• Deep Dive 10: Krautrock & Beyond!🎆

  • May 5 2022
  • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
  • Podcast

Deep Dive 10: Krautrock & Beyond!🎆

Listen for free

View show details

  • Summary

  • Krautrock & Beyond The German influence on psychedelia and leftfield music has been immense; no more so than during the early 1970s Krautrock movement. By embracing new developments (mostly American) in electronic music technology, bands such as Can, Faust, Neu! and Kraftwerk paved the way for genres as diverse as Dance, Hip-Hop, Electronica, Ambient and Punk. Yes, it really was that important. Perhaps two of the genre’s biggest flag bearers, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop, had the biggest impact on the marketing of this new movement, the pair moving to Berlin for a period to embrace the culture of a nation still reeling from its virtual destruction some three decades previous. Known in Germany as kosmiche musik (literally ‘cosmic music’) it was the broadest form of experimental rock music around in the 1970s and attracted followers sick to death of the tired blues rock/verse-chorus-verse recipe suffocating the pop charts. It was time to move away from the radio-friendly cash cow and experiment. And boy, did they experiment. Synthesisers and tape loops replaced Marshall stacks and heavy riffs; a repetitive 4/4 beat and pulsating groove replaced the extended guitar and drum solos of corporate America, electronic inspiration taking its influence from minimalist artists such as Miles Davis and the ‘musique concrete’ of Stockhausen. That’s not to say that there weren’t popular influences in Krautrock – they are myriad, from Hendrix to Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa to The Velvet Underground. However, at its heart beats a desire for difference. With the constricting rule of the 7” single and obligatory Top of The Pops performance removed, Krautrock artists grooved to the beat of their own drum machine. Artists include Kraftwerk, Faust, White Hills, Gnod, NEU! and Julian Cope. Pushing the envelope? There is no envelope.
    Show more Show less
Show more Show less
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

What listeners say about Deep Dive 10: Krautrock & Beyond!🎆

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available