dude

DUDE

Malcolm Mooney is fucking crazy!

Btw, I have a link of the BBC doc about Krautrock, anyone who wants I can send the link via pm.

anyone heard Mumien by Floh de Cologne? i see them associated with krautrock but what I hear is a more political and insistent strain.

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

Oh, and a classic:

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:

Esopus: But some synthpop acts, despite the pop, like Fad Gadget are much more layered and experimental, but later became standard for pop in the 80s. But anyway

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

+1 on Can, Neu!, Cluster, and Faust.

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.

yea-the title is more like krautrock AND german electronica. sorry for the confusion- but for instance, tangerine dream would fit in both, right?

Oh, and I disagree with mano. As much as I love the first album of Can, Tago Mago is the best. Second is Delay 1969.

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.

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…

errrr... nevermind.

Anyway... discovering some amazing new music (meaning new to me) I didn't know yet! And I'm even kind of German...

woo! krautrock is awesome... no doubt about it. been listening to it a lot for the past few years. one of my favorite albums is manual göttsching's (of ash ra tempel) "E2-E4."