BBC Four - Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

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Duration: 1 hour

Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.

Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll to create some of the most original and uncompromising music ever heard. They shared one common goal - a forward-looking desire to transcend Germany's gruesome past - but that didn't stop the music press in war-obsessed Britain from calling them Krautrock.

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Popol Vuh Aguirre I
L’acrime de Rey
Jimi Hendrix All Along the Watchtower
Richard Wagner Siegfried’s Funeral Music
Amon Düül II Kannan
Amon Düül II Luzifer’s Ghilom
Popol Vuh Wehe Khorazin
Popol Vuh Aguirre II
Tangerine Dream Phaedra
Cluster Fur Die Katz
Tangerine Dream Fly and collision of Cosmo Sola
CAN Mother Sky
CAN Vitamin C
Kraftwerk Autobahn
Neu! Hallogallo
Faust Krautrock
Kraftwerk Showroom Dummies
Kraftwerk Geiger Counter
Kraftwerk Radioactivity
Harmonia Watussi
David Bowie A New Career in a New Town

Faust

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Faust improvise up a fearful wall of sound!
Klaus Schulze

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Klaus talks about, and demonstrates, his first synth.
Damo Suzuki

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The former Can vocalist improvising at a gig in Whitechapel.
Iggy Pop

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Iggy describes the making of The Idiot.
Blog Post: My Krautrock Adventures on the Autobahn

Laura Kaye, from the Krautrock production team, describes her two week road-trip round Germany meeting the stars of the genre.
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Blog Post: Reflections on making Synth Britannia & Krautrock

Director Ben Whalley joins the dots between the two documentaries.
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Director: Ben Whalley

Producer: Ben Whalley

Executive Producer: Mark Cooper

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