Navigating through Krautrock

Remember when we were 15 and still cared what was cool?

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WORLDS ATOMISE!
OCEANS BOIL INTO INFINITY!!
MAN ERECTS HIMSELF!!
LAUGHS INTO THE GLIMMERING LIGHTS!!!
AND....DISSAPPEARS!!!

(music kicks off, sounding like pink floyd on military-grade steroid drugs)

I mean it's fuckign great really, but you know, the thought of someone buying it b/c they're looking for krautrock like prml scrm, what could be more classic?

Wallenstein suck, but are bizarrely great on that cosmic jokers album they're on.

That sergius golowin album is INFURIATING. SHUT THE FUCK UP PLEASE SERGIUS, though I guess tim leary on that ash ra album is worse.

zweistein... so shit.

and those "unknown deutschland" comps and psi-fi label 'reissues' were allegedly the work of a 'different' genesis p'orridge. heh. some of those were actually alright in a basement synth noodling sorta way.

I don't even trust my judgement

I googled, but couldn't find anything.

Wow, somebody else has heard Zweistein. It is shit, yes. The copy we had @ the record shop sold for a huge amount of money, nevertheless. If it were only a little better known, no doubt it would be legendary, & have a similar rep to metal machine music and the godz (ahem)

Try Amon Duul 2's "Yeti" and Popol Vuh's "Das Hoheleid Salomos", perhaps Nath?

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Remember when we were 15 and still cared what was cool?

dudes, krautrock and hawkwind both OBV rule. i just wanted to stir up some controversy.

as for navigating, ive really been enjoying the more garage-y mooney can stuff lately. the combination of raw and psychedelic and hypnotic is exactly what the doctor ordered for me. that, i suppose, is also why ive been listening to so much hawkwind lately.

1st 5 can
All 3 Neu

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head, Nath.

Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Kraftwerk - Ralf and Florian/ Autobahn/ Radioactivity (plus everything else)

that i do not know, but D is fucking good.

Faust - s/t/ Faust Tapes/ Faust IV

Didn't mention later Kraftwerk because I assumed everyone has/likes them and aren't really considered 'krautrock'.

-- Tripmaker (tripmaker...), August 12th, 2005.

I think so, too, and wish someone would release the whole Johannes Vester solo album.

T Dream got way, way worse than amon duul ever did. The worst AD acheived was utter mediocrity, TD, early eighties onwards, are actually offensive to listen to. Also, not AD equivalent of the "dream mixes". I don't think you can go far wrong w/any /70's TD, though.

Soul Jazz just announced Deutsche Elektronische Musik Vol. 3 and I'm frickin' stoked!

Klauss Weiss – Wide Open Space Motion
A.R. & Machines – I'll Be Your Singer, You'll Be My Song
Deutsche Wertarbeit – Deutscher Wald
Dzyan – Khali
Missus Beastly – Geisha
Alex – Derulé
Agitation Free – In The Silence Of the Morning Sunrise
Georg Deuter – Pearls
Michael Bundt – The Brain Of Oskar Panizza
Popol Vuh – Ja, Deine Liebe Ist Sußer Als Wein
Novalis – Dronsz
Bröselmaschine – Schmetterling
Neu! – Neuschnee
Between – And The Waters Opened
La Düsseldorf – White Overalls
Klauss Weiss – Constellation
Achim Reichel – Tanz Der Vögel In Den Winden
Roedelius – Lustwandel
Pyrolator – Die Haut Der Frau
Cluster – Hollywood
Streetmark – Passage
Niagara – Rhythm Go
Michael Bundt – Neon

can’t wait for some alt-right dipshit to discover ‘white overalls’ and turn white supremacists onto krautock

A nicely diverse playlist. Guess they really must like that Klaus Weiss album?

I think this is the best Deutsche Elektronische Musik yet

Volume 4!

1. Alex – Patella Black
2. Klaus Weiss – Driving Sequences
3. Can – I'm So Green
4. Agitation Free – Laila, Part II
5. Deutsche Wertarbeit – Guten Abend, Leute
6. Amon Düül II – Wolf City
7. Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen
8. Klaus Weiss – Pink Sails
9. Virus – My Strand-Eyed Girl
10. Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique
11. Kalacakra – Nearby Shiras
12. EMAK – Tanz In Den Himmel
13. Et Cetera – Mellodrama 2a
14. Between – Triumphzug Kaiser Maximilian I
15. Roedelius – Halmharfe
16. Dzyan – Dragonsong
17. Harmonia – Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
18. Günter Schickert – Suleika
19. Witthüser & Westrupp – Schöpfung (1. Mose 1)

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/deutsche-elektronische-musik-4

Bear family just started a series of 2cds called Kraut! I think it might include some of the rockier stuff that Cope was trying to exclude.

There are also a number of contemporary to the non-scene bands from elsewhere like Area and Balerno di Bronzo from Italy, Nyl from France and a few other things worldwide that if you like krautrock you should also enjoy. Though that might be difficult to predict. I hear an overlap in the sound anyway.
Also US things like Larry Young's Lawrence of Newark and the much later Savage Republic Jamahiriya.
Or Simply Saucer Cyborgs Revisited and things like peak Chrome that you should also check out. But hopefully you already know that.& at least 70s Hawkwind and Eno era Roxy Music should also appeal.

Interesting that the Bear Family are moving out of their country/rockabilly comfort zone.

Looking forward to volume 4. For some reason I thought that 3 was going to be the last.

Me too, it was the "That's All Folks" text on the back.

Bear Family also has an excellent set of NDW compilations called "Aus grauer Städte Mauern - Die Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) 1977-85"

That Et Cetera song is gorgeous

here's something I really dig about certain German records - stuff like Neu!, La Dusseldorf, Harmonia, Gottsching's E2-E4, etc. - it sounds like what I imagined the first albums ever released would have sounded like, if you asked me at the age of 6