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Comment on Album: SLEEP WHALE – Little Brite (Western Vinyl WV65 2009) by Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:31:10 +0000

just listening to this on spotify, no idea how I missed it, lovely, lovely sounds

Comment on Album: AARKTICA – In Sea (Silber 078 2009) by Vlor / Aarktica | undomondo

Vlor / Aarktica | undomondo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:56:19 +0000

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Comment on TV: Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany by DEZ

DEZ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:24:34 +0000

I agree with both of you on most of the points – particularly re: Eno and the influences of bands like Floyd and Jefferson Airplane.

I think the problems of omission and simplification were simply due to trying to cram everything into an hour, and make the program accessible for people with little or no knowledge of the subject. An in depth three part series would have been nice, but I’m just glad something was made at all that doesn’t fit into the standard Rolling Stone approved official rock history where the only important bands of the era were the usual suspects who grace Uncut’s cover every frigging month.

Comment on TV: Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany by domv

domv — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:48:13 +0000

Great write up. I was going to do one for my own blog at some point as I was disappointed by the doc. Lots of people missing and a far too brief outline of the scenes history.
Can only getting a brief mention with Jaki, Holger and Damo but where was Irmin Schmidt? or mention of Malcolm Mooney? Schmidt arguably formed the band yet Holger version was that he and Micheal Karoli put it together.
Amon Duul II part was really interesting but they never mentioned that these guys were influenced in part by not only some of the more psychedelic English bands but also west coast American acts like Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.

We all know Eno took a lot of these influences but as Michael Nutt says he did do something pretty impressive with it. Arguably you could say he and Bowie brought attention to the music as no one in Germany was into it. No mention of Neu! founders later group La Dusseldorf which Bowie really did rip off!

Nice try but they could have made a series, not the poorly provided one hour. I mean its got to be one of the most influential music scenes ever.