VA - Krautrock Volume 2 (A Butterboy Compilation) (6 x CD's)

 

KRAUTROCK

VA - Krautrock Volume 2 (A Butterboy Compilation) (6 x CD's)

This set follows on from the First volume posted on 24th June 2020. Here is Volume 2.

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 Part 1

01 Thirsty Moon Yellow Sunshine 21:29

02 Between Happy Stage 11:31

03 Space Debris Capitalists Nightmare 12:05

04 Agitation Free You Play for Us Today 6:15

05 Cluster Dem Wanderer 3:52

06 Gila Little Smoke 5:05

07 Bröselmaschine Come Together 9:11

08 Temple Black Light 5:43

09 Blackbirds Come Back 10:58

10 Colour Haze Islands 11:05

11 Analogy Analogy 9:49

12 Sunbirds African Sun 10:58

CD1 Part 2

13 Golem Stellar Launch 7:43

14 Harmonia Harmonia - Dino 3:28

15 Annexus Quam Osmose III 10:33

16 Ten to Zen Innerst 10:18

17 Spirulina The Message 10:26

18 Cozmic Corridors Niemand Versteht 7:46

19 Drosselbart Engel Des Todes 4:53

20 Klaus Schulze Mental Door 22:58

21 Michael Bundt Neon 12:32

22 Aussenminister Jazziz 7:47

23 Grobschnitt Rockpommel's Land 19:52

CD2 Part 1

24 Vintage Cucumber Im Ewigen Meer 10:12

25 Et Cetera Mellodrama Nr. 2 A 5:13

26 Electric Sandwich Electric Sandwich - China 8:06

27 My Solid Ground My Solid Ground - The executioner 3:32

28 Drum Circus Groove Rock 8:43

29 Violence Fog Town Child Baby 6:35

30 Düde Dürst The Sound of Sunshine 16:55

31 Yatha Sidhra Part 4 7:17

32 Hans-Joachim Roedelius Am Rockzipfel 4:42

33 Golem Godhead Dance 6:35

34 Can Outside My Door 4:15

35 German Oak Nibelungenlied I Siegfried & Kriemhild 7:30

CD2 Part 2

36 Galactic Explorers Lunarscape 18:00

37 Dschinn Freedom 4:47

38 Out of Focus Whispering 13:13

39 Tangerine Dream Rubycon Part 1 17:20

40 Tangerine Dream Rubycon Part 2 17:34

41 Michael Rother Karussell 5:22

42 Harmonia Watussi 5:59

43 Bokaj Retsiem Bokaj Retsiem 5:43

44 Pinguin Der Frosch in Der Kehle 7:18

45 Hairy Chapter Cry for Relief 4:04

46 Gunther Kaufmann Gunther Kaufmann - Our Love 4:12

CD3 Part 1

47 Tyburn Tall Lost Angeles 6:24

48 McChurch Soundroom Delusion 5:48

49 Walter Wegmuller Der Herrscherin 4:15

50 Ash Ra Tempel Time 21:36

51 Krokodil Session Part 1 11:26

52 Sperrmüll Sperrmüll - No freak out 6:40

53 Utopia Utopia - Deutsch Nepal 3:08

54 Breakfast Thousand Miles 4:01

55 Twilight Day and Night 8:30

56 Ardo Dombec Heavenly Rose 3:55

57 Oratorium It's Love (Es Ist Die Liebe) 9:03

CD3 Part 2

58 Virus Woods Fun 10:08

59 Sand A Cosy Trance of Hibernation 7:25

60 Cluster Hollywood 4:24

61 Thirsty Moon Big City 8:31

62 Tomorrow's Gift Riddle in a Swamp 8:04

63 Trikolon Trumpet for Example 7:09

64 Dennis Others Do 5:45

65 Frankie Dymon Jnr In the Same Bag 3:19

66 Between Dharana 22:02

67 Cravinkel Two Circles 2:35

68 Necronomicon Requiem Der Natur 10:49

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