I have been using [ame=http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=160302]this thread[/ame] as a reference and I've found some great bands. Any recommendations from people here?

Essential listening (in my opinion)

Faust

Can

Amon D

Believe it or not, early Kraftwerk. It'll be less experimental than Can or Amon D

The only thing that's not well known kraut (at least from what I've seen) I can recommend is Gila. I have a "copy" of Krautrocksampler, if you want to "borrow" it.

EDIT: Tortoise and Stereolab are both good recent groups that are heavily kraut influenced.

Not exactly Krautrock because it doesn't come from Germany, but you might like Henry Cow. British avant-garde rock band from the 70s with Canterbury influences a la Soft Machine, but much weirder. I appreciate it in small doses, a little bit like Can.

Let me give you some recommendations. I will break the bands in groups, names in bold are especially cool (IMHO), based on the basic approach to sound:

Jazzy sounding:

Annexus Quam

Alcatraz

Anima

Between

Cornucopia

Dzyan

Embryo

Eiliff

G

Thanks guys!

We're working on compiling the Krautrocksampler 50 album list right now.

I have purchased a few digital publications about Kraut, if you want to take a look at them PM me.

Since this is a thread about Krautrock I think it's OK to ask folks this. Does any one have the following albums in flac or good vinyl rip:

NIAGARA

NIAGARA

LP United Artists Records UAS 29232 (1971)

S.U.B.(2/1972)

LP United Artists Records UAS 29343 (1972)

AFIRE (1972)

LP Finger 2960 102 (1973)

Great lists, thank you. I searched through the Hoffman pages and found some reccomendations for recording (but opinions are over the place there) was wondering if anyone could recommend certain recordings over other (faust, neu, ash ra, kraan, or any others). Just a few to get me started as these are long lists. Thanks

Faust3d- that's a really bad ass list and the subdivisions makes it nice to find what I'm looking for.

I guess I'm more into drugged out guitar wanking with avant-garde/weird shit going on.

I guess I'm more into drugged out wanking with weird shit going on.

Great lists, thank you. I searched through the Hoffman pages and found some reccomendations for recording (but opinions are over the place there) was wondering if anyone could recommend certain recordings over other (faust, neu, ash ra, kraan, or any others). Just a few to get me started as these are long lists. Thanks

Kraan - Kraan (1972)

Kraan - Wintrup (1973)

Kraan - Andy Nogger (1974)

Faust - Faust (1971)

Faust - Faust IV (1974)

Thirsty Moon - Thirsty Moon (1972)

Can - Tago Mago (1971)

Can - Future Days (1973)

Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel (1971)

Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn (1973)

Kollektiv - Kollektiv (1973)

[url=http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/manuel_gottsching]Manuel G

faust3d, awesome list. I've got to check out a lot of those.

I'll add two modern suggestions highly recommended for anyone into krautrock: Circle (Circle - NWOFHM - Faust-endorsed) and Jonathan Kane (ex-drummer for Swans, makes 15-minute kraut-psych-blues-raga opuses).

Hey if you are participating in the Kraut threadKraut thread can you ask Eroc about Guru Guru - Globetrotter (1977) as well. I figured if a few people ask the chances of SPV re-releasing it will increase and it's a cool album that everyone should hear!

Hey if you are participating in the Kraut threadKraut thread can you ask Eroc about Guru Guru - Globetrotter (1977) as well. I figured if a few people ask the chances of SPV re-releasing it will increase and it's a cool album that everyone should hear!

Yeah I can ask him about that. It is a great album.

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Yeah I can ask him about that. It is a great album.

So Eroc emailed Mani about the album, as well as SPV. It's so refreshing that these old Kraurock dudes are supper nice and have no traces of "star syndrome".

I have been digging into Peter Frohmader / Nekropolis discography a bit deeper and for fans of modern dark electronics this should be very interesting as he was way ahead of the Dark Ambient and similar movements. This stuff is not really Kraut, but more of what I like to call Neo-kraut as it falls at the very end of the 1970's and beginning of the 1980's.

Recommended albums are:

Nekropolis - Musik aus dem Schattenreich (1981)

Nekropolis - Nekropolis 2 (1982)

Nekropolis - Cultes des Ghoules (1985)

These are also not bad but do not seem as interesting as his early stuff:

Nekropolis - Live (1983)

Peter Frohmader - Richard Pinhas - Fossil Culture (1999)

I would love to hear these but I cannot find them anywhere:

Peter Frohmader - Homunculus Vol. 1

Peter Frohmader - Homunculus Vol. 2

I'll check that out.

I posted on SH forum as well. No really music related but krautrock related. Conny Plank's studio stuff is for sale: linky. There is a lot of cool stuff

GoD just released this on CD NECRONOMICON: ”Strange dreams” (79:20)

The band from Aachen, famous for their LP “Tips zum Selbstmord”, worked in their late period with English lyrics. The CD is filled with so far unreleased recordings from 1976.

GoD just released this on CD [url=http://www.diregarden.com/god147.html]NECRONOMICON:

I especially agree with the beautiful Tago mago, Faust I, Yeti.

I wanted to ask to the list an album called Magma - Mekanik Destructiw Kommandoh, which apparently Faust didn't know.

I find it very good, somewhat epic. Of the three albums I mentioned above, it's closest to Amon Duul II's Yeti.

Magma is a great band.

I think Can is becoming my favorite kraut rock band. I never really properly listened to them when I only had the SACDs, they just didn't sound right. But the Spoon CDs sound so natural, and they really are a talented group of musicians.

Other than Tago Mago, I quite like Future Days, but it stands out less as a masterpiece. The other albums are less and less magnificent.

I probably like Faust over any other kraut band, mostly thanks to their first album (Faust), incredibly visionary and experimental, although less "sonically pleasing" than stuff like Tago Mago.

Have you heard Kraftwerk? Some very old stuff is worth digging into, like two visionary songs called Hall of Mirrors and Radioactivity (original version). The former is especially a trip.