KRAUTROCK
I BOUGHT IN 1973 LP "THE FAUST TAPES" BECAUSE 0F FORTY NINE PENCE PRICE, WHICH NOW HAS ALSO APPEARED ON CD FOR A LOT MORE, AND IS THE SINGLE ALBUM WHICH DID MOST TO IMPLANT THE SEEDS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL FUTURE INTO THE MINDS OF A FEW HUNDRED INFLUENTIAL TEENAGERS BACK IN 1973, THANKS TO RICHARD BRANSON'S IDEAL OF KNOCKING IT OUT AT 49 PENCE A COPY.
"THE FAUST TAPES" IS LESSON ONE IN ART OF DECONSTRUCTION: SONIC DISOBEDANCE HAS SOUNDED THIS THRILLING.
KRAUTROCK
INDEPENDENT ROCK ACTIVITY IN GERMANY DATES FROM FIRST OPEN-AIR CONCERTS IN 1968 AND SIMULTANEOUS FOUNDATIONS OF BANDS LIKE CAN AND AMON DUUL II.
EARLY GERMAN SOUND SEEMED PREDOMINANTLY EXPERIMENTAL, BUT THIS WAS LARGELY ILLUSION CREATED BY RECORD-AVAILABILITY IN U.K. AND GERMAN RECORD PUBLICITY . BIRTH CONTROL AND FRUMPY, FOR EXAMPLE, WERE FROM THE BEGINNING CLOSELY INVOLED WIYH THE MAINSTREAM OF ANGLO-AMERICAN ROCK.
OVER THE YEARS THE INITIAL IMPACT OF KRAUTROCK HAS WORN THIN. VERY FEW EXPERIMENTAL OUFITS STILL EXIST AND EVEN FEWER OF THEIR RECORDS SURVIVE TEST OF TIME BUT TANGERINE DREAM WAS VANGUARD OF AMBIENT PROG ROCK DANCE MUSIC. BEST KRAUTROCK COMES FROM CAN, TANGERINE DREAM, KRAFTWARK, AGITATION FREE, AMON DUUL II, Neu!, & FAUST.
MUST HAVE KRAUTROCK ALBUMS
CAN - EGE BAMYASI (1972)
TANGERINE DREAM - ATEM (1973)
AGITATION FREE - MALESCH (1972)
AGITATION FREE - 2ND (1973)
KRAFTWARK - KRAFTWARK (1973)
KRAFTWARK - COMPUTER WORLD (1981)
FAUST - FAUST (1971)
FAUST - FAUST TAPES (1973)
FAUST - FAUST IV (1973)
NEU! - NEU! (1972)
AMON DUUL 2ND - YETI (1970)
TANGERINE DREAM - PHAEDRA (1974)
EPSILON - MOVE ON (1972)
KIN PING MEH - KIN PING MEH (1971)
EPISLON - WALKIN' ON MY WAY
THE FIRST LP FROM THESE WIGGED-OUT COSMIC SUFFERS FEATURED CLASSICALLY INSPIRED UNDERGROUND KRAUT-PSYCH. THIS TRACK, THOUGH, WAS A BLUES ROCKER FROM THEIR SECOND ALBUM, "MOVIN' ON" .
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