Krautrock
by Krisgatha


Krautrock: Progressive movement in Germany. Thanks to a very good education in contemporary classical music by teachers as Karlheinz Stockhausen (in Köln), experiments of Free Music in Jazz, and an openness towards new musical experiments in several areas of Germany in the seventies, sometimes stimulated by a at that time very open media, progressive music reached a kind of freedom in expression at that time unique in the world, surely from that scale. While many people listened to "schlagers" (traditional amusement and entertainment) most musicians gained a freedom in expression almost the opposite to that traditional movement. Nowadays (-,unless the 80's brought an underground scene,-) several musicians survive at first with covers of known bands before experimenting with their own expression. But those days labels also accepted to risk their money in complete experimental music, even when that might have meant no extra income. Approaches of sometimes the same companies is very different nowadays.
If you're looking for experimental and adventurous progressive music with lots of instruments, with some contemporary music ideas involved, but still very structured, this is without being Avant Garde or dark and unclear, Krautrock might be your thing. This might be as far as Pop Music went in the seventies. Rarely any item from another country crossed the same lines. Of course there exist exceptions.

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SKATE TALK
with Skate Film Maker

Interview+photo: Febby Lorentz

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SURF SEASON 2006
The Beginning of…

Lagi-lagi Surf Time bikin event yang keren. Pada tanggal 24 Maret lalu, bersama dengan Harris Resort Kuta, Surf Time magazine mengadakan acara “SURF SEASON 2006, The Beginning Of…” Acara yang dimaksudkan sebagai pembuka musim surfing di Indo, khususnya Bali ini padat acara banget. Mulai dari pukul 6 sore, para undangan udah mulai berdatangan dan hang out di area pool sambil menikmati berbagai jenis makanan dan minuman juga mendengarkan musik chill out yang diputar oleh DJ James. Makin malam, yang datang makin banyak.

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