Man, do I love Krautrock!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Sorry, I'm bored, the wife is in bed ill, I'm drinking and listening to Neu!. God, I'm a Krautrock evangelist.

[bobthedrummer]

1. Is Front 242 Krautrock?

on edit: I've always liked Kraftwerk

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. I think Front 242 are Belgian. Bloody good, though.

The classic five Krautrock bands are Can, Kraftwerk, Amon Duul II, Faust and Neu!. Tangerine Dream fit in too.

[DBoon]

3. Aren't they Belgian?

And on a separate note, isn't all krautrock ultimately descended from Karlheinze Stockheizen's avante garde experiments? Weren't the members of Can originally students of his, and from Can came Kraftwerke, etc.?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. All true. Can were formed by former students of Stockhausen.

Neu! were a splinter group of the original Kraftwerk, I believe. Don't quote me on that, it's late, and I've had a few (if there was a drunk smilie, i'd post it now)

[DBoon]

5. Yes, I understand

(stumbling back from our local Mexican restaurant with a few margaritas as an accomplishment..)

[jpgray]

6. Only Schmidt and Czukay were in the Stockhausen circle

Leibezeit was into jazz and Karoli was originally a student of Czukay's--he started the whole thing. Mooney I think was some deadbeat American sculptor and Damo Suzuki was a Japanese scumbag who played guitar outside of a tea house, and when they saw him they took him on and he played a gig that very night. :D

[cprise]

7. I have ComputerWorld and Man-Machine

Some of the best songs are by non-Kraut bands...

Warm Leatherette by The Normal

...also Vangelis did a track called "3 + 3" that was so Krautish, I swear I remember it being used in a Volkswagen commercial.

(I also own both of the above BTW.)