D>Elektro 1.2 - |> das expanded concept <|
|1.2.1| Development + History/ies
|>NEWland
The Void | The New + The Greed |
| "Experimental music was
good and ok'd, but for instant satisfaction, instant success and entertainment
at dance-parties on a saturday evening everyone still got back to
rock'n'roll. And after the West-Germans had learned how to play pop-music, the next thing they had to learn was, how to truly assimilate it into their own culture, instead of merely copying british and american bands." |
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No, there no german Elvis...
...at most there were some dreary music-clones with a thick german accent. It was obvious that a new, original / native music could only be found through new, original sounds. The sounds of e-guitars, bass and drums were already too limited and occupied by the anglo-american rock- and blues traditions. |
| "There
was this gig somewhere in southern Germany. We were playing made free-from
stuff, but on conventional rock-instruments. Suddenly it dawned on us, that we could do this for years - only to arrive in a dead-end. Although we were playing the strangest material, the sounds remained pretty normal. We felt that we had to make a radical break. After the gig we decided to sell all our 'normal' instruments and try something completely new. So we began to look for gadgets, that could transform the 'chaos' of the sounds surrounding us, into an half-way organized chaos." |
Also, if this wish at times might have been born out of the mere insight, that on the known pop-ular terrain, no ground of one's own could be claimed.
| "Our only concept was,
to do something, that could not
be compared with anything else than itself. We told ourselves, as a guitarist you'll be compared with Clapton, Hendrix and Albert lee - that's hopeless. But when you let 5 sine-generators run against each other through a delay - than you can't be compared with Stockhausen, Ligeti or someone else - only with 5 sine-generators hooked up to a delay."
Edgar Froese [Tangerine Dream] |
| "People
thought we were completely mad. At that time there was no German rock-music
- everything came over from England and America. When we started then and didn't sound anglo-american at all, people thought we simply couldn't play. They just couldn't believe that we didn't want to play and sound like anyone else."
Irmin Schmidt [CAN]
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| "Today
it's hardly known anymore, but in the first years we were often forced
to leave the stage. I'll never forget that gig in the city-hall of
Hof. The shortest in our career: exactly 7½ minutes, we've counted
the time. After 7½ minutes the stage was covered with fruits."
Edgar Froese [Tangerine Dream]
|
| "We
delievered an unbelievably strange concert. I had put two bricks on
my keyboard and turned it up full volume; Michael had his guitar leaned
to the speaker and watched it producing that shrieking feedback; Jaki
was drumming like a madman and Damo
gave one of his most powerful performances. Organ and guitar continued their screaming, while we were discussing whether to move the bricks to the left or right. Than Holger brought this huge cake onto the stage, which Damo smeared all over his face. People fled in horror. The remaining ones thought they had experienced the most remarkable event in their lives. And they did! |
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