Krautrock Profiled

Source: BBC.

Yet to call krautrock a scene similar to, say, punk rock, is not strictly true. For a so-called genre, krautrock is defined as much by what it’s not than what it is. Apart from an inclination for long, hypnotic, repetitive rhythms, it actually has no clear established musical style – under its umbrella, you’ll hear rock, jazz, funk, electronics, psychedelia and avant-garde minimalism, often by the same band. In their heyday, the bands themselves were mostly very separate, scattered around German cities with little contact.