Fifty years ago, German rock groups including Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk created an eclectic sound that had never been heard before. It remains as exhilarating as ever. In West Germany in the early 1970s ...

It first crept into Britain in the early Seventies, a little baffled at its reception. When Faust named a 1974 track Krautrock, they were throwing shade at how idiotic the Brits must be to have given ...

Krautrock is an entire secret history of rock unto itself. Krautrock is an entire secret history of rock unto itself, and we don’t have the space here to trace its origins, ephemera and trajectory. (I ...

The experimental German band Can was formed in Cologne in 1968. Using elements of rock, jazz, and funk, the influential musicians helped pioneer krautrock, also known as kosmische musik, or cosmic ...

Eager to liberate themselves from the legacy of World War II and the looming presence of East Germany, young musicians in several West German cities in the late 1960s and ’70s created a new form of ...

When underground-rock legend Damo Suzuki contacted Boston psychedelic band Cul de Sac to be his backup band on his current tour, he told them he had three rules: "No improvisation. No rehearsal. No ...

Kosmischer Läufer is so good that it’s largely irrelevant that it’s the fruit of a well-executed hoax. Kosmischer Läufer. This triumphant, all-instrumental collection of (mostly) synthetic baubles, ...

‘The European canon is here’ declared David Bowie on 1976’s Station to Station, signalling his allegiance to the new German music, crassly but enduringly dubbed Krautrock by the 1970s British music ...

The late drummer of krautrock band Can influenced the likes of Roxy Music and Talking Heads by restructuring rock’s basic rhythm and drumming like a machine Along with Klaus Dinger, a founder member ...

Even you don’t like abstract drumming and bands named after God’s genitalia, the story of how krautrock was an attempt to atone for Germany’s past was fascinating You don't have to love a musical ...

Fifty years ago, German rock groups including Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk created an eclectic sound that had never been heard before. It remains as exhilarating as ever. The social and musical ...