BBC Four hit yet another home run with their outstanding documentary 'Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany'... It's 1968; students are rioting throughout Europe and in Germany they struggle to break away from their countries past - forging a new identity through music. Rejecting the rock music of America and the UK and the schlager (cheesy euro-pop) of their own charts, they create an electronic-heavy sound that the British press would inappropriately dub 'Krautrock'...
The documentary features footage from all the major Krautrock groups like Amon Düül, Cluster, Harmonia, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can and Faust. The section on Amon Düül was particularly interesting, not only their close alliances with aspiring German film-makers such as Wim Wenders, Fassbinder and Werner Herzog, but their inadvertent involvement with the terrorist Baader-Meinhof gang...
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