Artist: A.R. & Machines
Album: Die grüne Reise
Year: 1971
Genre: Kraut
Homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achim_Reichel
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Note: This album prefigures “acid” trips of krautrock guitar / minimal electronic explorers like Manuel Gottsching. The guitar freakouts and the weird imagination of the first effort continue to prevail in the following inspired, confused and various Die Grune Reise, A.R. IV, Autovision (generally a mix between guitar soudscapes and psych pop orientated songs). Reichel decided to abandon the project after 5 studio albums. Today A.R and the machines remains a high class standard of hypnotic space-echo guitar inventions. (progarchives.com)
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Artist: Edgar Froese
Album: Stuntman
Year: 1979
Genre: Electronic
Homepage: http://www.edgarfroese.com
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Note: Narrowing the gap between psychedelia and electronica, Tangerine Dream frontman Edgar Froese looks to the future in this clean and mostly satisfying release; all in all an important turning point for the artist. If nothing else, it marks a departure from his band’s tendency to make an album out of two 20-minute epics; Froese ups the structure a bit with shorter pieces, and more of them. (allmusic)
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Artist: Klaus Schulze
Album: Drive Inn
Year: 1984
Genre: Kraut, Electronic
Homepage: http://www.klaus-schulze.com
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Note: Drive Inn is a series of e-music albums designed for the rush and feeling of “white line fever.” The first in the series is by Klaus Schulze and Rainer Bloss, it features heavy synth washes and catchy hooks. (allmusic)
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Artist: Fujiya & Miyagi
Album: Transparent Things
Year: 2006
Genre: Indie, Kraut
Homepage: http://www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi
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Note: The group has found something that works and does it well, with consistently enjoyable results, so much so that songs on which they break away from that, the lighter, indie rock-esque “Cylinders,” for example, are more distracting than anything else. But when F&M stick to simple dance melodies and wound-up instrumental grooves, they’re as good as anyone else out there. (allmusic)
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Artist: Ashra
Album: New Age Of Earth
Year: 1976
Genre: Progressive Electronic, Minimalism
Homepage: http://www.ashra.com
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Note: By this point Manuel Gottsching was well into his electronic phase, the jam freakouts of the earliest albums replaced by a clean, crisp electronic bed. Unlike the rigorous pulse of fellow Krautrock pioneers Kraftwerk, though, Gottsching generally favored a more consciously playful and simply beautiful approach, aiming to create pleasant music to just enjoy and relax to. (allmusic)
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Artist: Wire
Album: 154
Year: 1979
Genre: Post-Punk, Experimental
Homepage: http://www.pinkflag.com
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Note: If Wire`s previous recordning “Chairs Missing” was a transitional album between punk and post-punk, 154 is squarely in the latter camp, devoting itself to experimental soundscapes that can sound cold and forbidding at times. However, the best tracks retain their humanity thanks to the arrangements’ smooth, seamless blend of electronic and guitar textures and the beauty of the group’s melodies. (allmusic)
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