Krautrock
Krautrock was a
musical style or movement that was largely associated with a number of
German acts during the late
1960s and
1970s such as
Can,
Faust,
Tangerine Dream and Neu. 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. Later German groups such as
Kraftwerk are also sometimes considered part of the Krautrock movement.
By the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the resurgence of electronic music and a new generation rediscovering much of the early work of German music in that period, Krautrock came to be considered a style in and of itself. Artists such as Stereolab, Laika, and Tortoise working under the post-rock and electronica rubrics have often cited bands in the Krautrock canon as being among their more significant influences.
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