The Krautrock Space

I'm glad someone else feels that way Bamsen,i really dig that album a whole lot.It's like POPOL VUH and GILA had a kid and  named it...nevermind the subject matter is too seroius on that album to joke about.Great record though. Listening to AKASHA right now,an obscure band from Norway with lots of mellotron and psychedelics.Sounds like it's from the late sixties really even though it's much later.Not Krautrock but the spirit of it is in this.

Yesterday I had a great and pretty absurd experience. I was in the voting booth with LA Düsseldorf banging away in my ears... I put down my mark, but right there and then, it was a the very end of the track where everything really sets off - I got hooked - and apparently I must have been standing there for a while - intoxicated by the beat, before a nice elderly lady suddenly peaked through the curtains and very kindly asked me if I had decided yet

I guess Düsseldorf  has some of that Neu! motorik feel to it, but there´s a slightly more rocking and pre-punk vibe to it as well. Great album, and Wrinkler if you read this at some point - yes it is just as good as you think it is and basically the continuation of Neu!.

About PAPIR - I´ll call Christian who takes care of the bass work and keys and hear how far they are in the process concerning an actual tangible release.

Do you have the new Vespero John? I swear - that thing is some of the best psych music I have heard in a very long time. I´ve subsequently listened to their first two albums on Youtube, and personally I think the new one is more focused and ethereal - sort of sounds like a chilled out Ozric Tentacles with a madman behind the drums. He does wondrous things behind that kit and truly breaks up the music in a very original way, and what kind of sounds like those wailing notes Gilmour does when he plays with the volume button on his guitar is an aspect that sort of seeps into the guitars and synths. Sometimes it gets very rumbling and jazzy thanks to the drums, but that dreamy ethereal soundscape is still there in full force. The last 3 tracks sends me off somewhere - i don´t know where, but it sure feels great!

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.

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

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!

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.  

So basically Cluster with half of Neu!

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: