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Mellotron Storm
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The pink what ?
I think "Last" might be my favourite recording by them.It's just so different from the rest.We get a more dynamic sound at times to more of a Tangerine Dream electronic soundscapes.It just really clicks with me. |
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jean-marie
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The first third ones were my favourite ones but i had a listening to Fragments at Oliverstoned home last week, great album too
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The Wrinkler
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^ Haha nice! So you probably heard it through his awesome set up!?
I have Faust 71 Minutes, and I had this song on the other day, eating at the school cafeteria. Everyone and everything felt so mechanical and robotic, watching the people walk and talk, I felt like I was not apart of the world, but that I was watching it... great stuff. |
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The Wrinkler
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The Wrinkler
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I'm so with you on the whole messy drumming! Being a drummer myself I too enjoy that these drummers mistakes are seen, but in a very good way. It wasn't bad, but there was so much going on, it felt like part of the music anyways. My favorite drummer is Klaus Dinger. I just love his motorik style, very simple, but precise. It's hard to play the way he does, but when I listen to him play, I know what he is doing. |
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Guldbamsen
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Big Neu! fan myself. Probably one of the most "natural" sounding of the early Krautrock bands. It´s so simple it hurts. Some very famous musicians have proclaimed their love for Neu! - and I think it´s down to that vibe. People either hate it and call it too simplistic: My daughter and our gardener could have done that out back in the shed! - or they stop dead in their tracks thinking how is it even possible to make music so intricate, and yet so simple? Because there´s about a thousand things happening beneath the motoriks, that you don´t get if you´re not really paying attention. The nature sounds incorporated in the music fx is also playing along to the actual notes, and that was very hard to do back then. No computers to cut and paste - smoothing things out.
John: The pink one I was referring to is Agitation´s second flapjack. Maybe it´s purple - you tell me Edited by Guldbamsen - September 10 2011 at 11:16 |
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Guldbamsen
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Alright, I´ve been digging around for some live Krautrock for you guys. This is what I found! I´m really loving that first Popol Vuh track! It´s very hazy and psychedelic though, and very hard to see what the guys are doing on stage. Too much of the psychedelics!! I can´t believe I just said that
and if you ask me, this Tangerine Dream track is a wonderful piece of Kraut as well. Although it says Ricochet, it is in fact Fly and Collision of Comas Sola from Alpha Centauri played live: Some Guru Guru for you: I can´t stop listening to this: And Wrinkler here´s some more ambient stuff for you, and although Schulze was and is a front figure in electronic music, he was just as important to the Krautrock scene: |
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jean-marie
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Did you listen to last Klaus cd and dvd Big in Japan? try it
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The Wrinkler
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Haha thanks for the Klaus Schulze video . Watching Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze in action makes you really appreciate their electronic work a lot more. I'm really liking Popol Vuh, and getting into Hosianna Mantra. It's so peaceful, and I love the guitar work. I've always wondered what the lyrics are for Oxymoron.
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Mellotron Storm
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Ah that was just me yanking your chain. Yeah it's pink and purple.Hey by the way you must really like "At The Cliffs Of The River Rhine" AGITATION FREE's posthumous live release. All but the opening track are from "Second" and that one is previously unreleased. To my ears this is better than the studio tracks but hey that's just me.I love these guys live though.Can just imagine tripping back to 1974 and being in the audience for that.When is that time machine going to be built !?
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Guldbamsen
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Jean-Marie: I haven´t got that Schulze one, but I´ve seen you posting it in the "listening" thread - and have felt mighty jealous of you - Michael Rother / guitar, electric percussion, piano & organWrinkler: You´re not supposed to get any of the words in Krautrock - just so you know. For that you have to turn to Bowie´s Berliner trilogy John: Am I getting you right here? You´ve been yanking my chain and now it´s pink and purple? I did feel quite soar here the other night, I thought I´d just scraped up against something... I only have those two studio records from Agitation Free, but would love to get a hold of Last and the River Rhine one! I have a live recording of Harmonia from 1974 which features: - Hans-Joachim-Roedeius / electronic organ & piano - Dieter Moebius / synthesizer & electronic percussion So basically Cluster with half of Neu!
Let´s just call this one Krautrock with an electronic rhythm device such as you´d hear on the Journey album by Arthur Brown´s Kingdom Come from the year before. It sounds like one of those old organs that had these giant coloured switches you could press down, and out came a snuffling fake disco/lambada/salsa/merengue/flaminco/jazz/foxtrot beat, that sounds just as dated as Humphrey Bogart´s accent would - applied to Sarah Palin. But it somehow works |
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Mellotron Storm
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Hey if "it" is sore i'm pretty sure it was self inflicted.You can't be doing that ALL the time Guld,you just can't. Hey on a related topic i mentioned you on the ULTIME ATONE review i just did. |
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Guldbamsen
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^I caught that you crazy b*****d!
Now, you would have no way of knowing this, but I actually have a pink t-shirt - make that 3 - and I´ve got some purple stuff as well. As a matter of fact pretty much 80% of my clothes all came from people/friends who bought something colorful, and then hated it. Damn what to do with this limegreen thong hhhhhmmmmm? Oh right we´ll give it to Bamsen (short for my nickname) - he´ll be pleased!! And you know what? I actually am Today I´m wearing some curry yellow jeans, red t-shirt with blue and yellow patterns, red shoes, green belt and my beloved Elvis sunglasses in gold, when I go outside in the sun. That thing is white and too bright today. Oh and I do take the occasional break don´t worry, sometimes you just gotta leave yourself alone - fake a migraine or something, to get back in shape - up and running.
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Guldbamsen
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Damn - I almost forgot!
Here the other day I found a record called Sitar & Electronics by Okko Bekker in my big moving box of psychedelic music from the 60s. It´s from the start of the 70s, but just the cover screams 68 to me I saw a review on PA of it, and I instantly knew I had it lying around somewhere. Anyway, it´s actually A. R. & Machines playing with this Okko Bekker type fellow! I mean, this essentially is Krautrock just done with a sitar This is awesome, because it feels like I´ve just received a whole new album, in a month where things were looking a bit slow musicwise. I guess it must be around 8 or 10 years ago since I last heard this album And please check out this fantastic version of The Beatles´ A day in the Life: One more: |
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On the DVD Das Rheingold, on one of the specials, you can see Klaus listening to his music with one of the engineers ... and what are Klaus' hands doing? ... DRUMMING!
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Mellotron Storm
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Okay dressed like that are you sure you weren't in that parade that a lot of proud people walk in. I'm just kidding Bamsen, in fact the way i dress is so freaking boring with my black,brown and blue colours.Oh yeah i'm a Canadian,nevermind.Although i do have some black Addidas Climacool shoes with orange soles that are very flashy. Still feasting on Agitation Free with the Fragments album tonight then i'm moving on.
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Guldbamsen
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^I´m pretty jealous of those live Agitation Free albums you got.
Since you´re moving on - then jump on my train - I´m listening a lot to the first 2 Exmagma albums. WUHUUU they are all over the place in a wonderful jazz/kraut/acid-bath way. Brilliant under the radar band! I´m putting Goldball on And John you should start wearing some old school 70s rock shirts with an explosion of colors burstin´ out from the seems. Wear your music on your sleeves
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Mellotron Storm
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I agree with you on those first two EXMAGMA albums.Very jazzy but with that Krautrock flavour.I keep them in my Krautrock section even if they are under Jazz/Fusion here. I AM wearing my music on my sleeves.I wear dark clothes 'cause i'm into melancholic bands like Anekdoten,Univers Zero(i have the "Heresie" t-shirt) and on and on. By the way i've been trading e-mails with the lead guitarist for OUT OF FOCUS.He messaged me about the KONTRAST review i did,a band that he and a couple of other former OUT OF FOCUS members were part of in the eighties.A cool guy named Remigius. He thanked me for the roses which i'm thinking was his way of saying thanks for all the great reviews and positive comments.Other-wise i should tell him those roses weren't from me.Honest they weren't.
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Guldbamsen
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I basically have 4 sections of music "categories" if you like, and I keep my Exmagma records in my Krautrock domain as well - just like I do with my Kraan, Embryo, 5 first TD records (including Ricichet), 4 first Kraftwerk albums(now that you remembered me of Tone Float), Danish band PAPIR(only available as downloads, but I received both for free, because I helped them with some writing - describing how the music felt and sounded like to various producers and whatnot - and they got a record deal now btw. I think you´d like it John - very much in the spirit of what was happening in Germany in the start of the 70s - freak out, jam and set the controls for the heart of the sun - if you know what I mean), Bobby Beausoleil´s Lucifer Rising, Out of Focus hehe and some other stuff Rose means the same in Danish as it does in German, which is to praise(it also means what you think ie the whole wooing thing with the roses). It´s a laudatory expression, that he probably just translated directly into English. On the other hand, you just might be one of those sleepwalkers that lead alternate lives at night - doing some crazy sh*t like sending flowers and serenading your favorite artists. What´s that dear? God Damn! It´s that crazy guy again singing old Eloy songs beneath the balcony |
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Mellotron Storm
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Hey Bamsen i just noticed they've added a new Agitiation Free album to the site called "Live In Tokyo".A posthumous release and there are some songs on it from Malesch which the other live albums have precious little of.
Oh okay the roses thing makes sense now,he did say his English wasn't the best so there you go. Yup i've got my Kraan,early Kraftwerk,Embryo all in the Krautrock section like you do.This is about great minds thinking alike and all of that stuff. PAPIR sounds interesting and now that they've got a record deal hopefully i can hear something from them in the future.Thanks for the heads up about them.
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