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Bowie was mentioned, so was Eno. There seemed to be a bummed out feeling when the Krautrockers talked about not being involved in the recording of Heroes.
Again, dislike the way that Bowie was used to almost validate Krautrock.
Interesting notion that Germans needed to get away from Anglo-UK notions of rock when you could position some of them in the acid rock/prog vein, but with a more thought-out approach to electronics; the idea that these musicians wanted to escape from Germany wasn't completely unpacked, either - Kraftwerk and Neu! did use the movement and notion of the Autobahn in their music.
The UK musicians had no problems in borrowing form the blues, nor did Japanese musicians working at the time.
All that aside there were so many groups to get through in a small chunk of time that there was no space for UK bands to say how 'influenced' they were. Totally accidental, but it worked out well.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 October 2009 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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