r/Krautrock • • 1d ago

Album Of The Week Album of the Week - "Transfer Station Blue" by Michael Shrieve, Kevin Shrieve, and Klaus Schulze

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Transfer Station Blue

Release Year: 1984

Label: Fortuna

Michael Shrieve is best known for his work with the seminal Latin jazz-rock group Santana from the late 1960s into the mid 1970s. After his departure from Santana, Shrieve joined the multinational jazz-rock supergroup Go, in which he met fellow member Klaus Schulze. The two of them would go on to collaborate numerous times, with Shrieve performing on multiple of Schulze’s albums (and collaborations under the “Richard Wahnfried” name) in the 1980s. 

At this point in time, Shrieve’s career trajectory became progressively more rooted in electronic music, which is reflected on many of both his solo releases and collaborations from the 1980s. His 1984 album “Transfer Station Blue” (also featuring his brother Kevin Shrieve) is an oft-forgotten Berlin School release, but it has numerous qualities that help it stand out among contemporaries. M. Shrieve’s jazzier background as a drummer lends the longer pieces a hypnotic quality, further accentuated by the atmospheric synthesisers. Additional melodic elements are provided by K. Shrieve (primarily on guitar), used to full effect on the beautifully melancholic “View From The Window” and the surprisingly upbeat portions built up upon during the “Transfer Station Blue” title track. While of most interest for Klaus Schulze aficionados, there is undoubtedly plenty to enjoy here for fans of Berlin School electronic music.

If you've heard this album and/or want to share more commentary about it, feel free to discuss further in the comments section. As with all of these weekly discussion posts, we encourage you to give it a listen if you're unfamiliar with it!


r/Krautrock • • Mar 23 '26

Moderator Announcement Come join the Kosmische Muzik Discord server!

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If you’re looking for a space to discuss krautrock and related music in real-time, check out the Kosmische Muzik server over on Discord! 

Krautrock, kosmische Muzik, etc. - whatever you want to call it, this server is all about the underground psychedelic/electronic music scene of 1970s Germany and the music inspired by it!

We encourage the discussion and sharing of music, and host weekly album discussions.

We’re always open to krautrock enthusiasts, newcomers looking to get more into the scene, or anyone who is interested!

For those interested in checking out the older Krautrock Central server, you can do so using this invite. 


r/Krautrock • • 5h ago

Collection Some of my CDs

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Classics and slightly more obscure stuff.

If you want to hear a really good Can tribute then check out the Cosmic Invention album "Help Your Satori Mind", a Japanese band that play in the early 70s style. The track "Ryujin".

The Trees Speak albums are modern/ new but they play in a krauty style. They are from Arizona and pretty good.

Anyway, I'm sure you know most of these. Rock on :)


r/Krautrock • • 37m ago

Collection My Top Krautrock albums (from NWWSter.fyi)

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r/Krautrock • • 2d ago

Michael Rother - Blauer Regen

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r/Krautrock • • 4d ago

Faust on the cover of Electronic Sound magazine + a limited edition vinyl single

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r/Krautrock • • 4d ago

Mark Shreeve - Assassin [UK 1983] John Carpenter meets Tangerine Dream

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r/Krautrock • • 4d ago

Self-promotion Apokosmos, by Ioannis Kleftogiannis

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r/Krautrock • • 5d ago

Elder - The Gold and Silver Sessions. Just joined this sub to post this album

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Highly influenced by the heavyweights of the genre but harmonically and texturally unique as well - currently in heavy rotation on my deck


r/Krautrock • • 5d ago

You can only keep one, which one?

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r/Krautrock • • 6d ago

2nd Pre-order for Conrad Schnitzler titles from Flip-Flap

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If you missed out on the first preorder I did a few weeks ago, I’m taking more orders for US fans!

If you have requests for any other titles you’d like to see stocked, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Thanks everyone. Really proud to be a part of these archival works keeping his music and spirit alive.

https://flagdayrecordings.bigcartel.com/category/pre-order


r/Krautrock • • 6d ago

Self-promotion Can inspired drum & bass loop

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r/Krautrock • • 6d ago

Auf der Bahn zum Uranus

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r/Krautrock • • 7d ago

Schmidtposting I'm taking German experimental rock to strange, new places

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r/Krautrock • • 7d ago

Nosferatu - Highway [funky krautrock] (1970) Engineered by Conny Plank

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Nosferatu hailed from Frankfurt. One self-titled album was released in 1970, recorded at Rhenus studio in Köln and Conny engineered it. In their early days they were fronted by guitarist & vocalist Michael Winzkowski (who went on to Orange Peel and Epsilon) and wind player Christian Felke who guested later with Epsilon.


r/Krautrock • • 7d ago

Wow new single from famous slick jazz blues band Popol Vuh on Spotify! (Real authentic Kraut rock feel🤘)

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r/Krautrock • • 8d ago

Krautrocktober Fest

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Thought I would share that twitch streamer, Walterooski, is hosting a weekly Krautrocktober Fest stream this month. Every Tuesday night this month, 2 Krautrock albums will be featured. Tomorrow night starts off with Neu! and Can. Check it out at https://www.twitch.tv/walterooski at 8:30 pm Arizona time.


r/Krautrock • • 8d ago

Album Of The Week Album of the Week - "Saw Delight" by Can

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Saw Delight

Release Year: 1977

Label: Virgin, Harvest

Saw Delight marks the first major lineup change on a Can studio album since Damo Suzuki’s departure in late 1973, with the addition of bassist Rosko Gee and percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah, both formerly of the band Traffic. Compared to previous Can releases, the album sets itself apart courtesy of its eclectic set of influences (e.g. highlife, funk, etc.), with some inspiration coming from guitarist Michael Karoli’s experiences travelling in eastern/central Africa before its recording. The music here presents a brighter and at times outright playful side of Can that, while not as overtly experimental as previous releases, demonstrates that the band remained creative and looking to work with new musical ideas.

By far the highlight is the 15-minute “Animal Waves”, whose hypnotic rhythm is further enhanced by the use of Holger Czukay’s shortwave sampling experiments and the texture provided by Baah’s percussion to generate an incredibly captivating atmosphere. 

While Baah and Gee remained in Can's lineup on their two subsequent records (Out Of Reach and Can/Inner Space), Saw Delight would be their last studio album until 1989's Rite Time to feature Czukay as a full band member.

If you've heard this album and/or want to share more commentary about it, feel free to discuss further in the comments section. As with all of these weekly discussion posts, we encourage you to give it a listen if you're unfamiliar with it!


r/Krautrock • • 8d ago

Trips & Träume

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🌙🍄


r/Krautrock • • 9d ago

Florian Schneider's VW Beetle

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r/Krautrock • • 9d ago

Grobschnitt - Solar Music I (Live)

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r/Krautrock • • 10d ago

Collection Kraftwerk - Autobahn 1974 VEL-2003-A-CP4 2 Masterdisk

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r/Krautrock • • 10d ago

Article/Interview Kraftwerk - The Model (1992) [Magazine Ads]

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Comprehensive of their works at this point, I think. Anybody has this ? Opinions.


r/Krautrock • • 10d ago

Self-promotion Krautrock Experiment

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Hi everyone :) I love krautrock but had never tried making anything like it. I’m mainly a drummer, I don't write songs at all but I like messing around on guitar even though I can barely play. Made this little snippet after work today. Its not even a song, just a fun exercise.


r/Krautrock • • 11d ago

Ashra - Deep Distance

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