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Damjan 
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Pretty interesting genre, I really enjoy Amon Duul II, Neu, and Dyzan. Recently I've been getting into Can after finding Future Days and Tago Mago at a local cd shop, very, very cool stuff.
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nightlamp
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Posted: March 20 2008 at 03:02 |
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Lately I've been getting into Passport and Wolfgang Dauner/Et Cetera. I really dig the cosmic-jazz-rock sounds I'm hearing, although some of the Passport stuff is pretty cheesy...
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: March 29 2008 at 18:03 |
It's an interesting genre that I want to investigate more.
By now I own some albums and compilations of Amon Duul II, a favourite band of mine.
I tried Popol Vuh's Hosianna Mantra but that's not my cup of tea.
I love Wolf City very much. Can you please recommend me something accessible (for newcomers) like that album? It could be a perfect starting point for me.
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BroSpence
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Posted: March 30 2008 at 01:52 |
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Yeti and Wolf City are great albums and very different from one another too. Guru Guru is an amazing band too. I've been digging Amon Duul II more lately, though.
I'm quite fond of the hardly talked about band known as BIRTH CONTROL. Great stuff, especially that one live album they did which was a beast.
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rileydog22
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Posted: March 30 2008 at 13:17 |
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I whipped out the A.R. and Machines a couple of days ago. I forgot how good that stuff is. Really cool spacey stuff, mostly driven by Riechel's very spacey echo-guitar.
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paolo.beenees
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Posted: March 30 2008 at 13:49 |
 Andrea Cortese wrote:
It's an interesting genre that I want to investigate more.
By now I own some albums and compilations of Amon Duul II, a favourite band of mine.
I tried Popol Vuh's Hosianna Mantra but that's not my cup of tea.
I love Wolf City very much. Can you please recommend me something accessible (for newcomers) like that album? It could be a perfect starting point for me. |
I'm sorry you didn't like Hosianna... nevertheless:
- I think I could recommend you Gila's "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" (which I like more than "Free electric Sound"; I find it more personal in combining native-american atmosphere to a solid krautrock sound - and then there's that incredible guitar sound by Conny Veit).
- Also the eponymous debut album by Mythos and "Trips & Träume" by Witthüser und Westrupp are interesting albums.
- Be sure to get all the albums by Amon Düül II from "Phallus Dei" to "Wolf City" (well, the last one is already in your collection). As for the other side of Amon Düül (the ones without the number), the only recommendable album - IMO - is "Paradieswärts Düül", and it's a very good one, indeed.
- For a more cosmic and improvised sound, Agitation Free's "Malesch", Tangerine Dream's "Electronic Meditations" and The Cosmic Joker's first album will surely give you good vibrations.
- On my own part, I'm lately focusing more on the electronic edge, foreshadowing the English New Wave of the late 1970s. If you want to give a try to this side of krautrock, Neu!'s third album (1975) and "Deluxe" by Harmonia are good starting points (if you like them, look immediately for La Düsseldorf first two albums - "La Düsseldorf" and "Viva").
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: March 30 2008 at 15:19 |
How about the post Wolf City period of Amon Duul II?
How about an album as Vortex, for example?
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Leningrad
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Posted: March 30 2008 at 15:27 |
Andrea Cortese wrote:
How about the post Wolf City period of Amon Duul II?
How about an album as Vortex, for example? |
You could try Utopia, whose personnel included all of the members of Wolf City-era Amon Düül II. There's even a version of Deutsch Nepal on their debut, which was recorded at the same time as Wolf City.
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: March 30 2008 at 15:47 |
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I just recently started trying out the genre, and so far I like Can pretty well, having listened to Ege Bamyasi and Tago Mago (although sometimes the garage band sound gets old). My next move is probably Amon Duul II.
I also acquired Ash Ra Tempel's Schwingungen and Seven Up, which I am less than thrilled about. I love their song "Der Vierte Kuss" (on the excellent Supernatural Fairytales set), but these other two albums are kind of underwhelming, especially the vocals which actually ruin some of the music for me. Can anyone give recommendations on albums or if I should bother continuing?
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Leningrad
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Posted: March 30 2008 at 16:21 |
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Try the debut.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: March 31 2008 at 13:43 |
Andrea Cortese wrote:
It's an interesting genre that I want to investigate more.
By now I own some albums and compilations of Amon Duul II, a favourite band of mine.
I tried Popol Vuh's Hosianna Mantra but that's not my cup of tea.
I love Wolf City very much. Can you please recommend me something accessible (for newcomers) like that album? It could be a perfect starting point for me. |
Try Amon Duul II Made In Germany. Get the original German double album version. The North American version excludes a lot of the good stuff.
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KrakAtack
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Posted: April 11 2008 at 03:32 |
febus wrote:
Shouldn't we start with the understanding of the name KrautrocK????
Are we talking only about experimental/ psychedelic/ jazzy german bands?
like FAUST, AMON DUUL 2. GURU GURU, CAN, etc.......
Or can we add other German bands such as GROBSCHNITT, NOVALIS, ELOY,JANE , WALLENSTEIN.HOLDERLIN, WITHUSER, SFF and many more.....???
It seems there are 2 school of thoughts about the meaning of the word Krautrock; personaly, i go with the second one.  |
Those are all great Kraut Rock bands...........Don't forget Kraan, Lucifer's Friend, Scorpions, Nektar, Jane, Can, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel..............http://krakatack.googlepages.com/moreproggroups
Edited by KrakAtack - April 11 2008 at 03:33
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rileydog22
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Posted: April 11 2008 at 17:52 |
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IMO Scorpion and Lucifer's Friend are hard rock bands, not kraut bands.
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A B Negative
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Posted: April 12 2008 at 13:24 |
rileydog22 wrote:
IMO Scorpion and Lucifer's Friend are hard rock bands, not kraut bands.
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I haven't heard Lucifer's Friend but I'd recommend Scorpions' debut album Lonesome Crow to anyone who likes psychedelic-jazzy-folky-proggy-floydish rock. And there are no whistling solos!
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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KrakAtack
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Posted: April 19 2008 at 17:01 |
 Psychedelic underground is prog, psych and a lot of fun. One of the finest early german psych/prog records i ever found. Definitely one of the best albums to came out of Germany in the
sixties, swifting guitars like the best of the west coast psychedelic
groups as well as Progressive movements like early U.K. prog scene. My favorite song on this is the opening track, "So Bad" which reminds
me a little bit of the intro to "Don't let me be misunderstood". It
features the singer moaning 'everyteeng... soo ba-a-a-d, so
b-a-a-a-a-d... la la la laaa laaa...' over and over again until a manic
guitar solo panning left and right takes over. http://rateyourmusic.com
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Norbert
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Posted: April 23 2008 at 13:46 |
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I managed to track down a Krautrock band in PA which sounds really likeable for me: Dzyan, with a special regard to their Electric Silence album.
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Pnoom!
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Posted: April 25 2008 at 12:11 |
Electric Silence is great, though Time Machine is blegh. Haven't heard the other one.
Also, the Velvet Underground were a huge influence on Krautrock and they are FANTASTIC.
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rogerdil
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Posted: April 25 2008 at 15:08 |
Yeah, Electric Silence is cool. In fact, I listened to it based on your recommendation on another forum, Pnoom!
Other cool albums I've heard in my short time listening to this subgenre are:
Krokodil - An Invisible World Revealed
Embryo - Steig Aus
Agitation Free - Malesch
Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley
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Pnoom!
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Posted: April 25 2008 at 19:58 |
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So my copy of Faust/So Far came in the mail today. Made my day (well, along with the other six albums that came with it).
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febus
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Posted: April 25 2008 at 22:02 |
Try the best of the best imho.....GROBSCHNIT......Solar Music live.....one of the trippiest music ever heard.
Also GURU GURU.....Kanguru ., Hinten and Dancing Flames.....and 30 YEARS LIVE!!
ASH RA TEMPEL......self titled 1st album
AGITATION FREE.....Malesh
OUT OF FOCUS......4 mondays afternoon
EMBRYO.....Rocksession--Steig Aus
WALLENSTEIN.....Blietzkrieg and Cosmic..
Of course as reported in many threads, the fisrt 6 AMON DUUL2  are a must
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