Carla and Brad Talk About Krautrock
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings... in which Carla and Brad talk about Krautrock, album by album, umlaut by umlaut, für immer.
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Popol Vuh, In Den Gärten Pharaos & Hosianna Mantra
January 26, 2024 07:00 - 2 hours - 94.1 MBIt's a tale as old as time. Boy meets Moog III synthesizer. Boy drops a wad of cash to buy it. Boy and Moog blissfully record two studio albums and a film soundtrack together. Boy abruptly breaks up with Moog and finds religion. Boy is, of course, gifted and accomplished pianist Florian Fricke. His project, and at times even his alter ego, is Popol Vuh. In this episode we do some Before and After sampling: i.e., we talk through the records on either side of the Moog separation. **SP...
Ash Ra Tempel S/T & Schwingungen
September 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBSchoolyard friends Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke loved the Beatles and the blues ... like everybody else in a Berlin rock band in the late '60s. But then they got hold of Blue Cheer's record and some blow-the-doors-off British amps. Soon wunderkind drummer Klaus Schulze was at their door, sniffing around the new equipment. Things were gonna get LOUD. Ash Ra Tempel's soundquakes and soundscapes show off a dynamic range that is unmatched in Krautrock. Come join us as we talk about...
**Special Conny Plank Episode**/ Moebius & Plank, Rastakraut Pasta
July 06, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBNo figure loomed larger over Krautrock, as a genre, than legendary producer/ sound engineer Konrad "Conny" Plank ... and we've been looking for an opportunity to talk about him. Then we discovered the Rastakraut Pasta LP that he and Dieter Moebius recorded and released in 1980. Problem solved! From behind the board in Cologne's Rhenus Studio and then his own converted farmhouse in Wolperath, Plank put on tape some (most?) of the best German kosmische and electronic music of the '70s. Fro...
Carla and Brad Make a Playlist
May 22, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBWe interrupt this podcast's regularly scheduled programming for a SPECIAL REPORT: We've made a Krautrock Playlist. The original idea was to have a "song draft": having dug deep enough into Krautrock, we would take turns claiming songs for ourselves. We figured this way we'd learn what each of us likes in particular, and what we like best. What happened is we came up with a list of 44 songs -- FORTY-FOUR -- that generally holds together not just as a cohesive cross-section of the genre (w...
Brainticket, Cottonwoodhill
March 27, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 73 MBIt's 1969. Accomplished Belgian classical/ jazz/ R&B pianist Joel Vandroogenbroeck and English rock guitarist Ron Bryer have ditched their Basel-based blue-eyed soul band and will shortly link up with lysergic femme fatale Dawn Muir. The result? A square of light, a circle of thought, a triangle of NOTHING. It's BRAINTICKET! Join us as we talk about Brainticket's wild and wooly debut record, Cottonwoodhill. The band brings the organ crushes, guitar chucking, jackhammers, rapturous sp...
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
March 27, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 73 MBIt's 1969. Accomplished Belgian classical/ jazz/ R&B pianist Joel Vandroogenbroeck and English rock guitarist Ron Bryer have ditched their Basel-based blue-eyed soul band and will shortly link up with lysergic femme fatale Dawn Muir. The result? A square of light, a circle of thought, a triangle of NOTHING. It's BRAINTICKET! Join us as we talk about Brainticket's wild and wooly debut record, Cottonwoodhill. The band brings the organ crushes, guitar chucking, jackhammers, rapturous sp...
Guru Guru, Hinten
February 20, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBAccomplished jazz practitioners hear the siren song of psychedelic rock and find themselves a young, ripping guitarist to plug in with. Hold on: are we talking about Can again? Not at all. It's Guru Guru today: three amazing musicians laying down the soundtrack for when the aliens arrive. Or put differently, "music that's intended to mess with the cerebellum." (h/t David Stubbs) The Pep Boys were Manny, Mo, and Jack. Mani, Uli, and Ax brought some pep of their own. Come listen with u...
Harmonia, Deluxe
January 06, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBIn the spring of 1973, guitarist Michael Rother looks in on two old acquaintances at their ramshackle farmhouse/ recording studio in Forst. Rother hopes to tour the UK with his current band, Neu!, and he *thinks* Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster might provide just the juice he needs for his live act ... Now what was it John Lennon said about life and making other plans? The Neu! tour never materialized, and Rother's trip to the country yielded only Krautrock's preemine...
Michael Rother + Friends Play Neu! in London (**LIVE REVIEW**)
December 07, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBToday we depart from our usual programming to post a LIVE SHOW ALERT. Turns out Brad sneaked off to London last month to catch surviving member of Neu! Michael Rother's live performance at the Clapham Grand! Joining Michael on stage were Hans Lampe (of La Düsseldorf, on drums), Franz Bargmann (of Camera, on guitar) and electronic composer and recent Rother collaborator Vittoria Maccabruni. Special guests included Hot Chip, known Krautrock exponent Stephen Morris, of Joy Division and New O...
La Düsseldorf, Viva
October 07, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBWith Neu! in the rear-view mirror, Klaus Dinger stepped into his white overalls and reached for fame and fortune with his second act, La Düsseldorf. And boy oh boy did he find it. Today we talk about LD's second LP, Viva. Notable for its space-age guitars, synth washes, and of course "Dingerbeat," Viva serves up a shimmering blend of glam, punk, and electronica. And that's not to mention the lyrics -- Klaus sings of life, love, the world, money, the birds, money again, and glorious rev...
Kraftwerk, Autobahn
July 28, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBEight episodes deep, and still we haven't checked in on The Most Important Band of All Time (This Side of the Beatles)? That ends today. It's time for Carla and Brad to talk about Kra[f]t[wer]k. Kling-Klang, Ralf + Florian, "Precise and Maximum Expression." Ruckzuck, Radio-Activity, Trans-Europe Express, The Man-Machine ... AUTOBAHN. It's 106 kilometers to Düsseldorf. We've got a full tank of gas and a half-pound of white asparagus. It's dark, and we're carrying Geiger counters. H...
Tangerine Dream, Electronic Meditation
June 14, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWell, it's back to the lab again, yo — that is, the Zodiak Free Arts Lab ... where today we find Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze, banging out five-hour live sets in the first incarnation of Tangerine Dream. **SUPERGROUP ALERT** **SUPERGROUP ALERT** Crackling raw acid rock with hammer-drop organs, shaken dried peas, and a train ticket read backward? Klaus Schulze on drums? Creation, cremation, rebirth, and a side journey through a burning brain? Sign us up! MACHT DAS ...
Cluster, Zuckerzeit
May 19, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBConrad Schnitzler, Brian Eno, Michael Rother, Conny Plank. All the cool kids wanted to hang with Moebius and Roedelius — so naturally we do, too. What time is it, listeners? Is it time for the CBK bus to take a turn "im Suden?" Is it time to tap into Roe's pastoral Romanticism and Moe's sparky bleeps and blips? Time to put Eric Clapton into "the Krautrock meat grinder?" (h/t Yorkshire Ned) Is it, indeed, time to check in on CLUSTER? Damn straight, Brüder und Schwestern: it's S...
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
May 19, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBConrad Schnitzler, Brian Eno, Michael Rother, Conny Plank. All the cool kids wanted to hang with Moebius and Roedelius — so naturally we do, too. What time is it, listeners? Is it time for the CBK bus to take a turn "im Suden?" Is it time to tap into Roe's pastoral Romanticism and Moe's sparky bleeps and blips? Time to put Eric Clapton into "the Krautock meat grinder?" Is it, indeed, time to check in on CLUSTER? Damn straight, Brüder und Schwestern: it's SUGARTIME.
Synth Sounds of the Seventies! (w/ Sean Rieger of File Transfer Protocol)
March 31, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBIn this special double-length episode (!), modular synth guru Sean Rieger talks to Carla and Brad about the many technical and electronic sound elements that Krautrock artists applied to enrich their music. If you want to know about oscillators, ring modulation, sequencers, analog synths, tape overdubs, and vocoders ... If you're asking what was in Faust's "black boxes" ... If you've ever watched Florian Schneider twiddle knobs on YouTube while simultaneously playing the flute and wondere...
E5 - Faust IV
January 29, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBAre you worried about losing your time? Your teeth? Well, fear no more, listeners, because Carla and Brad are here to talk about Faust. Eclectic, unyielding, forward-leaning, and fun — Faust brought their A-game to the studio, time and again. Today we focus on their manic and beautiful 1973 masterpiece, Faust IV. Irmler! Sosna! Wüsthoff, Zappi, Peron! You're up! FAUST FREAKING IV, PEOPLE!!!
Faust IV
January 29, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBAre you worried about losing your time? Your teeth? Well, fear no more, listeners, because Carla and Brad are here to talk about Faust. Eclectic, unyielding, forward-leaning, and fun — Faust brought their A-game to the studio, time and again. Today we focus on their manic and beautiful 1973 masterpiece, Faust IV. Irmler! Sosna! Wüsthoff, Zappi, Peron! You're up! FAUST FREAKING IV, PEOPLE!!!
E4 - Agitation Free, Malesch
January 03, 2022 01:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBFresh off their tour of Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, Carla and Brad have landed in West Berlin! In this episode we break down the synth-singed psych rock of Agitation Free's 1972 debut LP, Malesch. Come for the wax figures, pyramids, and street recordings, stay (or not) for the Hammond solos. You might say we're doing it for "the Lüülz." In any case, we play for you today. Deal?
Agitation Free, Malesch
January 03, 2022 01:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBFresh off their tour of Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, Carla and Brad have landed in West Berlin! In this episode we break down the synth-singed psych rock of Agitation Free's 1972 debut LP, Malesch. Come for the wax figures, pyramids, and street recordings, stay (or not) for the Hammond solos. You might say we're doing it for "the Lüülz." In any case, we play for you today. Deal?
E3 - Can, Tago Mago
November 30, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBDid anybody see this snowman, standing in the wind alone? Damo did ... and Holger, Irmin, Jaki, and Michael, too. Today we're talking about Can — and specifically, their 1971 double LP, Tago Mago. John Cale, "I Am the Walrus," and Aleister Crowley get their due, but in this end this is all about the mad genius of five men jamming in a castle. We are all mushroomheads.
Can, Tago Mago
November 30, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBDid anybody see this snowman, standing in the wind alone? Damo did ... and Holger, Irmin, Jaki, and Michael, too. Today we're talking about Can — and specifically, their 1971 double LP, Tago Mago. John Cale, "I Am the Walrus," and Aleister Crowley get their due, but in the end this is all about the mad genius of five men jamming in a castle. We are all mushroomheads.
Neu! 2
November 01, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBIn this episode Carla and Brad talk about Neu! ... and specifically their 1973 sophomore effort, Neu! 2. (Spoiler Alert: we're big fans.) Order and chaos, beauty and aggression, Rother and Dinger. Join us as we speed toward the horizon with Neu!
E2 - Neu!, Neu! 2
November 01, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBIn this episode Carla and Brad talk about Neu! ... and specifically their 1973 sophomore effort, Neu! 2. (Spoiler Alert: we're big fans.) Order and chaos, beauty and aggression, Rother and Dinger. Join us as we speed toward the horizon with Neu!
E1 - Amon Düül II, Yeti
October 08, 2021 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBToday Carla and Brad talk about Amon Düül II -- and specifically, their signature 1970 double album, Yeti. Mind-mashing psychedelia sprung from a Munich radical art commune? Virtuoso bongo play wrapped in otherworldly guitars? Count us in. (But don't call it prog-rock ...) Don't be left out in the cold! Join us today, as we begin exploring the peaks of Krautrock.
Amon Düül II, Yeti
October 08, 2021 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBToday Carla and Brad talk about Amon Düül II -- and specifically, their signature 1970 double album, Yeti. Mind-mashing psychedelia sprung from a Munich radical art commune? Virtuoso bongo play wrapped in otherworldly guitars? Count us in. (But don't call it prog-rock ...) Don't be left out in the cold! Join us today, as we begin exploring the peaks of Krautrock.