In which The Curmudgeons embark on a tour of 1970s Germany to discuss and analyze the influence of the artists and bands who invented and innovated the rock genre derisively coined Krautrock by snotty British people. The German musicians and label heads themselves called it "cosmic music." Theirs was a movement designed to distinguish a not-so-admirable Old Germany from a bolder, more hopeful, outer space-adoring New Germany. And it certainly did make rock a whole lot more cosmic in the generations that followed.
Here is a handy navigation reference for this episode and the bands we cover:
(0:52 - 4:30): Setting the parameters for our excursion
(6:50 - 15:23): The Parallel Universe (new albums by The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Nilufer Yanya)
(16:21 to 01:04:01): A brief origin story plus discussions of Amon Duul II, Tangerine Dream, Can, Popol Vuh, Cluster and Kraftwerk
(01:05:29 to The End): Disccusions of Asha Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, Neu!, Faust and Harmonia
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