10 Krautrock tracks

These are tracks that I have tried to include generally on the shorter side off various albums I like.

Here is a playlist for familiarising oneself with any of this. Feel free to vote on what you know, based on 3O seconds listening to each track.... I would expect that Can to get the most votes, but it's not a contest.



NEU! "Isi" (NEU! '75, 1975)
Brainticket "Feel the Wind Blow" (Psychonaut, 1972)
Cluster "Hollywood" (Zuckerzeit, 1974)
Agitation Free "Malesch" (Malesch, 1972)
Amon Düül II "Kanaan" (Phallus Dei, 1969)
A.R. & Machines "Globus" (Die grüne Reise, 1971)
Can "Vitamin C" (Ege Bamyası, 1972)
Faust "Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux" (Faust IV, 1973)
Brave New World "Lenina" (Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley, 1972)
La Düsseldorf "Silver Cloud" (La Düsseldorf, 1976)

Agitation Free without hesitation.

La Düsseldorf

Can - Vitamin C 

Vitamin C. While practicing to be a toaster, I suddenly became a pillowcase. 

After I said that I expected can to get the most votes, I then realised, well, that Agitation Free is popular and superb. By the way, Agitation Free's Malesch is the first Krautrock album I fell for. An album I very often mention in polls that I decided not to list any thing off this time is Dom's Edge of Time. That and Brave New World's ("The End" is fantastic!) probably are my most listened to Krautrock albums in my collection. I wanted it to be a bit different from some of my usual suspects. Glad to see various appreciators here. I love Krautrock, it is one of my very favourite categories in PA and Krautock has bee na huge influence one many of my favourite bands from the 80s up (the influence of Can, Neu!, Harmonia, Cluster etc. on a lot of Art Pop, Indie, Experimenal Rock and Neo-Psych bands, as well as on Post-Punk, Gothicy ones etc.)

Edited by Logan - December 01 2023 at 12:52

Vitamin C 

Kanaan today.

gentle bump