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Future Days is such a damn essential album that if you haven't got it in your record collection then there's probably something wrong with your brain. When I started making this video, I knew it had to contain water imagery - if you know Future Days, then you know why. This song (track three on side one) also conveys a sense of adventure or perhaps a happy summer afternoon spent with good friends.... Of course, Can had a parting of the waves with Damo soon after this album was released. Although they went onto to make some magic albums, this 1973 release is a career pinnacle, seamlessly fusing various ethnomusicology styles, not forgetting chucking a bit of jazz, rock, ambient and funk into the mix...... Talking of a sense of adventure, the tinted, manipulated footage is originally from a 1950s CFF episodic film series, loosely adapting Enid Blyton's 'Five On A Treasure Island'. Growing up I adored the CFF's work, but this was a little before my time.... Now I remember, Glitterball, Pop Pirates, Young Robin Hood, Sammy's Super T-Shirt, Junket 89 with the wonderful Christopher Benjamin.... Now I'm rambling, so I'll sign off with a sincere apology for the savage edit as the wave splashes against the rocks. Moonshake is so damn perfect, who am I, deciding to cut right there...? The reason I did it, is that A: that bit of the video was boring and B: if you don't have the complete version in your record collection then there's something wrong with your.......

video clip, 1970

Of off Can's Ege Bamyasi (1972)

Notwehr On DVD Now! available at amazon(dot)de The rock band Rattenfänger (Rat-Catchers), played by the german Krautrock legend Guru Guru, moves to the small village of Ebenrein to compose in the peace and quiet of the country-side. The villagers and the local councillor (Erik Schumann) are not at all enthusiastic about the arrival of the young band. They worry that their presence will introduce a criminal element into the village's pastoral existence. A small number of locals try to dispel the prejudices of their peers, thus dividing the village into two factions. The situation becomes criitical after the band's leader and drummer Mani Neumeier starts a relationship with the under-age daughter of the local building contractor, Bergmann (played by Friedrich von Thun). The builder's foreman Hans Zilke (Günter Lamprecht) is disturbed one evening outside his house by a gang of youngsters and shoots blindly into the group, killing a young girl, one of the band's groupies. Zilke claims to have fired in self-defence, saying the youngsters were trying to break into his house.....

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This 1975 Novalis album gives some credence to the theory about vinyl being a superior format to the CD, mp3 etc. The sleeve is a truly beautiful 12" work of art, containing a solid album with great keyboard parts and groovy bass work. Another Krautrock gem from the inexhaustible 60s-70s German rock scene....... Imagery from the BBC educational cliff hanger drama series 'Look And Read'. If you were educated in Britain between 1970 and 1995 you will fondly remember 'Fairground', 'Dark Towers' or 'Spywatch' - insert classroom memory of choice. Here Peep Peep (writing those magic Es on the glass) and chums face one final challenge before they can return home in the charming bacofoil 'n' blue lyrca sci-fi yarn, 'The Boy From Outer Space'

6 parts lecture in english on German Underground Music from the late 60th early 70th called KRAUTROCK - here is the "Godfather of Krautrock" - der Pate des Krautrock - Gerhard Augustin

By 1962, the 'Armchair Theatre' strand on Britain's Independent TV network had hit its stride with a run of popular plays that were original, challenging and often disturbing. Robert Mueller wrote the brilliant 'The Night Conspirators' imagining Hitler surviving WW2 and working towards the dreaded 4th Reich - not to be taken literally, of course, this play is a chilling warning about fascist ideologies and the danger of letting history repeat itself...... Equally chilling is the music by 'German Oak', an underground rock band consisting of five hippies from Dusseldorf who recorded tracks in a WW2 bunker, trying to capture the chaos, terror and bewilderment of war, air-raids, invasion and occupation. Neither fascists or Nazi-sympathisers, German Oak turned their anger on their parents generation for letting the National Socialist Party get to power. With a sinister, militaristic cover and 'off-putting song' titles, their first album sold less than 10 copies. Now rereleased on CD, the album is championed by that old Krautrocksampler himself Julian Cope. The rise of the Third Reich was fast, ruthless and terrifying and this power-house drone captures that with one part Can, one part Faust and one part pure Parliament-Funkadelic.

Soundshaping since 1972, erb [Eckart R Buhler] has collided head-on with the soundcurrent, but especially after immersing at Roach's (Steve) workshop this summer (2007) in the Arizona desert - the culminating result , an 80 minute CD hosting four tracks of manipulative loops, samples, strings and microphonics create a soundcarpet unlike any other. Provided for your entertainment - contact me direct at ebuhler@bellsouth.net A Labor Of Love Production & No-I am not quitting my dayjob ... greetings, erb hope you enjoy !

Some Video shards from the awesome concert!!! Look till the end!! :D (S. Vito di Leguzzano - Vicenza)

An Ukr.Tele.Kom collaboration - featuring MUSIC WILL BE Sound & Vision (Kolja - sonics / Ljosha - visuals) and SERGEI KLEIN (guitar installation performance) Part 7 - nice long chunk, me like it

Hypnotic ethno-grooves from Between, another fine Krautrock band following The Agitation Free path of fusing German electro rock with Eastern instrumentation and arrangements..... Imagery lifted from two excellent Armchair Theatre plays, both starring John Le Mesurier. The cat and budgie sequences originate from a suspense piece called 'The Blackmailing Of Mr. S' featuring Peter Butterworth, Jo Rowbottom and Peter Vaughan. The second play (clearly influenced by the tramps stuck Waiting For Godot) stars Le Mesurier & Maurice Denham as two sewer dwelling vagrants and a psychologically damaged boy who comes to hide with them in an ambiguous and ambitious drama. Writer Len Deighton imagines the old men still fighting in trenches, with WW1 having never ended...

1972 was a fine year for German albums (Fausts So Far; Neu!; Keine Macht by Ton Steine Scherben; Cluster II; Schulzes Irrlicht). One the opposite end of the spectrum to Can's groove-fest Ege Bamyasi, the best of the year is probably the dreamy Hosianna Mantra. Graceful, haunting new age music, without any of the tacky connotations you naturally associate with this 'genre'... Accompanying footage is from a tinted and much decayed episode of Shades Of Darkness, an introspective early 80s anthology series with a supernatural bent. John Duttine's performance as Bill Masen in a different drama (Day Of The Triffids) was a formative viewing experience and one of the reasons I am so besotted with archive British television.

hi, please help me out for this super obscure 7''. i found this 7'' ep years ago on a southern germany fleamarket in a trash box. must be a test press or promo. however i have absolut no words for that weird sound. its like a mix between electronica and psych and trash. very dark sounding stuff,i also dont understand the words they are singing. white label,pencil write on bad saints oktober '72 and the name klaus. so if anyone can help,please contact me. i upload all 4 songs from this ep, and restored it,so it was a littlebit scratchy.

As you may notice by watchin´this, my favourite German label is Philips and favourite year is 1971 when it comes to heavy progressive Krautrock, as always many great bands didnt find space here. Blackwater Park, Armageddon, Message, Tiger B Smith, Kin Ping Meh, Asterix and Gift, fell just outside this list.

Creepy and compelling ethno trance from 1972, courtesy of the short lived Krautrock band Kalacakra... Footage from a vintage Clive Exton play, 'The Rainbirds' concerning the mind boggling fantasies of a young man who has survived a suicide attempt.

Platinum seventies motorik from La Düsseldorf - fans of Neu! & Kraftwerk will find lots to enjoy here. This is a brief edit from a much longer piece, but hopefully this short burst contains all the joy, optimism and energy inherent in one of the best tracks of 1976 - a progressive linear journey into a brave new world, accompanied by images of consumer durables, clumsy robots, simulated video phones and animated autobahns, with no doubt people having lots of fun fun fun......

Soundtracks bridges the Mooney & Suzuki phases of Can, and in lesser hands such an album could potentially sound uneven.... But CAN ended up producing some amazing film music with both singers getting a chance to shine. Here the thunderous, majestic Mother Sky accompanies a sci-fi junk-gem from a more simple era. Jaki's drumming here is some of the best you will ever hear in rock.

Consensus told me that ADII are not worth exploring after the album Wolf City. Consensus can take a fast stroll off a long cliff.......... Here is a bona fide classic Amon Düül II tune from 1979 with heart warming funk disco and Kraut stylings.... Here over images from MJ Birds Seminal BBC TV series The Lotus Eaters. The first few episodes of this series are classic, cerebral British television drama, with a seemingly happy middle aged woman remembering her activation as a field agent for British intelligence and forced marriage to a broken drunk with his own secrets. Thanks to Bret and the always excellent Eggcityradio / Postpunkjunk for proving a DL audio of the Only Human album. My own vinyl copy of this album is scratched beyond repair and the rerelease CD is a remix job which is a dwarf to the 1979 giant.

In their traffic light (rock) sweaters, Mr. Red, Mr. Amber & Mr. Green climb up a craggy cliff face in a slice of nostalgia from the British tourist office....... For those who think Can 'sold out' (circa 76's Flow Motion) by making catchy, accessible music - please listen to this 1971 single (the flip side of the break beat masterpiece Halleluwah from the incomparable Tago Mago). Turtles Have Short Legs showcases the fun side of this 'serious', apparently impenetrable German band.

I still get an incredible thrill when I put on 'the fist' album and hear samples of The Beatles & The Rolling Stones before the hyperactive insanity of 'Why Don't You Eat Carrots? In 1971 Faust were saying auf wiedersehen to the old rock country and sailing into unchartered water. Here are a few brief snippets of the perplexing Meadow Meal and Miss Fortune - roughly three minutes into track 2 and thirteen minutes into track 3, number fans... Joining Faust are some startled bovines, enjoying their own meadow meal, totally unaware of their fate after market day. More nostalgic colour footage of 'the past' when Ipods and BSE were yet to be invented.

Performance of rockband Aqua Ardens in Kleiner Club Germany. Singing the song 'krautrock'. Website Aqua Ardens: http://www.aqua-ardens-music.de/home.html. Aqua Ardens on DAZ: http://daz.com/artists/Aqua%20Ardens.html

Faust live in Cologne 1996