To Rococo Rot

To Rococo Rot是一支德國柏林的三人后搖滾樂團，他們結(jié)合了電子及原聲的音樂作品使他們在風格上非常接近于美國的as Tortoise，Trans Am，Rome及英國的Circle和Stereolab。BASS手Stefan Schneider（同時也是另一支類似的杜塞爾多夫樂隊Kreidler的成員），Robert兄弟分別擔任吉他手及鼓手。
　　對于To Rococo Rot成員自己來說，他們的作品很明顯的是希望將學(xué)院派的經(jīng)驗主義與流行音樂的通俗性進行結(jié)合，這一點，不論是從樂隊的名字還是樂隊的作品上都可以看出來。樂隊的首張作品在1996年出版，CD的封面是一張沒有標題的圖片（后來由Kitty Yo再版時冠名以“CD”），第二年由英國獨立廠牌City Slang以更大的發(fā)行規(guī)模出版了新專輯《Veiculo》。
　　這個時期，被電子迷及搖滾迷同時追捧的To Rococo Rot處于這樣一個狀態(tài)：與Tortoise等樂隊類似，他們試圖掃除電子樂和搖滾樂之間的隔閡（尤其是在美國）。To Rococo Rot很明顯的受到60年代Krautrock樂團Neu!，Can，and Amon Duul等的影響，對于這些樂隊在對人及機械的抽象解構(gòu)方面的勾略，To Rococo Rot獲益匪淺。
　　1997年，有著名制作人David Moufang制作了樂隊倍受矚目的一張專輯《Veiculo》。
　　隨后樂隊轉(zhuǎn)至Mute旗下，1999年出版了《The Amateur View 》，并與兩年后出版《Music Is a Hungry Ghost 》，鼓手Ronald Lippok也由于在Tarwater樂隊中的出色表現(xiàn)倍受好評。
To Rococo Rot is a mostly Berlin-based post-rock trio whose combination of electronic and acoustic elements places them in close proximity to American groups such as Tortoise, Trans Am, and Rome, as well as European artists Circle, Stereolab, and Fridge. Composed of bassist Stefan Schneider (also of similar-sounding Dusseldorf group Kreidler) and brothers Robert (guitar, electronics) and Ronald Lippok (drums, effects), To Rococo Rot were originally among a new breed of German electronic experimentalists working more often within the context of hauptkunst digital art and multimedia installation (prior to meeting Schneider the Lippoks were behind a project of this sort called Ornament und Verbrechen). With TRR, however, the group have described their work as an overt attempt to reconnect the art-school proclivities of musical experimentalism with the accessibility and use-value of pop, a goal clearly evident both in their name and their recorded output to date. The groups debut arrived in 1996 in the form of an untitled picture disc (subsequently reissued on CD by Kitty Yo), with the more widely distributed Veiculo (released by UK indie City Slang) appearing the following year. Embraced by rock and electronica audiences alike, the group have (like Tortoise et al) already begun to play an important, transitional role in eroding some of the barriers that have typically separated the two (particularly in the U.S.). Working long, hypnotic grooves augmented by bizarre, often subtly interwoven electronics and sample sequences, TRR also owe a clear debt to 60s Krautrock groups such as Neu!, Can, and Amon Duul, among others, and in some respects are reorienting the abstract deconstructions of man/machine those groups first sketched. In 1997, the group recorded an albums worth of material with producer David Moufang (Deep Space Network, Source Records). Following a move to Mute Records, the band released The Amateur View in 1999, Music Is a Hungry Ghost in 2001, and Hotel Morgen in 2004. Ronald Lippok has also gained praise for his work in Tarwater.