From Rivera's Groove Box #132: Popol Vuh - Affenstunde

Lately I've been interested in modular synthesizers, their history and the sounds these wonderful machines create. Though I'll probably never own one in real life (because how expensive they are), I'm still fascinated by them. I have seen musicians perform live on modular synthesizers, and the sounds truly feel alive and natural. They sound natural because they are analog, and all sounds from the nature surrounding us are analog. Even if they produce cosmic out of this earth sound, it still sounds natural and good, not alienating and strange. Modular synthesizer music started to appear on records in the early seventies, before that they were used rarely and only in experimental music compositions. Critics didn't like these new electronic sounds at first, in fact they thought these sounds were a travesty - unnatural sounds! But there were some brave and adventurous musicians out there, who mastered these new music sounds and techniques and created new musical soundscapes.  Like Florian Fricke and his group Popol Vuh for example - their 1970 record 'Affenstunde' is a pioneering piece of ambient cosmic space drone music. It's one of the earliest Krautrock records to sound so strange and out of this world. Soon after this record came out, lot of other german Krautrock groups came out with similar experimental electronic music records (Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, Faust, Harmonia). I really like these strange electronic sounds. To me, they sound very soothing and relaxing.

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