Amon Duul 2 Tangerine Dream Guru Guru Manuel Gottshing Ardo Dombec Kraan Can Popol Vuh Annexus Quam Neu Cluster Kluster Mythos Eiliff Ash Ra Temple Dyzan Faust Agitation Free Grobschnitt
Lots of great names already mentioned Some favourites of mine not mentioned yet are Dom Golem Cosmic Jokers Walter Wegmullers Tarot (from the Cosmic Jokers sessions) Harmonia Out of Focus Yatha Sidhra Witthuser and Westrupp Dom's Edge of Time is probably my favourite Krautrock album of all time As much as I love Amon Duul 2, the first Amon Duul's Paradieswarts Duul album is an absolute favourite too
I thought the Cosmic Jokers and Yatha Sidhra were more space rock and maybe even leaning towards the psychadelic side. maybe thats just me. Out of focus is more fusion than anything. Maybe space fusion like Gong if you want to stretch things a lil'. I'll check out the other bands.
your descriptions are correct but all the bands I mentioned have been described as krautrock at somepoint or another, just that krautrock such a glib genre title anyway as it encompasses a whole host of sub-genres (some of which you mention). Lots of krautrock was psychedelic, lots of it contain elements of jazz rock, space rock, electronica, that doesn't stop it from coming under the umbrella of krautrock. http://homepages.tesco.net/~beautiful.day/Kraut Rock albums.htm
http://www.progarchives.com/, http://www.jahsonic.com/KrautRock.html, http://www.krautrock.com/, http://tmachine.chat.ru/germ/progrtop.htm, http://www.phinnweb.com/krautrock/index2.html (take a look...)
is there anybody know the story of krautrock bands' album covers? like guru guru's kanguru or novalis' ???????
Don't forget Brainticket, Embryo and Xhol Caravan! Krautrock is so much fun, just because there's so much variety; as hiddendoor rightly pointed out it's not really a definitive genre tag, just a loose geographical umbrella label. There's a really terrific Krautrock/Kosmische encyclopedia called The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Steven & Alan Freeman; it's out of print now (all the more unfortunate for me since my copy disappeared in a recent move), but there's talk of an updated CD-ROM edition. More info (and a pretty comprehensive mail-order CD selection) here: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/index.html http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/krautrockers.html Julian Cope's book Krautrocksampler is pretty good too...
