In the late '60s and '70s TD were great but then as a friend of mine commented became TDM, very samey for much of their work.
Faust were very interesting particularly with their first two albums then they became too far 'out there' even for me.
I really liked Emerson Lake and Palmers take on electronics for rock some of their stuff, especially live was incredible and many tried to copy them, they were lads from Croydon so local to me, they had a great following in South London.
If you want really weird from Germany though, I would go for Klaus Nomi he was a Falsetto and I think a classically trained opera singer but he made a couple of albums using a lot of electronic music, strange stuff but it had a certain something, I can't remember the venue but I saw him perform in London, good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk
I think he may well have been the inspiration for Keith Flint's haircut in the Firestarter video.
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