PSF features interviews w/ Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Klaus Schulze

they also reprint the article "the real krautrock story" which i've read elsewhere. it's very good, i think. puts julian cope's book in proper perspective at the least!

it's all old stuff, though nice to see it all in one place, focus is good.

I find the new formatting much less readable than the old site.

They've also taken down all the the old archived articles from the old site, most of which haven't put back on line yet. The new editor said they'd stay there until they were all moved over. It's a big loss that I wish someone there cared about.

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yeah i just noticed the dates. so these are just old psf articles? did they run out of ideas for this month or something? i agree about the archives and the new design.

that klaus interview is pretty funny though. they all are, any griping I make about PSF's new direction is from the standpoint of a long time fan, they've had so many fantastic articles. I'm just mad about the archives, they've left some great ones in limbo & it makes longtime readers uneasy (not to mention they were easier to read)

Crack in the Cosmic Egg (Light Version)

i know, schulze's stubbornness and impatience with every question is hilarious.

I like how Mueller totally dismisses motorik.

"When it comes to Can – a band that I regard highly – I cannot help but feel that they also tried to copy Anglo-American music at first, and just because they were not able to do it well – especially because of the awful 'German' beat, a typical hindrance of most German bands – out came something new. What made them special was that they accepted it and went on to develop this as their 'style.' Not many groups dared do this. Those who did are still great today: Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk."

From a 1998 interview with Klaus Dinger by Michael Dee:

MD: The NEU!-beat is sometimes referred to as "the motorik". I ask Dinger if there was a moment of discovery, when he thought "mm, now there's something else entirely".
 
KD: No, there wasn't a moment when I thought "mm". It was more spontaneous than that, and it had more to do with how the audience reacted when we played live. I have never called the beat "the motorik" myself. That sounds more like a machine and it was very much a human beat. Instead I called it "lange Gerade" or "endlose Gerade". It's a feeling, like a picture, like driving down a long road or lane. it is essentially about life, how you have to keep moving, get on and stay in motion. To be driven by the drive, breaking on through. Since "Néondian" [his solo album, released in 1985], I call the beat "Apache".

TS: "Apache" beat (Dinger) vs "Apache" break (Incredible Bongo Band)