You know, the electronic end of krautrock. Love it. Also anything in a similar vein, so that Cosmic Machine compilation of French avante-garde synth stuff.
Came across this the other day (it is on Spotify): Volume One | Kosmischer Läufer, absolutely lovely stuff, all three volumes.
Big big fan of The Synthesist by Harald Grosskopf.
Not really sure what is kosmiche and what is krautrock or if it matters but am a big fan of cluster, Faust, harmonia. Really like Neu 2 & about half of Neu 75 but hate their s/t album.
Phaedra’s incredible. not sure if I’ve heard Dune or Wasser im Wind. Rot is also great. Schnitzler is generally quite abrasive from what I’ve heard by him.
Thanks for asking. The way it now looks to me is: while the UK was producing pompous, so-called progressive music throughout the seventies, over in Germany (and France, as it happens), musicians were producing extraordinary, avant-garde work to very little acclaim in their own countries, never mind over here. Some honourable exceptions, of course (Eno!) but pretty much anything by Schnitzler, Cluster, Harmonia, early Tangerine Dream knocks spots off your ELP or Yes (unfair comparisons, I know, but for effect …). I recommend investigating French prog, too - my current favourite is Pole by Besombes-Rizet from 1975. Genius at work.
I read that and thought “so there is, I think I’ve heard it a while back when I bought the Eno/Cluster albums, but can’t remember anything about it”. Looked it up on youtube, and yeah it’s kind of generic, but I’m enjoying it so far. Nice to listen to while working.