Carla and Brad Talk About Krautrock

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The Brian Eno / Cluster and Harmonia Collaborations: Tracks + Traces, Cluster + Eno

Send us Fan Mail We've talked about Harmonia, and we've talked about Cluster. Time now to dig deep into the life and times of Brian Peter George St. Jean-Bapt

Sep 30
2 h 15 min

Witthüser & Westrupp, Trips und Träume

Send us Fan Mail Today we talk about Krautfolk duo Bernd Witthüser and Walter Westrupp. These two budding musicians met on the Essen basement hipster folk scene, became

May 5
1 h 55 min

Sergius Golowin, Lord Krishna von Goloka + Walter Wegmüller, Tarot

Send us Fan Mail Today we get our Swiss on, as we look in on the Cosmic Couriers' collaborations with Bernese scholar/ mystic Sergius Golowin and Yenish artist Walt

Jan 25
2 h 27 min

Floh de Cologne, Fliessbandbabys Beat-Show

Send us Fan Mail Eau de Cologne. Floh de Cologne. Oh, that Floh de Cologne! Blending old-time cabaret tradition and '60s radical left-wing politics, the Flohs br

Aug 23 2025
2 h 13 min

The Cosmic Jokers, Self-Titled + Galactic Supermarket/ **Special Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser Episode**

Send us Fan Mail We were overdue to check in on Krautrock's unwitting supergroup, the Cosmic Jokers. But we weren't gonna do it without first going *deep* on

Jun 9 2025
2 h 14 min

Klaus Schulze, Irrlicht + Moondawn

Send us Fan Mail Took a minute but we're back with a vengeance and a heaping helping of Synthy Berliner Klaus Schulze! We gushed about Klaus's drumming in o

Feb 22 2025
2 h 11 min

A.R. + Machines, Die Grüne Reise

Send us Fan Mail Today we accept a listener's invite up to Hamburg, for a visit with A.R. + Machines. Achim Reichel grew up near the docks, listening to sea shanti

Oct 13 2024
1 h 50 min

Amon Düül, Psychedelic Underground

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, Carla and Brad tip their caps to the ten or more young Bavarians who stood up to Mom and Dad, demanded money for a swank downto

Apr 21 2024
1 h 49 min

Popol Vuh, In Den Gärten Pharaos + Hosianna Mantra

Send us Fan Mail It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets Moog III synthesizer. Boy drops a wad of cash to buy it. Boy and Moog blissfully record two studio albums

Jan 26 2024
2 h 17 min

Ash Ra Tempel S/T & Schwingungen

Send us Fan Mail Schoolyard friends Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke loved the Beatles and the blues ... like everybody else in a Berlin rock band in the late '60

Sep 7 2023
1 h 54 min

**Special Conny Plank Episode**/ Moebius & Plank, Rastakraut Pasta

Send us Fan Mail No figure loomed larger over Krautrock, as a genre, than legendary producer/ sound engineer Konrad "Conny" Plank ... and we've been looking for an

Jul 6 2023
1 h 38 min

Carla and Brad Make a Playlist

Send us Fan Mail We interrupt this podcast's regularly scheduled programming for a SPECIAL REPORT: We've made a Krautrock Playlist. The original idea was to

May 22 2023
1 h 36 min

Brainticket, Cottonwoodhill

Send us Fan Mail It's 1969. Accomplished Belgian classical/ jazz/ R&B pianist Joel Vandroogenbroeck and English rock guitarist Ron Bryer have ditched their Basel-b

Mar 27 2023
1 h 46 min

Guru Guru, Hinten

Send us Fan Mail Accomplished jazz practitioners hear the siren song of psychedelic rock and find themselves a young, ripping guitarist to plug in with. Hold on: are we

Feb 20 2023
1 h 47 min

Harmonia, Deluxe

Send us Fan Mail In the spring of 1973, guitarist Michael Rother looks in on two old acquaintances at their ramshackle farmhouse/ recording studio in Forst. Rother hope

Jan 6 2023
1 h 41 min

Michael Rother + Friends Play Neu! in London (**LIVE REVIEW**)

Send us Fan Mail Today we depart from our usual programming to post a LIVE SHOW ALERT. Turns out Brad sneaked off to London last month to catch surviving member of Neu!

Dec 7 2022
33 min

La Düsseldorf, Viva

Send us Fan Mail With Neu! in the rear-view mirror, Klaus Dinger stepped into his white overalls and reached for fame and fortune with his second act, La Düsseldorf.

Oct 7 2022
1 h 29 min

Kraftwerk, Autobahn

Send us Fan Mail Eight episodes deep, and still we haven't checked in on The Most Important Band of All Time (This Side of the Beatles)? That ends today. It'

Jul 28 2022
1 h 35 min

Tangerine Dream, Electronic Meditation

Send us Fan Mail Well, it's back to the lab again, yo — that is, the Zodiak Free Arts Lab ... where today we find Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze

Jun 14 2022
1 h 20 min

Cluster, Zuckerzeit

Send us Fan Mail Conrad Schnitzler, Brian Eno, Michael Rother, Conny Plank. All the cool kids wanted to hang with Moebius and Roedelius — so naturally we do, too. Wha

May 19 2022
1 h 27 min

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What listeners say

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I’m sixteen episodes in, and I really love this podcast. There’s a lot that makes it special, from the way in which the hosts’ understanding, love, and appreciation for the genre deepen with each episode, to their willingness to experiment with the form and scope of the discussions, to the genuine affection that Brad and Carla have for each other. It’s about the music, sure, but it’s as much about the things that sustain us in friendship over distance and time--I’m grateful for the chance to listen and learn with them.

Primo diPietro · Nov 2024

This has become one of my favorite podcasts ever! Carla and Brad are informative and their subjects well researched, yet they retain the lighthearted atmosphere of a couple pals at the bar nerding out over their favorite music. I’ve been a krautrock fan for years (decades?) and continue to be amazed at their album selection. Choosing to focus on NEU!2 (my first krautrock album purchase in the 90s) over NEU! or NEU!75 or Harmonia’s “Deluxe” over the fan favorite debut really speaks to my personal preferences. I’m leaning quite a lot for a guy who considers himself pretty knowledgeable on the genre. The recent episode on Brainticket was a mind melting revelation! Now, if I could just figure out the right jazz track to topple Brad’s “I don’t like jazz” wall, I would consider it a life achievement (cough cough, Door to the Cosmos, cough, Sun Ra)… Carla, Brad, please keep it up, you’re doing great!

Old Man Voorhees · Apr 2023

I got into the genre not long before this podcast started airing, and I enjoy this program because the hosts don’t pretend or claim to be experts - they’re just big fans like anyone else! They’re exploring and learning about these bands and records as they go, to some degree, and it’s refreshing. Lighthearted and informative, I look forward to each episode’s release.

CBK! Rocks · Jan 2023

Many of the albums reviewed here by Carla and Brad are ones that I’ve loved for many years now, but I’m enjoying hearing the hosts’ fresh perspectives and following their process of discovery. The research and context they provide for each album is great, and it definitely enriches each episode. For example, I especially enjoyed hearing about Kluster’s time at the Zodiak Free Arts Lab before losing Conrad and donning a C. A note to the hosts: Embrace the prog! I’ve been quite amused by the closing segment of each episode in which Carla and Brad debate whether the krautrock album they’ve been listening to is prog. I find it so amusing because I definitely experienced this conundrum while first discovering bands like Faust, Amon Düül II, and Can. My eventual conclusion: It IS prog! In the sense that it’s truly progressive music that breaks from the conventions of commercial rock. In my mind, embracing this definition of prog enriches it’s overall meaning beyond the pompous schlock that is ELP, Jethro Tull, et al. I’m no longer afraid to admit publicly that I like prog, and I’m curious to see if Carla and Brad eventually will, too! ;-)

Amon Düül III · May 2022

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