/music/ - Music

It was literally created out of the '68 student movement as a reaction against standard Western pop music of the time lol

I'm an American millennial so I have no idea what the British press' take on it was, but I think now maybe we can see it more clearly for what it was, which was basically a leftist, vaguely hippie-ish reaction against old right wing nationalist sentiments. They embraced music from all over the world, especially Africa, and they were very interested in the avant-garde, which fascists would've dismissed as "degenerate."

I know what your first reaction might be since it's vice and for some reason they got the lispy guy from Rancid to narrate, but this is actually a pretty nice documentary on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7M63P820g

regardless, I'm grateful that the Brits were interested, because krautrock influenced a lot of the best post-punk, noise rock, and industrial music.

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>(CAN is an abbreviation for "communism, anarchism, nihilism")

That was a backronym the British press came up with that Jaki apparently liked.

4/mu/ is stupid anyhow. It's not impossible tho, but… also not that meaningful. It's not like Can and Amon Duul II were massive pop sensations in Britain afaik.