I found this documentary a few days ago and found it fascinating. While we just turned the page of the 2000s it’s nice to reflect for a few moment on my cultural roots before we continue our explorations.
The documentary itself speak about Krautrock, but it’s a term I always hatted. They explain in depth the origin of the term Krautrock in the documentary. For me the right way to name this movement is Berlin School of electronic music. The electronic music appeared all over Germany, not only in Berlin, but the cold war made this place so special.
So in this documentary you have interviews of John Weinzierl and Renate Knaup (Amon Düül), Danny Fichelscher (Popol Vuh), Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream), Wolfgang Seidel (Ton Steine Scherben), Klaus Schulze, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Holger Czukay Jaki Liebezeit and Damo Suzuki (Can), Michael Rother Wolfgang Flür and Ralf Hütter (Kraftwerk), Iggy Pop, Zappi Diermaeir and Jean-Herve Peron (Faust), Eduard Meyer (engineer at Hansa Tonstudio)
One hour to understand the roots of electronic music that lead today to the many variations from ambient, goa, abstract … techno:
