krautrock discussion and exploration thread.

[Ultimatum]

I found out about this band called Nurse With Wound, while it's probably not Krautrock, it is some very interesting Ambient stuff.

[afterstasis]

I found out about this band called Nurse With Wound, while it's probably not Krautrock, it is some very interesting Ambient stuff.

i'm a pretty big nurse with wound fan.

i'd say "experimental music" fits the bill here, though noise, industrial, and dark ambient definitely seep into the mix.

[Ultimatum]

All I know is I got the 61 minute 52 second track randomly on my Radio Station and it was AWESOME.

And now I got Klaus Schulze, Dresden II is really, REALLY cool.

[afterstasis]

All I know is I got the 61 minute 52 second track randomly on my Radio Station and it was AWESOME.

And now I got Klaus Schulze, Dresden II is really, REALLY cool.

awesome.

for nurse with wound, i'd suggest "soliloquy for lilith" as a really good starting point.

i don't have as much of schulze's discography, but i can say that "cyborg", "timewind", and "irrlicht" are totally awesome.

[a21schizoidman]

Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, Nektar, Tangerine Dream are my favs.




Triumvirat is German, but not krautrock sadly...

[afterstasis]

Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, Nektar, Tangerine Dream are my favs.


Triumvirat is German, but not krautrock sadly...

all good picks, including triumvirat, who are one of my favorite prog bands.

[Gowienczyk]

So what exactly krautrock? I always thought it was a derogatory term for german psychedelic/progressive rock.

[a21schizoidman]

all good picks, including triumvirat, who are one of my favorite prog bands.

i highly suggest Nektar too, and Faust

[afterstasis]

So what exactly krautrock? I always thought it was a derogatory term for german psychedelic/progressive rock.

i'm terrible with definitions, but this one fits good enough for me.

"Krautrock is an eclectic and often very original mix of Anglo-American post-psychedelic jamming and moody progressive rock mixed with ideas from contemporary experimental classical music (especially composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, with whom, for example, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay of Can had previously studied) and from the new experimental directions that emerged in jazz during the 1960s and 1970's (mainly the free jazz pieces by Ornette Coleman or Albert Ayler). Moving away from the patterns of song structure and melody of much rock music in America and Britain, some in the movement also drove the music to a more mechanical and electronic sound. The key component characterizing the groups gathered under the term is the synthesis of Anglo-American rock and roll rhythm and energy with a decided will to distance themselves from specifically American blues origins, but to draw on German or other sources instead.
Jean-Hervé Peron of Faust says:
“We were trying to put aside everything we had heard in rock 'n' roll, the three-chord pattern, the lyrics. We had the urge of saying something completely different.”

Typical bands dubbed "krautrock" in the 1970s included Tangerine Dream, Faust, Can, Amon Düül II, Ash Ra Tempel and others associated with the celebrated Cologne-based producers and engineers Dieter Dierks and Conny Plank, such as Neu!, Kraftwerk and Cluster. Bands such as these were reacting against the need to develop a radically new musical aesthetic and cultural identity for the post-WWII. Many of these groups began their musical careers with little or no awareness of (or interest in) rock and roll; exposure to the increasingly radical and innovative music of, in addition to the Velvet Underground, the Silver Apples, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, or the Beatles, for example, led members of groups like Can or Kraftwerk to embrace popular music for the first time.

The signature sound of krautrock mixed rock music and "rock band" instrumentation (guitar, bass, drums) with electronic instrumentation and textures, often with what would now be described as an ambient music sensibility. A common rhythm featured in the music was a steady 4/4 beat, often called "motorik" in the Anglophone music press."

[Gowienczyk]

tl;dr. Also, looks like a wikipedia copy. I rarely give wikipedia credibility when it comes to music.

Would early Scorpions (Fly to the Rainbow, Lonesome Crow) count as krautrock?