Artist	Song
Think	Drops - {Variety}
German Oak	Raid Over Dusseldorf - {German Oak}
Emtidi	Traume - {Saat}
Ethereal	Galactic Explorers - {The Krautrock Archive Volume}
Dom	Flotenmenschen 1 - {Edge of Time}
Br÷selmaschine	Schmetterling - {Br÷selmaschine}
Organisation	Milk Rock - {Tone Float}
Ash Ra Tempel	Darkness - Flowers Must Die - {Schwingungen}

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Well I'm plugging in the tumbler, once more...with the focus being on specific geographies (Germany, Italy, Australia, Brazil, South America, Canada, Eastern Europe, Japan...etc). This, of course, is the first of (what will be many) German Psych Mixes. But, be forewarned, this is not ONLY going to focus on Krautrock, but also include other forms of psych: Progressive Rock, Psych/Folk and little Psych-Jazz. But, having said all that, I should at least provide with a definition of:KrautrockKrautrock is a generic name for the experimental bands who appeared in Germany in the early 1970s. It was originally a somewhat derogatory term coined by the British music press from the slang term "Kraut", meaning "a German person" and taken from the traditional German dish of pickled cabbage, Sauerkraut. However, because much of the music produced by these bands has since come to be very highly regarded, the term "krautrock" is now generally seen as an accolade rather than an insult.Mostly instrumental, the signature sound of krautrock mixed rock music and "rock band" instrumentation (guitar, bass, drums) with electronic instrumentation and textures, often with what would now be described as an ambient music sensibility. It also featured a pulsing rhythm section so steady that its practitioners dubbed it "motorik" -- a mongrel word meaning, roughly, "mechanical music."By the end of the 1960s, the American and British counterculture and hippie movement had moved rock towards psychedelia, heavy metal, progressive rock and other styles, incorporating, for the first time in popular music, socially and politically incisive lyrics. The 1968 German student movement, French protests and Italian student movement had created a class of young, intellectual continental listeners, while nuclear weapons, pollution and war inspired protests and activism. Music had taken a turn towards electronic avant-garde in the mid-1950s.These factors all laid the scene for the explosion in what came to be termed krautrock, which arose at the first major German rock festival in 1968 in Essen. Like their American and British counterparts, German rock musicians played a kind of psychedelia. In contrast, however, there was no attempt to reproduce the effects of drugs, but rather an innovative fusion of psychedelia and the electronic avant-garde. That same year, 1968, saw the foundation of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler, which further popularized the psychedelic-rock sound in the German mainstream.
Now, excuse me...as I must go watch my beloved Yankees take the field!

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