Popol Vuh - Kyrie 1973

no proper style... for some ... for others its surely an original approach of music ...popol vuh used many (ethnically and culturaly) different colours of music from  their travelling Bag ...for and with the surprised silences of the others and me.

yes, that totally proves it. I guess that must mean that deep down I'm probably a jehovas witness or something

I can see how Germans could take Krautrock as derogatory....i'm Italian American and probably wouldn't appreciate the term "Wop-Rock" referring to Italian alternative music...

"Kosmiche Musik" was the term coined in Germany for the wave of bands that begain emerging in the late '60s there, many of which had completely different styles and backgrounds, but all shared a strong experamental bent, and varying degrees of fondness for psychedelia. In Britain, the term "Krautrock" was used by the press for the more popular groups such as Can and Faust which made their way across the channel. Some German musicians still think of it as derogatory, and I can't blame them.

Djong Jun (apologies to my Korean friends out here for spelling)!
Never thought I would see this!

if you look at the so called "Alternative" bands of the 90's and early 2000's, ther's a sameness that can't be overlooked, sure there are a few exceptions, Wilco etc.. but compared to the New Wave/Alternative groups of the 70's and 80's which pretty much all ahd their own style and sound, what a difference, sorry if i'm going off on a tangent but it's an observation i can't ignore...Popol Vuh is a good example of that creative freedom you don't see anymore...bands are in a chokehold nowadays...

you're right, Krautrock is a more general term that can fit different music styles...like Tangerine Dream was very different from Amon Duul II who were very different from Can all under the Krautrock label....but when they started using the term Alternative to define a certain sound / style of rock, that pretty much killed the true meaning of what Alternative Rock was which was something different from the norm, the music industry knew what they were doing and all "Alternative" bands had to fit

but once you start labelling, you expect it to sound a certain way all the time, sometimes the artist won't want to change their style...look what happened with the "Alternative" label, once it became a marketing term, everybody expected "Alternative" rock to have a certain sound, thus killing the meaning of the word until all the so called "Alternative" bands look and sound the same, it is true though, we'll never get away from labelling...

I don't thnk about it too much to be honest. I mean I know many people call this Krautrock but I don't exactly know what that is.. seems like a catch all phrase for a lot of different styles (e.g. Can/TD/Amon Duul II all sound totally different). but at least it gets people listening to a lot of different styles... so I think calling this krautrock is ok as it gets people here in the first place... otherwise how would they find it? Accidentally perhaps... at least it speeds up the process.. ;-)