Stephen wrote:Just ordered this from Amazon having meant to get it months ago.
Wow, looks good! Do give us a book report young man. I shall make my purchasing decision based on your review!!
Stephen wrote:Just ordered this from Amazon having meant to get it months ago.
I don't know whether that means you haven't read the Julian Cope one or you have, but if not then you can download it as a PDF from here http://blog.swanfungus.com/2006/10/krau ... mpler.html . As it's long been out of print then posting the link shouldn't be an issue.voxish wrote: Julian Cope wrote a book (long deleted and hard to find) called Kraurrocksampler - I'd be interested to see how it compares to the new one mentioned earlier in the thread.
I've been looking for Krautrocksampler for years - finally! Many thanks for the link (and to the person who took the trouble to pdf every page!)Stephen wrote:I don't know whether that means you haven't read the Julian Cope one or you have, but if not then you can download it as a PDF from here http://blog.swanfungus.com/2006/10/krau ... mpler.html . As it's long been out of print then posting the link shouldn't be an issue.voxish wrote: Julian Cope wrote a book (long deleted and hard to find) called Kraurrocksampler - I'd be interested to see how it compares to the new one mentioned earlier in the thread.
Massed Gadgets wrote:Listening to the new album by Qluster right now...a duo consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster/Kluster and Harmonia and Onnen Bock of Zeitkratzer. Not really rock, it's more ambient/experimental with lots of analog synth. Really nice stuff with a very retro feel, but not at all like the piano based pseudo-classical/ambient stuff Roedelius has been doing for the last 2 decades, this more hearkens back to the early Cluster/Kluster stuff.
I had never heard of Krautrock until a few years ago. Perhaps it is like calling Brit Pop "Limey Pop"...a little too much of an outsider labeling something with a bit of a condescending tone.Massed Gadgets wrote:I find it amazing...everytime I meet someone from Germany, I mention the genre of Krautrock and how I love all that late 60's, early 70's music that came out of Germany. So far, not a single one of them has had a clue what I'm talking about. It surprises me too, considering how influential Krautrock has been on so much of modern music since then.