Florian Schneider (1947 - 2020)

woops

is not like other people
do you get the same detached or robotic effect if you listen to their songs in the original language?

sensible question. i listened to this (incomparable) record to find out.


and found that no. he does sound a lot more at home in German. There's something more natural there although his tone and delivery don't change at all!

WARUM
 

woops

is not like other people
https://archive.org/details/Krautrocksampler

Lockdown essential. It's broad, with tight focus when needed. Style is definitive Julian, bit light on figures such as Xhol Caravan, Walter Wegmuller & Wolfgang Dauner, but the author knows his field.

just said earlier that today that this is the most joyful and contagious music writing i've found anywhere and essential reading indeed but i'm not sure if it gives a rigorous historical grounding? ages since i read it though so maybe i thought that was a boring bit at the time.
 

Mellsman

Well-known member
I saw them in the Turbine Hall of the Tate a few years.
Cried during Radioactivity.
I find Autobahn very moving too.
Emotional electricity.
 
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