KRAUTROCK Listening Klub! - New Albums Every Wednesday

7/07 - Matt #2
14/07 - Alan N
21/07 - pfunkboy

Ian you can take my week and I'll do the week after. Emil.y or anyone want another shot?

I won't book in yet but I might do another one at some point.

Was possibly this one http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/150 I probably read this.

tbh I totally would post Hairy Chapter's "Can't Get Through" if I had a week.
Reality has gotta DIE

then take a week. Maybe I'll like hairy chapter and frumpy now even if i hated it some years ago. Wont be the first.

I was considering picking the first Scorpions album "Lonesome Crow", it's the nearest they ever got to Krautrock but in reality it's more post-Hendrix psychy hard rock.

Inga Rumpf was in a band with Dagmar Krause at one point

And here's the proof...

http://www.citypreachers.de/images/1970.jpg

That Klaus D. Mueller guy is famous Krautrock troll. Germans I met, before Krautrock got hip, were generally dismissive of what they considered to be a load of old hairy hippy music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J87aCyjxavQ

any chance i could snag a week too? there will be no stereolab or scorpions, honest

sure i'll bump you up ahead of myself again

7/07 - Matt #2
14/07 - Alan N
21/07 - Ian
28/07 psychgawsple
04/08 pfunkboy

Anyone else want to book in? (just dont forget when it's your turn.)

sweet! tho i must say i totally would have chosen that conrad schniz album if it wasn't already a 'bonus' (that deuter is also a p good record)

Do we get a 2nd bite of the cherry too?

of course. book away

11th August suit you?

Any time, let others who haven't had a go yet go first

i dont think anyones left who hasnt had a shot that wants one
7/07 - Matt #2
14/07 - Alan N
21/07 - Ian
28/07 - psychgawsple
04/08 - pfunkboy
11/08 - Tom D

i'll have a go, sirrah

11/08 or 18/08 ?

either are fine by me

so i've been poking around for stuff on mutant sounds and other kraut-y blogs, and stumbled across some comments that basically insinuated that a bunch of stuff 'rereleased' on pyramid in the '90s, including that golem record, were actually recorded in the '90s and that it was all some type of hoax where people wanted to cash-in on the rare-krautrock-reissue madness. or something. anyways, feel free to dispel the rumors in these comments if you know them not to be true... http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/12/ultimate-spinach-mind-flowers.html

... heard those rumours before, and avoided all that stuff for that reason

I had not heard that, and unfortunate if true (which it may very well be). http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.krautrock-world.com%2FForum%2FmyBB%2Fshowthread.php%3Ftid%3D2594

I suppose if its a good album it doesn't matter?

^ exactly. a very well-executed hoax! the story almost makes me appreciate it more tbh

Yeah, I somehow don't really mind. It is interesting.

Verdammte Englanders!

I think the Golem album is quite good regardless - as is the similarly-impugned album by the band "Pyramid" - but I will admit to thinking it more impressive if it is in fact 20 years older. No big deal.

Is there room for me to take a shot at another week? End of the line is fine by me.

Sure, anytime.
7/07 - Matt #2
14/07 - Alan N
21/07 - Ian
28/07 - psychgawsple
04/08 - pfunkboy
11/08 - Tom D
18/08 - von kelson

Matt #2 if you're around you can post now if you like.

Not seen him post in a while actually. Not in here anyway.

Yeah sorry for being quiet, gimme a minute even though it's 2.45 am here

OK, sorry for the lack of download links, if someone wants to help me out with that feel free as I am a luddite.

KLAUS SCHULZE – Cyborg
http://www.insideoutshop.de/images/Cyborg72dpi.jpg
Schulze's second album was a double one, consisting of four 25-minute long pieces of dark, sinister and spacey progressive electronics. You got to be quite a hardcore fan of this kind of progressive music to manage to listen through this monster in a row, but it would be ultimately rewarding if you are. The first track "Synphära" is a gloomy and sinister composition that sounds quite a bit Wagner-ish, and it's no big secret that Wagner is one of Schulze's favourite composers. "Conphära" is based on a flowing carpet of electronic sound with improvisations by a mellotron-sounding orchestra on top of it. "Chromengel" is a beautiful track with spacey electronic sounds built around a floating and warm organ. "Neuronengesang" is probably the spaceiest track on the record, with lots of primitive spacey electronic sounds that surrounds the orchestral improvisations. "Cyborg" is a monumental slice of early German progressive electronic music in its heaviest form.

ORGANISATION – Tone Float
http://www.poecker.homepage.t-online.de/02/2bocdorg.jpg
PERSONNEL:
Ralf Hütter – Hammond organ.
Florian Schneider-Esleben – electric flute, alto flute, bell, triangle, tambourine, electro-violin, percussion
Basil Hammoudi – glockenspiel, conga gong, musical box, bongos, percussion, voice
Butch Hauf – bass guitar, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer, percussion
Alfred Mönicks – drums, bongos, maracas, cowbell, tambourine, percussion
Konrad "Conny" Plank – sound engineering
Tone Float is an LP by the German band Organisation. Organisation was a pre-Kraftwerk band, having only produced and released one album, Tone Float. After the release, members of the group went on to form Kraftwerk.

The album has not been officially reissued on compact disc.

The album sold few copies on its UK-only release in August 1970, and is remembered because two of the band members, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, later went on to form the group Kraftwerk. It was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank."
The studio was in the middle of an oil refinery. When we came out of the door we could hear the sound of those big flames burning off the fumes – all kinds of industrial noises." —Ralf Hütter
Sales were poor and RCA opted to drop the band, which then dissolved.

ANIMA-SOUND – Musik Für Alle
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-130347-1124346456.jpg
Paul and Limpe Fuchs music, better known as Anima, represents the most original and obscure event among German Kraut Rock. Here they play a wonderful and very inspired duet on Paul Fuch's self-built instruments with the pot-production collaboration of Will Neubauer's Echolette Ringmodulater. Privately issued on LP record in 1972 for the artists' own label Altepfarhof, these two 17 minute long improvisations titled 'n da da uum da' and 'traktor go go go' can surely be considered as one of the best psychedelic experiences ever created.

“In the summer of 1971 the authors of this record parked their wooden stage caravan, hauled by a Hanomag tractor, in front of Willy Neubauer's recording studio in Dusseldorf. They had been travelling for 6 months at a speed of 20 km/h through the country, chugging and building up their stage. After touring, they spent three isolated days in the studio and let Willy and his newly discovered electronics add wings to their minds.”

Would appreciate links for that Anima-Sound album!

hmmm my bookmark didnt work.

here is the Klaus Schulze spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/0TH15JSqX9JMYlyTPxhCRp

here is ANIMA-SOUND – Musik Für Alle
http://open.spotify.com/album/7JmMtuSvCx4WKRQvdCHLPb

Non Spotify links at all?

What I do is just upload the albums to Megaupload - which is easy and free

well i dont have them. plus its up to the person picking the albums to do that if they so wish. I think many would rather however give legal links to avoid the wrath of stet. But if i do see links of said stuff others uploaded then i dont mind posting links to the blog (until stet or someone says not to,i would think oop or rare stuff might be ok)

Suppose if you can find it on Spotify it isn't rare, but surprised you found Anima-Sound on there

2010 release it says. Spotify is good with reissues.

Also it's bloody bizarre

And i mean bizarre. Tom, I think you might dig it.

I've heard one of their albums before, but I think I'd prefer this one, the other album was too much like music

lol

Alan N is up next
14/07 - Alan N
21/07 - Ian
28/07 - psychgawsple
04/08 - pfunkboy
11/08 - Tom D
18/08 - von kelson

so, ignoring my request for a turn???

no, i guess I forgot to add you. Would you like to take my turn or go on the 25th August?

25th would be fine.

apologies - I'll post my picks later this afternoon. (particularly busy at work.)

ok - got a minute.

running theme will be underrated albums from some of the big players.

here goes!

harmonia - live 1974 (1974, 2007)
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p246/tapehiss/61HleCYfNtL_SS500_.jpg

killer live set comparable in quality to the two studio albums - which is saying something!

they're working in long-form mode on here and it is wonderful. the tracks streeeeeeetch into infinity. love this stuff.

ashra - blackouts (1977)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LrzVEXjp5mA/S6P7uqOI7tI/AAAAAAAADTM/30eN16zkwN8/s400/image.bmp

I believe this is all manuel göttsching's doing, which would make sense since it was later reissued under his name.

as you might expect from ashra/solo göttsching, you're in store for a slab of mellow electronics with clean soloing on top. but this is a particularly great example of the style. I probably listen to this more than anything else in the ash ra tempel/ashra/göttsching family.

quality youtube comment for standout track 'midnight on mars':

Good hypnotic sound to escape from the shit of society - For awile anyway.

amon düül II - wolf city (1972)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000O78BEQ.jpg

ok, this is no yeti but a solid album nonetheless. epic psych rock. you know the drill.

Live 1974 and Wolf City are both incredibly good.