X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Krautrock


Telstar Ponies

Their musical style varies considerably but displays obvious influences from Krautrock, folk (especially latterly), and experimental noise.

The Man Who Ate the Man

Equally inspired by pop, electronic pioneers like Morton Subotnick, contemporary electronic artists like Autechre, and Krautrock, Magnetophone have continued to evolve from their debut I Guess Sometimes I Need to Be Reminded of How Much You Love Me (2000).


Similar

krautrock | Krautrock |

Alan Warner

He is known to appreciate 1970s Krautrock band Can; two of his books feature dedications to former band members (Morvern Callar to Holger Czukay and The Man Who Walks to Michael Karoli).

Beautiful Skin

Soon the pair were experimenting together, combining their respective influences into a sound that harked back to the post-punk of Wire and The Cure as well as the experimental electronic of Suicide and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and the krautrock of Can and Kraftwerk.

Cosmic Couriers

A number of influential records in the Krautrock genre were released on Cosmic Couriers, including Klaus Schulze's 'Cyborg' and Ash Ra Tempel/Timothy Leary's 'Seven Up'.

Cosmic Couriers released many important Krautrock titles by artists including Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Göttsching, Wallenstein, Popol Vuh, and others, including Walter Wegmüller's 'Tarot'.

Eric Carbonara

Recent years have revealed a departure from his psych/krautrock-influenced work to a kaleidoscopic realm of minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation, free noise guitar thrashing, the folk music of North Africa and Andalusia and Hindustani classical music.

Italian occult psychedelia

Musically, Italian occult psychedelia is a cross of post-punk, krautrock, psychedelic rock, Italian progressive rock and Italian library music.

Joachim Witt

Joachim Witt was the guitarist/singer in the 1970s Krautrock band Duesenberg.

Knives Out

Ed stated they wanted this track to sound like German Krautrock group Neu!.

Kraftwerk discography

Formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in Düsseldorf in 1970, Kraftwerk were part of the krautrock scene.

Martin Thulin

The band played noisy experimental rock belonging to the same scene as contemporary British bands like, Loop, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3 or American bands like Sonic Youth, and Butthole Surfers, but always with a heavy dose of 60's psychedelic rock and krautrock.

Modulations

Featuring: Rob Young on the pioneers of electronic music, Simon Reynolds on krautrock, Peter Shapiro on disco & post-punk, Kodwo Eshun on house, David Toop on hip hop, Mike Rubin on techno, Chris Sharp on jungle, Tony Marcus on ambient, Kurt Reighley on downtempo, and Michael Berk on the technology of electronic music.

Prognosis Show

The title 'Prognosis' was derived from the obvious medical term and from the genre Progressive rock but it also featured many other genres including Space music, Krautrock, Psychedelic music, Electronic music and Experimental Music.

Rich Batsford

In 2007 Batsford collaborated with krautrock/shoegaze band Einstellung, for a concert in which Batsford both supported and accompanied the band, highlighting elements of post-rock shared by both artists.

Simple Headphone Mind

"Trippin' With The Birds" was named in reference to a song by krautrock group Exmagma.

Sky Records

Sky Records was founded in 1975 by Günter Körber after he left Metronome Musik, the parent company of influential Krautrock/Kosmische label Brain Records.

Spoon Records

Spoon Records is an independent record label managed by Hildegard Schmidt, wife of keyboard player Irmin Schmidt, since 1979, on which music by the krautrock band Can and its members has been released and re-released.

Steve Hough

Steve is best known nowadays as bassist in krautrock/shoegazers Einstellung but formally well known as second guitarist in the industrial metal band Godflesh live between 1997 and 1999.

Steven Stapleton

He runs the United Dairies record label, which apart from the NWW output released records by Current 93, The Lemon Kittens, Volcano the Bear, as well as krautrock and several experimental artists.

The Golden Section

The album was Foxx's first work with a producer since his final Ultravox album, Systems of Romance, in 1978; The Golden Section was co-produced by Zeus B. Held, well known in the Krautrock scene of the 1970s.

The Soft Moon

The Soft Moon's music covers a wide range of genres including EBM, Krautrock, synthpunk, psychedelia, world music and darkwave.

Vanessa Van Basten

Their influences are cosmic psychedelia, industrial rock (like Swans or Godflesh), Neurot & Hydrahead catalogue, old 4AD bands, krautrock, Norwegian black metal.


see also