This reprint of a 1996 article, History of Krautrock, is a handy overview of the genre. Or perhaps you'd like to balance it with the more clear-eyed inside view of someone who was actually on the scene. Back in my de-formative years in the mid-70s, I got to listen to this sort of thing every weekday afternoon from 5:00 to 8:00pm on WXPN -- a then free-form radio station in Philadelphia. I didn't get that many of the records at the time, because, heck -- all I had to do was turn on the radio. Now, of course, it's a different matter.
(first link spotted by Al)
WXPN in the 70s! And much of the 80s! Ah, those were the days, my friends...
Tom
I'll throw this fun article in from the Guardian regarding a reporters futile attempt to track down Kraftwerk:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1004937,00.html
Posted by Dean at 09:39 PM, July 26, 2003.