Kraftwerk
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This is a Lego stop-motion animated video for the Kraftwerk classic The Robots, prod by Hard act 2 Follow and DJ Timo, Sweden.
via svattrov
This excellent documentary looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Featured musicians include Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze and Faust.
You can view the first part above. See the rest on YouTube – while you can. Read more…
Kraftwerk’s The Bleep proves that everything sounds a lot naughtier when you censor it.
via commanderkrudge, who says “Even the Grandfathers of Electro Pop only had *bleep* on their mind when writing their classic song The Model.”
For Kraftwerk fun, see this earlier post 11 Unusual Covers Of Kraftwerk’s The Model.
via apc
This video, Truckstop Gondolero, captures Kraftwerk in 1971, back when they were still groovy.
via BVM0Experim0Indus0TV:
Live studio performance, 1971.
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany is a new documentary film that examines how a generation of” Krautrockers” built a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
The documentary will debut Friday October 23rd on BBC 4 at 9pm. No word on when it will be available outside the UK.
Description:
Between 1968 and 1977, bands including Neu!, Faust, Can and Kraftwerk looked beyond Anglo-American pop to create some of the most radical and original sounds ever heard in the country.
The experiments of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Cluster would give the world its first taste of electronica.
By the late Seventies, some famous English and American ears took notice as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop decamped to Germany in an attempt to tap into the Zeitgeist. Meanwhile, in a studio overlooking the Berlin Wall, Iggy and Bowie would record Low, Heroes and Lust For Life, taking the sound and feel of Krautrock to the bank and to the world at large.
