The Krautrock Space

David,  the remastering of the S F albums that you can find on the Itlalia Progressive compilations is excellent.

Wow, that is awesome.  I like this a lot.

hellogoodbye wrote: I've posted this on the italian Den, but it certainly belongs here too. Sensations FIx is for me the most important Krautrock band with Can. Their album Portable Madness is the only one  I can compare with Future Days. This compilation includes 28 tracks of their best work.remixed by the leader of the band Franco Falsini. The music is absolutely fantastic, full of light (not only fragments) and spirituality. At the same time it's very organic. I love the sound of every instrument. That kind of recording can't get old. If the real teasure of 2012 wasn't the lost tapes of Can but this one ?   SENSATION'S FIX - MUSIC IS PAINTING IN THE AIR: 1974-1977 - NEW CD BOXSET (SEPT 2012). 2 CD

Their "Smoothe And Round" is chilling.

I've posted this on the italian Den, but it certainly belongs here too. Sensations FIx is for me the most important Krautrock band with Can. Their album Portable Madness is the only one  I can compare with Future Days. This compilation includes 28 tracks of their best work.remixed by the leader of the band Franco Falsini. The music is absolutely fantastic, full of light (not only fragments) and spirituality. At the same time it's very organic. I love the sound of every instrument. That kind of recording can't get old.

Aquiring the Taste wrote: I am new here & havn't caught up with the modern Genre definitions.So what about Nekta, do they fit in here.

Hey man, I'm sorry if my last post came off sounding patronizing. I certainly didn't mean for it to be.
Modern stickers are indeed hard to juggle around and navigate between, and in many cases you'll have overlapping acts that end up defying everything you try and box them in with.

As for your question, no Nektar aren't really considered as a Krautrock band - on here they're parked in psych. Though, one could argue that, at least during their early days, they were part of the scene - even incorporating several facets of the style into their music. Journey comes close in my opinion, but then again, it also sounds very close to the sort of psychedelic rock that Floyd were dishing out a couple of years earlier.

Aquiring the Taste wrote: I only read up to page 8, but am quite surprised that there was no mention of Triumvirat or Joy Unlimited.

It's a common misconception that Krautrock equates German rock, but that is not the case. Triumvirat never sounded like their fellow countrymen from the Krautlands - they played highly intricate symphonic music. Joy Unlimited are listed here under eclectic, but I must confess that I don't know them.
Krautrock, in short, revolves around loosely played psychedelic music, improv, motorik laden grooves, avant-garde and in some instances a particular form of zany fusion.

I only read up to page 8, but am quite surprised that there was no mention of Triumvirat or Joy Unlimited.

La! Neu (klaus dinger) live at Düsseldorf Kunsthalle 1998.totally awesome ive got Year of the Tiger cd which this is on.the cd contains the full version and its epic.

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Triceratopsoil wrote: wow quintuple post :o

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