Soul Jazz has a pair of 2CD krautrock compilations. I've never really dug deep, are they a good starting point or are there better options?
Vol. 1: http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676Vol. 2: http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=31014
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
as far as comps go those are pretty good, definitely cover a lot of the high points/key tracks
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I got the first one and it's pretty good. A good balance of well known and less known stuff. Didn't know until now that htey put out a volume 2.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
The 2nd one pretty good as well! I don't know abt only 4 min of halleluwah but its good to encounter those a.r & machines tracks outside of crackly vinyl rips.
― Soft Opening, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
Those Soul Jazz comps are spectacular - a perfect gateway for me.
I don't know why but it's all just clicked for me after years of dabbling in Can and Kraftwerk. I'm ready to dig deeper. I've found a scanned copy of Copey's book and Fastnbulbous's krautrock guide is very helpful. I'm still not sold on the long flutey jams but the kosmische musik is where it's at.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
were there any good krautrock bands from Berlin?
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
Not really krautrock but Tangerine Dream were from Berlin
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Agitation Free possibly?
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
weird that the biggest city in Germany produced so little krautrock
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Well it wasn't quite so big when it was chopped in half.
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
it was still the biggest by population
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Never heard of the Berlin School (of Krautrock) (not a physical school, of course) - which was T. Dream, Klaus Schulze, Ashra? There's lots who were based there though whether they were actually from there I know not: Agitation Free. Kluster. Conrad Schnitzler. I'm sure there's more.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Ash Ra..forgot about them..
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
It's not that bad a representation, 'cos all of those artists are good, there are probably a 100 more terrible ones I can't think of right now
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
I mean, Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany, and what have they got? Faust... I'm struggling beyond that.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
And by the way, I was in Hamburg earlier this year, and none of the people I talked to there had even heard of Faust! I'm talking musicians and people who are into music.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
so which city was the krautrock capital?i had a theory for a second it was a suburban movement..
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
which music are they into?xpost
There wasn't one, there was was no movement (xp)
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
I don't know, sort of indie people I suppose. Germans (I've met) don't seem that interested in German music tbh
how old are they?
it's logical if they are young
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
current german music isn't what it used to be.
30-40 I'd say.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:01 (ten years ago) link
maybe Faust is relatively more popular abroad than in Germany.
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Lots of the well-known bands were from Dusseldorf, Cologne or Munich... Frankfurt was poorly represented though I think.
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
awesome stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LneduxXyt9I
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
I thought I'd read that you could loosely separate the genre into two camps - the Berlin School and the Dusseldorf School (with various outliers of course). Berlin = Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream; Dusseldorf = Neu!, Kraftwerk, Can, Cluster.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
Dusseldorf wind, easily
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
wins
Yes. Plus by default you can add Harmonia and La Dusseldorf to that camp. And Faust is an outlier. Where were ADII from? Popol Vuh? Probably they just complicate my simple binary distinction.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
both from munchen
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Berlin = Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream; Dusseldorf = Neu!, Kraftwerk, Can, Cluster.
Can and Cluster have got nothing to do with Dusseldorf though. Cluster started in Berlin!
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 07:56 (ten years ago) link
s.y.p.h. - "pst!"(1980) & "s.y.p.h."(1981) they're both available one one CD on the captain trip label. holger's on board for french horn , prod & edit duties. a sloppy, punky, minimalist step sideways from the CAN template. sounds like it was recorded yesterday & released on psf.both moebius / beerbohm (aggro 2 note synth/ drum ambient chocolate-monk stomps)& moebius / renziehausen (toytown keyboard presets create virtual reality senile muzak weirdness) discs also essential although by no means ROCK.
― massaman gai, Thursday, 17 October 2013 09:27 (ten years ago) link
Anyone looked into the 6CD boxes called "Krautrock: Music For Your Brain"? There are *5* of these boxes. Here's the first one: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14856
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
No one's familiar with the boxes I mentioned?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
tracklist for the first looks thrown together almost at random. can't see why one wouldn't just want to buy the original albums the songs are taken from.
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
I heard the first box - it's mostly German hard rock and early prog. Moving on to albums from Copey's list.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
This series looks quite promising! I'm in for the first couple of volumes at least.
To provide an overview of the various musical styles in which Bureau B specializes, the label launches a new compilation series entitled Kollektion. Each release in this series will be curated by a musician perfectly suited to the task. The first kick-off release will be: Kollektion 01: Sky Records, compiled by Tim Gane. The erstwhile Stereolab mastermind delves through the archives of the legendary German Krautrock label. More projects to follow: Kollektion 02: Roedelius -- Electronic Music -- Compiled by Lloyd Cole; Kollektion 03: Bureau B -- Compiled by Richard Fearless (Death In Vegas) -- Double Album; Kollektion 04: Populare Mechanik -- Compiled by Holger Hiller. About Sky Records: The record company was founded in the year 1975 and went on to become one of the few German labels to reap international acclaim. It was run by Gunter Körber, who quit his job at Metronome where he and Bruno Wendel had spent four years developing and managing the legendary Brain label. About Tim Gane: No less a figure than Tim Gane, the man behind Stereolab, has delved into the Sky Records archives for the Kollektion series. Gane has never hidden his love of Krautrock; many a Stereolab song has its foundations in the typical "motorik" beat, while his latest band, Cavern Of Anti-Matter wallows in Klaus Dinger rhythms. Experimental sounds hold no fear for him, as early noise cassette releases under his Un-Kommuniti alias testify. His selection of tracks fits the pattern seamlessly: Asmus Tietchens, Cluster, Moebius, Roedelius, Michael Rother, Riechmann, Gunter Schickert, etc. All names writ large in the avant-garde scene of German progressive music, as well as underlining Gunter Körber's audacity in offering such music a forum with his label. In the booklet, Asmus Tietchens, who released four albums on Sky Records, looks back on collaborating with Gunter Körber.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 5 September 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Currently reading David Stubbs's Future Days, a great read.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 5 September 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of Bureau B and Sky Records, their upcoming reissue of Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist is very welcome.
― doug watson, Friday, 5 September 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0TUyukpnY
― clouds, Saturday, 6 September 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
There's a new collab between Harald Grosskopf (Ashra, Klaus Schulze, a billion other bands) and sometime Kraftwerk/Neu! associate Eberhard Kranemann out now on Bureau B - the album is called Krautwerk and it seems they're touring under that name too.
Thought I'd post here as I thought I remembered reading a lot of praise for Grosskopf's "Synthesist" on ILX though I can't find where. Anyway the album isn't grabbing me that much yet but it has its moments.
They've done a few shows together already, has anyone seen them? Any good? They are playing here in Oxford on Tuesday and I would normally automatically go but the timing is inconvenient, the venue's not great, etc...
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 1 October 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
...apparently tonight's Grosskopf/Kranemann/Krautwerk gig is cancelled, btw, so I hope nobody had decided to go to it after reading my post there.
Not sure why or when it was cancelled or if it will be rescheduled. It's listed as cancelled on the Facebook event and 3 different ticket sites but there's no mention of the gig at all on the promoter's Facebook or Twitter, which is kind of weird imo. Hope everyone involved is OK.
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
There was a gig in Brighton which was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
geez that's a lame reason to cancel a show
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
brighton show was booked at quite a sizeable/expensive venue iirc?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
Soul Jazz just announced Deutsche Elektronische Musik Vol. 3 and I'm frickin' stoked!
Klauss Weiss – Wide Open Space MotionA.R. & Machines – I'll Be Your Singer, You'll Be My SongDeutsche Wertarbeit – Deutscher WaldDzyan – KhaliMissus Beastly – GeishaAlex – DeruléAgitation Free – In The Silence Of the Morning SunriseGeorg Deuter – PearlsMichael Bundt – The Brain Of Oskar PanizzaPopol Vuh – Ja, Deine Liebe Ist Sußer Als WeinNovalis – DronszBröselmaschine – SchmetterlingNeu! – NeuschneeBetween – And The Waters OpenedLa Düsseldorf – White OverallsKlauss Weiss – ConstellationAchim Reichel – Tanz Der Vögel In Den WindenRoedelius – LustwandelPyrolator – Die Haut Der FrauCluster – HollywoodStreetmark – PassageNiagara – Rhythm GoMichael Bundt – Neon
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 6 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
can’t wait for some alt-right dipshit to discover ‘white overalls’ and turn white supremacists onto krautock
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
A nicely diverse playlist. Guess they really must like that Klaus Weiss album?
― doug watson, Monday, 6 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I think this is the best Deutsche Elektronische Musik yet
― paolo, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link