Carla and Brad Talk About Krautrock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.  

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'

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

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

Synth Sounds of the Seventies! (w/ Sean Rieger of File Transfer Protocol)

Send us Fan Mail In this special double-length episode (!), modular synth guru Sean Rieger talks to Carla and Brad about the many technical and electronic sound elements