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2/22/2010
By Jason Schreurs
Those who love Krautrock will soon be flipping their schnitzel over a
new double CD/four-LP entitled Elektronische Musik: Experimental
German Rock & Electronic Music 1972-1983, released by Soul Jazz
Records. Featuring the likes of Can, Harmonia, Popol Vuh, Conrad
Schnitzler, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Neu!, Cluster and Amon Düül II,
it's a veritable who's-who in the weird and wonderful world of German
'70s and '80s underground music.
As Soul Jazz writes on the label's website, "The objectives of German
experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a
new music 'free' from the past. A music that gave seed out of the
cultural 'nothingness' that young Germans felt as a consequence of
Germany's role in the Second World War. A generation who grew up
stifled by the recent history of Nazi atrocities, the guilt of their
parents' generation and their disillusionment at the reintegration of
old Nazis into mainstream society,"
The label likens the German scene to punk rock in the UK around the
same time, mentioning how German youth turned their backs on
mainstream society in a similar way to Britian's punk rockers,
although perhaps with a little more radical an approach.
"From the opening of the first collective/cooperative in 1967,
Commune 1, in Berlin, to the formation of the Baader-Meinhof
terrorist group and the bombings, kidnappings and killings of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces (RAF), young Germans sought out new values
and a lifestyle outside of 'the system,'" Soul Jazz's post reads.
"These cooperative and communal experiences led to a number of new
radical German bands including Amon Düül, Faust and Can."
The two-disc or quadruple vinyl collection, available in early April,
will feature 24 songs and, remember, a lot of this experimental
German music featured songs well above the ten-minute mark.
Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Music 1972-1983:
Disc 1:
1. Can "Aspectacle"
2. Between "Devotion"
3. Harmonia "Dino"
4. Gila "This Morning"
5. Kollectiv "Rambo Zambo"
6. Michael Bundt "La Chasse Aux Microbes"
7. E.M.A.K. "Filmmuzik"
8. Popol Vuh "Morgengruss"
9. Conrad Schnitzler "Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal"
10. La Dusseldorf "Rheinita"
11. Harmonia "Veterano"
12. Faust "It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl"
13. Neu "Hallogallo"
Disc 2:
1. Cluster "Heisse Lippen"
2. Ibliss "High Life"
3. Moebius "Hasenheide"
4. Amon Duul II "Fly United"
5. Popol Vuh "Aguirre 1"
6. Ash Ra Tempel "Daydream"
7. Tangerine Dream "No Man's Land"
8. Amon Duul II "Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse"
9. Roedelius "Geradewohl"
10. Can "I Want More"
11. Deuter "Soham"
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