An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Kraftwerk.
Important things happen between Kraftwerk 2 and the next album. Florian got a haircut, and started wearing nice suits Ralf and Florian got neon signs Ralf bought a mini-moog The kraftwerk traffic cone is still in use – as with the previous albums this is men at work, under construction. Kraftwerk are perhaps still…
1972’s Kraftwerk 2 album begins with the track King Klang. Industrial sounds echo into Kling-Klang with an approach taken to processing the organic instruments, production is key to sound. Gone are the live drummers, replaced by mechanical rhythm machines, and a minimal more ordered approach bring the volume lower. It’s definitely Kraftwerk, in the beautiful tones…
From the unorganized power of Organisation emerged the organised Kraftwerk – literally translated meaning Power Station (no relation to the Robert Palmer / Duran Duran supergroup). Ruckzuck opens the first Kraftwerk album as a statement of intent. Unrelenting rhythms drive the song forward but this time the freak-out is more machine-like. Stuttering patterns echo the…
“Dear Kraftwerk, I’m quite good with Vocoders & Electronics, like dressing up like a robot & know all of your songs by heart, just in case.” Disastronaut – 8:11 PM Jan 7th 2009, from web The message had come through. Florian Schneider, the co-founder of Kraftwerk had left the band. Since the mid 1980s Kraftwerk…