Damo Suzuki rlz (F you mano! lol)

dude

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Malcolm Mooney is fucking crazy!

generally I'm not into psychedelic music at all since i approach music from a "surprise me" angle and jams just never do. then again sometimes i just turn around and listen to the entire of Tago Mago so who knows ;F

Kraftwerk with Dinger, Rother and Schneider. Pre-NEU! stuff, just awesome. As heavy as Black Sabbath - which I would say that it copied, but Sabbath is from 1969. Anyway...

Now from my fav Kraut band, NEU!:

The clip is short, but is pretty good. Punk before punk.

And, if you still didn't listen to this:

This song really makes me sad for its awesomeness. Damo Suzuki rlz (F you mano! lol)

Speaking of Damo Suzuki:

ZLY: Yes, I think Tangerine Dreams have and extensive discography, thus making the band in the scope for many styles.

On a more general note, I'm not very comfortable with calling krautrock for "electronic music" or "electronica".

This goes for me too. I feel electronic music or electronica are terms closer to easy-listening or pop music, and that doesn't apply to the layering of sound or experimental nature of many musicians that used a lot more instrumentation than strictly sequencers and synthesizers. Many layers of percussion and guitars were in fact used! I think of electro-pop exclusively for electronica, and not anything in fact with contemporary music I tend to listen to.

Subway Sonicbeat pretty much summed up my preferences, except for Faust. Anyone heard Os Mundi? That's good stuff, too.

That's because I forgot about Faust.

I'm with Random this time, there's not even the slightly fact to call krautrock electronic music. Some stuff can verge to ambient (the example that comes in mind is Tangerine Dream), heavily using synths, but usually is more the "motorik" rhythm, that restless, autobahn feeling. Not strict, you can add a lot of experimentalism from guitars, vocals, drums, and everything else. Krautrock, as I see it, is more of a regional style of progressive rock that came from Deutschland. I think i'm being prolix. Hm.

On a more general note, I'm not very comfortable with calling krautrock for "electronic music" or "electronica".

one of my favorite albums is manual göttsching's (of ash ra tempel) "E2-E4."

Yes, truly an epic piece of music (in the literary meaning of the word). Randomly found it while on free-leech on Oink a couple of years ago.

On a more general note, I'm not very comfortable with calling krautrock for "electronic music" or "electronica". Sure, some bands are almost entirely electronic (like Cluster, for instance), but to me, krautrock focuses a lot on guitar, drums and experimental recordings of sounds too…