Krautrock Volume 1, CD1+CD2+CD3 (A Butterboy Compilation)

KRAUTROCK

Krautrock Volume 1, CD1+CD2+CD3 (A Butterboy Compilation)

Krautrock (also called "Kosmische musik") is a German avant-garde / experimental rock movement that emerged at the end of the 1960's. It was intended to go beyond the eccentricities developed by the wild psychedelic rock universe of the US, by giving a special emphasis to electronic treatments, sound manipulation and minimal hypnotic motifs (continuing the style of "musique concrete" and minimalist repetitive music but within a more accessible environment).  Krautrock put the emphasis on extended and ecstatic instrumental epics, neglecting the format of conventional psych-pop songs. The term Krautrock was first used by the British music press in a very derogatory way. The term rapidly found a better reputation in underground music circles and finally gained a certain popularity.  The Krautrock movement is widely associated with notorious bands such as Popol Vuh, Amon Duul, Faust, Neu!, Ash Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, Guru Guru, etc. With their own particular artistic expression, these musical collectives provided rocking psychedelic incantations, mantra like drones, melancholic lugubrious atmospheres, long and convoluted collective improvisations, binary repetitive drum pulses, fuzz guitars, feedback, primitive electronic noises, hallucinatory ballads, and garage blues rock trips. Krautrock can be described as an anarchic, intense, acid, tellurian, nocturnal, spacey, dark and oniric "adventure" through rock music.

The most consistent years of the Krautrock scene cover a relatively short period from 1970 to 1975. After their first spontaneous, hyperactive and psychedelic efforts, the bands generally split up or declined into other musical sensibilities, more in line with mainstream rock or with ambient soundscapes.  Each region develops its particular musical scene, interpreting differently the Krautrock musical structure. For instance the Berlin school focused on "astral" synthscapes, weird electronic experimentation and acid jams (Ash Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, Mythos, The Cosmic Jokers, Kluster...), The Munich scene offered fuzzed out (Eastern) psych rock mantras with some folk accents (Popol Vuh, Amon Duul, Gila, Guru Guru, Witthuser & Westrupp...). Cologne and Dusseldorf underground scenes focused on happenings, political rock, electronics, pulsating rhythms and clean sounding Krautrock (Floh de Cologne, La Dusseldorf, Neu! Can...).   This musical cartography is correct in the absolute but naturally reveals some variations and exceptions. This intriguing and freak 'n' roll 1970's German scene enjoyed a rebirth in recent years thanks to a large number of reissues (of long lost classics) published by several independent labels (Spalax, Garden of Delights, Long Hair Music...) as a direct result of Krautrock's musical inspiration of modern post rock bands. There are actually some neo psychedelic rock bands who try to hold up Krautrock, and who notably find a major place to express themselves during the historical Burg Herzberg Festival in Germany. (Philippe Blache  ProgArchives)

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Track lists

CD1

01    Faust    Krautrock    11:47
02    Agitation Free    First Communication    8:13
03    Ibliss    High Life    13:01
04    Nosferatu    Found My Home    8:39
05    Eiliff    Journey to the ''ego''    7:49
02    Dom    Silence    8:52
07    18 Karat Gold    Flying    5:18
08    Rufus Zuphall    Makrojel    6:03
09    Amon Düül    Wolf City    3:20
10    Guru Guru    I Am a Spaceboy    7:13
11    Alcatraz    Simple Headphone Mind    10:00
12    Sunbirds    Sunrise    5:36
13    Neu!    Neuschnee    4:06
14    Ainigma    Prejudice    5:26
15    McChurch Soundroom    What Are You Doin'    8:31
16    Grobschnitt    Ernie's Reise    10:43
17    Can    Future Days (Edit)    3:24
18    Between    Joy Sadness    11:15
19    Tangerine Dream    Ashes to Ashes    3:58
20    A.R. & Machines    I'll Be Your Singer, You'll Be My Song    2:26
21    Popol Vuh    Der Grosse Krieger    3:15
22    Embryo    Entrances    15:29
23    The Cosmic Jokers    Galactic Supermarket 2    5:34
24    Kraftwerk    Ruckzuck    7:49
25    Kraftwerk    K2 Ruckzuck (Live)    19:20

CD2

26    Amon Duull Ii    Amon Duull Ii - Dem Guten, Schonen, Wahren    6:12
27    Ash Ra Tempel    Daydream    5:22
28    Electric Orange    Meals of Confusion    15:49
29    Out of Focus    Blue Sunday Morning    8:10
30    Gomorrha    I Turned to See Whose Voice it Was    7:44
31    Popol Vuh    Ja, Deine Liebe Ist Süßer Als Wein    3:38
32    Swara Samrat    The Deeper You Fall    6:19
33    Scarecrew    Dronedom    4:03
34    Krokodil    And I Know    7:44
35    Gila    Kollektivitat    6:41
36    Kollektiv    Gageg    19:58
37    Altona    Hide Yourself    5:49
38    Walter Wegmuller    Die Kraft    3:27
39    Michael Rother    Feuerland    7:07
40    Can    Father Cannot Yell    6:46
41    Wolfgang Dauner    Take Off Your Clothes to Feel the Setting Sun    4:04
42    Try    Wreck on the Wire    6:23
43    Violence Fog    Brother Where Are You    7:16
44    Dzyan    Naga Raga    5:04
45    Colour Haze    Into Her Garden    1:07
46    Colour Haze    Black Lily    6:48
47    Scorpions    Lonesome Crow    13:31
48    Twogether    Fusion    3:48
49    Friendsound    Joyride    4:25
50    Agitation Free    Laila, Part 1    1:43
50    Agitation Free    Laila, Part 2    6:49

CD3

51    Ad'absurdum    Small Stone    11:57
52    Space Debris    Psychomonstermountain    16:07
53    Kraan    Mind Quake    7:42
54    Gila    This Morning    5:45
55    Arktis    Small Talk    4:46
56    Bröselmaschine    Schmetterling    9:33
57    Wallenstein    Mother Universe    8:43
58    Birth Control    This Song is Just for You    7:24
59    Frankie Dymon Jnr    Reflections    3:35
60    Association; Pierre Cour    Earwax    7:18
61    Jerusalem    Metamorphosis    13:26
62    Golem    Orion Awakes    7:35
63    La Dusseldorf    Silver Cloud    8:02
64    Temple    Black Light    5:43
65    Spirulina    The Message    10:26
66    Brainticket    Black Sand    4:04
67    Prof. Wolfff    Hetzjagd    9:54
68    Klaus Schulze    Silent Running    19:09
69    Yatha Sidhra    Part 3    11:59
70    Eulenspygel    Die Wunde Bleibt    2:00
71    Gam    Verlass Mich Nicht    6:34
72    Streetmark    Passage    4:24
73    Vintage Cucumber    Neuland (Ins Glück Hinein...)    6:18
74    Gomorrha    I Try to Change This World    9:28
75    Manuel Göttsching    E2-E4    58:39

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