Artist (Track Name)
Sun City Girls (Space Prophet Dogon) – Very impressive, experimental sound. Not serious at all however and fun to listen to. Hypnotic guitar lines.
Xhol Caravan (Electric Fun Fair) – This Krautrock band has very free-jazz element, late Faust-esque. Amazing sound really. Tonally very bluesy as well. Impressive. Definitely something I would keep listening to.
Embryo (Tausendfufsler) – Yes, the first band I actually knew beforehand. Very exciting, upbeat, jazzy with proper Krautrock rhythms. The keyboard solo sounds a more productive version of ELP.
Silver Apples (Lovefingers) – Musically sound but too psychedelic for me. Definitely a fine listening though. I think if they were still around I would maybe find their newer material very tempting.
Guru Guru (L. Torro) – Very drawn out but still interesting. Some serious fusion. Jazz listeners would appreciate this one very much. More disciplined version of early Frank Zappa.
The Red Krayola (If “S” Is) – Wow, very interesting. Definitely merits many repeated listens. Very intelligent music, tastefully discordant.
Organisation (Milk Rock) – This predecessor of Kraftwerk clearly produces music as amusing as the successor. Some intricate lines, excellent harmony. Sounds similar to early Can, without the raging vocal.
La Dusseldorf (Rheinita) – Klaus Dinger does his signature beat patterns. Classic Krautrock, very motorik. But the keyboard line at the end is so… ergh. NEU! always had to put something extra into songs – something which I was not always happy with.
The United States of America (Cloud Song) – Yuk. I’m sorry, but this is not good. Experimental pop? How can pop be experimental – that’s an oxymoron and clearly the music thinks so too. I know the album was a critical success, but this track does not stand up to the standard of tracks from the other bands so far.
Ashra (The Ocean of Tenderness) – Starts with JMJ-esque ambience and it wanders off to new age drivel. Too bad I cannot stand new age. At least JMJ’s music had flair. Really, really spacey.
Brian Eno (Spider And I) – Final Track. The master shows us how to make an ambient music interesting. I have heard two kinds of Brian Eno – one is exciting, surprising, and insightful; the other is calmer and less interesting but still very well composed and delivered. This is of the latter.
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