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.

Popol Vuh was a German Krautrock band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke.

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.

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.

It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the " Krautrock " of bands like Kraftwerk.

The soundtrack was composed and performed by German progressive / Krautrock band Popol Vuh.

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!

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.

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.

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

Organisation was an experimental Krautrock band, that was the immediate predecessor of the band Kraftwerk.

Balder was a founding member of the Krautrock band Birth Control in 1968.

Their propulsive rhythmic pulse was similar to Krautrock, but Thomas's yelping, howling, desperate singing was and still is peculiar when compared to most other rock and roll singers.

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.

label ) was a collaboration with Donald Ross Skinner: an album of instrumental jams called Rite, inspired by Krautrock, Sly Stone-styled psychedelic funk and spiritual mysticism.

Easter was a fan of the Krautrock band Kraftwerk, which inspired him to try various sonic experiments while recording.

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

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.

Bauhaus combined a number of influences including punk music, glam rock, and Krautrock — even funk and dub — to create a gloomy and introspective sound which appealed to many fans left disillusioned by the New Wave that arose in the wake of punk's collapse.

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.

* " 3 A. M. at the Border of the Marsh From Okefenokee " is the name of a song by the Krautrock band Tangerine Dream.

The German Krautrock band Amon Düül II released their first album in 1969 ( under the name Amon Düül II ), where Düül came from a fictive mythology-related word, ' dyyl ', created by another Canadian rock band

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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

Its work is mainly influenced by Krautrock and experimental music from the 1960s and 1970s.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Forms of German-language music include Neue Deutsche Welle ( NDW ), Krautrock, Hamburger Schule, Volksmusik, Classical, German hip hop, trance, Schlager, Neue Deutsche Härte ( NDH ) and diverse varieties of folk music, such as Waltz and Medieval metal.

As such, they were a style of Krautrock.

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.

The album's music was the complete departure from the progressive Krautrock of the two previous albums, in favor of a heavy metal sound of shorter and tighter arrangements with which the band would achieve their later global success and fame, extended suites in the vein of songs such as " Lonesome Crow " and " Fly to the Rainbow " are absent altogether.

* Amon Düül & Amon Düül II, a pair German Krautrock bands

Krautrock has also been an influence on Hawkwind, in particular Dave Brock who supposedly penned the sleeve notes for the British edition of Neu!