Popol Vuh's first album Affenstunde, released in 1970, can be regarded as one of the earliest Ambient music, space music or New Age music works, featuring the then new sounds of the Moog synthesizer together with ethnic percussion. This continued for only one more album, In Den Garten Pharaos, before

Atmospheric, Composed, Contemplative, Electronic, Ethereal, Experimental, Improvised, Krautrock, Mythic, Organic, Psychedelic, Religious, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Spare, Spiritual, Sprawling, Tranquil, Trippy

Amon Duul began in 1967 as a radical political art commune of Munich based artists calling themselves, in part, after the Egyptian Sun God Amon; Duul has been cited as a character from Turkish fiction. The commune quickly attained cult status for its free form musical improvisations, usually perfo

Composed, Ecstatic, Epic, Expansive, Experimental, Improvised, Intense, Kaleidoscopic, Krautrock, Lyrical, Organic, Playful, Power, Primal, Psychedelic, Quirky, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Saturated, Spiritual, Sublime, Trippy

The diversity of the music of Can owes a lot to its equally eclectic influences. Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt were both pupils of Karlheinz Stockhausen. This meant that the early Can inherited a strong grounding in his musical theory, with the latter being trained as a classical pianist. Michael K

Absurd, Dreamy, Expansive, Fuzzy, Hallucinatory, Hypnotic, Improvised, Moody, Playful, Power, Primal, Psychedelic, Repetition, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Spare, Sprawling, Tribal

Black Flag was a hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in southern California, largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes. They are widely considered the first hardcore punk band. Black Flag forged a uniqu

Hard rock, In-your-face, Intense, Physical force, Playful, Political, Punk, Repetitive, Rhythmic