Vibravoid - Remove The Ties (2025)

“As children of the hippie era, Vibravoid belong to the only generation that, as teenagers in the 1980s, were able to save their parents’ psychedelic, Krautrock, and garage-rock vinyl records from being thrown away. Vibravoid thus occupy a unique position within the German music scene.

Growing up in the tension between Ratinger Hof, Creamcheese and the Art Academy, founded in 1988 as Lightshow Society Düsseldorf and formed in 1990 as Vibravoid, the Düsseldorf band are Germany’s longest-running active neo-psychedelic band, inventors of neo-Krautrock, and an initiator of today’s vinyl boom. Vibravoid are a unique phenomenon. Vibravoid stand in the tradition of the first European psychedelic scene, which began in 1966 in the music metropolis of Düsseldorf and would change the world.

Like its predecessors of the first Krautrock wave, the Vibravoid sound was more popular abroad, with the band playing more often in London, Rome, Athens, and Helsinki than in Hamburg or Munich. The debut album 2001 was released in the first reprint for the Japanese market. Nevertheless, Vibravoid also set new impulses in their hometown; in 2000, the 2001 record release party at the Ratinger Hof was the first new rock concert there after 10 years of techno. In 2001 Vibravoid organized the first Psych Fest of the new millennium.”