The stoic, almost machine like drumming of so many German tunes from the early seventies becomes the trademark of a new sound – different from British pop or American rock, and in no way related to the country’s horrible nazi past. 48 minutes with Cluster, Faust, Harmonia 76, La Düsseldorf, and more.
Tag: Can
Jukebox (3): Dream Dizzy
Filling up the jukebox with diluted krautrock, adapted muzak, lost technology, and a transformed Scientist riddim. 52-minute mix with tunes by Annie Anxiety, Leslie Winer, Sparks, Wrangler, and more – produced between 1974 and 2014.
More Poetry of DIY – Using the Means at Hand
A politician’s elusion becomes poetry, music of the collective subconscious is transferred into a dreamy landscape, and insects’ microtonal sounds get rhythmic. 36 minutes with pieces by Blancmange, Graeme Revell, Gregory Whitehead, Holger Hiller, and others – realized between 1967 and 2011.
The Poetry of DIY – Ideas Expressed With Sound
39-minute mix of ideas being expressed with sound – made up trains, works with found sounds, or a collective approach in making music. Works by Amy Taubin, Angus & Hetty MacLise, Can, Tom Recchion, and others, realized between 1956 and 2016.