythos - first /
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Hmm, in no specific order:

A.R. and the Machines - Die Gruene Reise
A.R. and the Machines - Echo
Can - Tago Mago
Can - Future Days
Neu! - Neu! 75
Popol Vuh - In den Garten Pharaos
Agitation Free's first three albums in a tie (I find them all equally great)
Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley
Faust - Faust
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei

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Many great lists. I could have chosen just about any of these myself:


Peter Frohmader/Nekropolis - Musik aus dem Schattenreich
 Dom - Edge of time
Gunter Schickert - Samtvogel
Kalacakra - Crawling to Lhasa
Mythos - first
Tangerine Dream - Atem
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Dzyan - Electric Silence
German Oak - German Oak 
Cluster - II
Brave New World - Impressions on reading Aldous Huxley
A.R. and the Machines - Echo
 Neu! - Neu!
Faust - Faust/So Far
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia
 Can - Future Days
Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
Annexus Quam - Osmose
Embryo - Rocksession
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one each per artistic entity
 
Can - Future Days
Ash Ra Tempel - s/t
Neu - 2 (for Fur Immer and the idiotic rubbish that followed!!!)
Cluster - 71
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn
Popul Vuh - Aguirre
Guru Guru - UFO
Agitation Free - Last
Ashra - Correlations (gloriously cheesy!!)
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not very hard since so far i only got 10 krautrock albums and i love em all so i yust show what i got:
 
Can - Tago mago
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Amon Duul II - Tanz der lemminge
Amon Duul II - Wolf City
Neu! - Neu!
Neu! - Neu!75
Faust - Faust/So far
Faust - IV
 
Yes i know its only from the big bands but you gota start somewhere next i was thinknig of geting some more Can and then Some Guru guru, Ash Ra Tempel and Cluster.


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Points: 8890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2008 at 22:06
Originally posted by superprog superprog wrote:

one each per artistic entity
 
Can - Future Days
Ash Ra Tempel - s/t
Neu - 2 (for Fur Immer and the idiotic rubbish that followed!!!)
Cluster - 71
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn
Popul Vuh - Aguirre
Guru Guru - UFO
Agitation Free - Last
Ashra - Correlations (gloriously cheesy!!)

The first side of Neu! 2 is just as good as the previous and following albums.  I actually enjoy the second side, just compared to everything else they've done it's really lackluster.
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Yeti by Amon Düül II
An Invisible World Reveald by Krokodil
Cottonwoodhill by Brainticket
Sowiesoso by Cluster
Tago Mago by Can
Ege Bamyasi by Can
Motherf**kers GmbH & Co. KG by Xhol
Atem by Tangerine Dream
Kraftwerk 2 by Kraftwerk
Neu! '75 by Neu!
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In no particular order:

Circle - Guillotine
Gila - Free Electric Sound
Ash Ra Temple - Ash Ra Temple
The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket
Cluster - Cluster II
Popol Vuh - In Der Garten Pharaos
Brainticket - Psychonaut
Faust - Faust
Can - Tago Mago
Xhol - Motherfvckers G.M.B.H & Co. KG

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