Issue 123

Having released a plethora of krautrock reissues and a stack of experimental/contemporary German music over the last two decades, Bureau B founder Gunther Buskies looks back at some of the key labels from krautrock’s formative era

Cluster and Harmonia co-founder Hans-Joachim Roedelius reflects on his early life experiences and momentous 1970s work, which featured the input of a certain Brian Eno

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