Irmin Schmidt, founder of seminal German ' Krautrock ' group Can has written an opera called Gormenghast, based on the novels, and a number of songs including ' Stranger Than Fiction ' and ' Titus ' by New Zealand rock group Split Enz and ' The Drowning Man ' by The Cure were inspired by Peake's work.

In interviews Yorke has cited a variety of personal musical heroes and influences, including jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus, Neil Young, Miracle Legion, singer Scott Walker, electronic acts Aphex Twin and Autechre, and Krautrock band Can.

Neu are highly praised in Julian Cope's " Krautrocksampler ", along with other great Krautrock artists such as Kraftwerk and Can, and Cope has also written a song called " Michael Rother " which appears on CD2 of the Deluxe edition of the album Jehovahkill.

While The Velvet Underground's influence on Krautrock is often mentioned, Moe Tucker's drumming has specifically been characterized as " proto-motorik.

Developing the funk and soul of Young Americans, Station to Station also prefigured the Krautrock and synthesiser music of his next releases.

Automatic Man was an American 1970s progressive rock quartet from San Francisco which also featured elements of funk, space music, psychedelic rock, heavy metal, Krautrock, Musique concrète, art rock and Santana-inspired jazz fusion.

was formed in 1971 in Düsseldorf as an offshoot from an early line-up of another seminal Krautrock band, Kraftwerk, whose early works were also produced by Conny Plank.

While many space music recording artists specialize in electronic forms, evolving out of the traditional Kosmische musik of the Berlin School ( also known as Krautrock ).

By the mid-late 1970s onward the terms electronic rock, electronic music, new instrumental music and new age have been used more often than Krautrock and Kosmische Musik, though the early scene continues still today to be regarded as a style in and of itself.

Krautrock must generally be regarded, however, as a primarily West German phenomenon ; the East German musical avant-garde may be argued to have been more genuinely represented by, for example, political singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, whose work more aptly bears comparison to Woody Guthrie or early Bob Dylan than to any progressive rock artists.

In 1974, Simply Saucer recorded a demo tape of music under the supervision of Robert Lanois which combined psychedelic, Krautrock and early punk influences ( Syd Barrett, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop have been cited as among the band's influences ).

are retrospectively considered one of the founding fathers of Krautrock and a significant influence on artists including David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, PiL, Joy Division, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Simple Minds, Negativland, Stereolab, Boredoms, Radiohead, The Horrors, Electrelane, and much of the current electronic music scene.

The group is generally considered to be one of the founders of the Krautrock scene and a seminal influence on the development of it.

Like the album as a whole, the song demonstrates the influence of German Krautrock.

Irmin Schmidt, founder of seminal German ' Krautrock ' group Can wrote an opera called Gormenghast, based on the novels ; it was first performed in Wuppertal, Germany, in November 1998.

formed in 1971, building on the Krautrock tradition of groups such as Can.

Yorke explained that the record was influenced by 1990s IDM artists Autechre and Aphex Twin, along with others on Warp Records ; by 1970s Krautrock bands such as Can, Faust and Neu!

Krautrock was typified by acts such as Amon Düül, Kraftwerk, Neu !, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Can, David Bowie on his Berlin Trilogy Low, Heroes, and Lodger, as well as many others.

Musicologist Julian Cope, in his book Krautrocksampler, says " Krautrock is a subjective British phenomenon ," based on the way the music was received in the UK rather than on the actual West German music scene out of which it grew.

Krautrock was highly influential on the development of post-punk, notably artists such as The Fall, Joy Division, Public Image Ltd, and This Heat.

During this period, Cope began his work as a writer, completing the first volume of his autobiography and beginning to research works on Krautrock and Neolithic architecture.

Their work centers on a cerebrally robotic, usually instrumental, semi-danceable, minimalistic format, with influences including Krautrock, heavy metal, hardcore punk, synthpop, electronic music, and folk music.

* Comments on MacDonald's 1973 Krautrock articles in NME

Their sound was influenced by Krautrock and No Wave influences and relied heavily on three chord riffs.

Acid Mothers Guru Guru was founded on a concept similar to SWR, but instead features the drumming of Krautrock drummer Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru.

These three albums ( from Alles ist gut to Für immer ) were all produced by Konrad " Conny " Plank, who was renowned for his pioneering work both with minimalist-influenced Krautrock bands and other experimenters in the 1970s, and with electro-pop artists in the 1980s.

The first Tangerine Dream album, Electronic Meditation, was a tape-collage Krautrock piece, using the technology of the time rather than the synthesized music they later became famous for.

Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years.

Conrad's first musical release, and only release for many years, was a 1972 collaboration with the German " Krautrock " group Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate, published by Caroline ( UK ) in 1973.

Krautrock is a popularly accepted term for a form of highly experimental German post-Prog Rock of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain.

For instance, while one of the main groups originally tagged as krautrock, Faust, recorded a seminal 12-minute track they titled " Krautrock ", they would later distance themselves from the term, saying: " When the English people started talking about Krautrock, we thought they were just taking the piss ... and when you hear the so-called ' Krautrock renaissance ,' it makes me think everything we did was for nothing.

Krautrock is an eclectic and often very original mix of post-psychedelic jamming and moody progressive rock mixed with ideas from contemporary experimental classical music ( especially composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, with whom, for example, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay of Can had previously studied ) and from the new experimental directions that emerged in jazz during the 1960s and 1970s ( mainly the free jazz pieces by Ornette Coleman or Albert Ayler ).

Post-punk laid the groundwork for alternative rock by broadening the range of punk and underground music, incorporating elements of Krautrock ( particularly the use of synthesisers and extensive repetition ), Jamaican dub music ( specifically in bass guitar ), American funk, studio experimentation, and even punk's traditional polar opposite, disco, into the genre.

Musically, the album reflected his interest in Krautrock ( though in a more electro-acoustic based form ) and his teenage fascination for Detroit hard rock.

Originally Krautrock was a form of Free art which meant you could receive Krautrock bands ' records for free at Free Art Fairs.

Post-punk laid the groundwork for alternative rock by broadening the idea of what punk and underground music could do, incorporating elements of Krautrock ( specifically the use of synthesizers ), Jamaican dub music, American funk, studio experimentation, and even punk's traditional polar opposite, Disco, into the genre.

Leopold was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Daniel Fichelscher, for many years guitarist and drummer of Krautrock group Popol Vuh.

In addition to the Protopunk of New York's The Velvet Underground and Suicide, and Detroit ’ s The Stooges and MC5, Kember's and Pierce's musical influences included: US 60s Psychedelic rock, such as The Thirteenth Floor Elevators ; US 60s Garage rock ; 60s British Invasion bands ; Rock n ' Roll ; Buddy Holly ; Surf music ; The Beach Boys ; early, seminal Electronic music, e. g. Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Anderson ; Krautrock ; The Gun Club, The Cramps and Tav Falco ’ s Panther Burns ; early Chicago blues, e. g. Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin ’ Wolf ; early Delta blues ; gospel and early Staple Singers ; Otis Reading ; the production techniques of Brian Wilson, Joe Meek and Phil Spector ; and the avant-garde jazz and free jazz of Sun Ra and John Coltrane.

Low ( 1977 ), partly influenced by the Krautrock sound of Kraftwerk and Neu !, evidenced a move away from narration in Bowie's songwriting to a more abstract musical form in which lyrics were sporadic and optional.

Motorik is a term coined by music journalists to describe the 4 / 4 beat often used by " Krautrock " bands such as Neu!