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The Waxonia Desk on Krautrock

Four records for the reader who arrived here from a techno page and wants to know what a German band from 1972 has to do with anything.

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  1. Kraftwerk / Autobahn

    1974 · Philips

    The one Detroit heard. Derrick May's line about Kraftwerk and Parliament stuck in an elevator is the most quoted sentence in techno, and this is the record that put Kraftwerk in the lift.

  2. Neu! / Hallogallo

    1972 · Brain

    The one Britain heard. Every post-punk band that drives forward without swinging is playing Klaus Dinger's beat, usually without having been told whose it was.

  3. Tangerine Dream / Phaedra

    1974 · Virgin

    The one ambient heard. A sequencer drifting out of tune for seventeen minutes, kept because it was better than the accurate take, and far more sinister than anything it went on to influence.

  4. Manuel Göttsching / E2-E4

    1984 · Inteam

    The one the dancefloor heard, ten years late and via an Italian bootleg. An hour of one sequence, and the moment kosmische stopped being something you sat down for.