DennisTueart11
Well-Known Member
And Can, Kraftwerk etc etc. All part of Krautrock as it was called in the late 60's/ early 70's. Very experimental and a lot of it not very accessible. It wasn't until John Peel started to champion TD that they got a wider audience though. Obviously, when you do something as groundbreaking as they did you will have people taking their own spin on it. Like Jarre. Don't forget, Moroder lived in Berlin in the late 60's and was there at the start.
Krautrock inspired the likes of Vince Clarke, OMD and all the other late 70's/ early 80's electronic music. My favourite band of this period though was Yellow Magic Orchestra. Fantastically weird. Their self titled first album deserves a listen if only to see where computer games musicians got their ideas from!
Wasn't Ryiuchi Sakamoto part of YMO before his David Sylvian collaboration? Very underrated guy.