Around the turn of the century, I found myself pleasantly sinking into a mild Krautrock phase, delving fairly deeply into the discography of Can and Neu!, and touching on that...
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Founded in Hamburg, Germany, the avant-garde band Faust pioneered their own special brand of experimental, psychedelic weirdness, improvised noise, tape manipulations, and sound collage. Here’s a fine sampler. I assume…
I remember a particular scorn for Kraftwerk when I starting investigating off-the-beaten-track music in my later high school years. The music press I found dismissed them as nerdy synth freaks....
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Neu! was possibly the most one-dimensional of the major Krautrock bands—yet their minimalist approach generated a powerfully hypnotic body of music. Michael Rother’s ambient guitar textures backed by Klaus Dinger’s...
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Some consider Amon Düül the first Krautrock band, and they may indeed be the first German rock band to make waves internationally—but the music they create doesn’t fit exactly with…
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