Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Krautrock 101

well, 100 anyway...I rather like Marc's suggestion of working our way through the Freeman brothers' list, banging up a track or two from each. Perhaps folks could add a few comments regarding the ones they're familiar with, and at some point I'll compile it all into a giant Frank's Apa guide to kraut and run it as a zine/pull-out-and-throw-away supplement. Anyway, here's that list in full, courtesy of Mr. Scott Watkins of the parish (shockingly Marc Gascoigne has all of these bar the bolded entries - can anyone step up to fill the remaining gaps?):
1. Agitation Free - Malesch
2. Agitation Free - 2nd
3. Agitation Free - Last
4. Alcatraz - Vampire State Building
5. Amon Duul - Psychedelic Underground
6. Amon Duul - Collapsing: Singvogel Ruckwarts & Co
7. Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
8. Amon Duul II - Yeti
9. Amon Duul II - Dance Of The Lemmings
10. Annexus Quam - Osmose
11. Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
12. Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
13. Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn
14. Between - And The Waters Opened
15. Brave New World - Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley
16. Can - Tago Mago
17. Can - Future Days
18. Can - Unlimited Edition
19. Cluster - Cluster [aka Cluster 71]
20. Cluster - Cluster II
21. Code III - Planet Of Man
22. Cosmic Jokers - Cosmic Jokers
23. Cosmic Jokers - Planeten Sit-In
24. Cornucopia - Full Horn
25. Dennis - Hyperthalamus
26. Deuter - D
27. Dom - Edge Of Time
28. Dzyan - Electric Silence
29. Eiliff - Eiliff
30. Eiliff - Girlrls!
31. Embryo - Embro's Rache
32. Embryo - Steig Aus
33. Emtidi - Saat
34. Et Cetera - Et Cetera
35. Eulenspygel - Ausschuss
36. Faust - Faust
37. Faust - So Far
38. Faust - The Faust Tapes
39. Floh De Cologne - Geyer-Symphonie
40. Frumpy - Frumpy 2
41. Galactic Supermarket - Galactic Supermarket
42. Gila - Gila "Free Electric Sound"
43. Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna Von Goloka
44. Gomorrha - I Turned To See Whose Voice It Was
45. Grobschnitt - Grobschnitt
46. Guru Guru - UFO
47. Guru Guru - Hinten
48. Guru Guru - Kanguru
49. Ibliss - Supernova
50. Kluster - Klopfzeichen
51. Kluster - Zwei Osterei
52. Kollektiv - Kollektiv
53. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
54. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk 2
55. Message - From Books & Dreams
56. Mythos - Mythos
57. Mythos - Dreamlab
58. Neu! - Neu!
59. Nine Days Wonder - Nine Days Wonder
60. Nosferatu - Nosferatu
61. Organisation - Tone Float
62. Out Of Focus - Out Of Focus
63. Out Of Focus - Four Letter Monday Afternoon
64. Popol Vuh - Affenstunde
65. Popol Vuh - In Den Garten Pharaos
66. Popol Vuh - Aguirre
67. Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage - Letzte Nacht
68. Achim Reichel & Machines - Die Grune Reise
69. Achim Reichel & Machines - Echo
70. Achim Reichel & Machines - AR. 3
71. Achim Reichel & Machines - AR. IV
72. Achim Reichel - Erholung
73. Release Music Orchestra - Life
74. Rufus Zuphall - Weiss Der Teufel
75. Sand - Golem
76. Gunter Schickert - Samtvogel
77. Conrad Schnitzler - Rot
78. Conrad Schnitzler - Blau
79. Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
80. Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
81. Klaus Schulze - Timewind
82. Klaus Schulze - Mirage
83. Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation
84. Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
85. Tangerine Dream - Zeit
86. Tangerine Dream - Atem
87. Technical Space Composers Crew [aka Holger Czukay] - Canaxis V
88. Thirsty Moon - Thirsty Moon
89. Thirsty Moon - You'll Never Come Back
90. Tomorrow's Gift - Tomorrow's Gift
91. Tomorrow's Gift - Goodbye Future (have .wma, .mp3s welcome)
92. Virus - Revelation
93. Vita Nova - Vita Nova
94. Wallenstein - Blitzkreig
95. Walter Wegmuller - Tarot
96. Wired - Wired "Free Improvisation"
97. Witthuser + Westrupp - Trips + Traume
98. Xhol Caravan - Electrip
99. Xhol Caravan - Motherfuckers GmbH & Co KG
100. Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass
101. Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
So, who's going to kick us off with some Agitation Free?

5 comments:

marco said...

Hey Eoghan,

Could you stick some numbers on the list and I'll start counting 'em off. First up, #1 and #2...

Ross said...

I have the Cosmic Jokers album if you're stuck...

Bob Bannister said...

I have just about all those items you're missing (except maybe the Frumpy 2) - I could send CDrs? Drop a line to soldbyvolume (at) hotmail etc

David said...

Good List! I have and greatly enjoy most of those. Hwwever, you're missing a few of my personal favorites:

Amon Duul II: Wolf City
Ashra: New Age of Earth, Blackouts
Brainticket: Psychonaut, Celestial Ocean
Broselmaschine: Broselmaschine
Can: Soon Over Babaluma
Gaa: Auf der Bahn Zum Uranus
Grobschnitt: Solar Music Live
Guru Guru: Dance of the Flames
Holderlin: Holderlin's Traum, Holderlin
Kalacakra: Crawling to Lhasa
Nektar: Remember the Future
Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra


If you don't have any of these btw, they are all fabulous, especially brainticket, ashra, broselmaschine and popol vuh

Other possibilities:
Bokaj Retsiem: Psychedelic Underground
Can: Monster Movie
Cosmic Jokers: Galactic Supermarket
Deuter: Aum
Embryo: Opal
Kluster: Eruption
Kolektiv: Kollektiv
Harmonia: Musik Von Harmonia
Popol Vuh: Seligpreisung
Radiomobel: Tramsebox, Gudang Garam
Siddhartha: Weltschmerz
Scorpions: Lonesome Crow
Walter Wegmuller: Tarot
Witthüser & Westrupp: Der Jesuspilz (Musik Vom Evangelium)

I have the "Message" and "Achim Reichel & Machines"<-(both) if you haven't got them yet (as well as all the above).
volkerd@reed.edu

Lucifer Sam said...

Lots of nice stuff, but too little Harmonia. Musik von Harmonia, Live 1974 (!!!), Deluxe, Harmonia & Eno - Tracks And Traces. And also no La Düsseldorf?