In the late 1960s, German youth and student groups rebelled against their own post-Nazi background as well as against the Americans who were at that time causing a massacre in Vietnam. Some, like the Baader-Meinhof group, started armed guerrilla warfare. Less violent but just as controversial was the emergence of German bands that created a rock sound in which psychedelic drugs, revolution, minimal
… music, avant-garde art and early electronic music (from Karlheinz Stockhausen, for example, who lived in Cologne) were important ingredients. The British press, with little awe, gave it the name krautrock. In this voluminous overview of the acclaimed British label Soul Jazz Records, this name is correctly avoided. This collector has been put together with a lot of love. The trance-inducing, cosmic sounds of groups such as Can, Harmonia and Kollectiv are certainly not timeless, there is a hint of hippie about with a lot of freaking out on flutes and exotic percussion next to moogs and synthesizers. But the link with electro-acoustic dance music in 2010 is effortlessly made. Soul Jazz was therefore originally a dance label that, with Deutsche Electronic Musik, put together an equally authoritative and accessible collection that the hip DJ can also benefit from. (MR) Soul Jazz was therefore originally a dance label that, with Deutsche Electronic Musik, put together an equally authoritative and accessible collection that the hip DJ can also benefit from. (MR) Soul Jazz was originally a dance label that, with Deutsche Electronic Musik, put together an equally authoritative and accessible collection that the hip DJ can also benefit from. (MR)more
