Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser: The Psychedelic Decline of Krautrock | Personage Non Grata

From a Tangerine Dream to the Ash Ra Tempel of a psychoactive music empire.

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The story of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser is a Devil's deal: literature, music, and drugs. Kaiser was a regular vinyl Doctor Faustus with a Berlin temperament to match. It is much appropriate the story of Kaiser, Ohr, and Krautrock share broad strokes with the Faust legend. Kaiser had a certain Teutonic nature spiked with 1970s politics (among other substances). The downfall of Kaiser follows a dramatic structure much the same, but, like the endless varieties of the Faust legend, Kaiser's end is much a mystery or an act of God. He was the "Mad Monk" in touch with the groovy universe. An act of God or a Sternenmädchen? It was all self-destruction that ended in an essential disappearance or transformation.

Though he hated the foreign label "Krautrock", Kaiser was instrumental in building that international image of German Rock music. He signed to his label nearly every major German name of the era: Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru, Popol Vuh and even a brief parlay with Amon Düül I. There were others such as Mythos, Hoelderlin, and Wallenstein. All of these, taking a cue from Edgar Froese, Kaiser declared to be "Cosmic Music". In the following decades, Kaiser became the topic of polarizing arguments, but Kaiser was long gone by then. He remained in only a few strange clues. The three greats of the era: Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese, and Manuel Göttsching all hold vastly different views on Kaiser. Only the growing decades, and the cosmos, will decide Kaiser's fate.

So how did R.U.K create a music empire that never made a cent?

#krautrock - #rockhistory - #mystery
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Credits:
- Intro Animation by Scott Luís Masson/SLM Illustration: https://slmillustration.com/ / Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/slm_illustration/ / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottLMasson
- Intro Music by Ben Elliott: https://twitter.com/BenElliottSound
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Video Sources (Support the creators/uploaders):
- Leaders:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7J_e7wgC_M
- Krautrock Portrait - ARTE Part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXOsWwvJiQ
- 1970 16mm film - Omega experimental - Public Domain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiz2JHlNIrA
- 1967 Medley Schlager West deutsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2lRLL6U9qs
- Frank Zappa & The Mothers - King Kong - Essen, 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBGFiEO1xu8
- Frank Zappa - 68 09 28 Essen Songtage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LDiCuRSkPA
- Degenhardt TV Essener Songtage 1968 Teil 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhcJfCGzlRw
- Degenhardt TV Essener Songtage 1968 Teil 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCICD3zVzAU
- tangerine dream 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ugCT1k5L34
- Ton Steine Scherben - Nikel Pallat und der Tisch (1971): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1GEiO1vmI
- Timothy Leary Defines "Cyberpunk": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdZ8wokc274
- Eine Rundschau mit Timothy Leary: https://bit.ly/3YShcJw
- Tangerine Dream - Ossiach Lake 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvP7PKrCMKw
- Tangerine Dream TV clip 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoGhZJttc24
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Music:
Jean Torba - alhambra (huit moments avec Jean) (00:00-02:50) [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/jean-toba/huit-moments-avec-jean]
Ben Elliot - "Midnight Dream Oil" (02:50-03:06)
Hisko Detria - "Poserslave" (03:06-09:51)
Geräusche (Improv) Live Zodiak Art Club 1971 (09:51-24:27) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqW3Jwe4LqM]
Hisko Detria - "Nothing Happens" (24:27-29:42)
Ben Elliot - "Journey To Paris" (29:42-30:15)
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