KRAFTWERK - Strom

[speedstriker]

Though this has many elements of industrial music, the way those elements are used in these experimental tunes puts them to shame.

[Ratelzwatel]

This should be on CD.

[Gary190tube]

beautiful

[remat700]

thanks for sharing.

[BandWagon1987]

This song is uncomfortably unnerving..It just gets inside you.

[namaste91]

Kraftwerk were an inhuman talented band. But now i miss my great hero Florian.

[kqpm392]

they're Germans. they're super humans.

[rnoka]

@kqpm392 like the arian race or what.. stupid post

[namaste91]

@rnoka that said the right one...

[rnoka]

@namaste91 youre right, didnt know what bullshit i wrote

[namaste91]

@rnoka I dont bear grudges. But maybe you should think about your comment before you write it down.

You wrote this in an affect huh? ;)

[kqpm392]

what a composition

[jackal59]

Sorry, but this sounds like a warmed-over version of some of Pink Floyd's less-interesting "experiments" circa Atom Heart Mother, which were very uninteresting indeed.

[jhillst]

@jackal59 I agree. I never could get into Kraftwerk 2, save for "Kling-Klang." Most of it is just experimenting for the sake of experimenting; little of it actually goes anywhere.

[LittleGigiK]

so much is inspired by this music , its awesome

[warninshoarmy]

STROM RELEASE ; FRIE,WIND,LIGHTING RELEASE,YIN ,YANG RELEASE IN 3 NATUALS ,YIN-YANG RELEASE WITH CONTORL FRIE,WIND,LIGHTING,YIN,YANG RELEASE.

[DadaTV]

One of my favorite pre-Autoban albums. So talented.

[Somesubjekt]

nice pics.because you can see here,kraftwerk members can play a lot of instruments.some people think they only can stay behind computers.

[DERGUNTER1960]

Danke für diese alten Schätze

[DeRex9]

I would have never guessed it was Kraftwerk. I have almost all of their music on cassettes/LP's/CD's. This track is priceless, thank you for the upload.

D

[jonthefawn]

Thank you for the info Kmne11528. A question,. Then were are the electronic sounds of disco derived from? Besides coming from funk?

[z5hmg]

@jonthefawn I'm no expert but I think Giorgio Moroder was messing around with electronic in the earlier 70's & Jean Michel Jarre defintely was. How about Popcorn by Gershon Kingsley - the OG version was 1969...

[biomorph001]

Thank you for posting!

[marc2789]

Masterpieces!

[jonthefawn]

This is amazing. I met someone over the weekend who showed me "Kraftwerk"

I am a huge fan of house music and its good to know were its roots are from!

[kmne11528]

@jonthefawn Electro and Techno come from Kraftwerk. House is derived from Disco. ;)

[Slayedjudas666]

@kmne11528 Thats not true house is a form of elektro music which has funk and disco elements but still comes from kraftwerk

[AFGunz1000]

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[7OLGA7]

They are worth of rank as "Electrical Pink Floyd"!

[nelipotfootfree]

Sounds more like an "analog kraftwerk" (same music, different instruments) than it does like "krautrock." Either way, it's pretty cool. Thanks for posting it.

[mijmijrm]

i'm not sure why people are annoyed at the term "krautrock" .. i think it's similar to "punkrock" .. they may not sound the same, but they had the same mindset - the struggle against anglo-american smugrock.

[thedarkarse]

Heheh!

Don't know what "smugrock" is but I'd like to hear some of it.

..unless you mean Steely Dan.

[mijmijrm]

@thedarkarse - "smugrock" .. i was thinking of the big wealthy shiny megabucks self-satisfied rock bands .. like Led Zeppelin, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc ..

[thedarkarse]

Yep sounds great, that. I'll have some of that :)

If I could throw in my own pedantic, rock-critic-style tuppence in here I'd say it was the relative absence of blues (or any other kinds of "roots" music) that characterised what "we" call krautrock. Kind of psychedelica ..excised -if you will- of rock/blues roots. Year Zero. Probably why stuff recorded in say, 1970 could still sound very modern even today.

God, I'm clever.

[Rufusdos]

@thedarkarse: Nice. That'll do for a feature. 2000 words by Monday!

[thedarkarse]

lol!

Great!! I'm so excited - Can (ahem) I do illustrations?

[groovechaser]

@mijmijrm

But all those "anglo-american smugrock" bands you named were Anglo-English, right?

[mijmijrm]

@groovechaser .. ah yes, but .. it's not the origin of the band, but the corporate/cultural nest into which they .. erm .. nestle.

[haitipi]

@mijmijrm

You mean wear they go to avoid paying the taxes due to their own government. Then, using the benefits of free speech, they go on yacking about how terrible the U.S. is.

Is that what you mean?

[mijmijrm]

@haitipi .. refer to my comment re: "corporate/cultural nest" Ie. corporate (and thus market and stats governed) rather than location.

Corps are happy if they're in control. They don't care what their bands say as long as it's fashionable and of no consequence and sells records.

e.g. Corp smugrock labels choked on Sex Pistols, not because they didn't sell, but because they wouldn't be puppets. They wouldn't be shoehorned into the vapid, cliched anglo-american "rockstar" mold.

[xraycortina]

@mijmijrm The pistols were still a manufactured untalented band, put together by malcolm mclaren, without whom they'd have probably been nothing

[dinglegonzo]

@xraycortina John Lydon would have MADE IT

[atzenanu]

The term Krautrock was invented by English fans of the genre. But it became popular starting from the Faust period...

[Boeserwolf93]

what the hell is krautrock? i am german and i never heard this phrase

[iluvagothkenny]

try and guess

[Boeserwolf93]

i looked it up in wikipedia meanwhile...but i still find it a strange word^^

[343kaka]

I think that its a mix between kraut (I think it is a german nickname for weed) and rock as in "rock-music".

Kraut is, as you know, also a nickname for Germans.

[Boeserwolf93]

more the kraut as for germans...noone says kraut for weed, at least i never heard some1 do this (i live in west germany, maybe the eastern germans use it^^)

[pleutman]

Krautrock is rock music made by germans.

In WWII the british named the germans "krauts"as a derogatary term named after their native food "sourkraut" ie pickled cabbage...in the same way the french are called frogs after they eat frogs legs ,and the welsh are leeks,and the scottish are haggis's...Anyway;somebody somewhere decided that the signature sound of german progrock music could be called krautrock..You kraut lol!

What do germans call the english btw?

[Boeserwolf93]

well you asked for it^^ we call them "teebeutel" (tea bags) or "inselaffen" (island monkeys) ...but these are deprecative terms of course

[4moreInformation]

roastbeefs? xD

anyway, from wiki:

The term krautrock was originally a humorous one coined by the UK music press (such as New Musical Express and Melody Maker)...they started it..cheers pal!

[karoloandria]

krautrock: german psycodelic-experimental rock

[sirjesster]

german rock music coming out of the 1960's and 1970's had a fairly distinct sound.  another good example is the band "faust"

[slink132001]

@Boeserwolf93 yikes, sorry to bust your bubble, but you take what people know about germany (sauerkraut) and then you combine it with music people know (rock) and you label something you're not sure about. Its easy and as long as you don't use the terms around the people you're ignorant about it's great!

[haitipi]

@slink132001

In the early-70s, even late 1960s every German had the 'Kraut' prefix. Now, it's consider an ethnic slur. This was a result of the slang WWII label for the Germans. We had kraut-mobiles etc, when I was a kid.

[Bizarronumber4]

Fascinating stuff. Can you or anyone else

stick some tracks from Zweistein's one &

only album on Youtube please? I've never heard anything from them.

[MogadonWoman]

Funnily enough, this sounds like a prototype for "Hall of Mirrors". The vocals and lead synth parts would fit perfectly over this. They were a very different band at this point but there is some continuity between the earlier and later line-ups.

[KcSR78]

This is unbelievable.

How can humans be SO talented?

[MeinErsterFilm]

this might happen when individuals free their minds and leave restrictions behind...

[KcSR78]

Certainly a hard goal to achieve..

[sweiland75]

@MeinErsterFilm You mean they were high?

[pasheko152]

@KcSR78

it is because they are humans that makes them talented

[jaypee112233]

this was called "Krautrock"

[63M1N1]

mmmmm :) I can't believe this is Kraftwerk, but sounds G R E A T, so tasty :)

Pink Floyd in rock = Kraftwerk in... this expermiental thing :) So trippy..

thank you Kraftneu!

[vargazol2001]

Music of the spheres, great psychedelic stuff

[FLOYDRIX]

i like kraftwerk but this is shit !!!

[secul999]

fantastic.

[kathodemama]

love U florian!

hope you're fine.

[velyogendra]

I wish they'd let their older stuff be released on cd. It would sound great!

[docterjoy]

Actually I went to a cd store and I saw Organisation, Kraftwerk 1+2 and Ralf & Florian! I was so excited!

[velyogendra]

If they are on the "Germanophone" label, I think they might be bootlegs. Still, it would be nice to hear them. They would make a fantastic box set.

[docterjoy]

So different than the Kraftwerk we all know, I like this prog song.

[CleoDK]

It's sounds so hipnotic,especially with pictures! Thank you very much! It's perfect!

[m1044]

Thank you so much for posting this!

Some of the pictures I saw for the first time.

Current Kraftwerk is so cool but I also love early Kraftwerk.