Kraftwerk performing in the UK in summer 2017. Photo: DPA Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk on Sunday won a Grammy for "3-D The Catalogue," a high-tech recreation of their back albums. Kraftwerk ...
Kraftwerk 3-D video installation – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Installation view Sprüth Magers Berlin, 2013 © Photo: Timo Ohler. Copyright Kraftwerk, 2013. Courtesy Sprüth ...
Regular freelance writer Wes Eichenwald was at the first of two Kraftwerk concerts on Friday at Bass Concert Hall. Here’s his report: Judging from the enthusiastic, not-at-all-robotic response to ...
Florian Schneider, who co-founded the seminal German electronic band Kraftwerk in 1970 and went on to become a godfather of genres including synth-pop, hip-hop, electronic dance music and post-rock, ...
Kraftwerk’s “Trans Europe Express” is the most important pop album of the last 40 years, though it may not be obvious. The first high-art electronic pop record, “Trans Europe Express” set the tone for ...
The German musician, who died at 73, shaped sounds that provided templates for countless varieties of electronic dance music, rock and hip-hop. By Jon Pareles Machines making music. Repetitive, ...
Between 1974 and 1981, Kraftwerk made five startlingly original albums that were influential enough to shape entire genres, including experimental rock, synth pop, and electronic dance music. But… By ...
Ralf Hütter was the driving force of Kraftwerk, the German pioneers of electronic music. They created a sound that would influence countless other musicians. January 1975: Strange electronic sounds ...
When the sad news of Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider’s passing at 73 years old due to complications associated with cancer was announced yesterday, one might not expect mid-Aughts pop singer ...
No one can accuse the Top-40 radio stations of the mid-1970s of not being eclectic. Take, for example, the Billboard Hot 100 from March 15, 1975. The Doobie Brothers’ uncharacteristic foray into ...
In 1982, a teenaged-Organized Noize member Patrick “Sleepy” Brown heard Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force’s “Planet Rock” for the first time. He was hooked by the song’s combination of rap ...
Florian Schneider, who co-founded the seminal German electronic band Kraftwerk in 1970 and went on to become a godfather of genres including synth-pop, hip-hop, electronic dance music and post-rock, ...