favourite krautrock record?
 

another favourites thread... bah.

so?

either that or Amon Duul II's Yeti

pick more then one! i missed an s

Yeah, NEU! is pretty hard to top. Honorable mention to Electronic Meditation by Tangerine Dream though. And then there's about half a dozen Kraftwerk records, and Tago Mago by Can...

Malesch by Agitation Free
UFO and Hinten by Guru Guru
Gila's self-titled album
Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi by Can
All pre-Autobahn Kraftwerk and Organisation
Neu!
Witthuser & Westrupp - all
Walter Wegenmuller - Tarot

gila s/t
eloy
achim reichel - die grüne reise (can be considered...)
dom - edge of time
guru guru - ufo
amon düül II - yeti
faust - so far
brainticket - cottonwoodhill
ash ra temple s/t
neu's discography
deuter - d
german oak - nibelungenlied
brast burn - debon
popol vuh - letzte tage letzte nachte
can - tago mago

there are so many...

Yeti for sure, Phallus Dei as well.
Popol Vuh's "Aguirre" is incredible.

Brainticket is arguable, since they weren't from Germany, but that LP is a fine one.

it brings us to the question, is it the region or the sound? they got mentioned in krautrocksampler and tons other kraut databases, released at the same time as all that...

ED: i never thought popol vuh could be so good, when they were in their prime, wow! i left out phaedra by tangerine dream, but forgot to mention zeit.

hey, clone, you have that make up/flower traveling band lp?

I don't have the actual LP (because I don't have a spare 600 bucks), but I did download it recently.
It was the last stuff of theirs I didn't have. Some great stuff on there as well as a small bit of cheese.

Oh, and I do think of it more as a sound than the region, and I think there is plenty of contemporary stuff that fits this description too. The term seems to hit a sore spot for some of the musicians from that original scene. You know, kinda like how they don't call them "Brazil Nuts" in Brazil.

hahahaha, yeah, it used to be a derogatory name, and now they are offended when describing a band "krautrock" that weren't part of the scene.

i found that lp for $130 u.s.d. aprox. yesterday, i thought it was quite expensive but you say it's going for $600? if i had the money i would buy it.

nice lists.... no schulze?

krautrock was a pejorative term given by the britishs...

EN mentioned the first Ash Ra Tempel, which contains Schulze...

"Cyborg" is my favorite of his solo LPs.

I really love Ege Bamyasi, but I'm not really well versed in Krautrock.

popol vuh- in den gärten pharaohs
can- delay 1968
the monks- monktime

@ savage clone:

you mention witthüser&westrupp; they way you spell it makes me think you're not living in germany, are you? i am, which means i can understand the words, and to me, their lyrics oftentimes are too cheesy and hippiesque. but if you don't understand what they're singing, it must be dead cool, though quite trashy.

you´re right there, their lyrics are mostly pretty goofey.

N E U !

Really? You like Phaedra. I thought that one was awful. Electronic Meditation, Atem and Zeit are pretty ace though.

Noone has mentioned Music Von Harmonia by Harmonia. That one is ace.

I don't know if Brast Burn count. I thought they were Japanese. I guess they sound pretty Kraut-y though.

Yeah, I was lazy with the spelling of W&W.
And I'm not in Germany.
Yeah, I probably enjoy it more not being well-versed in the German language. I have heard the "lyrical goofiness" criticism before, and I have a feeling that would get on my nerves too if I could understand them better. "Goofy" isn't usually my thing.

some of my favorites:
Neu- S/t
Can- Monster Movie, Tago Mago, Soundtracks
Guru Guru- UFO, Hinten

Can - Future days
Neu! - Neu!, Neu! 75

pretty much agree with Savage Clone here, but here is my top 5:

Guru Guru: UFO and/or Hinten
Ash Ra Tempel: (the 1st One)
Amon Duul II: Dance of the Lemmings
Faust: IV
Agitation Free: Malesch

Have any of you ever heard Planet Of Man - Code III?
I still don't know which is the album name and which is the band name, but I got to hear it when I was working for the record store and it sold for about 120 bucks.
Definitely good stuff; I don't know if there is a reissue LP, but I think it's out on CD. I really liked that one.

Edit:
It's on the Delta Acustic label and involves Klaus Schulze. I think he produced it and maybe played on it. Details are fuzzy. I think the band is Code III and the album name is Planet Of Man.

NEU! - S/T

I don't really listen to many other Krautrock bands all that much other than that tbh.

i have some vague memory of that album and klaus schulze involvement, but nothing concrete. i won't mislead by adding my assumptions.

...and we thank you.

awesome

What? No Rammstein?

...

I'm not well-versed or well-collected in kraut rock myself. I have and like Neu!, and I have the Monks--but are the Monks really kraut rock?!

last week i was unable to get to sleep so i put on Tago Mago, i think i passed to another dimension, it was amazing.
I have 3 Can albums and thats all that could be considered Krautrock, but they are all inc-red-i-ble.

ash ra tempel-s/t
amon duul ii- yeti
can- monster movie, tago mago, ege bamyasi

a few other ones i've been enjoying lately:
agitation free- s/t
embryo- father son and holy ghosts
walter wegmuller- tarot
guru guru- ufo (waaay too many drugs!)
kraftwerk- K4 Bremen 1971 (kraftwerk+neu>jesus)

Where's the love for Kanguru and the self titled Guru Guru records? Immer Lustig!

Can anyone reccomend any Embryo albums? I see they got one mention in this thread so far... and I'm not looking for Embryonnck.

http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com...requested.html

out of the two Krautrock albums I've heard, Neu's first album is definitely my fave.

I didn't mention Kanguru because i unfortunately don't have it and never heard it, though i've been wanting to for a long long time, its their 2nd album between the amazing albums UFO and Hinten. Kanguru is a such an expensive import cd its just ridiculus...

How uncanny! I'm a relative new owner of Ege Bamyasi (my first ever Can LP), and I had incredibly bizarre dreams last week after playing it before going to bed.