Kraut!: Die Innovativen Jahre Des Krautrock 1968-1979, Vol. 4 (CD)

Release Date: 01/15/21

2-CD (trifold DigiSleeve) with 100-page booklet, 17 tracks. Total playing time approx. 150 minutes.

-Progressive Rock from Germany!
-Never before has there been a comparable compilation!
-Towards the end of the 1960s, German bands began their first attempts to emancipate themselves stylistically from their US and British role models.
-ProgRock and Pchychedelia from our country were initially smiled at internationally and disparagingly called 'Krautrock' by cult DeeJay John Peel, among others.
-Unorthodox formations could not be pigeonholed, and so a scene with a wide musical range was created.
-The fourth and final part is dedicated to the West Berlin scene of the day and presents popular bands such as Ash Ra Tempel, Lokomotive Kreuzberg, Agitation Free, Dissidenten, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream alongside e.g. Karthago, Mythos, Emtidi, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Cluster, Harmonia, or Os Mundi.
-Mostly remastered from digital tape copies by Marcus Heumann without wasting the original sound.
-Compiled and commented on 100(!) pages by Burghard Rausch (DeeJay, vinyl collector, drummer, radio presenter/author and book editor).

With 'Kraut! Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979' we will release a double CD every three months in 2020 with a booklet of about 100 pages and biographies of each band, an exquisite selection of the exciting and influential bands of those days, some of which caused a sensation far beyond Germany.
The four editions are regionally structured. The fourth part deals with West Berlin. All editions are compiled by Burghard Rausch and commented on in detail (in German language).

With the release of the fourth and final issue, Bear Family marks the last milestone on the way to a comprehensive documentation of the history of popular music in Germany from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s.