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Last broadcast on Sun, 8 Nov 2009, 00:30 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
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.
Faust
Faust improvise up a fearful wall of sound!
Klaus Schulze
Klaus talks about, and demonstrates, his first synth.
Damo Suzuki
The former Can vocalist improvising at a gig in Whitechapel.
Iggy Pop
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.
Blog Post: Reflections on making Synth Britannia & Krautrock
Tracklist
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Popol Vuh — Aguirre IL’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
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Popol Vuh — Wehe Khorazin
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Popol Vuh — Aguirre II
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Tangerine Dream — Phaedra -
Cluster — Fur Die Katz
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Tangerine Dream — Fly and collision of Cosmo Sola
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Can — Mother Sky -
Can — Vitamin C
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Kraftwerk — Autobahn -
Neu! — Hallogallo
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Faust — Krautrock -
Kraftwerk — Showroom Dummies
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Kraftwerk — Geiger Counter
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Kraftwerk — Radioactivity
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Harmonia — Watussi
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David Bowie — A New Career in a New Town
Credits
- Director
- Ben Whalley
- Producer
- Ben Whalley
- Executive Producer
- Mark Cooper
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