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 he...
