The last few years have undeniably been great ones for Krautrock obsessives, what with a small, dedicated handful of labels digging up and reissuing several long-lost gems from the genre's golden ...

Krautrock has become synonymous with a steady motorik pulse, but the German electronic-music vanguard of the 1970s was more diverse than that. Cluster, for instance, had more in common with Brian Eno ...

It’s a brave man who takes on the task of remixing a group of legends. Fortunately for us, Shackleton has balls to spare. Eno’s full-length collaboration with Harmonia in the early autumn of 1976, ...

Krautrock supremos Harmonia are re-releasing their seminal album Tracks and Traces. The LP, which was released when Brian Eno formed part of the Harmonia line-up, is currently out of print but a new ...

The history of Harmonia and Brian Eno's 1976 collaboration, Tracks and Traces, is a long and complicated one involving fleeting partnerships, lost tapes and eventually, fractured relationships.

“Having Michael [Rother] in the studio changed the focus automatically. For us, the place where we were recording was also a big influence. The surroundings were beautiful: trees, the river passing by ...

If the album cover of the 2009 reissue of the Tracks and Traces LP is any indication, the 11 days in 1976 that Brian Eno spent in Forst, Germany, composing music with Krautrock supergroup ...

If a supergroup comprises relative unknowns, then is the group still super? Harmonia, a short-lived studio collaboration between Michael Rother (of Neu!) and electronic pioneers Cluster (Hans Joachim ...

Of all the bands in the fertile and wildly creative early ’70s German scene that the English music press dubbed “Krautrock,” Kraftwerk had the most commercial success and influence, Can the most ...

That the fruits of the first session, collected as Harmonia ’76’s Tracks & Traces (GRONLAND) 3*, was not released until 1997 casts a little doubt on its quality. But while feeling somewhat sketch-like ...

For a brief, weird period in the mid-Seventies, Germany was producing some of the most interesting popular music on the planet. Bands like Can, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk remain influential. This ...