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I was just listening to some Frumpy this morning. Inga Rumpf was ( and is ) the greatest. Her new album " Easy In My Soul" just smokes.
One thing I`ve noticed is that there are a lot of people who are into CAN on this site. I dunno. I have a few of thieir early albums but they just don`t cut it with me. Just like Genesis. Unlistenable.
Haven`t heard NEU! 4. Second side of NEU! `75 was kind of shaky. Have to drag it out and give it a listen..


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Sand - Golem is a great album too.
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Points: 1594 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2007 at 08:53
Originally posted by Paradox Paradox wrote:

Does anyone else think that Neu! 4 is complete rubbish?

 
Some of it is absolutely pants but it's not complete rubbish. Wink
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2007 at 08:17
Originally posted by superprog superprog wrote:

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Is it just me or Electronic Meditation sounds a lot like Saucerful of Secrets at times? I mean I love the album and it certainly was a seminal record but some of the sonic landscapes sound like they were directly copied from Floyd's record at times.
 
 
'Krautrock' def didn't appear by itself, the Floyd and Velvet Underground were very influential i.e. the space/psych-outs, the noise n' motorik etc........
 
I've lost count of the number of Kosmiche albums I've heard that include a piece that sounds a bit like "Saucerful...", or "Astronomy Domine", or "Set the Controls..." Wink
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Originally posted by schizoid_man77 schizoid_man77 wrote:

Kraut? Dont know much or own much.
 
But Can's Ege Bamnassi is great!
 
Yup and a great start for krautrock newbies i whuld say, even tough i dont have that much kraut myself so far, i say try some Amon duul II next get >Yeti.
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Is it just me or Electronic Meditation sounds a lot like Saucerful of Secrets at times? I mean I love the album and it certainly was a seminal record but some of the sonic landscapes sound like they were directly copied from Floyd's record at times.
 
 
'Krautrock' def didn't appear by itself, the Floyd and Velvet Underground were very influential i.e. the space/psych-outs, the noise n' motorik etc........
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Kraut? Dont know much or own much.
 
But Can's Ege Bamnassi is great!
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talkin abt Popul Vuh, Supersilent's latest album 8 is very very Kraut from what i'm hearing thus far, just w a more improv-jazz slant to the whole thing. 
 
Lovely stuff, a must must get!!!
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Originally posted by electricsilence electricsilence wrote:

I guess I could say I like Kosmiche Music mostly; I'm not a big fan of Popol Vuh or Yatha Sidhra, they sound too much like new age to me. But I think some of TD's Alpha Centauri and Cluster's II are amongst the most the most impressive and original music ever made. I mean between them and Deuter the practically invented modern electronic music.

Is it just me or Electronic Meditation sounds a lot like Saucerful of Secrets at times? I mean I love the album and it certainly was a seminal record but some of the sonic landscapes sound like they were directly copied from Floyd's record at times.

The first two Popol Vuh albums are definitely not new age. Wink
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Great genre, although I've mainly only heard Can.
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I guess I could say I like Kosmiche Music mostly; I'm not a big fan of Popol Vuh or Yatha Sidhra, they sound too much like new age to me. But I think some of TD's Alpha Centauri and Cluster's II are amongst the most the most impressive and original music ever made. I mean between them and Deuter the practically invented modern electronic music.

Is it just me or Electronic Meditation sounds a lot like Saucerful of Secrets at times? I mean I love the album and it certainly was a seminal record but some of the sonic landscapes sound like they were directly copied from Floyd's record at times.
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I just like German bands from the seventies in general. Although the term Krautrock has become accepted over the years back in the late sixties when the term was first coined some bands took offence to it most notably Guru Guru. Mani Neumeier has said in many interviews that back in the early days of Guru Guru they prefered the term "acid space".
Many people apply the term to any band from Germany which is apparently not the case. I don`t think I would call the Scorpions Krautrockers although they started out on the Brain label. Some great music came out of Germanyin the early seventies without question. Cluster II is one of my all time faves along with Solar Music Live. It`s such a pity some of these bands  really didn`t make it outside of continental Europe. So much great music. Jane Live At Home is one of my favourite live albums as is the live Hoelderlin album. Anyone heard of a band on the Bellaphon label called Geronimo? They`re not on the archives but sort of like a German version of Paul Riviere and the Raiders, cool stuff. Wow I could go on and on. a good chunk of my album collection is made up of Krautrock/German bands.
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Krautrock is perhaps my favorite Prog-Genre... or at least most listened recently. Having read "Cosmic Dreams At Play" I started to download the bands from this bookt I could find on internet. So for past 2 or 3 years Krautrock makes about 75% of my listening time.
 
Can't really name definitely my fave band, there are so much out there. Maybe it's Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra/Manuel Gottching, maybe Kraftwerk, Kluster, Klaus Schulze, or other famous or less famous bands. I can't really decide.
 
I see here arguing about whether we should consider every German Prog band as Krautrock. You know, having listened many diversely sounding bands (eg. Kraftwerk, Schulze, Kluster, Embryo - diametral opposites) I come to conclusion that despite this polar opposity, the spirit is SAME!!! I don't know, maybe it's my subjective opinion, but Kluster, Schulze, Guru Guru, Triumvirat or Floh De Cologne all carry this depressive/paranoid insane and naively sincere spirit.
 
HEIL KRAUTROCK!!!
 
      
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I just read Julian Cope's book Krautrocksampler. Quite interesting stuff.

The books explains a bit of the Krautrock history of different bands, and there's some album reviews at the end.

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I highly recommend Dzyan's album 'Electric Silence', it's very psychedelic.
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Last week I found a fresh CD copy of Erlkoenigs only album. I like the keys on that album a lot. I also noticed that they released only one album, but played live for over 6 years. Anyone here ever been to one of their gigs in the 70s?

I'll do a review of the album, but it's a 4 star for any Krautrock collection in my opinion.
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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

Vision Creation Newsun by Boredoms is really really really really good krautrock.  
 
 
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Points: 6890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2007 at 21:02
I wish I had some kraut!
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German food is the werst! LOL
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