(Incorporating
Kraut-Rock & Contemporary)
This
department covers a variety of recordings selected from our main database
of over 2,500 titles available worldwide. We've listed a wide selection
of material that draws from where it all began back in the early 1970's,
when pioneering 'Kraut-Rock' bands like Amon Duul II,
Ashra Tempel, Can, Cluster, Faust, Grobschnitt,
Guru Guru and others started to release and sell lots of albums.
Parallel to this ran the 'Euro-Rock' genre, mainly French in origin,
with bands such as Gong, Heldon, Magma, Pulsar
and Shylock leading the field - much of their music derived
from lengthy guitar, bass & drums jams, through electronic rock
and electronics/guitar improvisations to prog fusion
- you'll find plenty of that in this department too. This genre was
granted a whole new lease of life in the 90's, leading to a new explosion
of (chiefly) American based bands and labels furthering the pioneering
spirit and originality of the genre that was born in the 70's. Now,
labels such as Kranky, Noise Factory and the UK based
outfit Ochre, plus groups such as Circle, Subarachnoid
Space, Land Of Nod and Escapade (to name but a few)
are now playing fantastic music so much in the spirit of what has
gone before - and stretching out the boundaries once more.
