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I came across this Krautrock radio show I did a few years back - 2 hours of my very favorite krautrock tracks :)

 

http://www.kskq.org/...tex-june-4-2009

 

Thanks for the link. If I find the time I'll check it out. :cheers:

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I've just listened to a part of your show. Good job there man. Dance of the Lemmings great song. I also enjoyed Faust and Popol Vuh.
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I like Rammstein.

 

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Haha, sorry then, wrong thread. :LOL:

Not everything coming from Deutschland is necessarily Krautrock. The genre was established in the late 60's and had a fair run, for over a decade (even if there are some good retro acts these days). It's more about psychedelic folk rock, mixed with a lot of other weird variations.

e.g. the German answer to the Faith Healer. :haz: :smoke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0AP_OnsYI

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Here's another great example for the weirdness in Krautrock. Lucifer's Friend was a band that had a great run in the first half of the seventies, and they even smelled a bit of success in the US. Cleveland radio station WMMS (story sounds familiar) pushed their debut in 1970 to the second best-selling album (directly behind Pink Floyd), in the city. Their style was compared to bands like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep and quite often they were termed as vanguards of heavy metal. :haz:

LF is an interesting combination of German musicians, paired with their English frontman, John Lawton.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DpOdf-_yM

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxZ156XY64

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I just can't help myself, other than post this fantastic Nektar show. Roye Albrighton is maybe the most overlooked guitarist I know of. He was fukkin' brilliant (R.I.P. Roye). I was fortunate enough to see the band in that great 2005 line-up.

 

Often mislabeled as Krautrock, Nektar were actually a British band. They were classified as Krautrock, since the band members all lived in Germany, for a couple of years, back in the seventies. The band produced a huge amount of their music there and they hired a German guy to stage-manage their light show. Guess that was enough back then, to call them Krauts. :LOL:

 

Nektar WDR Rockpalast 2005. Play loud and enjoy... :smoke: :hail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em2T3uIZRwk

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I don't let that thread die without fighting! :madra: Thanks go out to goobs. :cool:

 

Not exactly Krautrock, but the new album from Samsara Blues Experiment is a monster of German heavy-psych-blues-rock and more! The album (One With The Universe) can't be labeled just with one genre. It's full of 70's influences, including doomy, stoner elements and atmospheric prog... Just brilliant!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR1whP2G06s

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Cool! I really like Future Days and Phaedra, so will check out your other recommendations later on today. :cheers:

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Cool! I really like Future Days and Phaedra, so will check out your other recommendations later on today. :cheers:

 

awesome!! Let me know what you think of the other 2. They are both space rocky stuff, like early Pink Floyd

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Here are some of my favorites!!!

 

 

 

 

Cool! I really like Future Days and Phaedra, so will check out your other recommendations later on today. :cheers:

 

awesome!! Let me know what you think of the other 2. They are both space rocky stuff, like early Pink Floyd

 

Hey BigBobby!

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back about these. I listened to the Eloy and then a whole buncha bullsh1t came up.

Really good drumming on Eloy btw. Kinda Peart-y.

Nektar was all over the place! At first sort of hippy, Moody Blues-y, and then things got a little more King Crimson.

You listen to some freaky stuff, young man!

:ebert:

 

Although it's not Krautrock, Nektar reminded me at times of this:

 

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Here are some of my favorites!!!

 

 

 

 

Cool! I really like Future Days and Phaedra, so will check out your other recommendations later on today. :cheers:

 

awesome!! Let me know what you think of the other 2. They are both space rocky stuff, like early Pink Floyd

 

Hey BigBobby!

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back about these. I listened to the Eloy and then a whole buncha bullsh1t came up.

Really good drumming on Eloy btw. Kinda Peart-y.

Nektar was all over the place! At first sort of hippy, Moody Blues-y, and then things got a little more King Crimson.

You listen to some freaky stuff, young man!

:ebert:

 

Although it's not Krautrock, Nektar reminded me at times of this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMff9CM7yPU

 

Awesome, I know Im like a freaky mad scientist.

 

But I will check out that album!

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Here's another great example for the weirdness in Krautrock. Lucifer's Friend was a band that had a great run in the first half of the seventies, and they even smelled a bit of success in the US. Cleveland radio station WMMS (story sounds familiar) pushed their debut in 1970 to the second best-selling album (directly behind Pink Floyd), in the city. Their style was compared to bands like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep and quite often they were termed as vanguards of heavy metal. :haz:

LF is an interesting combination of German musicians, paired with their English frontman, John Lawton.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DpOdf-_yM

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxZ156XY64

I went through a Lucifer's Friend binge a couple of winter's ago, I think. Good, quirky stuff!
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Here's another great example for the weirdness in Krautrock. Lucifer's Friend was a band that had a great run in the first half of the seventies, and they even smelled a bit of success in the US. Cleveland radio station WMMS (story sounds familiar) pushed their debut in 1970 to the second best-selling album (directly behind Pink Floyd), in the city. Their style was compared to bands like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep and quite often they were termed as vanguards of heavy metal. :haz:

LF is an interesting combination of German musicians, paired with their English frontman, John Lawton.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DpOdf-_yM

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxZ156XY64

I went through a Lucifer's Friend binge a couple of winter's ago, I think. Good, quirky stuff!

Yeah, brilliant choice for dark days. They're not necessarily summer music and "quirky" might be a good adjective to describe them. Well, I think the whole genre, is overall, a wee bit quirky, isn't it? :joker:

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This is my go to Krautrock track. Great to immerse yourself in for a while. Particularly when staring down from a window on a plane flight....

 

 

Bowie apparently loved this track so much, he used its drum part for this sweet bit of musical business:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6uvYuEyUY4

 

(Adrian Belew plays some magnificently tortured guitar on this.)

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This is my go to Krautrock track. Great to immerse yourself in for a while. Particularly when staring down from a window on a plane flight....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4&feature=youtu.be

 

:7up: :7up: :7up:

 

 

Hard to believe this is from 1972

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