Krautrock Eruption : An Introduction To German Electronic Music 1970-1980

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What exactly is Krautrock? A genre, a pejorative term, an adjective, a song by Faust, or a welcome (and recurring) opportunity to talk about all of this at once? From Julian Cope's enthusiastic musings in "Krautrocksampler" to encyclopedic approaches like "Crack in the Cosmic Egg" by Alan and Stephen Freeman, there are countless books and lists that try to define it. Disagreements and factional quarrels are legion, but all share the same fascination. The book "Krautrock Eruption" by Wolfgang Seidel also addresses some of these questions and offers an annotated discography of fifty albums. Using this selection as a starting point, Bureau B offers here a restricted selection of 12 tracks. Inevitably subjective, certainly debatable, but nonetheless completely essential, it includes tracks by Pyrolator, Kluster, Faust, Conrad Schnitzler, and also Eno, Moebius, and Rodelius.