KRAUTROCK Listening Klub! - New Albums Every Wednesday

i think we can be loose on the 70s end of things

tom is digging out his early Scorpions lps as we speak. I heard he liked a bit of Frumpy and Hairy Chapter too.

Promise to avoid crap German heavy rock and crap German jazz rock - and there's a shitload of the latter

...that you own?

... a lot of it, yes, unfortunately

you hippy!

What do you have then german jazz-rock wise?

Oh, various shite

name some names!

I bet he has Scorpions albums

Hey, select portions of "Lonesome Crow" are fairly krautrockish! (Particularly the Echoplexed bits.)

Hairy Chapter's "Can't Get Through" lp is a thud-rock classic, imo.
Early Scorps certainly ain't bad, either.

I'm a bit fuzzy on the concept: What are the responsibilities involved in volunteering to do a week?

1) Pick three albums!

2) Get wasted.

Yes, except you've got it in reverse order.

1) Get wasted.

2) Pick three albums!

3) Get wasteder.

Alright, I want a week. But it couldn't really be until like the middle of June because I'm packing up my records and moving across the country...

you goin' back to cali? like LL?

Yeah. Except not nearly as cool, and I gotta figure out how to get my music out there with me.

good luck!

Thx dude! Wish I would've had more warning, would've come up to your store.

(And a few hundred others.)

ok
I'll put you down provisionally then

12/05 - fit and working again
19/05 - ilxor
26/05 - Neil S
2/06 - Tom D (provisionally)
9/06 - pfunkboy
16/06- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ

THX

Can we get a week for Geir?

geir only does prog club

Anyone else want in?

Listening to Phallus Dei, this was the first Amon Düül II I ever bought. I read about them somewhere in the mid 90s and one of my mates ran me into Glasgow to Tower Records one evening (it opened til midnight). I got this and tanz der lemmings(they didnt have yeti) and 2 Neu! cds. It still sounds bizarre now, love it. I remember finding yeti a few weeks later 2nd hand along with the other Neu! cd. Great times.

This thread/club I will most likely follow than any other one.

sidenote: the Neu! box set is now available

sidenote: the Neu! box set is now available

she be expensive

much? (didn't even know there was one)

120 euro plus post

I got an email from amazon and it said the sale price was $333

get it from gronland

http://www.neu2010-shop.com/content/produktdetail.aspx?a=11284&s=78

119 euros = to about 150 usd?

I really want that set

way too spendy for me

Shipping cost will be a real bastard too

Oh they have that 12" single!

you paying 130 euros for the single then?

I'd like to take a week if I can. I have paid stupid amounts of money for Second Battle/Garden of Delights/Brain reissues and need to turn it into some kind of worthwhile social contribution. I should be able to provide some good stuff depending on where you guys take this thread.

12/05 - fit and working again
19/05 - ilxor
26/05 - Neil S
2/06 - Tom D (provisionally)
9/06 - pfunkboy
16/06- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ
23/06 - Von Kelson

That date suit you?

I like VIVA but wish that Klaus's vocals would get more unhinged or something.
I feel like he's not making his HERO effort.

He's actually trying be understood on this album though - that boy had something to say on this album, even had a lyric sheet!

No shit?
Makes sense. I was listening to Cha Cha 2000 on my way to work and imagining utopia.

I could possibly do a week of ones that I own on record. Won't be able to join in all of them as I can't use my computer for listening.

Viva is an odd one for me, as a fair few of my friends think 'White Overalls' is the best La Dusseldorf song, so I'm always put off it slightly due to my unwavering stance that the first side of La Dusseldorf is much better. And quite possibly the best side of music ever. It's a slightly unfair attitude to take to what is an otherwise great record in its own right.

12/05 - fit and working again
19/05 - ilxor
26/05 - Neil S
2/06 - Tom D (provisionally)
9/06 - pfunkboy
16/06- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ
23/06 - Von Kelson
30/06 - emil.y

that suit you?

Always think of "Viva/White Overalls" as one song. Actually the 1st album had a lyric sheet too but don't think he was being as profound there (xxp)

Sounds good. If anything comes up that means I can't do it then I should be able to let you know with plenty of time to spare. Not entirely sure what I've got that others won't know/have already taken, though!

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Moebius studied art with Joseph Beuys, right? Then again, so did Schnitzler, but Schnitzler wasn't much into design. i think Schnitzler was really into the sculpture side of Beuys. Beuys did do some great design work, though.

Those Cluster/Harmonia/etc records are so insanely well-integrated, on a conceptual level--the song titles, the graphic design, everything.

Streetmark album is pleasant (what is a Streetmark anyway?) but given that Dorothea Raukes was responsible for the Deutsch Wertarbeit album, I think she deserves her name on the cover too! Other than the fact that it's German, can't see any reason to be interested in the Randy Pie album however. Thx for all contributions as always!

I wonder if I can "like" Randy Pie on Facebook.

Won't someone help me find other things that sound like the Earthstar and Deutsche Wertarbeit albums posted upthread? I have been listening to both of them pretty constantly since.

Michael Shrieve's "Transfer Station Blue" (referred to upthread IIRC) is full of burbling synthy goodness. More well known, but Ashra's "New Age of Earth" is also fantastic. Peter Baumann's "Leda Welcome to Joyland" is more in the proto-Italo disco vein, but is v nice, and I think was also discussed upthread.

Love Ashra, haven't heard the other two. Thanks!

Couldn't find either of these on spotify, and could only find Transfer Station Blue (and other Peter Baumann, enjoying Bicentennial Presentation) on youtube. Didn't want to download the wrong thing by accident.

I think non-spotify links are on this thread if you wind back through it.

oh ok, got it. i don't know if anything could be better than earthstar.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tengger-spiritual-2/

Had never heard of Tengger before, but this review got me listening and this is great. The opener is so up my street, it immediately won me over. Meditative mantras, soft buzzing drones and motorik beats discreetly chugging along... Recommended.