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Krautrock 1968
A tireless motorik beat, studio improvisation and a refusal of the chorus. It shaped post-punk, post-rock and electronic music.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 5
- Where from
- West Germany
- Tempo
- 120-150 bpm
- Song length
- 6-20 min
- Written about
- Mostly none - the vocals are frequently phonetic, invented or absent, Motion, Machines, Deliberate refusal of an English-language rock tradition
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Why this one
| You said | Krautrock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| No words at all When someone is singing, what should come out? | instrumental | 100% | ×3 |
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 3 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1968 | 92% | ×1 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Mostly none - the vocals are frequently phonetic, invented or absent, Motion, Machines, Deliberate refusal of an English-language rock tradition | 0% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 86% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1 out of 9. Krautrock ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1967
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive. Ten minutes that explain half this tree.
The pick names a track. This is the record the encyclopedia holds by them.
- 2The one to put on first
- 3Then
Can, Tago Mago 1971
- 4Then
Faust, Faust IV 1973
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Psychedelic rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Krautrock's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-punk 86%
Punk asking what comes next: melodic bass up front, dry guitar, space and cold. Possibly the most fertile branch in all of rock.
4 steps from Krautrock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Post-punk -
Avant-prog / RIO 86%
Rock in Opposition: dissonance, chamber music and left-wing politics. Prog that refuses on principle to be pleasant.
4 steps from Krautrock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Avant-prog / RIO
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- No words at all put 33 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Grindcore. Worth 3 of 9.
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. Worth 2 of 9.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 9.
- Anger at something real put 108 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Black metal, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.