yeah, yeti and wolf city are the only ADII I listen to as well. given cursory listens to the rest of the early stuff but none of it ever clicked. not ruling them out but not in a rush to re-evaluate either.
love "between the eyes" tho:
the riff 1:14 into that live clip is all-time.
― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N), Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
^That is a good one.I was looking for a video for the AD2 song "Trap" from Vive Le Trance, it's a really great pop-rock song.Couldn't find one.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
tanz der lemminge is great. As is Phallus Dei, Yeti & wolf city. Not heard vive le trance for years but i seem to recall liking it
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
and i like this later period song a lot. Closest they got to a pop song
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh I play "Made In Germany" far more often than I play "Dance of the Lemmings"!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
you would!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 01:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
21/07 - Ian28/07 - psychgawsple04/08 - pfunkboy11/08 - Tom D18/08 - von kelson
what happened to this week's jams?
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 22 July 2010 03:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
and this weeks???
― nonightsweats, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
did this go the way of the reggae listening club?
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ian didn't show up, will reschedule him.I'd like to keep it going, you all up for keeping it going?
21/07 - Ian28/07 - psychgawsple04/08 - Ian11/08 - Tom D18/08 - von kelson35/08 - pfunkboy
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'd like to keep it going too. will post mine in a few...
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 29 July 2010 01:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
alright here goes... aiming for a couple albums of later period kraut electronics, maybe even some new agey/smoother stuff than most of the earlier selections but in a good way. and one is only tangentially german, but hope you guys dig these...
harald grosskopf - synthesist (1980)
(from mutant sounds)"German drummer and synthesist. Grosskopf is member of Ashra and has some kind of a cult status and he has been around for quite a while too. He has played with Agitation Free, the Cosmic Jokers, Ash Ra Tempel, Ashra and Manuel Goettsching, Klaus Schulze, Bernd Kistenmacher, among others, released several solo albums and is still actively involved in the production and playing for many artists. His albums are a must for Berlin School completist and simply a great listen.Here's his first solo recording!Absolutely stunning synth album!"
not spotify
michael shrieve - transfer station blue (1986)
can't find a good writeup on this one. it's a sort-of solo album from shrieve, who was at one point the drummer for santana (in the 70s i believe) BUT don't let that dissuade you if that doesn't exactly sound promising. klaus schulze has really a pretty amazing presence on this album, credited with 'Yamaha C.S.80, Fairlight GDS, PPG Wave 2.3 synthesizers', and the percussion is also pretty incredible. lots of people think that lindstrom stole all his moves on 'where you go i go too' from this record, and i can definitely see why. also- the album was originally brought to my attention b/c the title track was used in dj harvey's 'sarcastic disco vol. 1' mix.
leda - welcome to joyland (1979)
pretty amazing and often overlooked album from peter baumann, a former member of tangerine dream. recorded under a psuedonym in the late 70s, i also am having some difficulty finding any good writeups on this one but trust me! it is excellent.
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 29 July 2010 02:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorry for the delay, esp for all the europeans on a much different time zone than me
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 29 July 2010 02:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
These all look really interesting. A friend of mine was getting rid of a copy of Synthesist I think. I thought it looked cool. The Ashra connection is enough to encourage me to ask if he's still got it.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Synthesist is a really good album. Great pick
― van smack, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
ahhh! i knew i forgot something!! fml. i'll remember this time. i'm setting a reminder on my retarded computer calendar.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh and just a warning, the leda one is pretty much italo disco. so if that's not really your thing, be prepared. if it is, you will definitely be rewarded
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Love that creepy cover for the Leda album, and German italodisco sounds great!
― Neil S, Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Okay, I'm not much into the new agey side of kraut, but this sounds like an amazing idea. Will definitely try to listen to this one.
― emil.y, Thursday, 29 July 2010 10:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I recognise that creepy Leda cover. In fact I seem to think I recognise all of these albums from bargain bins of yore, and yet I've never heard any of them. Harald = much better drummer than Klaus Schulze!
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 July 2010 10:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
ive only heard of the harald one
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm going for a more dance-oriented approach to the digging this week, but i definitely love the more proggy/psychedelic side of things that has already been explored on this thread so i hope i'm not harshing anyone's mellow. i'd totally understand if some of you hated the last two, but it's a side of kraut i've been exploring more frequently lately and thought it'd at least add a little diversity.
also totally would have posted that conrad schnitzler if someone hadn't already beat me to the punch
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 30 July 2010 05:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really like transfer station blue. it was an interesting divergence for shrieve. for those santana haters out there - try 'caravanserai': easily their best album - latin but jazzy; no hits; just great playing.
― nonightsweats, Saturday, 31 July 2010 06:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like that Shrieve record too, thanks for introducing it to me, and no problem on the electronic bent to your selections, I'm all for it!
― Neil S, Saturday, 31 July 2010 09:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Harald Grosskopf album is really good - enough to have his old bosses, Gottsching and Schulze looking over their shoulders I would have thought - dude should have made more albums (maybe he did?)
Liked the 1st side of the Michael Shrieve album but lost interest when the guitars came in.
I confess i don't really know what Italo Disco is (I know, what am I doing on ILM?) Leda album sounds to me like an attempt to make a pop album - and better than Peter Baumann's own efforts at making a pop album!
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Monday, 2 August 2010 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hello Krautrock listening club!This week I have a few minor suggestions for you all even though you might dislike them severely because you're not into fairies and wizards and whatever.
1. Witthuser & Westrupp: Trips Und Traumeblogged: http://spoiledmetropolis.blogspot.com/2007/06/witthuser-westrup-trips-und-traume-1971.html
I think this to be a strangely affecting listen, given that things in 'other' languages don't usually resonate with me emotionally, but a few of the songs here do. Really beautiful stuff, IMO, and a kinda goof track about smoking doobies too.
Will post two more albums as workday allows.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
11/08 - Tom D18/08 - von kelson
Anyone for afters? I cant take a turn for a couple of weeks due to metal poll.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 18:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Surprised to find that there's stuff in my collection that hasn't been posted yet, so I'll gladly take a turn.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 18:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
11/08 - Tom D18/08 - von kelson25/08
anyone else? Happy to keep club going as long as there is interest.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 18:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can't do 25/8 but will be happy for the week after that
― nonightsweats, Thursday, 5 August 2010 05:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Record #2:http://sharebee.com/d7d736fbKalacakra's "Crawling To Lhasa" is a much darker psych folk affair with more obvious eastern influence. The incomprehensible, mumbled and slurred vocals are a nice touch.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
from 72.
i love that kalacakra album, as well as fairies and wizards and whatever
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 6 August 2010 04:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've heard a lot about Kalacakra, but never heard it before so look forward to listening this.
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
&
CAN
― rideontime (mentalist), Saturday, 7 August 2010 14:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
What's with the last two tracks on the Kalacakra album? They are obv. not from 1972!
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 August 2010 13:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bonus tracks dude.
― let's build a spliff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 9 August 2010 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Indeed, but have they got anything to do with Kalacakra? They sound like they're from the 90s.
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Monday, 9 August 2010 10:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
flutes certainly were an important instrument for these hippie bands, weren't they?
― nonightsweats, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 22:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Unfortunately, IMO. Quite easy to get a tune out of a flute - not easy to play well of course.
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
1. CAN - Soon Over Babaluma (1974)
OK, let's begin with a classic. It's where I began with Can because it was the first Can album I ever bought. Before this, I'd heard "I Want More" because my sister had the single (it was a hit and they were on Top of the Pops) and I'm sure John Peel once played "Mother Sky", because I distinctly remember hearing a track with a one note octave bassline plonking away endlessly (or maybe I remembered it from that film "Deep End", about a guy who looked like David Bowie and lived in a swimming pool (in the course of which Jane Asher got her tits out, but I digress)). This was long before the internet, kiddywinks. Anyway I don't know what I was expectiing but I was not expecting upside down reggae with gypsy violins and a wobbly bassline wobbling in and out of focus, or a twisted mumbly tango in cod-Italian - and that was just the first two tracks. This is the least straightforward Can album in a career not exactly renowned for being straightforward: instruments rarely sound the way they're supposed to; rhythms slither inside and outside or else mercilessly STOMP ON YOUR BRAIN; the rulebook on sound engineering and production is well and truly ripped up (not always a good thing - "Splash" would be so much better if the rhythm section was produced the way the rhythm section used to be produced on the early Can records). You haven't asked me, but I'm going to tell you anyway: the second side of this album and the title track of "Future Days" are the best things Can ever did. There I said it.
Spotted
Lesser Spotted
2. AMON DÜÜL - Paradieswärts Düül (1971)
Talking of flutes, here's the Other Amon Düül, who smoked lots of pot, had cool haircuts and made a bunch of albums that only intense young men with beards and a complete collection of Boredoms albums can appreciate - except they also made an album the rest of might be able to appreciate, "Paradieswärts Düül". This album shows that Amon Düül actually had some talent after all: they are no virtuosos of course and they struggle with boring musicianly stuff like how to end a song... but Rainer Bauer is actually a much better singer than anyone in Amon Düül II (except Renate) and, particularly with the opening track on the album, "Love is Peace" and the two sides of their single included here, they come up with an slow motion enervated sort of psychedelic folk-rock which is novel and affectting. (Yes, you read that right, some strange person or persons actually thought it would be a good idea for Amon Düül to release a single!)
Spotless
3 . EDGAR FROESE - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (1975)
I sometimes think this might be my favourite Tangerine Dream/ Tangerine Dream-related album of all. Recorded between "Phaedra" and "Rubycon" (I think it's fair to say old Edgar was on a bit of a roll at the time!), so that'll give you some idea of the contents. Mellotron fans will love this album, esp. the title track. Apparently this was a big favourite of Iggy & Bowie's during their sojourn in Berlin chasing drag queens.
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 13:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
great choices
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 13:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^^^^^Agreed.I just listened to the top two in the last five days, never heard the third! Can't wait, frankly.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're in for a treat
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 13:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
uh thank you for alerting me to the fact that can were on totp
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
u r simon reynolds and i want my thirty dollars
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
;)
Obv. Michael Karoli was too embarrassed to appear on TOTP so they got Lou Reed to do it instead
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Holger and Irmin = almost ancient enough to be Radio 1 DJs
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink