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Jan 11, 2024 · (Image credit: Getty Images) By Shaun Curran 11th January 2024. Fifty years ago, German rock groups including Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk created an eclectic sound that had never been heard before. It...
Krautrock. Krautrock (also called kosmische Musik, German for "cosmic music" [9] [10] [11]) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [10] It originated among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electronic music, among other eclectic sources ...
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- Can - Tago Mago (1971) Debate will continue over which is the essential Can album, but their 73-minute-long second covers the most diverse territory and is often cited as one of the most influential albums ever made.
- Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974) An unlikely crossover single edit of the 22-minute title track saw Krautrock infiltrating the UK pop charts. A year earlier, Faust’s The Faust Tapes had visited us like a more eccentric John The Baptist (Branson’s Virgin had evangelically charm-bombed Blighty with that album, flogging 50,000 copies at a loss-leading 49p each).
- Neu! - Neu! 75 (1975) Any Neu! album is key to Krautrock’s ascent, but it was their white hot third which nailed the way the genre can use repetition to hypnotise you higher and higher.
- Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (1975) Rippling out from the West Berlin underground art scene, Tangerine Dream, led by Edgar Froese, had been making strange subterranean noises since the late Sixties.
Post-rock incorporates stylings and traits from a variety of musical genres and scenes, including krautrock, ambient, psychedelia, prog rock, space rock, math rock, tape music and other experimental recording techniques, minimalist classical, British IDM, jazz (both avant-garde and cool), and dub, as well as post-punk, free jazz, contemporary ...
Aug 17, 2014 · A contentious term, Krautrock was first used by the British music press in the late 1960s. It was given a boost by Julian Cope, the well-read jester of English pop, in his scholarly volume ...
Aug 14, 2014 · A Brief History of Post-Rock. August 14, 2014 - By Brian Coney. Of the countless genre names that describe modern music, post-rock is probably the vaguest of those widely used. Open to generalisation, uncertainty and blind exaggeration, it has no commonly accepted definition and many acts including Tortoise and Mogwai have distanced themselves ...
Sep 2, 2011 · IN POST-WAR 1960s WEST GERMANY, youth were seeking new ways of creating music that broke free of earlier styles and cultures. It was a time of experimentation and transcendence. Seeking to be something other than Anglo or German, Krautrock sought inspiration in world music and the space-like sounds of then-cutting edge electronics, including ...
