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  • Current Residence: México D.F.
  • Favourite band or musician: http://lastfm.com/user/013o
  • Favourite genre of music: Krautrock
  • Favourite poet or writer: J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Favourite cartoon character: Ren & Stimpy
  • Personal Quote: ¡~Suave, Rico~!

Komische Music

Sun Dec 13, 2009, 11:21 PM
  • Mood: Amused
  • Listening to: ¡-Krautrock-!
  • Watching: The Crack In The Cosmic Egg
Because My Journals are always like no-sense stuff... you better pay attention~!

:love: Krautrock :love:

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. The term was originally a humorous one coined by the UK music press (such as New Musical Express and Melody Maker), where “Krautrock” found an early and enthusiastic underground following. (It derives from the ethnic slur “Kraut”, which had been used to a refer to a German person in World War II). As is often the case with musical genre labels, few of the bands concerned wished to see themselves pigeon-holed, and tended to eschew the term.

Characteristics

Krautrock is an eclectic and often very original mix of Anglo-American post-psychedelic jamming and moody progressive rock mixed with ideas from contemporary experimental classical music (especially composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, with whom, for example, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay of Can had previously studied) and from the new experimental directions that emerged in jazz during the 1960s and 1970’s. Moving away from the patterns of song structure and melody of much rock music in America and Britain, some in the movement also drove the music to a more mechanical and electronic sound. The key component characterizing the groups gathered under the term is the synthesis of Anglo-American rock and roll rhythm and energy with a decided will to distance themselves from specifically American blues origins, but to draw on German or other sources instead. Jean-Hervé Peron of Faust says:
“ We were trying to put aside everything we had heard in rock ‘n’ roll, the three-chord pattern, the lyrics. We had the urge of saying something completely different. ”
Typical bands dubbed “krautrock” in the 1970s included Tangerine Dream, Faust, Can, Amon Düül II, Ash Ra Tempel and others associated with the celebrated Cologne-based producers and engineers Dieter Dierks and Conny Plank, such as Neu!, Kraftwerk and Cluster. Bands such as these were reacting against the need to develop a radically new musical aesthetic and cultural identity for the post-WWII. Many of these groups began their musical careers with little or no awareness of (or interest in) rock and roll; exposure to the increasingly radical and innovative music of, in addition to the Velvet Underground, the Silver Apples, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, or the Beatles, for example, led members of groups like Can or Kraftwerk to embrace popular music for the first time.
The signature sound of krautrock mixed rock music and “rock band” instrumentation (guitar, bass, drums) with electronic instrumentation and textures, often with what would now be described as an ambient music sensibility. A common rhythm featured in the music was a steady 4/4 beat, often called “motorik” in the Anglophone music press.

In my own opinion, Krautrock isn't a despective word to refeer to all this, it is like 'a way to live' and this genre is better than other musical genres, because we can find in here much experimentation, improvisation and many instruments like in ethnic, electronic, jazz and blues music all toghether to bring you a nice mental/introspective experience, all in one genre.

This Month Recomendations:

Exmagma - :star: x5
Brainticket - :star: x5
Neu! - :star: x5

'The Crack In The Cosmic Egg, Cosmic Dreams At Play'

If you don't like Krautrock, please, turn on your Radio.

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