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v/a - deutsche elektronische musik 2 - soul jazz records - cd

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Kraut / Cosmic / Synth

1. A.R. & Machines - Globus
2. Can - Halleuwah
3. Roedelius - Le Jardin
4. Michael Rother - Karussell
5. Popul Vuh - Der Grosse Krieger
6. Michael Hoenig - Sun and Moon
7. Agitation Free - You Play For Us Today
8. D.A.F. - Co Co Pino
9. Harald Grosskopf - Emphasis
10. Amon duul 2 - A Morning Excuse
11. Conrad Schnitzler - Fata Morgana
12. Bröselmaschine - Nossa Bova
13. Eno, Moebius & Roedelius - Base & Apex
14. Gila - In A Sacred Manner
15. Wolfgang Reichmann - Himmelblau
16. Achim Reichel & Machines - As If I Had Seen All This Before
17. Gila - Sundance Chant
18. NEU! - Isi
19. Pyrolator - Danger Cruising
20. Sergius Golowin -Die Weisse Alm
21. You - Electric Day
22. Niagara - Gibli
23. Popul Vuh - Ja Sie Sollen Gottes Kinden Heissen Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei
24. Rolf Trostel - Der Prophet
25. Faust - Krautrock
26. Asmus Tietchens - Zeebrugge
27. Faust - Krautrock

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. Check!!

This double CD pack (with over 2 ½ hours of amazing music!) features a stunning line-up of seminal German groups: 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.

German Rock and experimental electronic music originally grew out of the worldwide counter-cultural revolution of 1968, as German artists created a new music, ‘free’ from the past. From the opening of the first collective/cooperative, Commune 1, in Berlin, to the formation of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, young Germans sought out new values and a lifestyle outside of ‘the system’. These cooperative and communal experiences led to a number of new radical collective German bands forming such as Amon Duul, Faust, Can and others and these ideals drove this new musical movement.

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.

The double CD pack comes in unique box-edition with large booklet and excellent extensive new sleevenotes (by David Stubbs, author of the excellent recent Krautrock book published by Black Dog) as well as lots of exclusive photos.