KRAUTROCK Listening Klub! - New Albums Every Wednesday

I read with much surprise that Stylus review suggesting that side 2 of La Dusseldorf is its crowning glory. I mean, wtf?

Will have to give Individuellos more of a listen. I remember liking it quite a bit when I first picked it up, but if I'm feeling Dusseldorfy I'll go for the first, and my mates only ever play Viva, so it gets neglected.

Viva forever

but this can only be settled by emil.y doing a poll

guess i better listen to that Brainticket album then, i've nearly bought it twice (once from Loz of VTB!) but somehow i've managed to avoid listening to the damn thing. until now, dun dun DUN!

I am a bit shy of starting polls. Maybe after this has run its course we can poll all the albums and decide a winner (I'm guessing this thread has a limited lifespan - there aren't THAT many krautrock albums. It's not even that late on and we're already cheating a bit).

Also, man, how have you failed to hear Brainticket? It is AWESOME.

but someone will pick all 367675066 stereolab albums before it ends

But, I must warn you, a) after listening to this record your friends won't know you any more, and b) don't listen more than once a day - your mind could be destroyed!

(Genuine words of warning from the record sleeve, there.)

xpost to zappi

im just worried someone might post albums by scorpions or frumpy or hairy chapter

Inga Rumpf was in a band with Dagmar Krause at one point, so can't be all that bad. I'm sure there's at least one Frumpy track that's good (though I remember them being more bluesy-soul, is that right?)

i cant really remember, i didn't get through the whole thing and we're talking back in the days of napster here where it took a long time to get an album yet i still couldnt play it through.

this was the one i heard
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hzfexqu5ld0e

cant see the hairy chapter album i heard. tom d probably owned them all.

hi krautrockers, i would do a week if anyone is still inerrested. thinkin' progressive german folk-rock/psych stuff, which ya'll don't seem to discuss too much.. Kalacakra record is great, so are some Witthuser & Westrupp moments. Def worth listening to imo.

been enjoying reading along with this thread too.

Yeah, that review sounds pretty close to what I remember - not normally my sort of thing, but the guy who played it to me is one of those crate diggers who will find the gems if they are there to be found. Whereas I usually just go 'meh' and tune out.

xpost re: Frumpy

thinkin' progressive german folk-rock/psych stuff, which ya'll don't seem to discuss too much..

Not a bad idea if we're going to extend this thing out a bit. I thought about Emtidi for my week, but wasn't sure if it was close enough to the remit.

W&W always seem to be counted as 'canon krautrock', though, which I am dubious about, but will save those comments.

Witthuser & Westrupp

yeah that stuff is good. some great youtube footage abound

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