Krautrock

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Do you like wild and trippy experimentation in music? Do you like cold, dissonant, and hypnotic soundscapes? Do you like progressive rock of any kind? If so, post war Germany has you covered with some of the most experimental music ever made. I introduce to you, Krautrock!

I had no idea Tangerine Dream was a German band.

'psychedelic' sort of to me, maybe check out what is krautrock?

btw isnt it an insult another wouldn't accept on itself



modern isn't kraut?

ow well

not kraut then, californian-german???

Oh I love Krautrock! Can, Faust, Neu, Kraftwerk... I also love some similar music from other nations, like Yellow Magic Orchestra, Stereolab, Tortoise, Slapp Happy, Jean Michel Jarre, and The Residents! I also think that in this generation, some songs by Animal Collective and John Maus capture that krautrock spirit well!

https://soundcloud.com/my-horus-eye/corn-pecker

"Through constant decay
Uranium creates the radio active ray
Durch stetigen Zerfall
Entstehen…"

For me the essentials are-
Neu!
Ash Ra Tempel
Tangerine Dream
Cluster
Can
The Cosmic Jokers
Manuel Gottsching
AR & Machines
Popol Vuh

A lot of my favorites leaned more towards the Berlin scene that eventually became very electronic but I especially like the music that still has rock/guitar elements.

Then there is the band that's...too German for it's own good!

Rammstein.

They did a whole long rock-opera video of... the whole history of Germany. From the Battle of Teutonberg Forest (where the wild tribes of German barbarians defeated the Roman legions) up to the present day. Touching on Bismark, Hitler, reunification, etc.

"Germania" is played by a woman opera singer who, intriguingly, is Black.

I hope that they record an English language version of it (though that would be quite an undertaking I realize).