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   I knew it’d been a while since this thread had been touched but..3 years?!???

Anyway here goes:
I still listen to a lot of this stuff on a regular basis. Hell some days it’s nearly all I listen to. On those days I catch myself starting out with say a Can album..and then why not a other one? Two become three and I wonder why it had to take me so long to REALLY get the latter part of their 70s oevre.
The tuesday after I do the same thing with Embryo only it’s the live albums I revisit. Live at Bremen fx hit me over the head with the force of a small mountain. It was funky and raw like real wood and again lead me down a listening experience that passed through Goosebumps City and Studio54 alike.
Krautrock: the crooked funky stuff you (sorta) can dance to  

Currently listening to Can’s selftitled album and digging the hell out of Safe. Man..that track is like listening to what might’ve been if the disco movement’s favourite drug had been opium  

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Guldbamsen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guldbamsen Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: December 27 2019 at 03:22
	I knew it’d been a while since this thread had been touched but..3 years?!??? Anyway here goes: I still listen to a lot of this stuff on a regular basis. Hell some days it’s nearly all I listen to. On those days I catch myself starting out with say a Can album..and then why not a other one? Two become three and I wonder why it had to take me so long to REALLY get the latter part of their 70s oevre. The tuesday after I do the same thing with Embryo only it’s the live albums I revisit. Live at Bremen fx hit me over the head with the force of a small mountain. It was funky and raw like real wood and again lead me down a listening experience that passed through Goosebumps City and Studio54 alike. Krautrock: the crooked funky stuff you (sorta) can dance to Currently listening to Can’s selftitled album and digging the hell out of Safe. Man..that track is like listening to what might’ve been if the disco movement’s favourite drug had been opium
	“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams

Psychedelic Paul Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 40101	Post Options Post Reply Quote Psychedelic Paul Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: December 27 2019 at 07:02
	It's good to see a Krautrock appreciation thread. I thought this was a brand new blog until I noticed it was over 60 pages long, having first been posted way back in February 2011.

Guldbamsen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guldbamsen Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 22 2020 at 08:03
	Amongst newer releases I still rank Electric Orange’s Volume 10 as one of the finest Krautrock albums since...well the 70s. Folks into the old style of ‘fumbling down dark caves with but a few instruments doing the ‘lighting’ should dig this big time. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this is what prog sounds like if it had been discovered by the Navajo
	“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams

Guldbamsen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guldbamsen Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 27 2020 at 11:33
	This came out during disco’s heyday...and it sorta sounds that way..and then not really...not at all some might say...but there’s a snap to the beat and a general funky almost danceable rhythm coming awefully close to several disco tunes that I can think of...yet it’s definitely not disco...but something else entirely...a psychedelic and slow-moving funk coach of sorts...or indeed the sounds of the disco-movement if it’s favourite drug had been ketamin: CAN - Safe https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PElFnSsfVEE
	“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams

Psychedelic Paul Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 40101	Post Options Post Reply Quote Psychedelic Paul Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 27 2020 at 11:56
	Agitation Free have always been my favourite Krautrock band. I used to think Nektar were Krautrock, until I realised they're a British band based in Germany.