#10: Föllakzoid – II
"And when there are works of art that show that using new
media can lead to new experiences and new awareness, and expand our senses, our
perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will be interested in
this music." - Karlheinz Stockhausen
“When the German Karlheinz Stockhausen referred to such works of
art, its starting point was the new musical experimentation that Germany in the
second half of the twentieth century lived. After the devastating world war
that left the country in ruins and divided into a front that absorbed the
propaganda and advertising from the U.S. and another front choked with the full
control of the Soviet Union. With this background, the German cultural society
sought new ways to express the anguish that the division and segregation of its
people were suffering. Thus, German folk music was becoming more like the sound
of American pop icons that Germany received, creating a genre that the Germans
dubbed as "schlager":
lightweight and inoffensive pop for the masses what was a very distant from
what was being brewed in the clubs of cities like Munich, Düsseldorf and
Berlin, where bands like Harmonia, Amon
Düül II,Can and Neu! made the rounds immersed in feasts of
alkaloids, psychotropics and hallucinogens. These bands generated a new sound
escaping from the masses and focused on returning to the origins of music with
repetitive rhythms, long improvisations and a psychedelic way of interpreting
music in a different way than the icons of the era from the United States or
England. That is how krautrock was born, as the British press dubbed
it, literally “cabbage rock”. “
11.Bonnie
"Prince" Billy - S/T
12.Jay Z - Magna
Carta Holy Grail
13.Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club - Specter at the Feast
14.Russian
Circles – Memorial
15.God is an
Astronaut - Origins
16.My Bloody
Valentine - MBV
17.Sigur Ros -
Kveikur
18.The Knife -
Shaking the Habitual
19.Boards of
Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
20.Flunk - Lost
Causes
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