The German rock music scene has had some of the world’s greatest rock and roll bands start out there but they never had many of their own German rock music bands until sometime in the late sixties. The German people did listen to many of the rock bands from other countries when many of the American rock and roll albums started arriving in Germany in the late fifties but Germany never had their own bands, at least that anyone had heard of at the time. When actually German rock music began to appear it was quite a bit different than any of the other rock and roll bands out there. The sound of this music was similar to other rock bands but they added an electronic presence to the music, this form of music was called krautrock, which was labeled by the English who were big fans of this new and unique form of rock. Some of the bands that were considered krautrock in the sixties and seventies were bands that became quite popular and still are to this day, some you may have heard of are Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. These bands paved the way for the modern day industrial and techno music styles in recent years.