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mecca 
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 Posted: January 10 2008 at 14:53 |
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I'm going to investigate this genre more extensively. I've listened to a few bands from it, but not many me no think.
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Pilzkopf
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 10:13 |
Definitely get Cottonwoodhill by Brainticket!
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T.Rox
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 07:53 |
I have had little exposure to Krautrock but generally like what I hear.
My full collection, which is small and somewhat disjoined, is (if I recall correctly)...
Brainticket: Celestial Ocean
Can: Monster Movie, Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi
Mythos: Mythos
Orange Peel: Orange Peel
...and if we are including certain Tangerine Dream albums as mentioned elsewhere in the thread add Alpha Centauri and Green Desert
...and I think my Full Horn album by Cornucopia is more Krautrock than Jazz Rock. (JR is the PA genre.)
It would seem that other than Can and TD I have works from lesser known Krautrock bands.
Certainly from reading this thread there are plenty of "mainstream" Krautrock bands for me to check out. (I just need more money!)
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 03:16 |
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Thanks guys :D I didnt know about early Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, I'll check 'em out, downloading Schwingungen and Seven Up by Ash Ra Temple now  |
Seven Up is an "interesting" album due to how it was recorded but I prefer Schwingungen and the first album. Amboss is an amazing track.
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:17 |
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Their debut is excellent as well. Come to think of it, their first 4 or 5 albums were all excellent.
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allan Duul II
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:16 |
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I love Amun Duul II up until Wolf City and early Can, Neu! and Faust. I Can any one advise any other Krautrock bands similar to AMII Can and Neu! please?
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Check out Krokodil's An Invisible World Revealed, Xhol's Motherf**kers GmbH & Co. KG and K�nguru by Guru Guru. |
I have listened to Acid Mothers Guru Guru, which was two Acid Mothers Temple fellas and the drummer from Guru Guru, but I haven't heard guru guru's stuff. I'll try hunt them down 
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:08 |
Thanks guys :D I didnt know about early Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, I'll check 'em out, downloading Schwingungen and Seven Up by Ash Ra Temple now
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Pilzkopf
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:06 |
allan Duul II wrote:
I love Amun Duul II up until Wolf City and early Can, Neu! and Faust. I Can any one advise any other Krautrock bands similar to AMII Can and Neu! please?
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Check out Krokodil's An Invisible World Revealed, Xhol's Motherf**kers GmbH & Co. KG and Känguru by Guru Guru.
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rileydog22
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 20:05 |
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I'm not a big fan of techno-Kraftwerk, but their first two are pretty good. Sort of a mix between the spacy formlessness of the first couple of TaDream albums and the focused grooves of NEU!
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 19:52 |
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Have you hear EARLY Kraftwerk or TaDream? You could very well like the first two Kraftwerk albums, as both are quite NEU!ish and even feature Klaus Dinger on drums. Of particular interest to NEU! fans is a brief period of time in which Kraftwerk gigged as a lineup of Rother, Dinger, and Florian whatver-his-last-name-is, before Rother and Dinger split off to form NEU! There's a couple of audience recordings of the largely-improvised gigs by the lineup, and they are quite good if you can find them. |
Florian Schneider. 
I didn't know about that, though. I still like Kraftwerk up until Computer World (which I like as well), so I'll have to check out their earlier stuff.
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rileydog22
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 19:48 |
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Have you hear EARLY Kraftwerk or TaDream? You could very well like the first two Kraftwerk albums, as both are quite NEU!ish and even feature Klaus Dinger on drums. Of particular interest to NEU! fans is a brief period of time in which Kraftwerk gigged as a lineup of Rother, Dinger, and Florian whatver-his-last-name-is, before Rother and Dinger split off to form NEU! There's a couple of audience recordings of the largely-improvised gigs by the lineup, and they are quite good if you can find them.
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Leningrad
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 19:43 |
allan Duul II wrote:
I love Amun Duul II up until Wolf City and early Can, Neu! and Faust. I can't find any of the other Krautrock stuff, which is annoying, apart from the more electro/techno stuff, of which I do not like, Tangerine Dream Kraftwerk etc just annoy me. Can any one advise any other Krautrock bands similar to AMII Can and Neu! please?
I have recently been checking out some neo Krautrock too, Electric Orange are brilliant! :D
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Try to get yourself some Ash Ra Tempel.
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allan Duul II
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 18:37 |
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I love Amun Duul II up until Wolf City and early Can, Neu! and Faust. I can't find any of the other Krautrock stuff, which is annoying, apart from the more electro/techno stuff, of which I do not like, Tangerine Dream Kraftwerk etc just annoy me. Can any one advise any other Krautrock bands similar to AMII Can and Neu! please?
I have recently been checking out some neo Krautrock too, Electric Orange are brilliant! :D
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Pilzkopf
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 17:21 |
I've only considered TD's first four albums as kraut. Their releases on Virgin are more electronic/space. After that, IMHO, they became new age fluff.
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 17:11 |
Thandrus wrote:
Bj-1 wrote:
rileydog22 wrote:
cuncuna wrote:
What I definitely don't get is how Grobschnitt belongs to the same cathegory with Tangerine Dream or CAN...
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They don't. Grobschnitt is in sympho.
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I've heard they have been compared to both, but that's only because they're from Germany as well. They are indeed Symph. |
BTW, Tangerine Dream belongs to Progressive Electronic here  |
They still have been coined as Kraut by some, only because they're from Germany. Silly, I know
But their earliest albums have Kraut stylistics from what I know, but their later stuff is Electronic.
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Thandrus
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 08:36 |
Bj-1 wrote:
rileydog22 wrote:
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What I definitely don't get is how Grobschnitt belongs to the same cathegory with Tangerine Dream or CAN...
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They don't. Grobschnitt is in sympho.
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I've heard they have been compared to both, but that's only because they're from Germany as well. They are indeed Symph. |
BTW, Tangerine Dream belongs to Progressive Electronic here
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 08:29 |
rileydog22 wrote:
cuncuna wrote:
What I definitely don't get is how Grobschnitt belongs to the same cathegory with Tangerine Dream or CAN...
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They don't. Grobschnitt is in sympho.
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I've heard they have been compared to both, but that's only because they're from Germany as well. They are indeed Symph.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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rileydog22
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Posted: January 08 2008 at 23:00 |
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What I definitely don't get is how Grobschnitt belongs to the same cathegory with Tangerine Dream or CAN...
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They don't. Grobschnitt is in sympho.
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Posted: January 08 2008 at 22:53 |
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What I definitely don't get is how Grobschnitt belongs to the same cathegory with Tangerine Dream or CAN...
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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nightlamp
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Posted: January 08 2008 at 16:05 |
I like Philippe's new definition on the Krautrock genre page. A new question... How does one differentiate between "Krautrock" and "influenced by/incorporating elements of Krautrock"?
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