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40: 2015:, "the mobility of music technology and the reliability of the notebooks and software have greatly simplified the realization of complex touring setups: we generate all sounds on the laptops in real time and manipulate them with controller maps. It takes almost no time to get our compact stage system set up for performance. This way, we can bring our Kling-Klang Studio with us on stage. The physical light weight of our equipment also translates into an enormous ease of use when working with software synthesizers and sound processors. Every tool imaginable is within immediate reach or just a few mouse clicks away on the Internet." 1946: 611:(1972). The albums were mostly exploratory musical improvisations played on a variety of traditional instruments including guitar, bass, drums, organ, flute, and violin. Post-production modifications to these recordings were used to distort the sound of the instruments, particularly audio-tape manipulation and multiple dubbings of one instrument on the same track. Both albums are purely instrumental. Live performances from 1972 to 1973 were mostly made as a duo, using a simple beat-box-type electronic 706: 721: 1216: 1088:

the cyclist. At the time of the single's release Ralf Hütter tried to persuade the rest of the band that they should record a whole album based on cycling. The other members of the band were not convinced, and the theme was left to the single alone. "Tour de France" was released in German and French. The vocals of the song were recorded on the Kling Klang Studio stairs to create the right atmosphere. "Tour de France" was featured in the 1984 film

7678: 1913:, have been released in separate versions: one with German vocals for sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and one with English vocals for the rest of the world, with occasional variations in other languages when conceptually appropriate. Live performance has always played an important part in Kraftwerk's activities. Also, despite its live shows generally being based around formal songs and compositions, live 1409: 3550: 596:. The only constant figure in these line-ups was Schneider, whose main instrument at the time was the flute; at times he also played the violin and guitar, all processed through a varied array of electronic devices. Hütter, who left the band for eight months to focus on completing his university studies, played synthesizer and keyboards (including Farfisa organ and electric piano). 8259: 3564: 39: 1249:

visual-display software. From this point, the band's equipment increasingly reduced manual playing, replacing it with interactive control of sequencing equipment. Hütter retained the most manual performance, still playing musical lines by hand on a controller keyboard and singing live vocals and having a repeating

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tour in 1976 Kraftwerk tested out an experimental light-beam-activated drum cage allowing Flür to trigger electronic percussion through arm and hand movements. Unfortunately, the device did not work as planned, and it was quickly abandoned. The same year Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider commissioned

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but reveal both an innocent celebration of, and a knowing caution about, the modern world, as well as playing an integral role in the rhythmic structure of the songs. Many of Kraftwerk's songs express the paradoxical nature of modern urban life: a strong sense of alienation existing side by side with

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In May or June 1982, during the recording of "Tour de France", Ralf Hütter was involved in a serious cycling accident. He suffered head injuries and remained in a coma for several days. During 1983 Wolfgang Flür was beginning to spend less time in the studio. Since the band began using sequencers his

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tour, Ralf Hütter had been looking for forms of exercise that fitted in with the image of Kraftwerk; subsequently he encouraged the group to become vegetarians and take up cycling. "Tour de France" included sounds that followed this theme including bicycle chains, gear mechanisms and the breathing of

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The band is also known for being notoriously reclusive, providing rare and enigmatic interviews, using life-size mannequins and robots while conducting official photo shoots, refusing to answer fanmail and barring visitors from the Kling Klang Studio, the precise location of which they used to keep

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with some notable innovations, such as home-made instruments and custom-built devices. The group has always perceived their Kling Klang Studio as a complex music instrument, as well as a sound laboratory; Florian Schneider in particular developed a fascination with music technology, with the result

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tour of 1981, where the band effectively packed up its entire Kling Klang studio and took it along on the road. They also made greater use of live visuals including back-projected slides and films synchronized with the music as the technology developed, the use of hand-held miniaturized instruments

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in Düsseldorf and at London's Tate Modern. Kraftwerk tickets were priced at £60 in London, but fans compared that to the $ 20 ticket price for tickets at New York's MoMA in 2012, which caused consternation. Even so, the demand for the tickets at The Tate was so high that it shut down the website.

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In 2009, Kraftwerk performed concerts with special 3D background graphics in Wolfsburg, Germany; Manchester, UK; and Randers, Denmark. Members of the audience were able to watch this multimedia part of the show with 3D glasses, which were given out. During the Manchester concert (part of the 2009

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commented: "There is something brilliantly Kraftwerkian about the news that Florian Schneider, a founder member of the German electronic pioneers, is leaving the band to pursue a solo career. Many successful bands break up after just a few years. It has apparently taken Schneider and his musical

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for several years. It was released for the first time on CD in addition to a repressing of the 12-inch vinyl single. Both versions feature slightly altered artwork that removed the faces of Flür and Bartos from the four-man cycling paceline depicted on the original cover. In 1999 ex-member Flür

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by Karl Bartos, who explained that anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer since, while recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a

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with sensor pads, filed in July 1975 and issued in June 1977. It must be hit with metal sticks, which are connected to the device to complete a circuit that triggers analog synthetic percussion sounds. The band first performed in public with this device in 1973, on the television program

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laptop computers, effectively leaving the entire Kling Klang studio at home in Germany. The group also obtained a new set of transparent video panels to replace its four large projection screens. This greatly streamlined the running of all of the group's sequencing, sound-generating, and

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in February 1982. The band's live set focused increasingly on song-based material, with greater use of vocals and the use of sequencing equipment for both percussion and music. In contrast to their cool and controlled image, the group used sequencers interactively, which allowed for live

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role as a drummer was becoming less frequent. He preferred to spend his time travelling with his girlfriend. Flür was also experiencing artistic difficulties with the band. Though he toured the world with Kraftwerk as a drummer in 1981, his playing does not appear on that year's

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became a fully working recording studio. The group used the central theme in radio communication, which had become enhanced on their last tour of the United States. With Emil Schult working on artwork and lyrics, Kraftwerk began to compose music for the new record. Even though

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as a replacement for Bartos. Abrantes left the band shortly after though. In late 1991, long-time Kling Klang Studio sound engineer Henning Schmitz was brought in to finish the remainder of the tour and to complete a new version of the quartet that remained active until 2008.

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partner, Ralf Hütter, four decades to discover musical differences." Kraftwerk's headline set at Global Gathering in Melbourne, Australia, on 22 November was cancelled moments before it was scheduled to begin, due to Fritz Hilpert experiencing a medical emergency.

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After years of withdrawal from live performance Kraftwerk began to tour Europe more frequently. In February 1990 the band played a few secret shows in Italy. Karl Bartos left the band shortly afterwards. The next proper tour was in 1991, for the album

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in Sydney, Ralf Hütter stated: "Now we have finished one to eight, now we can concentrate on number nine." In July, they performed at the 47th Montreux Jazz Festival. The band also played a 3-D concert on 12 July at Scotland's biggest festival –

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In genere lo consideriamo un apprezzamento per il nostro lavoro. La versione di Siouxsie di 'Hall Of Mirrors' è straordinaria, come gli arrangiamenti di Alexander Balanescu per quartetto d'archi. Anche il disco di Señor Coconut ci è piaciuto

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Early Kraftwerk line-ups from 1970 to 1974 fluctuated, as Hütter and Schneider worked with around a half-dozen other musicians during the preparations for and the recording of three albums and sporadic live appearances, including guitarist

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box set was released during the retrospective, restricted to 2000 sets. Each box was individually numbered and inverted the colour scheme of the standard box. In December, Kraftwerk stated on their website that they would be playing their

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movement. Gunther Frohling photographed the group for the cover, a now-iconic image which featured the quartet dressed in red shirts and black ties. After it was released Kraftwerk did not release another album or tour for three years.

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was played over the PA before Joy Division's concerts. New Order's song "Your Silent Face" also has some similarities with "Europe Endless" and had a working title of "KW1", or "Kraftwerk 1". New Order also recorded a song called

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album, a tour which took them to the US, Canada and the UK for the first time. The tour also saw a new, stable, live line-up in the form of a quartet. Hütter and Schneider continued playing keyboard synthesizers such as the

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that the technical aspects of sound generation and recording gradually became his main fields of activity within the band. Alexei Monroe called Kraftwerk the "first successful artists to incorporate representations of

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on stage. The Hütter-Schneider-Bartos-Flür formation remained in place until the late 1980s and is now regarded as the classic live line-up of Kraftwerk. Emil Schult generally fulfilled the role of tour manager.

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so the single was repackaged by EMI and re-released with "The Model" as the A-side. The single reached number one in the UK, making "The Model" Kraftwerk's most successful song in that country. As a result, the

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box set in November. It is a 12-inch album-sized box set containing all eight remastered CDs in cardboard slipcases, as well as LP-sized booklets of photographs and artwork for each individual album.

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has researched extra contemporary drawings, graphics, and photographs to go with each album, collections of paintings that we worked with, and drawings that Florian and I did. We took a lot of

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Since 2002, Kraftwerk's live performances have been conducted with the use of virtual technology (i.e. software replicating and replacing original analogue or digital equipment). According to

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with preset rhythms taken from an electric organ. Occasionally, they performed with bass players as well. These shows were mainly in Germany, with occasional shows in France. Later in 1973,

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in the UK, and split shortly thereafter. Schneider became interested in synthesizers, deciding to acquire one in 1970. While visiting an exhibition in their hometown about visual artists

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In March 2013, the band was not allowed to perform at a music festival in China due to unspecified "political reasons". In an interview in June after performing the eight albums of

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app called Kraftwerk Kling Klang Machine. The Lenbach House in Munich exhibited some Kraftwerk 3-D pieces in Autumn 2011. Kraftwerk performed three concerts to open the exhibit.

739: 8321: 6806: 5810: 636:, released in 1973, Kraftwerk began to rely more heavily on synthesizers and drum machines. Although almost entirely instrumental, the album marks Kraftwerk's first use of the 5787: 3436: 1967:; the device was constructed by engineers P. Leunig and K. Obermayer of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig. Hütter and Schneider received a patent for an 6661: 8502: 6459: 5398: 3894: 4524: 4468: 460:, their latest album of new material, in 2003. Founding member Schneider left in 2008. The band, with new members, has continued to tour under the leadership of Hütter. 3639: 6776: 5614: 5174: 2066:. He sent a letter through the lawyers of the respective parties and several weeks later received an envelope containing a handwritten reply that simply said "yes". 6597: 5583: 4945: 4614: 4279: 1731:. In November 2021, the band announced plans for a 2022 North American tour. With the members' live performances celebrating Kraftwerk's fiftieth anniversary, the 1655:, joining via a live video link. Gerst played melodies using a tablet as his instrument alongside Hütter as a duet, and delivered a short message to the audience. 659:

was highly significant in the early years of Kraftwerk. Plank also worked with many of the other leading German electronic acts of that time, including members of

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in March 1977 was marked with an extravagant train journey used as a press conference by EMI France. The album won a disco award in New York later that year.

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in Los Angeles. It was around this time that Hütter and Schneider met David Bowie at the Kling Klang Studio. A collaboration was mentioned in an interview (

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Their technical application and sound dynamics have been cited numerous times as being the foundation for both the development of hip hop and techno.

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in Düsseldorf. Kraftwerk performed at the No Nukes 2012 Festival in Tokyo, Japan. Kraftwerk were also going to play at the Ultra Music Festival in

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have admitted on several occasions that Kraftwerk were an important reference for their sound by the time they were working on their third album

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UFO-like architecture. Bespoke visuals of the building, with the saucer section descending from space, were displayed during the rendition of

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in 1974 saw Kraftwerk moving away from the sound of its first three albums. Hütter and Schneider had invested in newer technology such as the

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in the song "Ananas Symphonie" (Pineapple Symphony,) which became one of its musical signatures. According to English music journalist

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Kraftwerk's Uranium from the 1975 album Radio-Activity, became the model for the keyboard pad sound at the start and end of the track

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wrote that their music "resonates in virtually every new development to impact the contemporary pop scene of the late 20th century".

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On 21 April 2020, Florian Schneider died at age 73 after a brief battle with cancer. On 3 July 2020, the German-language versions of

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We didn't expect the song to be that big (...) We weren't thinking about selling out. We were thinking about Kraftwerk and Eurodisco

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was a fan, and showed his colleagues records that would influence their music. New Order also sampled "Uranium" in its biggest hit "

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Fink, R. "The story of ORCH5, or, the classical ghost in the hip-hop machine". Popular Music 24.3 (2005): 339–356. 9 November 2009.

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Kraftwerk inspired many acts from other styles and genres, along with having their work been repeatedly sampled. David Bowie's "

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was released. During 2006, the band performed at festivals in Norway, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Belgium, and Germany.

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tour, an offer the group declined. Despite some innovations in touring, Kraftwerk took a break from live performances after the

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for its original release in 1986 (for a remastered re-release in 2009, it was retitled again after its original working title,

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has referenced Kraftwerk as a prominent influence. Most notably, "Trans Europe Express" and "Numbers" were interpolated into "

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In 1989, a sped up version of Kraftwerk's song "Electric Café" began appearing as the theme song for a series of sketches on

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Since 2023, they have begun visualising their music on the façades of castles and other historic buildings in a special way.

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live set was played in Paris, France, at the brand new Fondation Louis-Vuitton from 6 to 14 November. and then in the iconic

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Although not officially confirmed, Ralf Hütter suggested that a second boxed set of their first three experimental albums—

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held in England. In 1998, the group toured the US and Japan for the first time since 1981, along with shows in Brazil and

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in France. Kraftwerk made videos and performed several European live dates to promote the album. With the release of

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was used by the band for the first time to control the electronic sources creating the rhythmic sound of the album

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often plays a noticeable role in its performances. This trait can be traced back to the group's roots in the first

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has cited Kraftwerk as an influence. The band was also mentioned in the song "Rappers We Crush" by Kompressor and

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at the ceremony that took place on 28 January 2018, winning the former, which became the band's first Grammy win.

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became one of the most sought-after studios in the late 1970s. Plank co-produced the first four Kraftwerk albums.

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for 2020. On 12 May 2021, Kraftwerk were announced as an official inductee into the Hall, for the class of 2021.

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each recorded cover versions of "Neon Lights"; Simple Minds' version was included on their 2001 all-covers album

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From 27 May to 10 July 2022, the formation undertook a successful North American tour, performing in 24 cities.

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that was released 26 May 2017. It is available in multiple formats, the most extensive of which being a 4-disc

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were inspired by Kraftwerk's song "The Model" when they composed their debut single "He Took Her to a Movie".

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According to music journalist Neil McCormick, Kraftwerk might be "the most influential group in pop history".

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was cocredited as a songwriter. The cover, produced in black, white and red, was inspired by Russian artist

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in the UK and United States, the album served to open up the European market for Kraftwerk, earning them a

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certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring.

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became a regular collaborator, designing artwork, cowriting lyrics, and accompanying the group on tour.

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in Los Angeles, presenting one of their eight albums each night and another concert as the ninth gig.

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The band's work has influenced a diverse range of artists and many genres of modern music, including

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scene in the early 1970s before fully embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers,

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said: "For anyone of our generation involved in electronic music, Kraftwerk were the godfathers".

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cited the group's ability to experiment of as an inspiration when working in a recording studio.

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opened the concert, invited by Kraftwerk. Concertgoers were offered 3D glasses to perceive

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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: VolumeII: Performance and Production

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aesthetic, seeing art as inseparable from everyday function. Usually, the lyrics are very

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In July 1999 the single "Tour de France" was reissued in Europe by EMI after it had been

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The year 1975 saw a turning point in Kraftwerk's live shows. With financial support from

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joined the group for rehearsals, and the unit performed as a trio on the television show

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features a fictional band called Autobahn, a parody of Kraftwerk and their 1974 record

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performing "Tour de France Soundtracks" and visited the start of the Tour in-between.

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compilation album came out on compact disc and vinyl for the first time in addition.

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improvisation. Ironically, Kraftwerk did not own a computer at the time of recording

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In 1982 Kraftwerk began to work on a new album that initially had the working title

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performed on home-made electronic percussion instruments. Bartos also used a Deagan

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over the course of eight days to sell-out crowds. The exhibit later toured to the

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Kraftwerk played at Ultra Music Festival in Miami on 23 March 2012. Initiated by

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magazine the process of requesting permission to use the melody from the track "

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Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries From the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

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has cited the band as one of her main musical influences. Electronic musician

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Karl Bartos – electronic percussion, vocals, live vibraphone, live keyboards

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used by Kraftwerk in their early albums, comparing it to owning "the guitar

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was among the fans of the record and invited the band to support him on his

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Goddard, Simon. "The 21 people who changed music – They are the robots."

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Flür, Wolfgang (2001). "Kraftwerk": I Was A Robot. Sanctuary Publishing.

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After having finished the Radio-Activity tour Kraftwerk began recording

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was created by three musicians from Detroit, often referred to as the '

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Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter: 'Now we can concentrate on album number nine'

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On 20 July 2019, Kraftwerk headlined the Saturday night lineup on the

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song called "Get Innocuous!" is built on a sample of "The Robots".

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Kraftwerk's musical style and image can be heard and seen in 1980s

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Another notable example of this eccentric behavior was reported to

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set with a 236-page hardback book. The album was nominated for the

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In October 2013 the band played four concerts, over two nights, in

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in Germany. The jingle was subsequently developed into the single "

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in the early influence category. As of 2024, the band continues to

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tour to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and at NYC's

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album also became a success in the UK, peaking at number 9 in the

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In October 2019, Kraftwerk were nominated for induction into the

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In 1997 Kraftwerk made a famous appearance at the dance festival

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of themselves to perform on stage during the song "The Robots".

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Generation Ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture

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Throughout their career, Kraftwerk have pushed the limits of

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On 20 July 2018, at a concert in Stuttgart, German astronaut

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in Suffolk, and 21 July at the Longitude Festival in Dublin.

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The input, expertise, and influence of producer and engineer

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in Düsseldorf in the late 1960s, participating in the German

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as one of his 13 favourite albums of all time. According to

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Illness forces Kraftwerk to miss Melbourne Global Gathering

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