Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

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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  1. JuggaloHomie14/88 says:

    Yo homies. Krautrock is cool, but you should really check out these horrorcore videos! Imagine all the dark elements of contemporary music put together in an explosive new style of antichristian and anti-authoritarian music…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9GwpXPy3XQ
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fx4KTXgwgU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7EfhhI9bGE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhpzOGvgnkg

  2. fecal_jokez says:

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  3. Mastodon guy says:

    My mom likes to eat giant bowls of turd. She eats big brown thick chunks of fecal matter with a spoon for dinner. I love to watch my mom eat shit…

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  5. Raping of the ANUS says:

    Hey, I heard Big Boner dude is really just 10cm of dick. I found out from Brett Stevens who’s his butt buddy. Brutal sucker of dicks actually doesn’t have a dick and him and the juggalo bitch rub clits together.

    Crazy, ain’t it?

  6. ONLY MASTODON IS REAL says:

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  7. LISTEN TO MASTODON says:

    CMON YOU FAGGOT ID LIKE A CHALLENGE NOT AND NOT A LOVE LETTER TO MY UNCLE WHO FONDLES ME AT NIGHT

    PLEASE, I KNOW YOUVE GOT SOMETHING MORE THAN YOUR SILLY UNINTELLEGENT CRYPTO TROLL NOBODY REALLY READS

    Regards,

  8. wtf man this shit is apocalyptic says:

    DUDE THE END IS SO DEPRESSING ITS LIKE THEY KNOW THEY GAVE ALL THEY HAD IN THEIR TIME BUT ARE AWARE THINGS ARE FALLING APART ANYWAY

    WERE FUCKED FOREVER

  9. Levy_Spearmen says:

    Nice documentary.

  10. Kristos says:

    The all time best Kraftwerk album is Trans Europa Express. Side B of Computerwelt is awesome too.

  11. MORMON OR DIE says:

    SO HOLY FUCK YOU GUYS I JENKED HARD EARLIER AND SOME DUDE SHOWED UP AT MY DOOR TELLING ME ABOUT MORMONISM.

    WHAT?! ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE RETARDED MODERN SELF-HELP “RELIGIONS” IF YOU CAN CALL IT THAT?! DAMN RIGHT, SON!

    HOLY FUCK I WAS EXCITED WHEN THEY INVERTED JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY FROM ITS PAGAN ROOTS INTO A LIBERAL “JESUS LOVES US ALL EQUALLY!” THING!

    NOW WE CAN DISTORT REALITY FOR OURSELVES INTO EVEN MORE TWISTED CONTORTIONS OF “HAPPINESS”.

    CMON BRETT I KNOW YOURE GOING THROUGH AN OPEN MINDED PHASE WHERE YOU TRY TO BOLSTER YOUR BRAND OF NIHILISM THROUGH ANY OUTLET AVAILABLE(CHRISTIANITY, HINDUISM, CONSERVATISM, FAGGOTRY, ETC.), SO WHY NOT MORMONISM! ITS SO AWESOME!

  12. goatsed by a hobo says:

    On my way to a Mastodon concert earlier tonight, I witnessed the unspeakable. It was an act that opened my eyes to a new realm of being – the essence of existence if you will. Even before this, I had wondered, where do homeless people in my town go to make number 2? Is there some sort of secret gathering place for defecation en masse? Do they use toilet paper? After tonight, I have to say my eyes have been opened. A pair of soft white cheeks opened up to show me the emergence of a fully formed piece of excrement from a graceful, undulating rectum. Never before had I seen or imagined such a sight. I came instantly and started farting. The Mastodon show was great, but this once-in-a-lifetime experience is the single best thing that has ever happened to me.

  13. nihistic misantropical asperher ASP.net says:

    Anus should start weviewing sci fi movies.
    Here are some that inspire the hessian spirit:

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
    Blade Runner (1982) (dir. Ridley Scott)
    Solaris (1972) (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
    La Jetee (1962) (dir. Chris Marker)
    THX1138 (1971) (dir. George Lucas)
    eXistenZ (1999) (dir. Cronenberg)

  14. optimistic miss tropical ass-burger says:

    Here’s some good movies Anus should start reviewing that fit well their ideology and hessian spirit:

    Hairspray (1988 film) (dir. John Waters)
    Liquid Sky (1982 film) (dir. Slava Tsukerman)
    Brokeback Mountain (2005 film) (dir. Ang Lee)
    Boxing Helena (1993 film) (dir. Jennifer Lynch)

  15. Princess of Cock says:

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  16. @Princess of Cock says:

    Wow dude, that Mastodon concert sounds like a Deicide and Incantation concert I went to in the early 90’s.

    Cum, blood and AIDS was in the air of the 80’s and 90’s death metal scene.

  17. -|- DRINK THE CUM -|- says:

    Anime computer welt was fuckin tight bro

  18. ANAL TRIBESMAN says:

    >bowel-dwelling brown eels
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    >porcelain bowl of anal retribution
    >underground jenkem factories
    >smelly ghetto

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    FORWARD WITH THE ANUS TRIBE!

  19. morons says:

    lololol look at these morons wirting articles and commenting stupid shit lol

  20. morons says:

    yeah it’s morons eveywhere i was right

  21. Anal Tribesman #2 @morons says:

    You’re mad because we outnumber you and your lack of intellegence here.

    Get lost faggot.

  22. Literally the main riff from Immolation's" No Jesus No Beast" says:

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  23. Levy_Spearmen says:

    Are you sure it isn’t a police car?

  24. @literally retarded guy says:

    That song has a “main riff”?

    What the fuck is a main riff..

  25. Mastodon is shit says:

    Mastodon music is faggoty silly rock music for retarded teens.

  26. Mastodon guy's mother in heat! says:

    Dick in my butt… now! Now now now now.

  27. literally_retarded_guy says:

    LOL THIS IS HOW THIS SONG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-hl9Dt5I4&feature=related GOES:

    BELLSPROUTS BELLSPROUTS BELLSPROUTS BELLS
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  28. optimistic miss tropical ass-burger says:

    DLA Archives is faggoty silly music for retarded teens.

  29. Trey Buttsagoth says:

    We need more anime music reviews here.

  30. IS METAL MUSIC DERIVED FROM CLASSICAL ? says:

    Let’s look over it…

    Prog influences on Black Sabbath and King Crimson, mostly classical (listen to Yes and Tull for some direct lifts)

    Kraftwerk influences on Celtic Frost and Burzum, at the very least, and they were classically-derived

    Quorthon’s tripped out on Bach and Wagner

    Judas Priest guys, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen all heavily influenced by classical

    King Diamond – wants to be opera? I don’t know. I just like Don’t Break the Oath, but not for the singing, although it’s good.

    Trey Azagthoth loves Van Halen and Mozart.

    Maybe if you hit the same type of thoughts, you reinvent the same general types of music, just like literature reinvents the same archetypes in every generation.

    All I know is that Paganini – 24 Caprices sounds like heavy metal, and if you combine Schubert’s unfinished, Beethoven 1,3,7 and Bruckner 4,5,7,8 and you have basically metal.

    I’ve always thought rock music was a con, because it presents like a product and not an artistic movement. At the record store today (bought Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness, release with DVD, now need to find someone with a TV) was looking over the rock and really it’s not impressive.

    Rock is like pop literature, empty even when it’s good. I mean could you claim Dylan changed your life, or Jimi Hendrix? Only when you don’t know better, maybe, but that shit won’t give to your whole life. Immortal might… Paganini would.

    Burroughs is different from David Mitchell in what way — Burroughs sounds more like classical — there is a depth of theme there that David Mitchell tries to emulate with technique, but the technique is not anchored to any clear idea. Mozart says his symphonies are a child’s melody, wrapped in the organic machine of a great mind. Even Beethoven is several simple themes developed in a complex way, a new journey.

    That’s how metal is written. It would exist without rock. It shares nothing with rock at this point except instrumentation and technique… the composition is entirely different.

    All I can say is that not all were meant to go beyond on this one. Many of you want to stay earthbound. If that’s the decision you want to make, you’re probably right. But don’t argue with me, because you’re not looking at the whole world. You’re looking at your backyard and calling it a kingdom.

    I would like to look at the metal that is art, and to raise it up to the height it deserves. I don’t care about the also-rans and non-art entertainment like Cannibal Corpse and Cradle of Filth. I don’t care about the stuff that can’t stand on its own, so regresses to a mean (rock, punk). I don’t care about jazz anymore. All it had going for it was no vocals. And then it became cyclic.

    Paul Ledney says, wisely, “All music is the same.” He is right. It is a language into which you translate thoughts, not unlike painting or writing. And where your thoughts sound like classical, your music will be composed with narrative phrasal composition, and it will sound like classical too.

    If you don’t get it… too bad. You’re not ready, or your DNA sucks, or you lack some experience. Read up on art. Get out of the metal ghetto, and definitely get out of the rock ghetto. Rock music has been a scam from the beginning and it’s nothing but a product and those of you who defend it are the kool-aide drinkers of the modern era. Do us a favor… you’re antiquated.

    The rest of us, no matter how small, are moving on. We are the ones who will be here when the rest of you fall apart. And you will, because your will is weak and disorganized. Don’t take it personally — you don’t exist and I don’t exist — we are configurations of that which transfers energy endlessly, producing nothing but sense-perceptions, memories, designs, patterns… information. You and are I different processes on the same machine, but our code differs. And in that code difference may be the ability to see the truths laid out in this message, which I fully expect 98.6% to misinterpret and therefore, to deny it and shove it to an early grave in a dead thread.

    RIP. John Brownian motion prevails. And if you can read my cryptogram, you’re ready for the next stage. Never deny that power. It’s the part of you that won’t die that you’re touching. Ask Emerson. Junk DNA is not junk; the Walrus was Saul. I’m just a poor boy, from a poor family… that’ll convince you, if you need an excuse to write it off as garbage. Don’t blame me — Burroughs did the same — transmission from the Nova World, where the heavy metal kid sighs and sits back to a hit, typewriter neon tranmissions in morse code made of silences…

  31. Mastodon guy says:

    I like my “metal” very Walmart thank you. That’s why I listen to Mastodon. Cuz I’m pretty stupid.

    – Princess of Cock here spreading my buttcheeks for food

  32. IS METAL MUSIC DERIVED FROM CLASSICAL ? says:

    disregard that, I like Mastodon

  33. Mastodon guy's mother in heat! says:

    People say I look prettier with a dick in my mouth.

  34. Princess of Cock manifesto says:

    > I listen to Mastodon so I’m stupid.

    > I think Mastodon is metal so I’m an ignorant poser.

    > I think Mastodon is good so I’m a cock sucking lady boy!

    My cunt is always open for Walmart metal folks, please cum in!

  35. Princess of Cock wants YOUR cock! says:

    What’s wrong with Walmart? They distribute popular and good quality products to the masses at affordable prices. They also give great job opportunities to the lower classes and immigrants who want to improve their lives. Mastodon take those honorable humanitarian ethics and apply them to progressive metal for all true hessians to enjoy.

  36. solar or sun metal guy says:

    this place needs more chastity and virginity

  37. where are you stupid faggot? cmere and gag on cock says:

    now where is that faggot of mastodon guy?

    now where is that faggot of mastodon guy?

    now where is that faggot of mastodon guy?

  38. Mastodon guy says:

    @where are you stupid faggot? cmere and gag on cock

    I’m 10 inches deep in your mom’s pussy. Can’t talk right now.

  39. Mastodon guy says:

    I’m kidding I’m just busy trying to fart out a banana stuck in my rectum. Shouldn’t be playing with fruit again…

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