Germany’s avant-guarde scene in the sixties and seventies established a relationship with modern music similar to the one “Citizen Kane” eventually forged with film, in that basically everybody working today is either directly influenced by it or they’re influenced by someone who was. Welcome to this distillation of a scene than has received an abundance of credit, but still seems underrated. Meine damen und herren, dies ist krautrock.
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
Kraftwerk – Neonlicht (Single Edit)
Eloy – Horizons
Phew – Closed
Can – Moonshake
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
Moebius, Dueka, Konrad Plank, Neuemeier – Recall
Holgar Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Leibzeit – How Much Are They?
Jaki Leibezeit, Pantom Band – This Is the Rule
Can – Mushroom
Amon Duul II – I Can’t Wait (Electric Adolescence Edit)
Guru Guru – Immer Lustig
Neu! – Leb Wohl
Hubert Bognermayr & Harald Zuschrader – Selig Die Barmherzigen
Phantomband – Nervous Breakdown
Agitation Free – Khan El Khalili
Damenbart – Message to the Hippies (Excerpt)
The Durutti Column – Sketch for Winter
Terre Thaemitz – D.C.D.O.A.
Harmonia – Gollum
Kraftwerk – Europe Endless
Roedelius – Wenn Der Sudwind Weht
Cluster – Marzipan
Ash Ra Tempel – Nightdust
Ash Ra Tempel – Interview
Paul Lansky – 6 Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion
Holger Czukay & U She – Trum
Holger Czukay & U She – Sunday Morning (Live)
Kraftwerk – Endless Endless
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
La Düsseldorf – Time
Electric Adolescence – Dies Ist Krautrock 90 mins/ 320 kbps/
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