![]() ![]() Kraftwerk have always known exactly which buttons to push.Īnd now, they set controls for the heart of the Sup’er Computer. Humorous, ominous, splendiferous, android-gynous. As vital as ever, Ralf Hütter, alongside Fritz Hilpert, Henning Schmitz and Falk Grieffenhagen, transcend the corporeal, taking us inside the machine to a singular world all of their making. Kraftwerk concerts are a true “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art”, bringing together electronic music, computer animations and performance art. Specks of Kraftwerk DNA hurtle through the space-time continuum, embedding themselves into Bowie, Spacemen 3, Afrika Bambaataa, Prince, Daft Punk, New Order, Radiohead, Missy Elliott, and every Meredith Music Festival for the last three decades. For post-punk, synth-pop, hip hop and techno. The cabling was laid for myriad musical revolutions. ![]() “Sometimes we play the music, sometimes the music plays us…” With cause and effect no longer what they seem. In place of ego, and the paradigm of the rock star, a sense of collective, playful, poignant humanity. A hunger for social change reflected in their hypermetabolic innovation. Beauty and romance perceived in the seemingly mundane. Soundscapes for the dawning of a robotic world. Pioneering the most innovative sounds of their generation: shimmering synthscapes, repetitive exhortations, hypnotic loops, all sculpted with purpose into pop songs of the future.Īutobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans-Europe Express, The Man-Machine, Computer World are delivered like consecutive gospels: worshipped, absorbed, handed on from generation to generation. Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider’s creative vision made manifest: a futuristic soundtrack for the digital age. The Big Bang was at Kling Klang, West Germany, 1970. Kraftwerk, quite simply, are the reason music sounds like it does today. A longtime, long-held, once-in-a-blue-moon dream. From Düsseldorf to the Supernatural Plains.
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