Are there any good books on krautrock?

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oh, i totally forgot to do this last night. sorry guys!
i haven't read cosmic egg either, but i wanna. there was some book abt. obscure european prog at the store the other week. it was by some norwegian (or finnish? i don't remember) scholar type. crazzzzy. but he didn't cover germany at all. what an interesting choice. hmmm.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 February 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

>i haven't read cosmic egg either, but i wanna.

I posted the link to the edited online version upthread

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 9 February 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

damn my lazy eyes.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 February 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

PDF of Krautrock sampler again (via DJ Martian)

http://postpunkjunk.com/?p=191

― just say no to individuality (fandango), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

'Tanz der Lemminge' by Ingeborg Schober is in German (sorry) but a really good book on Amon Duul II

amazon germany marketplace has some cheap copies:

http://www.amazon.de/Tanz-Lemminge-Ingeborg-Schober/dp/3499172607/sr=8-5/qid=1157839882/ref=sr_1_5/028-9697451-0940525?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

― thomas (thomas), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

check for old backissues of WIRE. they have several great interviews with all manner of Kraut legends.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

This looks interesting, has anyone read it?
https://www.amazon.com/Krautrock-German-Music-Seventies-Tracking/dp/0472053191/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510303181&sr=8-1&keywords=ulrich+adelt

― willem, Friday, 10 November 2017 08:40 (six years ago) link

Haven't read it but it got a bad review in The Wire a few months back ("astonishingly lax...unconvincing and obsolete"). Personally I wouldn't bother with it, David Stubbs' book is definitive.

― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:57 (six years ago) link

Stubbs book is really good yeah, it only really loses focus with the 80s chapters and maybe the Kraftwerk one, but he managed to get access to most of the major figures (in some cases just in time).

― Matt DC, Friday, 10 November 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link

shd note i think that the stubbs book owes a *lot* to geeta dayal's pioneeriing work

― mark s, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link

It does? How so? Just curious.

― Position Position, Friday, 10 November 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link

geeta is the best

― crüt, Friday, 10 November 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link

Thanks anagram. Will look for that review in the Wire, and then probably get Stubbs' book.

― willem, Friday, 10 November 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link

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