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In my opinion, the best of Popol lies in: "In Den Garten Pharaos," "Hosianna Mantra," and another one that I can't quite dub in English, something like "Ensiagher Siebenbagher"... just be careful with the a's in the first two, some of them have those umlauts, and for the third, the name is similar, but I never get it right, it's too complicated to remember :D. The best ones have been reissued, pairing the albums together and changing the names to English; I bought the reissues of "In The Garden Of... + "Aguirre" and "Hosianna Mantra + Tantric Song." They might also be available in their original versions, but I've never looked for them. In Popol, there's the same singer from Duul II, Renate Knaup, who is also quite attractive... sure, not on the level of Uschi Obermaier, but still nice to look at. But anyway, does anyone know more stuff by Fricke? Where's Airone when you need him?
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Cluster & Kluster are the same thing: They started as Kluster with a three-piece lineup playing a slightly varied Kraut-Rock, always in the vein of Amon Düül, Ash Ra Tempel, and CAN, which in the end is Space-Rock, and more electronic than American and English, but the matrix of Psychedelic Rock is always there. Then one of the three (although they are all famous, I don’t have the names in mind right now, but if you Google them, you'll find a lot of stuff about them) leaves, leaving two behind who become Cluster, starting to make 4/4 and pieces of pure electronics. If you like Kraftwerk's Autobahn, you should like them: I have a bit of confusion in my head about the various albums but one I know well: "Zuckerzeit" (maybe there's some zeta instead of an s, but we’re close) which is one or two years before Autobahn and sounds the same: you should enjoy it a lot. From Aphex Twin, I prefer the violent and twisted stuff: "Drukqs" & "The Richard D. James Album." Speaking of 70s Germany in general, I'm also into Amon Düül II (but the "I" are great too), I listen to them more often than the others, but there's a big battle among all those great bands, the Vuh as Ege says, CAN, even the lesser-known Eloy (someone reminded me of them a few days ago, I think it was Logic P.)... there are so many to fill a year of listening to just Tehtehsko :D
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Ah, another German group that did more or less the same things as Kraftwerk are Cluster, and they were around a few years earlier. I'm not crazy about Cluster either, but maybe they should be included even before Kraft in the list of pioneers. The only album of theirs that I like is one they made with Eno, which is indeed a piece of galactic ambient, but it has some really unique sounds and, above all, quite ahead of its time. I looked them up precisely because Eno mentions them several times, and if he says so...
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No no (or yes yes?), we’re thinking the same thing: the bubbly danceable electronics are all theirs; since '75, they’ve released a lot of stuff that was a decade ahead of its time. The thing is, "electronic" is a big word that encompasses a thousand things and a thousand genres; it’s not all dancey and bubbly. I fully agree that a lot of it derives from Kraftwerk, but an Aphex Twin or any other “heavier” electronic artist comes from different places. Continuing with the example, it definitely draws more from Neu! than from Radio Activity. The Krafts are an enormous group, but they don’t make the kind of music I enjoy. A lot of respect, but I listen to something else. I’ve never heard of the others you mentioned; I’ll ask some friends if they can hook me up with copies too.
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Ah, here we are: "Go listen to The Division Bell" is a nice way of saying "please, do us a favor."
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I prefer to listen to the first three rather than Diverse Autobahn etc. However, there's a bit of exaggeration with Kraftwerk; they are among the pioneers, but they didn't do everything by themselves. Their electronic albums are beautiful, but I can't listen to them even now; I prefer the perfected derivations. Above all, I prefer Neu! by a mile. This is enjoyable to listen to, but it’s not exactly groundbreaking since, back then, a ton of stuff like that was coming out.
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It's all a madness here, you probably read some bullshit written on purpose, but I don't understand what you're referring to; it's probably about a year ago this thing happened.
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You can contradict yourself even in the same post, you are an Olympic champion.
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He has serious mental problems, just read these comments. <<< The quaquaraquà told you the date and place of the things he does. Don't bother me. I'm neither better nor worse than many others, and it's enough to cling to the tiniest bullshit to break people's souls on this fucking site. And it's also enough to appeal to the bullshit of "grow up." But who are you? Who knows you? Have we ever met? We're on this idiotic site exchanging idiotic emails for idiotic comments and reviews that I couldn't care less about. I'm pissed off only because I can't understand how one can REALLY take all of this seriously... is this really your only form of communication, on display, exchanging ideas about life? Does it bother you that much? And anyway, I didn't mean to say I'm better than anyone else.. you idiot, read what I wrote>>> But where did we get to this discussion? It makes me feel sorry for him.
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And to be precise: I commented on three or four reviews, and he even mentioned me in reviews, sent me heaps of private messages, I'm cited in every damn forum... not that I care about it, in fact I’ve had a ton of laughs, but let’s take it easy with the "maybe that’s why you keep fighting with each other," because this situation is one-sided, just for the record.