Took a minute but we're back with a vengeance and a heaping helping of Synthy Berliner Klaus Schulze!  We gushed about Klaus's drumming in our Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel episodes.  Funny thing, though: Klaus's FIFTY-PLUS...

Today we accept a listener's invite up to Hamburg, for a visit with A.R. + Machines.Achim Reichel grew up near the docks, listening to sea shanties.  He found work at the Star-Club waiting tables, but soon enough he was on its stag...

In today's episode, Carla and Brad tip their caps to the ten or more young Bavarians who stood up to Mom and Dad, demanded money for a swank downtown apartment, and most assuredly drove their neighbors nuts with the ensuing band rehearsals.&nbs...

It's a tale as old as time.  Boy meets Moog III synthesizer.  Boy drops a wad of cash to buy it.  Boy and Moog blissfully record two studio albums and a film soundtrack together.  Boy abruptly breaks up with Moog and finds r...

Schoolyard friends Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke loved the Beatles and the blues ... like everybody else in a Berlin rock band in the late '60s.  But then they got hold of Blue Cheer's record and some blow-the-doors-off British amps. ...

No figure loomed larger over Krautrock, as a genre, than legendary producer/ sound engineer Konrad "Conny" Plank ... and we've been looking for an opportunity to talk about him.  Then we discovered the Rastakraut Pasta LP that he and Diete...

We interrupt this podcast's regularly scheduled programming for a SPECIAL REPORT:We've made a Krautrock Playlist.The original idea was to ...

It's 1969.  Accomplished Belgian classical/ jazz/ R&B pianist Joel Vandroogenbroeck and English rock guitarist Ron Bryer have ditched their Basel-based blue-eyed soul band and will shortly link up with lysergic femme fatale Dawn Muir.&...

Accomplished jazz practitioners hear the siren song of psychedelic rock and find themselves a young, ripping guitarist to plug in with.  Hold on: are we talking about Can again?Not at all.  It's Guru Guru today: three amazing ...

In the spring of 1973, guitarist Michael Rother looks in on two old acquaintances at their ramshackle farmhouse/ recording studio in Forst.  Rother hopes to tour the UK with his current band, Neu!, and he *thinks* Hans-Joachim Roedelius an...

Today we depart from our usual programming to post a LIVE SHOW ALERT.Turns out Brad sneaked off to London last month to catch surviving member of Neu! Michael Rother's live performance at the Clapham Grand!  Joining Michael on stag...

With Neu! in the rear-view mirror, Klaus Dinger stepped into his white overalls and reached for fame and fortune with his second act, La Düsseldorf.  And boy oh boy did he find it.Today we talk about LD's second LP, Viva.&n...

Eight episodes deep, and still we haven't checked in on The Most Important Band of All Time (This Side of the Beatles)?  That ends today.It's time for Carla and Brad to talk about Kra[f]t[wer]k.  Kling-Klang, Ralf + Florian, "...

Well, it's back to the lab again, yo — that is, the Zodiak Free Arts Lab ... where today we find Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze, banging out five-hour live sets in the first incarnation of Tangerine Dream.**SUPERGROU...

Conrad Schnitzler, Brian Eno, Michael Rother, Conny Plank.  All the cool kids wanted to hang with Moebius and Roedelius — so naturally we do, too. What time is it, listeners?  Is it time for the CBK bus to take a turn "im...

In this special double-length episode (!), modular synth guru Sean Rieger talks to Carla and Brad about the many technical and electronic sound elements that Krautrock artists applied to enrich their music.If you want to know about ...

Are you worried about losing your time?  Your teeth?  Well, fear no more, listeners, because Carla and Brad are here to talk about Faust.  Eclectic, unyielding, forward-leaning, and fun — Faust brought their A-game to the studio,...

Fresh off their tour of Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, Carla and Brad have landed in West Berlin!  In this episode we break down the synth-singed psych rock of Agitation Free's 1972 debut LP, Malesch.  Come for the wax figures, py...

Did anybody see this snowman, standing in the wind alone?  Damo did ... and Holger, Irmin, Jaki, and Michael, too.Today we're talking about Can — and specifically, their 1971 double LP, Tago Mago.  John Cale, "I Am th...

In this episode Carla and Brad talk about Neu! ... and specifically their 1973 sophomore effort, Neu! 2.  (Spoiler Alert: we're big fans.)Order and chaos, beauty and aggression, Rother and Dinger.  Join us as we speed...

Today Carla and Brad talk about Amon Düül II -- and specifically, their signature 1970 double album, Yeti.Mind-mashing psychedelia sprung from a Munich radical art commune?  Virtuoso bongo play wrapped in otherworldly guit...