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Guru Guru were pretty great and unique from around 1970-71. I believe Neumeier and Trepte studied under Irene Schweizer (first wave euro improv pianist) in the 60's and were part of the initial phase of the euro free improv scene having played with alot of heavyweights (Brotzmann, Schoof, Bennink, Bailey etc etc) and Guru Guru is an example of a melding of this improv with rock, there is one or two sick videos on youtube with Ax Geinrich creating sick guitar sounds and feedback and Trepte using a mouth-contact mic-dictaphone-tape manipulation! shit this like light years before Aaron Dilloway and Wolf Eyes, i love the album "UFO", the sounds on the self titled track led the way for lo-fi noise bands like the Dead C., i have an amazing live recording i found on the net (Radio Bremen, Sept 21 1971) where they sound like a more tripped version of the Stooges playing "L.A. Blues"... The album Hinten is also quite awesome with some nice shortwave radio ala AMM type of soundscapes with melting Hendrix-like guitar moves. Kanguru is kinda just OK to me some more generic sound rock riffs and soloing and after that they became more of a cheesy prog kraut rock band. As mentioned above a version of Acid Mothers Temple did some stuff with Mani, definitly a great drummer...
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