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3 days ago · How Kraftwerk’s Autobahn remade pop. Half a century ago, the art-rock band introduced the world to the vocoder. Their sound – and pop music – was forever changed. Looking good: (l-r) Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider and Wolfgang Flür on the cover of The Man-Machine. Photo by Fröhling/Kraftwerk/Getty Images.
Oct 21, 2024 · The core duo of Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider studied and met at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf, and between them they could wrestle tunes from organs, violins, guitars and flutes, and did so on freeform compositions across a couple of albums: 1970's Kraftwerk and Kraftwerk 2 a couple of years later.
3 days ago · kraftwerk.com. Kraftwerk (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁaftvɛɐ̯k], lit. " power plant ") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the genre.
Oct 9, 2024 · Florian Schneider-Esleben - co-founder of German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk, one of the most influential music groups of the past 50 years - has died, a representative for the...
Oct 13, 2024 · On a Tuesday morning in September, a 10-year-old boy was approaching the gates of a Japanese school in Shenzhen in southern China, when a stranger walked up and...
Oct 22, 2024 · Indeed, there was something about the industrial energy of West Germany’s urban heartland at the time that fostered the artistic mindset of Kraftwerk’s core custodians, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider (RIP), as author David Stubbs noted in Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music.
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Oct 25, 2024 · Kraftwerk was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970 and fronted by the pair until Schneider’s departure from the band in 2008. Besides Hutter, the other current members of Kraftwerk include Fritz Hilpert, Henning Schmitz and Falk Grieffenhagen.