History Main / Krautrock

* Music/{{Cluster}} (especially back when they were still called "Kluster"- starting with ''Zuckerzeit'', the played ElectronicMusic)

* Music/{{Chrome}}

* Music/TheFall
* Music/FlamingLips

Since it's a catch-all term, some of the bands lumped under the genre have nothing in common with each other, and the term could be used abusively to refer to ''all'' German rock music. Generally, the musicians themselves dislike the "Krautrock" label and prefer the term "Kosmische [Cosmic] music." There was no real Krautrock "scene" (the only thing in common between some of the bands listed here was the RecordProducer of some of their records, Conny Plank, and, on the other hand, a madcap entrepreneur called Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser - more on him and the movement as a whole in Julian Cope's wonderful book ''Krautrocksampler''. A BBC documentary on the genre also described him as a "Teutonic [[Creator/FactoryRecords Tony Wilson]]."). The main distinguishing features of Krautrock are its experimentalism - musically speaking the bands of the genre drew from PsychedelicRock, ProgressiveRock, avant-garde rock bands (Music/FrankZappa, the Music/VelvetUnderground, Music/PinkFloyd), {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, {{Classical|Music}}, and world music - and its focus on repetition and minimalism. Krautrock bands were among the first to seriously adopt electronics and explore world music influences, and represented a significant influence on AlternativeRock (especially PostPunk, PostRock, and AlternativeDance), ElectronicMusic, {{Ambient}}, and ProgressiveRock. The driving rhythms of bands like Can and Neu! were a major influence on various forms of dance music.

Since it's a catch-all term, some of the bands lumped under the genre have nothing in common with each other, and the term could be used abusively to refer to ''all'' German rock music. Generally, the musicians themselves dislike the "Krautrock" label and prefer the term "Kosmische [Cosmic] music." There was no real Krautrock "scene" (the only thing in common between some of the bands listed here was the RecordProducer of some of their records, Conny Plank, and, on the other hand, a madcap entrepreneur called Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser - more on him and the movement as a whole in Julian Cope's wonderful book ''Krautrocksampler''. A BBC documentary on the genre also described him as a "Teutonic [[Creator/FactoryRecords Tony Wilson]]."). The main distinguishing features of Krautrock are its experimentalism - musically speaking the bands of the genre drew from PsychedelicRock, ProgressiveRock, avant-garde rock bands (Music/FrankZappa, the Music/VelvetUnderground, Music/PinkFloyd), {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, {{Classical|Music}}, and world music - and its focus on repetition and minimalism. Krautrock bands were among the first to seriously adopt electronics and explore world music influences, and represented a significant influence on AlternativeRock (especially PostPunk, PostRock, and AlternativeDance), ElectronicMusic, {{Ambient}}, and ProgressiveRock.

Since it's a catch-all term, some of the bands lumped under the genre have nothing in common with each other, and the term could be used abusively to refer to ''all'' German rock music. Generally, the musicians themselves dislike the "Krautrock" label and prefer the term "Kosmische [Cosmic] music." There was no real Krautrock "scene" (the only thing in common between some of the bands listed here was the RecordProducer of some of their records, Conny Plank, and, on the other hand, a madcap entrepreneur called Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser - more on him and the movement as a whole in Julian Cope's wonderful book ''Krautrocksampler''. A BBC documentary on the genre also described him as a "Teutonic [[Creator/FactoryRecords Tony Wilson]]."). The main distinguishing features of Krautrock are its experimentalism - musically speaking the bands of the genre drew from PsychedelicRock, ProgressiveRock, avant-garde rock bands (Music/FrankZappa, the Music/VelvetUnderground, Music/PinkFloyd), {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, {{Classical|Music}}, and world music - and its focus on repetition and minimalism. Krautrock bands were among the first to seriously adopt electronics and explore world music influences, and represented a significant influence on AlternativeRock (especially PostPunk and PostRock), ElectronicMusic, {{Ambient}}, and ProgressiveRock.

Since it's a catch-all term, some of the bands lumped under the genre have nothing in common with each other, and the term could be used abusively to refer to ''all'' German rock music. Generally, the musicians themselves dislike the "Krautrock" label and prefer the term "Kosmische [Cosmic] music." There was no real Krautrock "scene" (the only thing in common between some of the bands listed here was the RecordProducer of some of their records, Conny Plank, and, on the other hand, a madcap entrepreneur called Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser - more on him and the movement as a whole in Julian Cope's wonderful book ''Krautrocksampler''). The main distinguishing features of Krautrock are its experimentalism - musically speaking the bands of the genre drew from PsychedelicRock, ProgressiveRock, avant-garde rock bands (Music/FrankZappa, the Music/VelvetUnderground, Music/PinkFloyd), {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, {{Classical|Music}}, and world music - and its focus on repetition and minimalism. Krautrock bands were among the first to seriously adopt electronics and explore world music influences, and represented a significant influence on AlternativeRock (especially PostPunk and PostRock), ElectronicMusic, {{Ambient}}, and ProgressiveRock.

* Music/{{Neu}} (yes, [[ExcitedShowTitle with an exclamation mark]]) and its successor:

* Music/DavidBowie (particularly his "Berlin trilogy" of albums from the late 1970s')

* Music/{{Portishead}}

* Music/TalkTalk

** 1977 - ''Music/TransEuropeExpress''
** 1978 -''Music/TheManMachine''
** 1981 - ''Music/ComputerWorld''
** 1986 - ''[[Music/TechnoPop Electric Café]]''

* Music/KlausSchulze (his first album - later records are ElectronicMusic and/or {{Ambient}})

* Some of Music/DavidBowie's albums are sometimes considered examples of Krautrock despite the singer himself being English, because three of them were at least partially recorded in Berlin and four of them bear a lot of influence from the genre. The four albums that are sometimes considered to fall into this genre are:
** 1976 - ''Music/StationToStation''
** 1977 - ''Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum''
** 1977 - ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum''
** 1979 - ''Music/{{Lodger}}''

* Monks (an American GarageRock band based in Germany, whose minimalist, repetitious take on the genre is considered an UrExample, having been cited as an influence by members of Can and Faust)

* Monks (an American band based in Germany whose minimalist, rhythmic take on GarageRock is considered an UrExample, having been cited as an influence by members of Can and Faust)

-->--'''Faust''', quoted about their song "Krautrock".

** ''Music/{{Autobahn}}'' (1974)
** ''Music/TransEuropeExpress'' (1977)
** ''Music/TheManMachine'' (1978)
** ''Music/ComputerWorld'' (1981)

** La Düsseldorf

* Monks (their minimalist, rhythmic take on GarageRock is considered an UrExample)