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White Hills – White Hills (2010) 12 Mar 2010 | 02:44 am
Info: “Ah, Space Rock. As one of the tracks on this very fine album suggests, don’t be afraid, and don’t panic either! If you think this much-maligned genre reeks of stale patchouli, un-washed hair an...
Wooden Shjips – Dos (2009) 13 Aug 2009 | 04:06 am
Info: San Francisco’s enigmatically named Wooden Shjips play a minimal, droning brand of garage-styled psychedelia with a noticeable ’60s Krautrock influence. The band’s vocals slip beneath waves of t...
Baikonour – Your Ear Knows Future (2009) 17 Apr 2009 | 11:17 am
Info: Baïkonour is the brainchild of one man, Jean-Emmanuel Krieger. Named after a town in Khazakstan, Krieger’s project combines electronic and post-rock elements with a deep appreciation for the ver...
Edgar Froese – Ages (1977) 5 Mar 2009 | 06:16 am
Info: Edgar Froese is a great musician and a shrewd businessman. Realizing that he and his associates would need money to fund the progress of Tangerine Dream, he took advantage of both of those quali...
Agitation Free – Malesch (1972) 8 Jan 2009 | 06:35 am
Info: The debut album by Agitation Free followed a somewhat different path than your average Krautrock band, veering unexpectedly toward the Middle East, specifically Egypt, in search of atmosphere an...
Glenn Branca – Lesson No. 1 (1980) 18 Nov 2008 | 04:33 am
Info: Lesson No. 1 was Branca’s first release in which he delved more fully into instrumental sounds that melded the dissonant rock of his former outfits with the heavy, massed sounds that he would la...
Klaus Schulze – Picture Music (1975) 26 Sep 2008 | 01:54 pm
Info: Klaus Schulze had always wanted to compose “Picture Music”: Sounds like oil on a private canvas, journeys into foreign, emotional landscapes. Which is why you can consider the title of this reco...
Amon Düül II – Yeti (1970) 14 Aug 2008 | 11:44 pm
Info: The second album by Amon Düül II (not to be confused with the more anarchic radicals Amon Düül), 1970′s Yeti, is their first masterpiece, one of the defining early albums of Krautrock. A double ...
Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen (1976) 2 Aug 2008 | 11:43 pm
Info: In his solo career Michael Rother exactly reproduced the most meditative and floating textures of Neu! music. His colleague Klaus Dinger launched L.A Düsseldorf for radical, abrasive pop electro...
Eroc – Eroc (1975) 4 Jun 2008 | 02:41 am
Info: Eroc (Joachim Heinz Ehrig) started his solo career in 1975 while he was currently the drummer of Grobschnitt. His self titled album can be considered as a cross between Gorbschnitt’s typical sym...
