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Ash Ra Tempel

287,109 plays (41,097 listeners)

Ash Ra Tempel are one of the most notable German Krautrock groups of the 1970s, and are a notable example of cosmic or space rock.

Brainticket

148,714 plays (21,019 listeners)

Brainticket is a little-known experimental krautrock band, with strong psychedelic leanings. Brainticket was founded in 1968 (some sources say in the beginning of the seventies) in Germany by Belgian multi-instrumentalist Joel Vandroogenbroeck when He

Embryo

97,803 plays (15,623 listeners)

There are at least six bands under this moniker: a German progressive rock band, a death/thrash metal band from Italy, a '77 punk band, an Israeli grunge band, a french dark electro/EBM band, and a Hong Kong hardcore band.

Amon Düül II

818,575 plays (62,529 listeners)

Amon Düül II emerged in 1968 out of the scene of hippies and squatters in Munich, Germany, but their strong interest in music led them to go their own way.

Dzyan

25,220 plays (4,099 listeners)

Formed in 1972, this ethnic/kraut jazz quintet (Jochen Leuschner, Reinhard Karwatky, Gerd Bock-Ehrmann, Deiter Kramer, and Ludwig Braun) released their self titled album the same year in a relative discretion. This album made an exploration in long / space rock improvisations relied on jazz grooves and weird electro –acoustic sounds.

Gila

44,484 plays (7,157 listeners)

Gila was a German band that, like Amon Düül II and others, started out as a radical hippie commune in the late 60s. Springing out of Stuttgart, Gila's sound was based around the guitar talents of Conny Veidt, who was later a member of Popul Vuh.

Xhol Caravan

52,639 plays (9,638 listeners)

Xhol Caravan, known as Xhol, was one of the first bands who participated at the end of the 60s to the launch of the Krautrock movement in Germany. Nevertheless their music cannot be categorised.

Cosmic Jokers

75,856 plays (11,492 listeners)

Over several months in early 1973, producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser organized several wild acid parties at Dieter Dierks' sound studio, where the musicians played in exchange for a small fee and all the hallucinogens they could ingest. These musicians included Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze of Ash Ra Tempel, Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grösskopf of Wallenstein, and Dierks himself.