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Kraftwerk have embodied the robot spirit in sound and longevity and it has fueled their musical careers for 35 years. The German quartet that pioneered not only electronica but their own Doepfer sequencer announced a few shows in the US leading up to their Coachella performance. Only 3 dates have been reported thus far - Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Denver. April:19 Minneapolis, MN - Myth20 Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom23 Denver, CO - The Fillmore26 Indio, CA - Coache... MORE
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You may not readily associate late 70's techno band Kraftwerk with funk, but the direct influence on Afrika Bambaata's 1982 hit "Planet Rock" is a fact of Funk History. Kraftwerk are the reason music sounds like it does today. Pioneers, 20 years before their time, they invented much of what we recognise as the tools of electronic music. But quite apart from being inventors they were funky as hell and became the most sampled artsits ever..So, here's the audio for " TransE... MORE
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As the landscape of the industry continues to change, musicians have shown they no longer need record companies to survive or sell their music. Now we can see the industry no longer needs musicians. Check out this example of machines doing it for themselves; Of course you have got to give them the basics first, but once they are shown the ropes they knock out those tricky solos again and again without a bum note. This robot was programmed to play John Coltrane's ma... MORE
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Metal, New Wave, Electronica . . . Wednesday has sort of taken on a wierd life of its own here in MOGville, so I decided today was as good a day as any to post this. I have been listening to a serious amount of Kraftwerk lately. Early and later stuff. One song that has been a particularly huge hit around my house has been "The Robots." My 3 year old and 5 year old love this song and beg me to play it on an almost daily basis. When I do, they always do their best to d... MORE
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...I've been listening to a lot of Kraftwerk lately while working at home and I'm loving every minute of it...formed in the late 60s, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter got together while attending music classes in Dusseldorf and formed their band which means "power station" in German...these cats started dropping electronic bombs way back in the 70s and had a tangential hand at forming the early hip-hop shite that Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force would start pumping... MORE
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My next door neighbor Bruce asked me the other night if I had any Kraftwerk discs he could borrow, and I met his reasonable query with my usual unreasonable response, that being "What am I, an asshole? OF COURSE I have fuckin' Kraftwerk discs! Only a jackass wouldn't!" Kraftwerk were so goddamn awesome and so unbelievably prescient that they ought to be considered fuckin' prophets! People get all uppity because their precious shaggy haired band of spleef-addled heshers hav... MORE
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I was looking forward to Blitzen Trapper tonight at Spaceland but at the last minute I thought, "LMNOP805, when was the last time you bought records?" Too Long I replied... so we all have this list of records we need to buy before we get old and today I shaved the ever growing list by purchasing....A. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express2. Television - Marquee Moon2.75 Joy Division - 1980 Amsterdamd. Elliot Smith - New Moon and I will admit, i got a little emotional reading... MORE
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...Micki and most of my trusteds already know that I'm all over Kraftwerk's body of electronica ...I like to check them when I'm writing pieces or kicking it around the house, like right now...I don't know how those guys found all of that e-funkiness inside their oscillators but maybe I don't really need to...right now I'm kicking back with a little The Man Machine (Mensch Machine, in their native Germany) and everything's in the right place (!!!)...I'm specifically vibing... MORE
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Round about 4.10 this straight down the line Kraftwerk cold techno thing sort of changes gear and, to my robot ear, turns into something a bit special. Lovely bit at 4.40. And then notches up around 6.00.
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And of course, it's that time of the night again: Kraftwerk Korner time!! Tonight it's a usually-overlooked gem from the enigmatic "Radio-Activity" album from 1975, the closing track of my #2 favorite Kraftwerk album of all time... I want this song played at my funeral, damnit. It starts off kinda slow, a bit gloomy... the beat starts... the sound kicks in... and it just goes from gloom to downright happy. This is the kind of song I listen to when I need a good cr... MORE
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Those of you who have written about your love for the bio-chemistry experiment known as the Tour De France might be interested to see a photo tour of the Trek bike factory. It's a fascinating tour of how high-tech bikes get made, with a lot of photos of Lance Armstrong's Tour bikes, plus that of Greg Le Monde. If this photo turns you on, you know where to click. PS: Just joking on the 'bio-chemistry' bit. The Tour has a long and noble history of tilting the odds in... MORE
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Kraftwerk offered up a free download of their song "Radioactivity" for Stop-Rokkasho.org, a rare live version recorded in Warsaw. The Stop-Rokkasho organization is working to disrupt or hinder the reprocessing, storage and disposal of nuclear waste near Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture Japan and around the world. The group hopes to draw attention to their cause by enlisting support from the music community. Their website offers some 20 tracks of artists who are showing their su... MORE
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And, to close out Chapter 20, Kraftwerk Korner proudly presents, in its beautifully perfect entirety... ...yep, you guessed it. "Trans-Europe Express." When I first heard this song I was hooked. A few listens more and I was in love. Compared to a lot of other excellent Kraftwerk songs, to me this one just oozes perfection. [I'm sure someone's bound to say, _No way!! That title belongs to "Autobahn"!!_ Really.] All aboard the Trans-Europa!! And on that note, u... MORE
