Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck vs Tangerine Dream - Ultima Thule Part 1

"Ruckzuck" is more like Kraftwerk's later work than anything else they'd recorded at the time - that bassline is very "Autobahn"

(Never heard Ultima Thule")

that surprises me!

I was so pleased when I got the record store day 7" of ultima thule.

I like both, but it has to be 'Ruckzuck' for me. Easily the most accessible thing on Kraftwerk 1, and one of the best of their pre-Autobahn tracks, if not the best.

Tom I hope you give Ultima Thule a good listen

It's funny how the music press gave TD a hard time in the 70s yet embraced Kraftwerk. Why was that?

Tom have you heard the 1st TD album Electronic Meditation ?

Electronic Meditation, Tangerine Dream's debut album, features the lineup of Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze (his only album with Tangerine Dream). The album is not without its flaws, but it's strong in many ways and shows abundant promise. Wildly experimental timbres, passages, and textures dominate this sound world. Bringing a rock & roll effort to a decidedly avant-garde sound, the album manages to be very accessible and hard to dislike. Of those who were working at the same time, Electronic Meditation is most similar to the music of Pink Floyd and Amon Düül.

Yes, don't like it

bah humbug

i really mistimed this poll I didnt realise that those kraftwerk gigs were on and noones gonna post on 2 kraftwerk threads

Right, found Ultima thule 1 on Spotify..

Still "Ruckzeug"

Also: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&;threadid=86338

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5M31_ltQc

^proper hippies

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

At least you can make up words to "Ruckzuck"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Well, there you go.

how many voters even watched the TD vid?

I didn't, but i did go to Spotify to hear the specific TD track.

(I think I said that already, if so dmm)

i watched the TD vid, cos i didn't know it. didn't really think it was up to much, tbh.

I watched it - I hadn't heard it before and I was surprised TD ever sounded like that* but Ruckzuck is a ~great moment~ so I'm afraid there was no competition for me

(* my hazy memory was that if you work backwards from Phaedra to Alpha Centauri, which is the earliest I've heard, it gets more abstract and experimental and noisy, and Conrad Schnitzler is in the band circa Ultima Thule, right? So I was expecting it to sound like Kluster. Apparently I want "Electronic Meditation" for that, which is the one early 70s TD album I haven't heard.)

LOL @ 1 Tangerine Dream fan