Zuckerzeit

Meh. Not for me. Not enough substance.

This isn’t really my cup of tea and that’s okay. I’m not a fan of early electronic music although I give it full reverence for the path that it started us on towards today’s music.

One of the things I learned from this list is the actual definition of krautrock. I had a vision of David Hasselhoff in my mind, 80s, leather, metal studs, mullets and pointy guitars. I was pleasantly surprised to learn its true nature - experimental, electronica from the early 70s. So I was happy to get another example here to expand my knowledge. Unfortunately, this leans too far into “experimental” and ends up as noddling. None of the tracks seem to have much purpose and no-one in the outfit has the ability to write any form of hook. I think I’d rather listen to The Scorpions.

Zuckerzeit isn't for me, lo-fi electronic stuff is boring, not rubbish enough for a 1/5 but close. 2.

Just too much synthesisers for my taste.

I'm not sure I understand this one, either. It sounds like a bunch of songs you might hear at a carnival, with other instruments.

Rating: 5/10

Eh. It is just synthesizers and techno. Thankfully it was short.

Listening to this while working was not the move. It just stressed me out more and ended up giving me a headache. 4/10

I have always said I’m not a fan of just noises, and that’s what this felt like. I again can see it being on 1001, but not just someone’s 1.

Weird and not in a melodic or fun way.

Noises. Why would someone add more albums like this onto the list?

3rd track by R2D2

This seemed like an incomplete album. As I listened to it felt like it was missing something. I get it was an electronic but other electronic albums have more substance. This was just the base layer of something that could’ve been better. 2.2/10