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Günter Schickert

Though his name barely registers among a lot of the Krautrock intelligentsia, Gunter Schickert was both prolific in the backdrop and a significant artist. Combined with the better-known Achim Reichel, Schickert pioneered the echo acoustic guitar, where in fact the repeated acoustic guitar tones create exclusive, multi-layered textures that consider …

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Harmonia

Though Harmonia began like a sideline excursion for Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster and Michael Rother of Neu!, the group became probably one of the most famous in the complete Krautrock/kosmische scene using the launch of many mid-’70s LPs. After two studio room albums documented as Cluster, Roedelius …

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Guru Guru

Produced in 1970, Guru Guru was a German prog rock and roll outfit whose largely instrumental function arranged the group squarely inside the boundaries of what’s commonly described decades later on as Krautrock. While guitarist Ax Genrich, Uli Trepte, and keyboardist/drummer (and Cluster collaborator) Mani Neumeier continued to be the …

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Asmus Tietchens

Active because the mid-’60s, synthesizer experimentalist and musique concrète manufacturer Asmus Tietchens is a main influence on many generations of avant-garde digital music artists and sound performers. Heavily motivated by Karlheinz Stockhausen, he provides pursued “overall music” through rigid formal exercises. His music is frequently severe, alien, and abstract, but …

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Michael Rother

Michael Rother was created in Germany in 1950. In the past due ’60s, he performed for an organization known as Spirits of Audio and in addition Wolfgang Flür. The last mentioned group would afterwards become Kraftwerk; Rother also used Kraftwerk in 1971. That same calendar year he continued to the …

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Neu!

While small known and fairly unheralded during its short existence, the Krautrock duo Neu! ensemble a large darkness over later years of music artists and offered as a significant influence on performers as different as David Bowie, Sonic Youngsters, Pere Ubu, Julian Deal, and Stereolab. Neu! created in Düsseldorf, Germany, …

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Dieter Moebius

From his early use the pioneering Krautrock band Cluster to his later solo recordings, Dieter Moebius continued to be probably one of the most innovative and prolific voices in contemporary electronic music, anticipating motions from ambient to techno years prior to the fact. By day time students at Berlin’s Akademie …

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Cluster

The main and consistently underrated space rock unit from the ’70s, Cluster (originally Kluster) was formed by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Conrad Schnitzler as an improv group which used from synthesizers to alarm clocks and kitchen utensils within their performances. Carrying on on like a duo, Moebius and Roedelius …

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The Black Neon

The Dark Neon (aka Stephen Webster) had already performed and released recordings on Memphis Sectors with Toby Jenkins beneath the name Fort Lauderdale. Nevertheless, his solo efforts under the Dark Neon moniker produced their documenting debut around the 2001 Memphis Sectors 7″ solitary “You’re Therefore Vain.” The follow-up 12″, “Your …

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Camera

Hailing from Berlin, the three-piece Krautrock music group Camera is known as to be always a group that wears its affects proudly on its sleeve. After becoming championed by Michael Rother, the trio backed the previous Neu! story on his tour; Rother later on invited them to execute a joint …

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