Krautrock

kagee · Post by **kagee** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:43 pm

My krautrock favourites are Can.

Listening to Future Days alot recently. Great album but its drives my wife nuts. I'm not allowed to play Tago Mago in her presence at all!

I picked up the sacd version of ege bamyasi. Sounds brilliant on the home cinema!

ganaffe · Post by **ganaffe** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:41 am

9flowing wrote:If it's industrial and experimental then you have to include Kraftwerk but if it's symphonic rock you cannot include Kraftwerk...equally but with qualifications reversed there's Focus

my 2cents worth of info: Focus is not a German band... they are from Holland so they can't be Krautrock

Nice band tho...

Alternative 4 · Post by **Alternative 4** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:57 pm

Grobschnitt are cool. Ive only heard ballerman but its an awesome album, I wish thier stuff was more easily available.

JKealy · Post by **JKealy** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:15 am

I love Can more than life itself, mind blowing stuff. They once played a concert starting at 8:30pm and finishing at 8 the next morning...

Massed Gadgets · Post by **Massed Gadgets** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:17 am

I'm going to see Damo Suzuki on Wednesday...I can't wait! Last time I saw him live with Cul de Sac was one of the best concerts I'd ever seen.

PublicImage · Post by **PublicImage** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:34 am

My copy a Yeti by Amon Duul II finally arrived today. Great stuff.

Massed Gadgets · Post by **Massed Gadgets** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:54 am

PublicImage wrote:My copy a Yeti by Amon Duul II finally arrived today. Great stuff.

That's an awesome album, though I think overall I prefer Tanz der Lemmings. But it's close. I have the original gatefold LP's of both those, and the artwork on them is stunning, brilliant psychedelic stuff, something you really don't get from the smaller CD's.

Fat Trace · Post by **Fat Trace** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:12 am

Got a couple of albums by Faust..........VERY strange!

JKealy · Post by **JKealy** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:22 pm

A little birdie tells me Faust have a UK tour coming soon, 30 years since the band was last active...

Massed Gadgets · Post by **Massed Gadgets** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:13 am

Just listening now to a little Agitation Free, another great, but often overlooked Krautrock band. I have Malesch, which I love. It's dark, weird rock with some nice Middle Eastern flavour to it (long before it was hip to have a Middle Eastern feel in your music). Their second album is supposed to be great too, but I've only heard a few tracks off of that.

JKealy · Post by **JKealy** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:47 pm

Massed Gadgets wrote:Just listening now to a little Agitation Free, another great, but often overlooked Krautrock band. I have Malesch, which I love. It's dark, weird rock with some nice Middle Eastern flavour to it (long before it was hip to have a Middle Eastern feel in your music). Their second album is supposed to be great too, but I've only heard a few tracks off of that.

Got, agreed. Desperate to find 'Second' too...

PublicImage · Post by **PublicImage** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:10 am

JKealy wrote:A little birdie tells me Faust have a UK tour coming soon, 30 years since the band was last active...

Yeah, and tickets are only a tenner. I think I'll have to go and see them.

Massed Gadgets · Post by **Massed Gadgets** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:32 am

PublicImage wrote:
JKealy wrote:A little birdie tells me Faust have a UK tour coming soon, 30 years since the band was last active...
Yeah, and tickets are only a tenner. I think I'll have to go and see them.

Would love to see them too, though honestly, I was not as crazy about their more recent albums (the one's since their "reappearance") than I was about their classic stuff. It was good to hear they still maintained the experimental nature of their music (rather than going for some lame attempt at commercialism), but I found albums like Ravvivando a little difficult to listen to. 2002's Patchwork was good, but it was mostly comprised of stuff taken out of the vaults and stitched together like The Faust Tapes.

JKealy · Post by **JKealy** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:29 am

kagee wrote:I'm not allowed to play Tago Mago in her presence at all!

I've driven members of my family mad with Peking O...

cRaB · Post by **cRaB** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:36 pm