selvehealing mat: a cursory guide to krautrock

Krautrock was an experimental music form in the early 1970s, born in Germany and offensively named as such by the war-obsessed post-World War II British music press. Krautrock was rooted in psychedelica but evolved into its own true art form. Instead of following the beaten path of Western music and the German state-sanctioned deustche Schlager (inoffensive, bland pop music), Krautrock bands broke musical conventions and experimented with early synthesizers, drones, and avant-garde arrangements. Bands like Faust, Neu!, Can, Amon Duul, and the supergroup Harmonia continually expressed themselves freely and without any fear of mainstream rejection.