Release Date | 29/07/2022 |
Format | 2LP Record A/ 2LP Record B/ 2CD |
Label | Soul Jazz Records |
Catalogue Number | SJRLP494-A SJRLP494-B SJRCD494 |
Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Deutsche Electronische Musik 2’ is their second voyage into the world of Krautrock and German electronic music from the 1970s and early 1980s.
The double CD pack (with over 2½ hours of amazing music) features a stunning line-up of seminal German groups, including Can, Faust, Popul Vuh, Neu, Cluster, Amon Duul II, La Dusseldorf, as well as a host of lesser known and more obscure groups and artists such as Agitation Free, Broselmachine, Niagara and many more.
As well as the original pioneers, ‘Deutsche Electronische Musik 2’ also features many of the second wave of German electronic artists and groups from the late 70s and early 80s (DAF, Asmus Tietchens, Rolf Trostel), who successfully connected new wave, minimal synth and a European post punk avant-gardism with the earlier more established Krautrock pioneers who began at the start of the 70s.
Influenced as much by the electronic experimentalism of Stockhausen as the progressive rock of USA and UK underground rock, young German artists seamlessly created a new music with its own unique identity, which they ironically entitled Krautrock. By the end of the 1970s, with the arrival of new wave synthetics and complex drum machines, this music had mutated once again into new electronic visions reflecting a new Germany.
Tracklist
RECORD A
AR & Machines - "Globus Im Selben Boot"
Can - "Halleluwah"
Roedelius - "Le Jardin"
Michael Rother - "Karussell"
Michael Hoenig - "Sun & Moon"
Agitation Free - "You Play For Us Today"
DAF - "Co Co Pino"
Harald Grosskopf - "Emphasis"
Amon Duul II - "A Morning Excuse"
Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza - "Fata Morgana"
Broselmaschine - "Nossa Bova"
Eno, Moebius & Roedelius - "Base & Apex"
Gila - "In A Sacred Manner"
Wolfgang Riechmann - "Himmelblau"
RECORD B
Achim Reichel & Machines - As If I Had Seen All This Before
Gila - Sundance Chant
NEU! - Isi
Pyrolator - Danger Cruising
Sergius Golowin - Die Weisse Alm
You - Electric Day
Niagara - Gibli
Popol Vuh - Ja Sie Sollen Gottes Kinden Heissen Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei
Rolf Trostel - Der Prophet
Electric Sandwich - China
Asmus Tietchens - Zeebrugge
Faust - Krautrock