krautrock

As the producing-team behind Grails, Alex Hall and Emil Amos have hybridized and warped various culture’s versions of psych music over the past decade. With their new project they’ve created another umbrella under which to tweak hip-hop, tape-collage and the darkest creases of 70′s film-soundtracks with their lysergic and perverse style of head-music. The project’s name and imagery evoke a strange thrift-store mystery LP you might come across, unsure if you’ve discovered an exotic dub record, a flowery Bacharach AM radio classic or something by an obscure duo of Swedish avant-techno producers.

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Popol Vuh is a proto-ambient experimental rock / krautrock band from Germany founded by Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). Other important members during the next two decades included Daniel Fichelscher and Bob Eliscu. It began with an electronic approach as heard on first album Affenstunde, inspired by the invention of the Moog synthesizer.

There are several acts with the name Plank - Dutch band from Alkmaar. Bandmembers: Wesley, Wouter, Leon and Bas.
Recorded one album at De Raad, Alkmaar, december 2001. The album is called ´De Geboorte van Plank´. Further info unknown. - English electronic musician Joe Gilmore making minimal glitch electronic music. He has had several releases on Melange records, Alienation and Tu'm, amoong others. Gilmore is also working with Vend and PowerBooks for Peace

There are 6 bands with the name Lava: 1. Lava was a short-lived DIY punk band from Maryland, who put out one 7" record on Gravity Records in the 1990's. The band featured Tonie Joy of The Convocation Of..., Moss Icon, Universal Order of Armageddon, and Born Against on guitar. Their often-overlooked 7" is still available at http://www.gravityrec.com 2. Lava is an early seventies band from Berlin that in 1973 made one of the best 'rock albums' on the legendary green Brain 1,000-series. The members reputedly lived as a commune.