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I was going to see them live for the first time in Minneapolis before everything was cancelled. Very sad. But his legacy lives on.
While a lot of artists like Giorgio Moroder purchased their synthesizers and music equipment, Kraftwerk built a ton of it themselves - drum pads, robot vocalizers, sequencers [1], digital music programming, etc. One of the biggest influences on everything we call music today. RIP Florian. [1] - http://www.doepfer.de/maq.htm
Kraftwerk is more political than the simplistic English lyrics would portray. It was then that I had new found appreciation for their craft. Praxis.
Legend. I saw Kraftwerk live years ago and it was one of the most overwhelming performances I’ve ever seen in my life. Beneath the bouncy, poppy hooks there was a massive darkness — the pairing of visuals with the music really drove that home. (The only other live musical performance that I recall giving me a similar feeling was the band ‘Godspeed You Black Emperor‘, who also made use of projected imagery in such a t…
Here's a recentish live performance of "Computer Love"
the band had an amazing run from 1974 to 1991. it sure is strange, though, that past that point, they pretty much stopped making new music.
the most charitable interpretation i can come up with is that they had created all the music that they needed to. or maybe, with the dawn of widely-available computers and much cheaper music synthesis, they could no longer stay five years ahead of the competition, and opted to bow out instead.
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Nothing obvious about it. That's like saying Roland's shitty bass accompaniment gizmo, the TB-303, was obviously built for Acid House.
I recall in college having several conversations with people who gave up on reading Lord of the Rings because 'it felt derivative'. Trying to politely explain to them that the fiction they had already read was the derivative work, while on the inside I was screaming: Look here, you little shit. I know we bristled at this in school, but I think there is in fact something to the idea of presenting a discipline to peopl…
I attended a live Kraftwerk show about 17 years ago, what amazed me was the depth of the lyrics in German vs the simplified English lyrics. Kraftwerk is more political than the simplistic English lyrics would portray. It was then that I had new found appreciation for their craft. Praxis.