Documentary: German Electronic Music History: Krautrock

Interesting and insightful BBC documentary on Western Germanys “Underground” music development after the second world war till approx. 1975. Especially featuring the “Krautrock” music movement. One very important influential channel for modern electronic (dance) music, from which also Kraftwerk evolved.

According to Wikipedia, Krautrock is

“Krautrock is an eclectic and often very original mix of 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 1970s (mainly the free jazzOrnette Coleman or Albert Ayler). 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 mechanicalelectronic sound. The key component characterizing the groups gathered under the term is the synthesis of 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.” pieces by and

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