Krautside The Box

 

 

While American hippy freaks flapped their wings of psychedelic revolution, another metamorphosis was happening in central Europe.  Germany, starving for identity ignorantly given up for the Nazi propaganda war machine, sought to rebuild its status by returning to its old world cultural traditions in hope of reacceptance by the surrounding world it had morally and politically distanced itself from.  Within this social reform the young generation strove to align with the western music scene by donning a version of “big hit” easy listening known as Schlager.  With great fervor, counter cultural artisan musicians vowed to trump the Anglo-American inspired pop scene by reinventing music through radical experimentation built and expanded from the psychedelic scene developing abroad.  This new, cutting edge approach was viewed by the artists as allegorical to a way of rebuilding war torn Germany from the smoking rubble up.  With Nazi aggression still salt in the wound to neighboring countries, this new approach to music was disdainfully coined Krautrock.  Kraut, an ethnic slur given to German soldiers during the war now overlaid and broadcast as moniker to the scene by the English music press. Though some artists rejected the term in favor of the more apropos title Kosmische Musik, the Krautrock label stuck and has since been the canopy for one of the most innovative movements in rock history.  Combining elements of the then popularized electronic synth with free jazz avant-garde and psychedelia, this new fusion of German art rock has remained strong and influential to many of today’s greatest bands.  While wide in its spectrum of styles, from ambient new age to free form noise – the genre has carved its own slice into the freak rock pie.  So Achtung! meine Freunde und bereiten! For today we do our freaking…..Krautside the Box.

1.  Sundos - Electric Orange                                                                    

2.  No Freak Out - Sperrmüll                                   

3.  Egyptian Kings - Brainticket                                                                                                

4.  Le Diable Dans La Maison - Ash Ra Tempel           

5.  Hero's Death - Mythos                                                           

6.  We Still Try to Change - Orange Peel                                                                       

7.  Oh Yeah - Can                                                                                                           

8.  Between the eyes - Amon Düül II                                                                        

9.  Magika - Dzyan           

10.  In The Same Boat - A.R. & Machines                                   

11.  Where Will The Salmon Spawn - Improved Sound Limited             

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