Krautrock, also known as Kosmische Musik, is a generic name for the experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. It is based on the ethnic slur "Kraut", which refers to "a German person" (derived from the name of the pickled cabbage dish sauerkraut, often attributed to Germany), and was coined by the music press in Great Britain, where "Krautrock" found an early and enthusiastic underground following. BBC DJ John Peel in particular is largely credited with spreading the reputation of krautrock outside of the German-speaking world. As the popularity and influence of these groups has grown, the term "Krautrock" has become generally accepted in the English-speaking world, and is more a simple descriptor than an insult.^[1][2] It should be noted, though, that few or none of the groups in questions ever referred to themselves with this term. In his book Krautrocksampler, Julian Cope, for example, goes so far as to say that "Krautrock is a subjective British phenomenon" (64), as it is based rather on the way the music was received in the UK than on the actual West German music scene it grew out of. Members of the group Faust, today, distance themselves sharply from the term: Forms of German-language music include Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), Krautrock, Hamburger Schule, Volksmusik, German hip hop, Schlager and multiple varieties of folk music. ... The electronic music of Germany consists of a number of genres that are popular around the world today. ... Although German rock music (Deutschrock) didnt come into its own until the late 1960s, it spawned many innovative and influential bands spanning genres such as krautrock, New Wave, punk, and industrial. ... The term German hip hop denotes hip hop music produced in Germany. ... Bavaria has been part of the Alpine New Wave of folk music alongside Switzerland and Austria. ... 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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 1960's 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 sources instead. Jean-Hervé Peron of Faust says: Taking the piss is a colloquial slang expression, commonly in use in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. ... For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. ... Irmin Schmidt (born May 29, 1937) is a keyboard player probably best known as a member of Can. ... Holger Czukay (born March 24, 1938) is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Chicago Industrial be merged into this article or section. ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Typical bands dubbed "krautrock" in the 1970s included Tangerine Dream, Faust, Can, Amon Düül II 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, 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. Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... Two German rock groups named Amon Düül, of which the most famous is Amon Düül II, formed during the student movement of the 1960s. ... For other uses, see Cologne (disambiguation). ... http://shopping. ... Konrad Conny Plank (frequently spelled Planck) (born about 1943 in Austria, died December 18, 1987 in Cologne) was a record producer. ... Neu! (the German word for new, pronounced noy) were a German band, probably the archetypal example of what the UK music press at the time dubbed Krautrock. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) is a German musical group from Düsseldorf that has made key contributions to the development of improvisational rock and electronic music, most notably within the latter categorys sub-genres which later became known as synthpop, electro, techno, house and IDM. Early musical... Cluster is a German krautrock musical group who influenced the development of new age music and ambient music. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...

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. Many albums featured a pulsing rhythm section so steady that its practitioners dubbed it "motorik"—a mongrel word meaning, roughly, "mechanical music".^[5] Bands like Can and Neu! created grooves that fused the luscious warmth of flesh-and-blood funk with the cold precision of techno.^[6]. For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, popping or using a pick. ... Bass drum made from wood, rope, and cowskin A drum is a musical instrument in the percussion group that can be large, technically classified as a membranophone. ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... Ambient music refers to a kind of music that envelops the listener without drawing attention to itself [1] // The term ambient music was first coined by Brian Eno in the mid-1970s to refer to music that can be either actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending... Motorik is a term coined by music journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by some so-called Krautrock bands such as Neu! and Kraftwerk. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... Neu! (the German word for new, pronounced noy) were a German band, probably the archetypal example of what the UK music press at the time dubbed Krautrock. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ...

By the end of the 1960s, the American and British counterculture and hippie movement had moved rock towards psychedelia, heavy metal, progressive rock and other styles, incorporating, for the first time in popular music, socially and politically incisive lyrics. The 1968 German student movement, French protests and Italian student movement had created a class of young, intellectual continental listeners, while nuclear weapons, pollution, and war inspired protests and activism. Avant-garde music had taken a turn towards the electronic in the mid-1950s; the roots of electronic music, however, extend into the 19th century^{[citation needed]}. // The counterculture of the 1960s refers to a period between 1960 and 1973[1] that began in the United States as a reaction against the conservative social norms of the 1950s, the political conservatism (and perceived social repression) of the Cold War period, and the US governments extensive military... Singer at a modern Hippie movement in Russia Hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) refers to a member of a subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States during the early 1960s, becoming an established social group by 1965, and expanding to other countries before declining in the mid-1970s. ... Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs; especially LSD.[1] by using lyrics that describe dreams and refer to drug use using bizarre sounds created by altering the instruments and vocals with electronic effects such as heavy distortion... “Heavy metal” redirects here. ... For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ... The German student movement (in Germany commonly called 68er-Bewegung, movement of 1968) was a protest movement that took place during the late 1960s in Germany. ... A May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up, with stereotypical silhouette of General de Gaulle. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ... It has been suggested that Pollutant be merged into this article or section. ... For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ...

These factors all laid the scene for the explosion in what came to be termed krautrock, which arose at the first major German rock festival in 1968 in Essen.^[7] Like their American, British and international counterparts, German rock musicians played a kind of psychedelia. It was however, strikingly innovative as a fusion of psychedelia and the electronic avant-garde. That same year, 1968, saw the foundation of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler, which further popularized the psychedelic-rock sound in the German mainstream. Originally Krautrock was a form of Free art, which meant that Krautrock bands gave their records away for free at Free Art Fairs. Although German rock music (Deutschrock) didnt come into its own until the late 1960s, it spawned many innovative and influential bands spanning genres such as krautrock, New Wave, punk, and industrial. ... A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. ... Essen is a city in the center of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ... The Zodiak Free Arts Lab was a music club, found in West-Berlin in de late 60s by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Boris Schaak. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... // Co-founded music commune known as Human Being * 1968: Co-formed Berlin Centre for Underground Culture or Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ... Conrad Schnitzler (b. ... Free art refers to any art that is distributed to the widest possible public at no direct cost, including street performance, performance art, graffiti, sticker art, coffeehouse poetry and Internet-distributed art. ...

The next few years saw a wave of pioneering groups. In 1968, Can formed, adding jazz to the mix (and in that way the krautrock scene can be seen to parallel the emerging Canterbury scene in England at the same time), while the following year saw Kluster (later Cluster) begin recording electronic instrumental music with an emphasis on static drones. In 1970, Popol Vuh became the first krautrock group to use an electronic synthesizer, to create what would be known as "kosmische musik". The bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and Cosmic Jokers (all linked by collaboration with Klaus Schulze), would follow suit in the years to come. Faust also made use of synthesizers and tape manipulation in a way foreshadowing the noise rock of the future. Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... The Canterbury Scene (or Canterbury Sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock musicians that were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Cluster is a German krautrock musical group who influenced the development of new age music and ambient music. ... In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustained or repeated, and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built. ... Popol Vuh is a German cosmic music band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). ... For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). ... Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... Ash Ra Tempel were one of the more notable German Krautrock groups of the 70s and 80s. ... Cosmic Jokers was a German krautrock supergroup. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Lightning Bolt Live at the Southgate House 2005. ...

In 1972, two albums incorporated European rock and electronic psychedelia with Asian sounds: Popol Vuh's In den Gärten Pharaos and Deuter's Aum. Meanwhile, kosmische musik saw the release of two double albums, Klaus Schulze's Cyborg and Tangerine Dream's Zeit (produced by Dieter Dierks), while a band called Neu! began to play highly rhythmic music. By the middle of the decade, one of the most well-known German bands, Kraftwerk, had released albums like Autobahn and Radio-Activity, which laid the foundation for electro, techno and other styles later in the century. Popol Vuh is a German cosmic music band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). ... For the backpack brand, see Deuter Sport. ... “Om” redirects here. ... A double album is an audio album of sufficient length that two units of the medium in which it is sold (especially records and compact discs) are necessary to contain the entirety of it. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ... Cyborg is the second album by Klaus Schulze. ... Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... 1996 reissue Zeit (meaning time in German) is a 1972 album by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. ... http://shopping. ... Neu! (the German word for new, pronounced noy) were a German band, probably the archetypal example of what the UK music press at the time dubbed Krautrock. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) is a German musical group from Düsseldorf that has made key contributions to the development of improvisational rock and electronic music, most notably within the latter categorys sub-genres which later became known as synthpop, electro, techno, house and IDM. Early musical... Autobahn (German for motorway) is an album by Kraftwerk, released in 1974. ... Radio-Activity is a 1975 album by Kraftwerk. ... Electro, short for electro funk (also known as robot hip hop and Electro hop) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to disco). ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ...

The release of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra in 1974 marked a divergence of that group from Krautrock to a more melodic sequencer-driven sound that was later termed Berlin School. In that same year Klaus Schulze delivered one more LP of pure Krautrock, Blackdance, and began to release more hypnotic versions of what TD was doing. Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... Phaedra (1974) is an album by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. ... The Berlin School of electronic music, or just Berlin School, was a development of New Age electronic music in the 1970s, shaped by Berlin-based artists like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ...

Krautrock and East Germany (the German Democratic Republic)

By the early 1970s experimental West German rock styles had crossed the border into East Germany, and influenced the creation of an East German rock movement referred to as Ostrock. On the other side of the Wall, these bands tended to be stylistically more conservative than in the West, to have more reserved engineering, and often to include more classical and traditional structures (such as those developed by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht in their 1920s Berlin theater songs). These groups sang in the German language, often featuring poetic lyrics loaded with indirect double-meanings and deeply philosophical challenges to the status quo. The best-known bands representing these styles in the GDR were The Puhdys and Karat. This article is about the state which existed from 1949 to 1990. ... Ostrock refers to rock music from the former Communist East Germany. ... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961. ... Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York City, was a German and in his later years, a German-American composer active from the 1920s until his death. ... {{dy justified his choice of form, and from about 1929 on he began to interpret its penchant for contradictions, much as had Eisenstein, in terms of the dialectic. ... Disambiguation Page Global Depositary Receipt East Germany ... Die Puhdys are a veteran German rock band, formed in Oranienburg, in what was then East Germany, in 1969, although they had been performing together, with various lineups, as the Puhdys since 1965. ... Karat in 2006. ...

Influence of Krautrock on later generations

Krautrock was highly influential on the development of Post-punk. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the resurgence of electronic music and a new generation rediscovering much of the early work of German music in that period, Krautrock came to be considered a style in and of itself. Artists such as Al Di Meola, Laika, Mouse on Mars, Tortoise and Coil working under the post-rock and electronica rubrics have often cited bands in the Krautrock canon as being among their more significant influences.^[8] Radiohead has done a cover of Can's song "Thief" and cite Can, Neu! and Faust among their influences, while The Secret Machines not only covered Harmonia's "(De Luxe) Immer Wieder" on their The Road Leads Where It's Led EP, but have also played live with Michael Rother^[9]. Porcupine Tree has also covered Neu!'s Hallogallo as a demo for their album Signify. The band Wilco has shown a growing Krautrock influence in their music, specifically on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and several songs on A Ghost Is Born, especially on songs like Spiders (Kidsmoke)..^[10] In interviews Jeff Tweedy (the band's lead singer/songwriter/guitarist) has often spoke of his admiration for bands such as Can and Neu!.^{[citation needed]} Julian Cope has always cited Krautrock as an influence, and wrote the book Krautrocksampler on the subject. The nu-krautrock scene in Leeds is said to be directly inspired by krautrock, with band Die Plankton seen as pioneering the style. Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock... This article is about the Too Pure band. ... Mouse on Mars is a duo from Germany (Jan St. ... Tortoise, an instrumental rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990. ... Coil was an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as Jhonn Balance—and his lover Peter Christopherson, aka Sleazy.[1] The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by... The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ... Electronica refers to a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; but unlike electronic dance music, is not specifically focused on the dance floor. ... Rubric can refer to: In typography, rubric refers to a section of red text In academia, rubric is a grading scheme In liturgy, rubric refers to instructions indicating actions to be performed rather than words to be said A rubric is also an authoritative rule, an explanatory or introductory commentary... Radiohead are an English rock band. ... The Secret Machines are a two-piece American rock band originally from Dallas, Texas, before moving to New York City. ... The Road Leads Where Its Led is The Secret Machines second EP, released in 2005. ... Porcupine Tree is an English progressive rock band formed in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England by Steven Wilson. ... Signify is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in September, 1996. ... This article is about the music group. ... Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a 2002 album by Wilco. ... A Ghost Is Born is the fifth studio album by Chicago-based alternative rock band Wilco. ... Jeffrey Scott Tweedy (born August 25, 1967 in Belleville, Illinois, United States) is an American songwriter, musician, and poet. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... Neu! (the German word for new, pronounced noy) were a German band, probably the archetypal example of what the UK music press at the time dubbed Krautrock. ... Julian Cope (born Julian David Cope, on 21 October 1957) is a British rock musician, writer, antiquary, musicologist, and poet who came to prominence as singer of Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes in 1978. ... Krautrocksampler: One Heads Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards. ... For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation). ...

(Also see (Le) Froguerock - the French version of the genre from the 1990s.)

Samples

• Sample of "Hallogallo", the lead track off Neu!'s debut, and a definitive Krautrock track.
• Sample of "Green Bubble Raincoated Man" from Amon Düül II's album Wolf City.

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Notable artists

• Agitation Free
• Amon Düül I
• Amon Düül II
• Annexus Quam
• Ash Ra Tempel
• Astraleinhorn
• Birth Control
• Brainticket
• Can
• Cluster
• Cosmic Jokers
• Deuter
• Embryo
• Epitaph
• Eruption
• Faust
• Grobschnitt
• Guru Guru
• Harmonia
• Indigo
• Jane
• Karthago
• Kluster
• Kosmos
• Kraftwerk
• La Düsseldorf
• Missus Beastly
• Moebius & Plank
• Mythos
• Neu!
• Novalis
• Popol Vuh
• Conrad Schnitzler
• Klaus Schulze
• Tangerine Dream
• Troya
• Thirsty Moon
• Wallenstein
• Witthüser & Westrupp
• Xhol Caravan

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References

• Julian Cope, Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards, first published: 1995, Head Heritage, 140 pages, ISBN 0-9526719-1-3

External links

• Introduction to German Krautrock
• Krautrock @ pHinnWeb
• krautrock website
• The Crack In The Cosmic Egg Krautrock Encyclopedia
• Krautrocksite - Online-Magazin from Germany
• Krautrock Music Database
• Krautrock-World - Krautrock WebRadio from Germany]