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ClassicRocker 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Damjan
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Posted: March 19 2008 at 20:38 |
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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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Posted: March 19 2008 at 10:47 |
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If you like Ashra you might like Yatha Sidhra's Meditation Mass. Pretty mellow,
but it does pick up a bit in the middle or so. Kinda like a combination of the
music from the Sergius Golowin album (Lord Krishna von Goloka), Popol Vuh
(Aguirre) and Cosmic Jokers.....with some whiffs of jazz. The music was written
by the drummer, IIRC. For me, it is one of the top 5 krautrock albums of all time.
It is definitely rock, but rock that is stretched in the service of a vision.
On the other hand, Manuel & Co. were always pretty unique and worthy of more attention.
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Posted: March 19 2008 at 05:13 |
cacho wrote:
Where's Ashra!!!?? haha the only krautrock album/band I know haha.
Really excited with 
I think I chose the electronic area. Pure relaxing, any other of the same vein, I was going to go with Ash Ra Tempel's debut, seems interesting with only 2 songs, even though Blackout's epic isn't quite good, prefer 77 Slightly Delayed, Blackouts and Midnight on Mars.
Well any other album to recomend me, going to go with Tempel's debut and Amon Dull II Yeti. |
Ashra's New Age of Earth is in a similar style to Blackouts but I think it's much better.
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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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Posted: March 17 2008 at 18:11 |
I'm a Kraut expert. I know it's "Kr-out" and not "Kr-awt". 
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The Quiet One
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Posted: March 17 2008 at 18:04 |
Where's Ashra!!!?? haha the only krautrock album/band I know haha.
Really excited with
I think I chose the electronic area. Pure relaxing, any other of the same vein, I was going to go with Ash Ra Tempel's debut, seems interesting with only 2 songs, even though Blackout's epic isn't quite good, prefer 77 Slightly Delayed, Blackouts and Midnight on Mars.
Well any other album to recomend me, going to go with Tempel's debut and Amon Dull II Yeti.
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Posted: March 01 2008 at 13:58 |
Deuter "D" is quite cosmic. Never mind the never new-age stuff :)
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Posted: February 04 2008 at 15:20 |
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Definitely get Cottonwoodhill by Brainticket!
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As it says on the cover notes, your friends won`t even know you after this one.
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Posted: February 04 2008 at 08:36 |
Pilzkopf wrote:
Definitely get Cottonwoodhill by Brainticket!
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I just can't get into that album. I love hypnotic, repetitive riffs but that organ riff really annoys me after a few minutes.
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rileydog22
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 17:46 |
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I'll check those two out, thank you very much!
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 17:16 |
BaldJean wrote:
rileydog22 wrote:
Acid Mothers Temple has released approximately 6.02x10^23 albums. Which ones should I start with if I wanna explore their discography?
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try "IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno", a tribute album to the late Gong drummer Pierre Moerlen who died May 3rd 2005
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For a bit more information about the music, the album is one single song (or jam) that clocks in about 50 to 60 minutes and its based on GonG's Master Builder main theme. It's one of their better efforts so I agree with this recommendation. Magical Power From Mars is another nice recommendation. The album is more varied than IAO Chant... and less hard to enjoy, unless you're used to hour-long jams. If not then check Magical Power From Mars out. I'm not a good reviewer, but feel free to read the one I wrote for this album just to get an idea of what their music's like.
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BaldJean
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Posted: February 01 2008 at 02:13 |
rileydog22 wrote:
Acid Mothers Temple has released approximately 6.02x10^23 albums. Which ones should I start with if I wanna explore their discography?
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try "IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno", a tribute album to the late Gong drummer Pierre Moerlen who died May 3rd 2005
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rileydog22
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Posted: January 31 2008 at 22:20 |
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Acid Mothers Temple has released approximately 6.02x10^23 albums. Which ones should I start with if I wanna explore their discography?
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