Ralf Hütter and his bandmates show how profound their influence has been on huge swathes of popular music – and they give a tender tribute to the late Ryuichi Sakamoto ...
In a new book, writer Uwe Schütte takes up a close examination of the unique context that gave rise to one of the century's most influential art... Kraftwerk And Our Computer World In the early-to-mid ...
For many people, although surely none of the 800 who jumped through digital hoops to get tickets for tonight's show, Kraftwerk's most recognisable piece of music is the melody from Computer Love, as ...
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Maybe Kraftwerk had a time machine. How else could they have known thirty years ago what the ambient symphony of everyday life would sound like? The mechanical chirp of the cell phone. The alert chime ...
When Kraftwerk needed a video to match its electronic music nearly three decades ago, the band turned to Rebecca Allen, a pioneer in the field of computer art. Allen was the creative genius at the ...
Wednesday's announcement of the death of Florian Schneider (typically, the actual date he died remains a mystery) sent me down a listening rabbit-hole through the many forms of music which bear his ...
We last spoke with Karl Bartos some 10 years ago for the release of his wonderful trawl through his own musical archives, Off The Record. For those of us of a certain age, Kraftwerk were arguably the ...
These days, computers are everywhere — this show could be streaming on your laptop or a tiny computer you might know better as the smartphone. Back in 1981, when Kraftwerk released its album Computer ...
Kraftwerk fans on the hunt for tickets to their 2017 UK tour were left bemused by an automated message asking to confirm they were ‘not a robot’. As the German electro outfit’s concerts rapidly sold ...
In the early-to-mid-'70s, the four members of Kraftwerk were still under-the-radar music experimentalists from the art-leaning city of Düsseldorf – a path they never really diverged from. After all, ...