The German electronic quartet Kraftwek has been making music since 1970. They are one of the most innovative and influential groups of their kind, creating their own Autobahn-sized lane on the musical ...
Kraftwerk und "Autobahn" – nicht mehr und nicht weniger als ein neues Kapitel in der Musikgeschichte der elektronischen Musik und der internationale Durchbruch für Kraftwerk, die vorher eher als ...
Up in the second floor’s atrium, a scrim was raised at the appointed hour to reveal the quartet – led by 65-year-old co-founder Ralf Hütter, providing all the vocoderfied vocals – squeezed like ...
Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of ...
No one can accuse the Top-40 radio stations of the mid-1970s of not being eclectic. Take, for example, the Billboard Hot 100 from March 15, 1975. The Doobie Brothers’ uncharacteristic foray into ...
You simply have to include Autobahn in a ‘tracks you must hear by Kraftwerk’ piece, if only because it’s nearly 23 bloody minutes long. Autobahn is not just ridiculous in length, it’s ridiculous in ...
The four identically dressed members of Kraftwerk stood before electronic consoles, glowing lecterns outlined in strips of blue light, in a dark Walt Disney Concert Hall. Above them, three-dimensional ...