Your Top 12 German Prog Albums
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Topic: Your Top 12 German Prog Albums
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Your Top 12 German Prog Albums
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 01:59
Your Top 12 German prog albums, ideally by 12 different artists. 
My Top 12
Agitation Free - Shibuya Nights (2007) Ashra - New Age of Earth (1976) Between - Dharana (1974) Burning Candle - Burning Candle (1981) The Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket (1974) Dom - Edge of Time (1972) Eloy - Timeless Passages (2003) ICU - Now and Here (1995) Ikarus - Ikarus (1971) Out of Focus - Out of Focus (1971) Tonic - This Way (1980) Zomby Woof - Riding a Tear (1977)
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Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 02:04
Apart from copious amounts of Kraftwerk I don't really have much German prog in my collection.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 02:07
Progishness wrote:
Apart from copious amounts of Kraftwerk I don't really have much German prog in my collection.
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Not even Tangerine Dream? 
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Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 02:13
^Could never make head or tale of their stuff.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 02:28
Great idea for a thread!
Triumvirat-Illusions On A Double Dimple Triumvirat-Spartacus Triumvirat-Mediterranean Tales Dzyan-Time Machine Passport-Looking Thru Passport-Cross Collateral Wallenstein-No More Love Pell Mell-Marburg Dzyan-Electric Silence Passport-Infinity Machine Brainstorm-Smile Awhile Eioy-Inside
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 02:31
^ Thanks! It seemed like we were long overdue for a German prog poll.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 03:50
Can - Ege Bamyasi (but anything from their debut up to and including Soon over Babulama would make the list)
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu: On the Way to a Little Way / Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Embryo - Stieg Aus (but they've got like six equally strong contenders)
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Amon Düül II - Yeti Faust - So Far Kraan - Kraan Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Dzyan - Electric Silence
Loads more I would have like to include: Frankie Dymon Jr (just doesn't really feel german), Dom, Harmonia, Deuter, Brave New World, Kalacackra, A.R + Machines, Tortilla Flat mm...
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 04:31
Net problem => Double post.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 04:34
Studio albums (excluding solo albums of same band... in this way I can just about stick to 12;-) Can - Soon Over BabalumaTangerine Dream - Rubycon Amon Duul II - Tanz der Lemminge Kraftwerk - Die Mensch MaschineSchicke, Fuehrs & Froehling - Symphonic Pictures Birth Control - Backdoor Possibilities
Novalis - Flossenengel Eloy - Colours
Asmus Tietchens - Soiree
Cassiber - A Face We All Know
Squintaloo - Ueber Bord!
Agitation Free - Malesch
Live albums (of other bands)
Hoelderlin - Live Traumstadt
Kraan - Live
Anyone's Daughter - Requested Document Live Vol. 1 Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live Guru Guru - Live
Solo albums of members of bands above Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
Not listed on PA but maybe should... Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass is Always Greener Einstuerzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Holger Hiller - Oben im Eck FM Einheit - Stein Tied & Tickled Trio - Observing Systems
Irmin Schmidt & Kumo - Axolotl Eyes Kante - Zweilicht Ostzonensuppenwuerfelmachenkrebs - Leichte Teile, Kleiner Rock Cpt. Kirk & - Reformhoelle
Heiner Goebbels & Heiner Mueller - Der Mann im Fahrstuhl Tarwater - Not the Wheel
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 06:06
Amon Duul II - Yeti CAN - Tago Mago Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Klaus Schulze - X Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra Agitation Free - Malesch Ash Ra Tempel - s/t Neu! - s/t Peter Baumann - Romance 76 Faust - IV Dzyan - Electric Silence Harmonia - Deluxe Guru Guru - UFO
My top 12 could have been filled with TD, ADII, CAN, & KS but decided to spread it out.
Honorable mention to the proggy Scorpions - Lonesome Crow & Nico - Marble Index
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 06:57
In some case, I couldn't avoid naming a second album from a given artiste (I did reduce to one album only for Out Of Focus, or else 5 of their 6 would've been in the list).
14 Out of Focus Out of Focus 1971
14 Schulze, Klaus Timewind 1975
13 Hoelderlin Hoelderlin's Traum 1971
13 Sahara Sunrise 1973
13 Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri 1971
13 Tangerine Dream Ricochet 1975
12 Agitation Free Second 1973
12 Amon Düül II Yeti 1970
12 Bröselmaschine Bröselmaschine 1971
12 Can Tago
Mago 1971
12 Can Ege Bamyasi 1972
12 Embryo We Keep On 1973
12 Gila Free Electric Sound 1971
12 Grobschnitt Grobschnitt 1972
12 Grobschnitt Solar Music Live 1978
12 Missus Beastly Missus Beastly 1974
12 Murphy Blend First Loss 1970
12 Annexus Quam Osmose 1970
12 Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel 1971
12 Dzyan Electric
Silence 1974
12 Guru Guru UFO 1970
12 Parzival Barock 1973
12 Pell Mell Marburg 1972
12 Popol Vuh Seligpreisung Ger 1973
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Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 07:15
I would probably add Stern Combo Meissen's "Weisses Gold" to my list...
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 08:43
no order, 1 band per album: Anyone's Daughter - Adonis Triumvirat - IoaDD Amenophis - S/T Eloy - Ocean Neuschwanstein - Battlement Novalis - S/T
And I think that's it. I probably forgot 1 or maybe 2 records that I rarely listen to but whatevs. As a bonus, here are the top 3 German bands that I can't stand no matter how highly they're rated.
Can Minotaurus Tangerine Dream
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 09:08
Hrychu wrote:
no order, 1 band per album: Anyone's Daughter - Adonis Triumvirat - IoaDD Amenophis - S/T Eloy - Ocean Neuschwanstein - Battlement Novalis - S/T
And I think that's it. I probably forgot 1 or maybe 2 records that I rarely listen to but whatevs. As a bonus, here are the top 3 German bands that I can't stand no matter how highly they're rated.
Can Minotaurus Tangerine Dream |
I honestly can't think of any German bands I can't stand, but that's probably because I haven't listened to enough German prog, seeing as I've never heard any albums by Can or Minotaurus. I do like Tangerine Dream though. 
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 10:14
I dunno if I have 12 different German bands, but I'll see what comes out here... 1. Eloy - Poseidon's Creation 2. Triumvirat - Spartacus 3. Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei 4. Can - Tago Mago 5. Kraan - (original album) 6. Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra 7. Frumpy - Frumpy II
8. Lucifer's Friend - Where the Groupies Killed the Blues 9. Tangerine Dream - Rubycon 10. Grobschnitt - Rockpommels Land 11. Faust - (original) 12. Holderlin - Traum
Also have Ash Ra Tempel (original) but it hasn't grabbed me much, and some music from Kraftwerk, Klause Schultz, Anyone's Daughter and Eberhard Weber, but haven't heard it enough to have an opinion.
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 11:49
One per artist:
1. Can - Tago Mago 2. Triumvirat - Spartacus
3. Popol Vuh - Aguirre 4. Tangerine Dream - Zeit
5. Technical Space Composer's Crew - Canaxis 5 6. Pork Pie - Transitory
7. Eberhard Weber Colours - Silent Feet 8. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk 9. Klaus Schulze - Dune
10. Eroc - Eroc 11. Eiliff - Eiliff
12. Faust - Faust
Now that's a lot more variety than my Dutch prog top 10. How disappointed my ancestors must be...  
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 15:42
1. Grobschnitt - Rockpommel's Land 2. Anyone's Daughter - Adonis 3. Triumvirat - Spartacus 4. Novalis - Sommerabend 5. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple 6. Versus X - Primordial Ocean 7. Grimény - Die Große Aufgabe 8. Novalis - Novalis 9. Triumvirat - Old Loves Die Hard 10. Can - Future Days 11. Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes 12. Traumhaus - Das Geheimnis
Honorable mentions: Versus X - The Turbulent Zone Versus X - Disturbance Apogee - Endurance of the Obsolete Karakorum - Fables and Fairytales Solar Project - Force Majeure Traumpfad - Aufbruch Birth Control - Plastic People Can - Tago Mago Hoelderlin - Hoelderlin Neuschwanstein - Battlement Pancake - No Illusions Chandelier - Facing Gravity Anyone's Daughter - In Blau Apogee - Waiting for the Challenge Traumhaus - Die andere Seite
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 10 2021 at 22:26
Hi,
I think all of these are listed here, but some bands would have more than one entry!
AshRaTempel - New Age of Earth/Manuel Can - Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi/Future Days/Soon Over Babaluma/Holger/Schmidt Tangerine Dream - Phaedra/Stratosfear/Froese Klaus Schulze - Mirage/Sebastium in Traum/"X" Amon Duul 2 - Yeti/Wolf City Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live/Rockpommel's Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra Eroc (1)
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 16:07
this is tough, so many great ones, so I kept to 21 artists, and allowed live albums. The ones with asterisk probably would not make the top 12
alphabetically
Amenophis - s/t Anyone's Daughter - Live Birth Control - Plastic People Carol of Harvest - s/t Eden - Erwartung Eloy - tie between Dawn and Time to Turn, but I could have chosen 4 others Favni - Windswept * Galahad - The Return of the Piper * Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live Hoelderlin - Traum * Midnight Circus - s/t * Minotaurus - Fly Away * Novalis - Veillicht... * Passport - Garden of Eden Pell Mell - tie between Marburg and Rhapsody (2 very different albums) Poor Genetic Material - tie between Spring Tidings and Winter's Edge (singer is Scottish but two main instrumentalists are German) Rebekka - Phoenix * Rousseau - retreat Sundenfall II - s/t Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Triumvirat - Old Loves Die Hard * Troya - Point of Eruption * Zomby Woof - Riding on a Tear
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Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 17:04
Out Of focus - Out Of focus Agitation free - Malesch Message - From Books And Dreams Dzyan - Electric Silence Embryo - We Keep On Triumvirat - Illusions On A Double Dimble Passport - Cross Collateral Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Novalis - Sommerabend SFF - Symphonic Pictures Amenophis - Amenophis Hoelderlin - Traum
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 20:09
Modern:
1. Faun Eden (or Renaissance or Luna) 2. Sylvan Posthumous
Silence
3. Electric Orange Volume 10 (or Morbus) 4. Fauns Awaiting the Sun 5. Klaus Schulze Kontinuum
6. The Ocean Phanerozoic
II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic
7. Seiges Even The Art of
Navigating by the Stars
8. Electric Moon Stardust
Ritual
9. Frequency Drift Ghosts
10. Daturah Reverie
11. Collapse Under The Empire The Sirens Sound 12. T Psychoanorexia
Ancient: 1. Nina Hagen Band s/t 2. Eden Erwartung 3. Grobschnitt Solar
Musik Live 4. Hölderlin Hölderlins
Traum 5. Anyone’s Daughter Adonis 6. Agitation Free Malesch 7. Eberhard Weber The
Following Morning 8. Amon Düül II Yeti 9. Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra
Tempel 10. Tangerine Dream Rubycon
11. Bröselmaschine Bröselmaschine 12. Klaus Schulze X 13. Passport Looking Thru 14. Neuschwanstein
Battlement
15. Popul Vuh Hosianna
Mantra
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 22:21
Hi,
I was thinking that if I had to list things, it would easily be about 25% of my music collection, if not more!
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: September 21 2021 at 06:08
BrufordFreak wrote:
Modern:
1. Faun Eden (or Renaissance or Luna) 2. Sylvan Posthumous
Silence
3. Electric Orange Volume 10 (or Morbus) 4. Fauns Awaiting the Sun 5. Klaus Schulze Kontinuum
6. The Ocean Phanerozoic
II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic
7. Seiges Even The Art of
Navigating by the Stars
8. Electric Moon Stardust
Ritual
9. Frequency Drift Ghosts
10. Daturah Reverie
11. Collapse Under The Empire The Sirens Sound 12. T Psychoanorexia
Ancient: 1. Nina Hagen Band s/t 2. Eden Erwartung 3. Grobschnitt Solar
Musik Live 4. Hölderlin Hölderlins
Traum 5. Anyone’s Daughter Adonis 6. Agitation Free Malesch 7. Eberhard Weber The
Following Morning 8. Amon Düül II Yeti 9. Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra
Tempel 10. Tangerine Dream Rubycon
11. Bröselmaschine Bröselmaschine 12. Klaus Schulze X 13. Passport Looking Thru 14. Neuschwanstein
Battlement
15. Popul Vuh Hosianna
Mantra
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just added a Favni (Fauns) album to my list!
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 21 2021 at 08:30
right now these:
Amon Düül II - Tanz der Lemminge (1971)
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel (1971)
Peter Baumann - Romance '76 (1976)
Birth Control - Operation (1971)
Can - Soon Over Babaluma (1974)
Dzyan - Electric Silence (1974)
Embryo - Rocksession (1973)
Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (1975)
Guru Guru - Känguru (1972)
Klaus Schulze - Mirage (1977)
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (1975)
Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass (1974)
the list could be different any other day
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 21 2021 at 08:50
BaldJean wrote:
... Amon Düül II - Tanz der Lemminge (1971) Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel (1971)
Peter Baumann - Romance '76 (1976)
Can - Soon Over Babaluma (1974) Dzyan - Electric Silence (1974)
Embryo - Rocksession (1973)
Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (1975)
Guru Guru - Känguru (1972)
Klaus Schulze - Mirage (1977)
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (1975)
Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass (1974) ... |
Hi,
Wonderful listing. My big issue is that I would want 2 or 3 AD2 albums, adding New Age of Earth to Ash Ra Tempel, Future Days/Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi to Can, at least one or two more albums to Edgar's listing, Klaus Schulze's listing would have at least 10 more albums, and TD at least that many!
Both TD and KS have the largest amount of material in my collection. Just simply the biggest "friend" one could ever have in the arts, not just music!
PS: And we're missing Grobschnitt and Popol Vuh which would also have about 5 to 6 albums!
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 22 2021 at 00:23
Eloy - Live, Colours, Planets, Time To Turn Tangerine Dream - Ricochet , Stratosfear, Force Majeure, Tangram, Exit, Poland Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale Triumvirat - Illusion On A Double Dimple
it is what it is!
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 17:46
I started this exercise and got wrapped up in other business. The number of German albums in my collection is not much more than 50. But very few of them are less than amazing. Many of my favorites are from the last 10 years. I will do the 1 album per artist routine, though there would be a couple of artists that would dominate otherwise.
1. Squintaloo - Über Bord! 2. Panzerballet - Hart Genossen Von ABBA Bis Zappa 3. Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear 4. Colonel Petrov's Good Judgement - Among Servants 5. Sieges Even - A Sense of Change 6. Klaus Schulze - Mirage 7. Lind - A Hundred Years (The Justification of Reality: Part I) 8. Robert Schroeder - D.MO Vol.4 (Harmonic Decadence) 9. Schizofrantik - Ripping Heartaches 10. Marco Minneman - Using this spot for the Normalizer series which is attributed to multiple artists like Trey Gunn, Phi Yan Zekk, and Alex Machacek. All of these artists took the same "open source" (for lack of a better term) 52 minute drum solo written by Minneman and wrote their own scores over it. Every one of the albums I have heard is amazing.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 08:26
Tapfret wrote:
... 8. Robert Schroeder - D.MO Vol.4 (Harmonic Decadence) ... |
Hi,
The best (for me) and most far out thing RS ever did was his very first album, that was done on Klaus Schulze's label, on a 45RPM release for a LP ... with one other accidental thing ... the album could also be played on the regular 33RPM speed, and the result? Absolutely astoundingly SONIC stuff that made it not only Gothic, but also totally outstanding and actually better than the 45 RPM version that all of a sudden comes across as very "pop'y" music.
You have to have the LP to hear this, since a release of what I am saying will never happen. But, the results are way too good and far out ... and I would love to hear/see our friend Dave even try this and come up with something ... not a single band, or exercise out there has ever done this, and sounded so good.
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Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 21:37
German, huh? Would have to be stuff by:
Can Eloy Cluster Passport Kraftwerk (and Scorpions, LOL)
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 15 2021 at 00:06
moshkito wrote:
Tapfret wrote:
... 8. Robert Schroeder - D.MO Vol.4 (Harmonic Decadence) ... |
Hi,
The best (for me) and most far out thing RS ever did was his very first album, that was done on Klaus Schulze's label, on a 45RPM release for a LP ... with one other accidental thing ... the album could also be played on the regular 33RPM speed, and the result? Absolutely astoundingly SONIC stuff that made it not only Gothic, but also totally outstanding and actually better than the 45 RPM version that all of a sudden comes across as very "pop'y" music.
You have to have the LP to hear this, since a release of what I am saying will never happen. But, the results are way too good and far out ... and I would love to hear/see our friend Dave even try this and come up with something ... not a single band, or exercise out there has ever done this, and sounded so good. |
Harmonic Ascendant is listed as his very first release on Innovative Communication (KS' label) but I find no reference to it being 45rpm. It's a fantastic album. The album I listed, Harmonic Decadence was recorded prior to Harmonic Ascendant but never released until 2017. They are both fantastic albums, but I give the edge to Decadence. It just has a more organic sound, if that's even something we can really put our finger on. The other 2 I love are Cygnus A and 1989's greatly under appreciated Pegasus.
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 02:36
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Klaus Schulze - X Schicke, Führs & Fröhling - Symphonic Pictures Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple Carol of Harvest - Carol of Harvest Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 Eloy - Dawn Anyone's Daughter - Adonis Ivory - Sad Cypress Stern Combo Meissen - Weisses Gold Ashra - Blackouts Amenophis - Amenophis
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 02:48
That's very exiting top list, Paul. I'll try to join here if it won't be too hard for me to do the ranking, or I can just skip the ranking of the top 12, at least. And I can already tell you that my top 12 will be very different from yours.
Edit: Then, I can tell you that this has given me an idea of another national top list.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 03:15
Eloy - Silent Cries And Mighty Echoes Novalis - Sommerabend Neu! - Neu! '75 Jane - Together PSI- Horizonte Triumvirat - Mediterranean Tales, Across The Water Zyma - Thoughts Flaming Bess - Tanz der Gotter Frumpy - All Will Be Changed Passport - Looking Thru Kraan - Wintrup Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 04:17
Here it comes, in unranked order, though: Agitation Free Malesch (1972) Amon Düül II Yeti (1970) Amon Düül II Wolf City (1972) Can Ege Bamyasi (1973)Eloy Floating (1974) Eloy Ocean (1977) Embryo We Keep On (1973) Gila – Free Electric Sound Gila (1971) Hölderlin Hölderlins Traum (1972) Kraan Kraan (1972) Orange Peel Orange Peel (1972) Out of Focus Wake UP (1970) Scorpions Lonesome Crow (1972) Tangerine Dream Stratosfear (1976) Some others, I'm fond of: Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel (1971)Faust Faust IV (1973) Harmonia Musik Von Harmonia (1974)
NEU! NEU! (1972)
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 04:49
Sticking to just one album from each, a top 12 from the olden days is fairly easy for me. It’s subject to change, like any list I make, but I feel reasonably confidant about the following:
Agitation Free - 2nd Can - Tago Mago Holgar Czukay - Movies Electric Sun - Earthquake Eloy - Ocean Et Cetera - Et Cetera Hoelderlin - Hoelderlin Os Mundi - 43 Minuten Popul Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos Klaus Schulze - Dune Scorpions - Lonesome Crow Zyma - Thoughts
(NB, the above is unranked, and in alphabetical order only.)
On the other hand, a list of my top 12 more modern albums is a lot more difficult. I’ll give it a little thought and come back to it.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 06:20
nick_h_nz wrote:
the olden days
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not so little creative, I'd say 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 06:30
Tapfret wrote:
... Harmonic Ascendant is listed as his very first release on Innovative Communication (KS' label) but I find no reference to it being 45rpm. It's a fantastic album. The album I listed, Harmonic Decadence was recorded prior to Harmonic Ascendant but never released until 2017. They are both fantastic albums, but I give the edge to Decadence. It just has a more organic sound, if that's even something we can really put our finger on. The other 2 I love are Cygnus A and 1989's greatly under appreciated Pegasus. |
Hi,
The album is called FLOATING MUSIC. I imagine that it is not available at all, and if it is, the price is way out of line. I think I might have to mp3 this, so folks can hear it, but I imagine that both Klaus folks (KS and his manager) will probably get upset with if they hear about this.
They DO KNOW about this, and I have mentioned it many times for the last 40 years, btw. I ORIGINALLY put on the album at 33 RPM not finding or seeing that is said 45 RPM. The sad thing was that after the hardcore heavy stuff at 33 RPM, the album just sounded right down pedestrian at 45 RPM. I have to admit that I lost some interest on RS, though I have like 3 or 4 albums (all on CD except FM).
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:08
^It's actually available on YouTube. Almost all of the search entries are played at 33RPM. There is a single 3 minute clip titled "fast version". Very interesting. Speeds can be changed on YouTube, but they pitch correct so it would not be the same. Probably would not be anyway due to digital compression.
I know what you mean about his music and having a hard time staying interested. I got lucky when I found Pegasus at a thrift store, which is a gem that came out between albums where he had already shifted into a more electro-pop/EDM style, which I have no interest in. But those first couple, the "Harmonics" and Galaxie Cygnus a, are upper tier Berlin School albums.
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Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: November 30 2021 at 19:41
One album per band... 2066 and Then on the top of my list, the rest in alphabetic order:
Twenty Sixty Six and Then - Reflections on the Future (1972) but Reflections!, Second Battle CD reissue is even better.
Amon Düül II - Wolf City (1972) Brainstorm - Smile a While (1972) Can - Future Days (1973) Eiliff - Eiliff (1971) Faust - Faust (1971) Frumpy - 2 (1971) Hoelderlin - Hoelderlin's Traum (1971) Ikarus - Ikarus (1971) Missing Link - Nevergreen! (1972) Nine Days Wonder - Nine Days Wonder (1971) Out of Focus - Wake Up (1970)
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