Musician and author Wolfgang Seidel was a fly-on-the-wall observer during krautrock’s peak. In his new book, ‘Krautrock Eruption’, he argues that the genre was rooted in the German working class, before Berlin’s countercultural scene of psych, jazz and electronics elevated it to stratospheric realms

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