Hochenkeit from Portland, OR, has developed a unique niche with its assimilation of Krautrock, Asian ethnic music, and psychedelic free form. The group does not merely crank out rock music with ethnic music as an embellishment, nor is it neo-traditionalist by trying to resurrect the sound of a culture. Perhaps the closest comparison might be Krautrock legend Can's Ethnological forgery series, another attempt to create a new world of music unconstrained by the rules and where anything and everything is thrown into the pot.

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