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<title>Kraftwerk</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:20:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After looking at a few of their song titles, do you really need any additional description of their sound? "Pocket Calculator," "Autobahn," "Metropolis," "Electric Cafe," "Computer World," and "Ohm Sweet Ohm" correctly cast this animatronic ensemble as the creators of musical LED displays and cold steel configurations. Their techno/pop sound reproduces the rigid "Kling Klang" of industry. Their music is so lost in the matrix of artificial intelligence, a soul emerges. And a funk as well. Their history has taken them from a handful of musicians of an inscrutable pedigree that created illusory Krautrock in a vibrant German avant-garde to the vanguard of electronic pop. Their contributions to the histories of dance and electronic music is immeasurable.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Tangerine Dream</title>
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<category>New Age Electronic</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In their early days, Tangerine Dream were one of the most progressive, avant-garde bands to span the distance between rock and electronic composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen. Much in line with other Krautrock artists of the early '70s, they created a drawn-out, improvised sound that brought droning electronics up against wind instruments and rock instrumentation played like a jazz ensemble. With increasing focus on the growing possibilities of synthesizers, they embarked on a new sound, arranging heavy analog drones into a then-futuristic sound of pure electronics and minimal rhythm. Throughout the '80s and into the '90s, their output became decreasingly academic and progressive, and increasingly Ambient and incidental.
- Jeff K.]]></description>
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<title>Can</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The late '60s created an overwhelming number of bands that changed history, but it also gave birth to a group of artists whose proper history has yet to be written. Coming from the diverse fields of visual art, jazz and Avant-Garde classical music and from different parts of the world, Can came together in Germany's blooming Krautrock scene to form one of the most revolutionary sounds in rock music. What sets Can apart from other ensembles is an absence of center; at almost any point in Can's songs, there appears to be no lead. Each instrument forms a cohesive whole of hypnotic rhythms and melting textures. Jaki Leibezeit's unequalled percussion makes complex rhythms as natural as a heartbeat. The electric and acoustic machinations of Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Irmin Schmidt accumulate as organic manifestations of the most peculiar approaches to their instruments. Even the unique voices of Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney flow effortlessly through their ever-changing sounds. The members continue to create vanguard music, but at their peak, Can was truly touched by superlative inspiration.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>The Notwist</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:20:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though few Americans heard of them until they buffed down their most clattery Teutonic edges, the Bavarian-bred Notwist have long been a definitive German band, serving as an intersection of any number of sprockety sonic streams. Revolving around brothers Markus and Michael Acher, the band materialized near Munich at the end of the '80s as an only slightly off-kilter punk power trio. But by 1995's <i>12</i>, the Notwist were putting fanciful dystopian machine worlds on their CD covers, stretching song lengths, and creating an intermittently string-sectioned and increasingly spacious species of doomsday art-rock, as indebted to early Metallica as to Can; an impossibly sad and sweet 1994 cover of Robert Palmer's forgotten electro-pop track "Johnny and Mary" proved a clear turning point. In 1997, the band added a keyboardist, and before long was collaborating with techno artists. As they upped the glitch quotient on 1998's <i>Shrink</i> and especially 2002's critic-approved <i>Neon Golden</i>, indie fans outside Europe took notice. If <i>The Devil, You + Me</i> got less attention six years later, that says more about hipster fickleness than any slippage on the Notwist's part.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>Klaus Schulze</title>
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<category>New Age Electronic</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Roedelius</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born in 1934, Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a Krautrock pioneer and a godfather of ambient music. A member of the groups Harmonia, Cluster, Kluster and many more, he has recorded and collaborated with Brian Eno, Holger Czukay, Michael Rother, Konrad Plank, Dieter Moebius and Konrad Schnitzler, among others. Roedelius began composing and playing in the late '60s, when the winds of political change favored a more experimental musical approach, one he has described as "anarchic musical actionism." Based in Berlin since 1978, Roedelius continues to compose music for stage, dance and screen, and well into his 70s he could be found working alongside far younger talents like Patrick Pulsinger, Werner Dafeldecker or the Orb's Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann. In 2008, he released <I>Inlandish</I>, a delicate chamber-music collaboration with Tim Story.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Neu!</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:10:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the leading lights in the Krautrock scene, Neu! were formed by ex-Kraftwerk members Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother in Dusseldorf in 1971. The band never enjoyed commercial success but was nevertheless a major influence on countless artists that followed it. With tape effects, only occasional (and always treated) vocals, and extremely minimal guitar, bass, drums and synthesizers, Neu! created a futuristic combination of the Velvet Underground and early ambient music. It was spacey, gentle groove rock that, 20 years later, was almost directly lifted by indie-rock big shots Stereolab. The group's first three albums, <i>Neu!</i>, <i>Neu! 2</i> and <i>Neu! '75</i>, are infinitely listenable and have long been considered required material for anyone interested in the fringes of rock music.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Oneida</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the brainiest and most prolific NYC bands of the '00s began as a duo and has done time as a four-piece. But at heart they're a power trio, given to three-CD sets and conceptual trilogies, to freak-folk and slow metal and Krautrock and dub reggae, to plunking the same note over and over for a quarter-hour or more until you realize they've been gradually shifting all along. On early albums like 1999's <I>Enemy Hogs</I>, they come off as a kind of stoner-rock unit, but on 2000's definitive half-hour-plus <I>Steel Rod</I> EP, they squeeze Link Wray barbed-wire twang and a choogling Creedence cover into weird nerd-rock that balances the sludge with science-lab keyboards after the manner of Devo or Pere Ubu. "Power Animals," on 2000's <I>Come on Everybody Let's Rock</I>, was about a deadlocked presidential election -- not Bush and Gore, but Tilden and Hayes in 1876. On 2002's double disc, <I>Each One Teach One</I>, they carried water-torture minimalism to its breaking point, and since then -- averaging more or less an album a year -- they've gotten both daintier and dronier, picking up indie fans much younger than themselves, then regularly finding ways to dumbfound them.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>Cluster</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:46:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Faust</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Faust is of the most important and innovative of the Krautrock bands, along with Kraftwerk, Can, Neu! and Amon Duul. Their landmark self-titled debut album, released in 1971, was a relentlessly avant-garde work that not only pre<I>dated</I> industrial, electronic, new age, and post-punk music, but effectively laid the groundwork for them. Starting with the traditional Krautrock perspective of loose-jam space rock and then chopping everything into fragmented, disorienting parts, the German band played with an astonishing array of styles, and was so far ahead of everyone else that the music still sounds futuristic, 30 years after the fact. Their records were notoriously bad sellers for years, until the last decade when seemingly every underground rock band in America and Japan began building on ideas set forth by the wave of Teutonic rock that occurred in the late '60s/early '70s. Today Faust's hardcore dedication to weirdness is considered to have had an almost incalculable influence on experimental music of all kinds. The band recorded four albums, (one for major label Virgin!) before disbanding for 22 years. Two original members (of seven) reformed the band in 1995, and have been both touring, recording and releasing music since.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Senor Coconut</title>
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<category>Electronica/Dance</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:44:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While electronic music's culture of sampling takes "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" as its founding principle, Uwe Schmidt's Senor Coconut project puts an unprecedented multicultural spin on ideas of authenticity and appropriation. In the mid-'90s, having established a rep as an electronic maverick via projects like Atom Heart and Lassigue Bendthaus, Schmidt emigrated from his native Germany to Santiago, Chile, where he found inspiration in Latin American styles like salsa and <I>cumbia</I>. His first project, <I>El Baile Aleman</I>, interpreted Kraftwerk's coldly funky grooves as supple, sampladelic samba, and, aided by vocalists like Argenis Brito and Jorge Gonzalez, he followed up with similarly spicy covers of Sade, Michael Jackson and the Doors. In 2006, working with a full band, he released <I>Yellow Fever</I>, a tribute to Japan's answer to Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Along with Y.M.O. members Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono, a distinguished crew -- Towa Tei, Mouse on Mars, Burnt Friedman -- rounded out the collaboration.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Ash Ra Tempel</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Ash Ra Tempel</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Ash Ra Tempel are another iconoclast from the peak of the Krautrock movement. Manuel Gottsching, his guitar, and a changing ensemble of musicians constantly shift jams that seamlessly mutate from blues to Acid Rock to psychotic noisescapes. Their performances tread passionately across the thin line between divine inspiration and pathological insanity.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Popol Vuh</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:02:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Conrad Schnitzler</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Brainticket</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the finer exponents of the Krautrock/Psychedelic boom of the late 1960s and early '70s, Brainticket managed to make some of the most disjointed and expansive psychedelia ever. Their early '70s records are some of the best examples of freak rock, featuring multitudes of tablas, organs, and flutes whirring away as electronic collages collapsed in the background. Heavily drug-influenced, the largely concept-oriented records were awash in psychosis-inducing guitar work and vocals spewed out by the Future Acid Casualties Association. As the band progressed through the '70s, they veered away from their psych-roots into early synth work without sacrificing their tendency to create multiple, elongated, echoing sequences.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Amon Duul</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:08:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>D.A.F.</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:03:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[They invented EBM (Electronic Body Music), and then, bored by their invention, left it behind to produce embarrassingly vapid Disco. Their early albums revolutionized the sound of dance music by introducing authoritarian vocals that spit out every line like a direct order amidst a crossfire of explosive beats and flying shards of Industrial noise. Upon reemerging in the late '80s, D.A.F.'s martinet demeanor had given way to an effeminate prissiness. By that time, however, they had already assumed a central place in the history of dance music as the primary inspiration for Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and Front Line Assembly.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Holger Czukay</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:10:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Moebius</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:14:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Sapat</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:35:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>SubArachnoid Space</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:41:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The deconstructed jams of Subarachnoid Space construct abstract labyrinths of sound. Rather than stone, the walls of these audio mazes are made of sinuous wah-wah guitars, shimmering cymbals and jazz-inspired free jams. The band owes an obvious debt to the aggressively experimental and improvisational spirit of '60s Psychedelic Rock and '70s Krautrock. (A Listen.com employee is a member of this band.)
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Amon Duul II</title>
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<category>Krautrock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:12 -0700</pubDate>
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