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This may be the hardest question to answer.  70s German prog is very underrated.  This country has produced the most variety of sounds I have ever heard in prog.  While most Enlish bands of the 70s were fascinated with symphonic, the Germans were trying all types of new styles. 

We have a list with Can, Nektar, Popul Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Ashra, and Triumvirat.  What country produced more varying styles than Germany in the 70s?

My vote goes not to the best but one of my all time favs, Triumvirat- Spartacus

 
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Originally posted by kniprekcor kniprekcor wrote:

where's eloy ?!

for me it's eloy's ocean .

Ya, wer ist Eloy????

Ich bin fur Eloy Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes...



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Walter Wegmuller - Tarot

I hear something new everytime I play this massive kosmische opus.

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Given these choices I would have to go with Kan Guru although my favourite Guru Guru album has to be Dance Of The Flames with incredible Persian born guitarist Houschang Nejadepour. Grobschnitt`s Solar Music Live is certainly one of the most unusual prog albums ever ( I was at the show in Manheim ).  Jane is one of my all time faves Together, III, Fire Water Earth & Air, Here We Are and Live At Home are great albums. I also should add Eiliff, Neu!, Octopus , Novalis, Pell Mell, Kin Ping Meh, Hoelderlin, Floh de Cologne, Frumpy, The first three Triumvirat albums before they made the atrocious a La Carte and Pompeii, Amon Duul up to Made In Germany, certain Eloy albums, the first three Nektar albums. Whoa! I could go on. I collected so much Krautrock after discovering it in the early seventies that I don`t even know what  German albums lurk inn the dark recesses of my album collection but these are the ones I listen to the most. I just bought ramstein`s Reise Reise although I guess it isn`t exactly prog. The video for Keine Lust made me buy it. Even if you`re not a fan of this kind of heavy music try and check out the video it`s totally hillarious.


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Amon Duul II's Tanz der lemminge takes the prize
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our collection is full of Krautrock too, some very obscure bands among them (ever heard of Limbus 4?) some albums are real crap , but Krautrock is definitely one of the wildest and most experimental genrés of prog, and of course some experiments don't work. also Rolf Ulrich Kaiser of the "Kosmische Kuriere" label is/was one of those producers who want/wanted to make a fast buck. he hyped a lot of bands that were not worth it or published material the artists did not want to be published (the albums of the Cosmic Jokers, for example, were never meant to be published; Kaiser ripped off the musicians here. in a strange way one has to thank him for that though, since at least the self-titled album and "Galactic Supermarket" of the Cosmic Jokers are real gems).

Nektar is of course not Krautrock. the musicans are British and just happen to have lived in Germany for a while. and I always wonder why "Remember the Future" is their most popular album. the recurring weak chorus (dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah "Remeeeeeeeeembeeeeeer the Fuuuuuutuuuuuure" dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah) ruins the album for me


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^^ now Nektar started to make sense...

Voted for TD (albeit my personal favorite is Cyclone, Force comes close behind), but Amon Düül II is very worthy as well... I would vote for another Can album, Future Days or Ege Bamyasi for instance...

Many missing things in the list, not to mention Eloy.

 

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Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Walter Wegmüller is added to Discography BTW. I didn't hear it, but the line-up is very promising... (Schulze must have been listed on keyboards, not drums IMHO) Every krautrock fan should check it. Wish I could find it somewhere!
Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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beware of Walter Wegmüller! he is one of the hype-cases of Krautrock and his Tarot record is, along with "Gille's Zeitschiff", probably the worst record ever that was produced by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. of course that's my personal opinion only, but it is the opinion of a Krautrock-fan.

Schulze started out as a drummer, by the way. he plays drums on Tangerine Dream's "Electronic Meditation" and also on Ash Ra Tempel's self-titled first and on "Join Inn"


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Since I saw no Grobschnitt (live Solar Music or the debut ) I went for Yatha siddra: flawless.
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Didn't find my favourites...  I don't have very deep knowlegde of this area though, but I like very much TD's "Rubycon", RUFUS ZUPHALL's "Weiss Der Teufel" and the early live recordings of ASH RA TEMPEL

Nearly forgot "Phallus Dei" by AMON DÜÜL II!



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This is outraegous! Can't believe you left Grobschnitt out of this poll...

 
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... or Faust !?!
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I voted for Tago Mago, because the Nektar album, which I think is the best of all mentioned in the list is an album from a british band. But I miss albums of Eloy and Grobschnitt.i
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Points: 1492 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2005 at 17:53

Originally posted by pedro roqueiro pedro roqueiro wrote:

But I miss albums of Eloy and Grobschnitt.i

I second that!!!

 
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:27
Good thread


A few essentials missing

Ag free/Last

Popol vuh/Das hohelied...       

Deuter/AUM
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