Kosmische Musik is a genre of experimental electronic music that was born in Germany in late 1960s-early 1970s; the term often mistakenly refers to the whole German electronic and prog rock scene, including the Krautrock.
The main difference is that tracks in Krautrock style are rock influenced, such as in the use of a groove-drumming together with a free-form style, while cosmic or spacey tracks usually have no drumming, and are based on long echoed - reverbered synthesizers' and guitars' sounds. The main poetry of Kosmische Musik is man's outlook to the universe, as it can be seen for example in many Tangerine Dream's cosmic works.
Artists like Ash Ra Tempel and Popol Vuh emphasized spiritual and religious themes; others, such as the Kraftwerk, and Klaus Schulze in some works, used to develop themes relevant to the relationship between man, science and technology.
Can, NEU!, Kluster, Amon Düül II, La Düsseldorf, Faust, Conrad Schnitzler experimented with avant-garde free-form styles. Holger Czukay, Cluster, Harmonia explored some forms of minimalism and Ambient Music. Beginning from mid-late 1970s, the genre contributed to the birth and evolution of Ambient music, World music and New Age music.
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