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The Story so far...
1970's- FM radio, Alternative Magazine & 1st US Indie Distributor of Euro Rock
1980's- D.I.Y. LP + Cassette & CD label
1990's- Distribution via the WWW
2010- Eurock.com ~ Multimedia Podcasting, Interviews & Reviews.
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EUROCK ~
European Rock
& the Second Culture
A 30 Year History of Experimental Music
Electronic, Progressive & Space Rock
Interviews – Biographies – Reviews
7 X 10 ~ 714 Pages
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Artists Indexed
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THE GOLDEN AGE
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Eurock Magazine 1973-93
"The Millennium Edition"
Updated to the Year 2000
A Special Enhanced
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music by Japanese master musician Hiro Kawahara (of Heretic).
Plus CD-ROM session that includes 25 minutes of 16-bit audio w/
digitized video by Amon Düül II, Popol Vuh and Urban Sax,
the complete texts of all
original EUROCK Magazine back issues, rare photos, discographies
& index.
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KUSF
in Exile
Weekly Radio Show
Listen LIVE
Friday's @ 7 PM
Listen To
Archived
Programs
After producing several radio specials this past year I
was invited by KUSF
in Exile
in San Francisco to host a weekly program every
Friday nights
at 7PM Pacific Time. KUSF in Exile features an
incredible array of diverse cultural, musical programming
and for years has been one of the top College stations in
the USA. It now broadcasts online via Internet Streaming in
conjunction with WFMU, NYC. My first show aired on OCT 28,
2011.
The programs focus will be highly eclectic with music played
ranging the spectrum of sound and styles. I began Eurock as
an FM radio program in California in 1971. Now after 40
years I have come full circle to begin again a new musical
adventure.
Stream Friday's show Live, or listen to the Archived
programs at your leisure. |

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The Move
LIVE At The Fillmore West 1969
(Dbl CD)
Special Preview!
Listen
KUSF
in Exile
NEW
Move CD
Read
CD
Review
The Move was perhaps The greatest UK band who never got their big
break in the USA. If you listen to their music now however,
all beautifully re-mastered and reissued, you can hear the
genius and feel the power that came into play at their most
creative moments. In October 1969 they did their only
tour of the US. The band rented a car and U-Haul trailer
then took off on a 3-week road trip across the US on Route
66 to play several
dates, including the Whisky in LA and Fillmore West is SF. Today, through
some act of divine providence
there is a brand
new Move DBL CD, LIVE AT THE FILLMORE WEST 1969,
due for release early February in the UK. Recorded direct
from the monitor desk, Carl Wayne kept the original tapes in
his personal archives in hopes they would someday see a
release. Now, more than 40 years later, listening to the
tapes cleaned up using the latest technology, you can
flashback and relive the music of The Move,
circa 1969,
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Urban
Sax
Happy New Year 2012
Watch
VIDEO
A Special Happy New Year Video from Gilbert Artman.
One of the pioneers of le souterrain
Française with his band Lard Free in the 1970's. Gilbert
reinvented the sound of music later in the 1980's with his
revolutionary ensemble Urban Sax. In 2012 the bands new DVD
may at last we the light of day. It will featured live
performances along with a revolutionary new concept,
"Virtual Urban Sax" installation. |
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Art Zoyd
Eurock LIVE Podcast #22
Download:
Art Zoyd PODCAST
To usher in 2012
we bring you
the 22nd Eurock LIVE Podcast, a very
special multi-media program for you this time featuring
music and video by Art Zoyd from France. Art Zoyd formed in
the mid 1970’s. Their style ushered in a new form of French
fusion, which combined influences of Magma, mixed with
Zappa. They sonically alchemized diverse elements into a
stark, skeletal and frenetic structure to create a new
hybrid of freewheeling “gypsy jazz” and neo-chamber music.
They were one of
the 8 original bands in the “Rock in Opposition”
music collective. The RIO philosophy was that rock was a
form of art and culture, opposed to business as usual on all
levels. Their ethos, “making music record companies didn’t
want to hear.
Later, the band began to evolve musically even more, with
the addition of Patricia Dallio on keyboards. It became more
structured and composed. They wrote scores for dance
performances as well as multi-media installations. Today the
bands focus turned to making music that engaged the
intellect. Today Art Zoyd continues as a collective of
diverse artists and musicians who continue doing numerous
visual and stage presentations, as well as recording
projects. Download this Podcast & Enjoy! |

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Agitation
Free
- SHIBUYA NIGHTS ~
LIVE IN TOKYO (CD)
Music
Sample
<MaleschMP3>
Read
CD
Review
Of all the German bands, Agitation
Free was certainly one of the most musically
adventurous.
Thirty-five years after first disbanding, the band
has reformed and in February 2007 performed LIVE in
Tokyo.
October 31, 2011 Esoteric records in
the UK released an album of that concert and it
truly is an Agitation Free “best of.” It features
five tracks from their 1972 release Malesch
and five from 2nd (1973).
It also includes three new compositions, plus
“Nomads,” my favorite track from their 1999 reunion
album, River of Return. Programmed perfectly,
the track sequence creates a magical, mystical tour
through those halcyon days when inspiration flowed
freely, guitars and imaginative synthesizer
soundscapes comingled to conjure up sonic panoramas
of far-off imaginary lands.
For More INFO:
AgitationFree |
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Eurock On the Airwaves
Read
Beware of the Blog Interview
Listen
WFMU FM Radio Program
Listen
KBOO FM "La Ruleta" Program
Listen:
The MOVE on KBOO FM
In the past 2 years Eurock has begun a new era
reincarnated as a Webzine and media portal. Recently
long time supporter Tony Coulter moved from NYC to
PDX. After decades we finally met face to face and
had a great time reminiscing. Tony has had a program on WFMU NYC
radio for 25 years. He also now also has a
blog for the station and in DEC 2009
interviewed me. What resulted was a quite nice
history of Eurock. In AUG 2011, he also had me guest
host his radio show and I featured 3 hours of music,
by 6 artists, from 6 different countries: Via Lactea
(Mexico), Electric Orange (Germany), Plastic People of the
Universe (Czech), Tangle Edge (Norway), Mikhail Chekalin
(Russia) & Heretic (Japan). I featured some of the best
progressive, experimental and electronic music from around
the globe.
In addition, another local artist and radio programmer,
Alejandro Ceballos, invited me to co-host his
"La Ruleta"
program on KBOO FM Portland. We had a wide ranging talk about the
history of Mexican progressive music and Eurock's
role in promoting it. That show was follow up by a
program featuring a musical history if the UK Psych-Pop band
The Move. At the links above all four of
these Eurock radio adventures are Archived and you
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Iggy &The Stooges
RAW
POWER Live
2010
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Iggy & The Stooges 1970-2010
May
15, 1970
I drove up to SF with a friend to see Iggy
and The Stooges for the first time.
Their
performance of FUN HOUSE & THE STOOGES
albums was primal performance art, jacked up to the
max, full of latent menace and a touch of insanity.
In 1973, I saw them perform RAW POWER in LA,
It was like a high fashion freak show
happening, with The Whisky teetering on the brink of
chaos. Iggy, the band, and the audience, caught up
in the heat of the moment. Now in 2010 the band is
back performing that seminal album again. The
band is hyper-charged and Iggy still throwing
himself with total abandon completely into each
performance. Read the story of their long strange
"death trip" as witnessed by yours truly back then
and now on their band new DVD. |
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Emerson Lake &
Palmer
40th
Anniversary Reunion Concert @
UK High
Voltage Festival - July 25, 2010
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ARTICLE
It has been a
long and interesting journey for
ELP. Formed in 1970, the UK
music press dubbed them the
first supergroup. They were a
band composed of integral parts
from three big UK bands of the
time: The Nice, King Crimson and
Atomic Rooster. Imagine just how
super they might have been if
Hendrix had not died as he was
also rumored to be interested in
joining the trio as well. ELP
were the first band to combine
rock, classical and jazz into a
new and unique musical fusion
that sounded like no one else,
Today they are still today
worshiped by fans around the
world, and derided by hip
critics as utterly pretentious.
At the end of the video-doc on
the new DVD when asked to
characterize what ELP meant,
Keith answers tongue in cheek,
Extra
Large Parts, (Lol), or Everyone
Loves Potatoes, that's really
what ELP stands for. (Lol)
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Electric Orange
Eurock LIVE Podcast #21
Download:
Electric Orange PODCAST
Dirk
Jan Müller formed Electric Orange in 1992 and
released the bands first self-titled album in 1993
on the independent German label, Manikin Records.
The sound of the band often pays homage to early
period Pink Floyd, injected with a mega dose of
their unique modern cosmic krautrock vibe.
Müller’s dense layers of keyboard and
mellotron along with Dirk Bitner’s soaring space
guitar excursions characterize their sound that is
propelled by a dynamic rhythm section that mixes
heavy beats with exotic percussives. To date the
band has released 7 albums + a DVD. Electric Orange
makes some of the best space rock to come out of
Germany since the original golden era. The five
tracks featured on this podcast demonstrate that
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Hiro Kawahara
Interview
Heretic
Eurock
LIVE Podcast #20
Download:
Heretic PODCAST
Read
INTERVIEW
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the
Japan experimental scene was in its embryonic phase.
Fools Mate Magazine was the main vehicle for promotion
and a handful of groups were beginning to mutate the sounds
of pop, rock and electronics into a new modern fusion of
styles and influences. Hiro Kawahara was one of the early
pioneers of a new form of Zen electronics that combined
mystical and spiritual influences with experimental
electronic rock. In this Interview he talks about the
history of his music and release
of the new album Requiem
(see the Reviews
page).
In the recent past while Skyping
w/ Hiro Kawahara I learned that
the air, water, rice and meat
are all now above safe radiation
levels in Tokyo. Over Labor Day
weekend 2011, my engineer
“Doktor” Bob and I created a
Special Eurock Podcast,
dedicated to Japan, 40 minutes
of music from the recent Heretic album.
While mainstream media moves from one
sensational headline to the
next, it is important to always
know and understand the real
human story and consequences of
what happens. In many ways music
can tell that story, in this
case it will give you chills and
fill your heart with the deepest
of emotions for all Japanese people
now going through the aftermath of
this disaster.
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Kraftwerk
Swedish TV Documentary 2001
Watch
HERE
In the beginning
there was Organization, followed by Kraftwerk. They were a band which
virtually revolutionized the face of pop music. I saw the
band Live in 1973 at The Keystone Club in Berkeley, a small
club it was maybe half-full.. They had licensed their first
3 albums
before
AUTOBAHN
to Polygram US for $2,000 and used that money to pay for
that tour. The story of Kraftwerk is spectacularly told
(in English)
on this 2001 High Quality Video Documentary done for Swedish
TV. The band is now silent for almost a decade perhaps,
perhaps never to record or release anything again.
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Kraftwerk
Live 1971 Flashback
Watch
HERE
If perhaps you weren't alive and/ or hip to
just how truly revolutionary and radical
Krautrock was in terms of the historical
lexicon of rock 'n' roll way back in 1971.
There was always "the beat" front and
center, but this
TV performance of
Kraftwerk back in the beginning w/ the
original line-up of Rother, Dinger &
Schneider will educate you. High Quality
Video from WDR! |
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MIT Museum Electronica Synthetic Homage
to CON
Listen
MIT Electronica
Link
Virtual World Populated with Sensory Data
A long time Eurock friend and supporter Joe
Paradiso, professor at MIT and Director of the
Media Lab's Responsive Environments Group, emailed
me from ARS ELECTRONICA in Austria about his latest
project. He constructed himself a big modular synth
rig between 25 & 35 years ago - which is probably
the world's largest homemade synth. It will be going
into the MIT Museum in a month or two as a living
exhibition and he will be changing the patch every
month or so, hence it will generate a different
sonic environment periodically, and will be
continually streaming live audio online. As he
described it: "I've got my rig streaming sound into
a virtual world populated with sensor data that
we're running here in Austria now, it's linked back
at MIT to my lab running an autonomous patch. Even
though it is an old modular system, the rig is big
enough that it generates enough sound to hold your
interest for a while.
I
was thinking of Con while I was patching, as you
might be able to detect.
Check out what it is streaming now; the stream is
linked at the bottom of the page." Also check out
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Plastic People of the Universe
Read
ARTICLE
When modes of music change, the fundamental
laws of the state always change with them. Plato
The Plastic People of the Universe were a band who made
music as an act of creation for a less material second
culture, not centered on marketing and selling. In the
process, the Czech government banned them and various
members were thrown in jail.
The government informed them they had to
obtain a license to perform or quit playing. They then went
underground and played secretly... |
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The
Mythos of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser
Watch
TV
Video
Read
INTERVIEW
"In 1970, there was no German record companies
interested in German music. We showed the German people that
they can trust their own music."
R-U Kaiser - Then came the Euro rock revolution in Germany
kicked off by Kaiser and his OHR Record label. Rumors
and mysteries abound about what happened to him and his fashion
designer partner Gille
"Sternenmadchen"
Lettmann.
This new article attempts to shed light on what happened to them. Watch the above video
from a German TV debate about the German music industry.
Kaiser debates Nikel Pallat manager of Berlin agit-rock band
TSS, and the plug gets pulled... |
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The Godfather of
Deutsch Rock Interview
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INTERVIEW
Before there was Krautrock there was
"Schlager". Then along came the Beat Club" and the
foundation was laid for a change in the mode of the music
which would shake the walls of Berlin and ultimately all of
Germany. Gerhard Augustin was one of the prime instigators
of the new German scene. This in depth Interview with him
makes for a fascinating read. |
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Giorgio Gomelsky
Video Interview
Watch
1st
London Blues Festival +
Crawdaddy Club
INTERVIEW
Read
Eurock INTERVIEW
Giorgio Gomelsky is one of the true
pioneers of experimental rock music. In these excerpts from Joly MacFie's
Punkcast he talks about his original Crawdaddy Club which was the first venue the Rolling Stones
played. In addition to that he also produced the first
recordings of the Yardbirds, Gong and Vangelis. He left the
UK and went to France to produce Magma and they went on to create
la scène souterrain musicale
Français.
Today Giorgio lives in NYC and still keeps attuned to
exciting new musical and technological innovations. |
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Ian
Boddy
Interview
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HERE
2010 marks the 30th year of Ian Boddy's electronic music
explorations. Over that time span he has released some
incredibly diverse productions on his own labels, originally
Something Else, then his follow up DiN. The 30 some DiN
releases not only contain his best works, but adventurous
collaborations with some of Europe's other top indie
experimentalists. In addition, he's done more commercially
inclined productions of library music and film music as
well. In October he released a striking new anniversary
anthology of his works entitled PEARL. This brand new
Interview offers a glimpse into his early days as well as
what's up in the future. |
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Luc Marianni
Nouvelles Du Passé
In the
realm of French electronic music & experimental rock
Luc Marianni
was
one of that scenes most original artists. Though not as
well known as some of that scenes luminaries, his solo electronic albums
were among the most adventurous and the albums by
his Rock Critics group were pure avant-electro-rock mind candy. Today
he hosts an eclectic music radio show and still
releases mixed media projects. NEWS OF THE PAST is his brand new
anthology of rock writings, artwork, photos,
discography and unreleased music circa 1973-1988 (in French
w/ some English). It's a 50 page (9" X 12")
full-color book packaged with 2 CDs of his
unreleased early period
music that ranges the sonic spectrum from minimal,
to spatial & darkly impressionist electronics. It's a
striking and unique package, as well as historical document
of a pioneer of
la musique underground Français!
A LTD EDITION of only 60 copies!
For More INFO
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Popol
Vuh
(Redux)
Watch
HERE
Frank Fiedler
was Florian Fricke's partner in Popol Vuh.
Since
December 29, 2001
when
Florian Fricke died,
Frank has
continued making his own music, releasing a CD
entitled INSTANT ENLIGHTENMENT. He and is also a
filmmaker. Linked to above
is a piece by Frank entitled "Supernatural"
that he's done which
recaptures some of the magic and the essence of PV.
He's also just made a striking 2-part filmography
about America that features some great music as
well.
Watch & Enjoy!
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Frank Fiedler.DE |
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The
Residents...Revealed!
Watch
HERE
Today
in 2010 it's hard to
believe, and many younger people don't know how
different the music world was back in the late 60's
and early 70's. Bill Reinhardt, a DJ, film maker and
sound man for The Storefront Theater
in PDX, was a
friend of the Residents during that time. In their
very early days he visited the boys down in SF and
made a mini-documentary film, unseen until just
recently. The "band" has since become a living
legend and still makes some of the most unique and
experimental "music" today. Bill's film is an
amazing artifact of that time and that group of
avant artistes. Take a look. You will be amazed... |
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Oculo
Rapido
Analog Planetfall
Watch & Listen
HERE
In addition to his amazing debut CD
(see Reviews page) "Doktor Bob"
engineers the Eurock LIVE Podcasts. In real life
an Apple and Android App creator + mad doctor of
Anatomy in the California University system. In his
spare time he is also an audio-visual/ analog
synthe wizard with
a channel on YouTube. On the channel
he showcases a myriad of his other music video
creations that will have your mind tripping the
light fantastic, turning cartwheels across the floor
and flying along on an audio/ visual journey into
super sonic space.
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Eurock
Webzine...
Eurock
began as an FM radio show in 1971 and morphed into a print
fanzine in 1973. Over the span of 40 years it evolved
into a promotion and distribution company. As 2010 arrives it has become obvious to
virtually everyone that the world has fundamentally changed
in ways previously unimagined. In lieu of that it naturally follows that
people need to re-think many things and make their own
changes. The ability to evolve and adapt are two necessities
of life. This goes for Eurock as well. At the end of 2009
Eurock closed its distribution business and reincarnated
itself into a Webzine that will now cover the best in new
music of all types featuring Reviews, Interviews, Podcasts
and occasional Special FM Radio Programs.
During that time a quantum leap in technology has taken
place making the planet a much smaller place. Yet at the
same time in many ways even more infinite and impenetrable.
Everything is at the touch of your fingers, with precious
little being much more than an ethereal image on a screen
any longer. The synergy of both these events has
revolutionized the way we live and work.
The
“tech upgrade” has left us paradoxically and unfortunately
with less time for human contact and appreciation of the
basic things in life we used to cherish. Can you remember
the last time you spent a quiet evening in conversation with
close friends enjoying some great new musical discovery?
Those old days
seem but a dim memory today. We've traded away our simple pleasures and replaced them with new
toys. We can hardly make time in our busy lives to take a
deep breath and reflect. If we could maybe clarity would enable all
that’s happened to come into focus. The lesson we should
have learned by now is that life should spent
appreciating the truly meaningful things, small joys and
people that matter while we are here.
Reflecting on all this it became very
clear that it's time for Eurock to return to first
principals. My raison d'être has always will be to continue exploring and
promoting the most interesting music the world has to offer.
One change however will be that the scope of music covered
will become even more wide ranging. The other big change is that from now on Eurock will be done for fun,
not for profit. Instead of
engaging in commerce, it will serve as a media portal
spreading the word in a different way. As it was in the
beginning, so it shall be once again - a labor of love
inspired purely and simply by love of the music!
As
providence would have it fate has brought me together with
another kindred spirit who is on his own quest for creative
fulfillment as well as a little fun in later life. My
Eurock podcast collaborator and creative right arm for the
past few years Doktor Bob and I have brainstormed the
beginnings of a new working model.
Initially that includes making the FREE Eurock podcasts much
more frequent, more musically divergent and
available via as many
channels
as possible. There are now 21 programs now available online via
iTunes and eurock.com. In conjunction with this eurock.com
will undergo a process of redesign and reincarnation as a
Webzine featuring Reviews
of new music
& Interviews with various artists designed to coordinate
with the Podcasts. The intent is to create a more modern and
all encompassing way in which artists can more
effectively promote their work. To facilitate this
incorporated into both Podcast and Webzine will be a direct
link to artists so their audience can communicate with them
and vice versa.
This combination of
multimedia promotion and virtual information source will
serve as a vehicle for all music lovers and artists to
directly explore the many possibilities of sharing their
creations and love of music via the Net. The old model of
centralized distribution is out dated and broken down. A new
paradigm is called for in the marketplace. The world has
begun changing in ways we never imagined, and there is an
even more profound cultural and economic shift on the
horizon. Now more than ever before it’s
up to people to embody the change that needs to happen.
Early in 2010 we kicked this new era off with a brand new interview
with Derek Shulman formerly of Gentle Giant in which he
talks about the past, present and brand new band reissues.
They are now available
digitally for the first time, and will soon be released on
CD, re-mastered
for the first time from the original tapes. That will be
complemented by a new podcast featuring Derek’s thoughts on
the band, his work since they broke up and the previously unreleased material on
DVD coming out soon.
I invite all artists to
get in touch and send your materials
for consideration - Audio & Video. All music lovers as
well should send your email contact information to be put on
the e-news list so you
will receive updates on all the new music and information. There are lots of other
interesting innovations and special projects being planned
as well. So Tune in & Enjoy!
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Artist
Features
& More...

Joachim Roedelius ~ Dieter Moebius ~ Tim Story ~ CON ~ Manuel
Goettsching

Damo Suzuki ~ Attila Grandpierre ~ Giorgio Gomelsky ~ Luis
Paniagua
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