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): https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com/album/volume-one, absolutely lovely stuff, all three volumes.
Big big fan of The Synthesist by Harald Grosskopf.
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Donāt know much about the genre but I assume Iāll love it so Iām going to listen to all three volumes of that series today!
That Manuel Gƶttsching album has been reissued recently, E2 -E4. I think I prefer Inventions for Electric Guitar.
I dunno
Yah I know shit all about this stuff. The Cluster reviews on P4K piqued my interest though so in gonna dig in there over the autumn I think.
Loved what I heard of Cluster when I did listen to them actually. Have heard Gƶttschingās āE2-E4ā loads of times, relly enjoy that.
In the house we have LPs by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler so I might get cracking on those later.
those are pretty much the classics of the genre. definitely you ought to listen to them.
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.
Weāve got āPhaedraā, āDuneā, āWasser Im Windā and āRotā respectively. Think I chucked on āDuneā once and enjoyed it so will check out the rest.
Phaedraās incredible. not sure if Iāve heard Dune or Wasser im Wind. Rot is also great. Schnitzler is generally quite abrasive from what Iāve 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 ā¦). I recommend investigating French prog, too - my current favourite is Pole by Besombes-Rizet from 1975. Genius at work.
I read that and thought āso there is, I think Iāve heard it a while back when I bought the Eno/Cluster albums, but canāt remember anything about itā. Looked it up on youtube, and yeah itās kind of generic, but Iām enjoying it so far. Nice to listen to while working.