Why I love Krautrock

[SWL-DXER]

MY HEROES!
Or how Bowie stole my title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnMhkkgWpG4

[Lou Grant]

Why I love Krautrock:

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[kancutlawns]

I take it "kraut-rock" is a sub-genre of rock music indigenous to Germany and has a refined and niche status?

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

I'm sure it must be racist as err most things are

[LaaLaa]

Are Germans offended by the term "Krautrock"? Presumably they call it something differently there?!

[kancutlawns]

It's not considered to be an offensive term and it was first coined in the early 1970s. It's a brand of music and symbolises a sub-genre which is underpinned by the nation of it's origin. Think that a lot of it's followers would deem accusations of it being racist and being PC.

[kancutlawns]

Amazing what one can pick up by targeted googling.

[Lou Grant]

Are Germans offended by the term "Krautrock"? Presumably they call it something differently there?!

It was invented by the British music press, but several of the German bands appropriated it for themselves to reclaim it from the negative stereotypes.

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[kancutlawns]

How would you sell Krautrock to the uninitiated, Lou?

[SWL-DXER]

Are Germans offended by the term "Krautrock"? Presumably they call it something differently there?!

They weren't really aware of each other and there was no movement as such. They just wanted to make a new music unsullied by the Nazi era, Schlager and UK/US rock. They had to start from year zero.

[Lou Grant]

How would you sell Krautrock to the uninitiated, Lou?

By listening to some of the tracks I put in my first post. The music sells itself, then you can check out the stories behind the bands. Julian Cope's book on the subject is the other obvious starting point, although not sure if it's ever been reissued and the originals used to sell for over £100 on ebay.

Krautrock is essentially music influenced in some cases by a lot of American garage bands, Velvet Underground and the like and then filtered through the strange ambience of post WWII German culture to create a weird space rock music all of its own. But the breadth and range of bands from that era is quite big so in many ways it is lazy (if convenient) to tag it all together.

Loads of UK new wave bands were hugely influenced by Krautrock.

[kancutlawns]

Was it politically motivated by that I mean were the musicians influenced by the Cold War and East vs West or was it apolitical? I'll have a listen at night and have a read up on as still at work.

[Lou Grant]

As I said, it's hard to group all these bands together. Amon Duul were a political commune and music was just one off shot of what they were involved in. Can were formed by students of the avante garde composer Stockhausen, so they were totally from a musical background. Every band has a different history to them.

[SWL-DXER]

How would you sell Krautrock to the uninitiated, Lou?

By listening to some of the tracks I put in my first post. The music sells itself, then you can check out the stories behind the bands. Julian Cope's book on the subject is the other obvious starting point, although not sure if it's ever been reissued and the originals used to sell for over £100 on ebay.
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https://monoskop.org/images/2/21/Cope_J ... ampler.pdf

[SWL-DXER]

How would you sell Krautrock to the uninitiated, Lou?

By listening to some of the tracks I put in my first post. The music sells itself, then you can check out the stories behind the bands. Julian Cope's book on the subject is the other obvious starting point, although not sure if it's ever been reissued and the originals used to sell for over £100 on ebay.

Krautrock is essentially music influenced in some cases by a lot of American garage bands, Velvet Underground and the like and then filtered through the strange ambience of post WWII German culture to create a weird space rock music all of its own. But the breadth and range of bands from that era is quite big so in many ways it is lazy (if convenient) to tag it all together.

Loads of UK new wave bands were hugely influenced by Krautrock.

Sex Pistols.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfVXCWz9jY

Seeing the bearded guy in Leed.

[SWL-DXER]

As I said, it's hard to group all these bands together. Amon Duul were a political commune and music was just one off shot of what they were involved in. Can were formed by students of the avante garde composer Stockhausen, so they were totally from a musical background. Every band has a different history to them.

Schulze, Ashra Tempel and Tangerine Dream were Berlin School.
Kraftwerk were Rhineland.
Can were Cologne.
Rattles were Hamburg.
Then there were loads of rockers like Lucifer's Friend, Jane, Eloy and Birth Control.

[SWL-DXER]

This is a critical view from a German.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/krautrock.html

[Lou Grant]

How would you sell Krautrock to the uninitiated, Lou?

By listening to some of the tracks I put in my first post. The music sells itself, then you can check out the stories behind the bands. Julian Cope's book on the subject is the other obvious starting point, although not sure if it's ever been reissued and the originals used to sell for over £100 on ebay.
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https://monoskop.org/images/2/21/Cope_J ... ampler.pdf

You can't sniff the pages of a .pdf or read it in the bath.

My copy is not for sale.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

I sniff PDFs in the bath

[Reg]

I sniff PDFs in the bath

You sicken me.

[kancutlawns]

I sniff PDFs in the bath

Do you do any other readers?

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Only breeders

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Why I love Krautcock

[m4 colin]

Amon duul live in london is a fuckin blast

[SWL-DXER]

Amon duul live in london is a fuckin blast

Off to see Michael Rother in Leeds on Tuesday.

http://www.bandsintown.com/MichaelRother