{"id":87577,"date":"2012-04-27T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87577\/kraftwerk\/"},"modified":"2012-04-27T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:47:21","slug":"kraftwerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87577\/kraftwerk\/","title":{"rendered":"KRAFTWERK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kraftwerk invented synth-pop music.\u00a0 In fact, the four Germans even invented some of their own instruments!\u00a0 Kraftwerk is also the only band in history to have a gap of seventeen years between albums, splitting up due to cycling differences.\u00a0 I’m getting way ahead.<\/font><\/p>\n

Kraftwerk was way ahead, when Autobahn was released in 1974.\u00a0 Three albums had already been released between 1970 and 1973 (imaginatively titled Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk 2 and Ralf Und Florian).\u00a0 However, they were very experimental and abstract.\u00a0 Autobahn, with its epic twenty-minute title track, was a leap forward.\u00a0 Adding melodies and simple rhythms to the synthesized effects was clearly the key to success.\u00a0 Kraftwerk’s music was instantly more accessible.<\/font><\/p>\n

Gary Numan, John Foxx and the future founders of bands such as The Human League and OMD (among countless others) were taking notes.\u00a0 The following year, Kraftwerk released Radio-activity.\u00a0 The band was still experimenting.\u00a0 The real breakthrough came two years later.\u00a0 Trans-Europe Express (with the recurrence of a travel theme) is altogether more exciting (even now, thirty five years later).\u00a0 The German geniuses once again demonstrated they were at least one step ahead of everyone else.\u00a0 Trans-Europe Express laid the foundation for dance music as we know it today.<\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qBGNlTPgQII<\/p>\n

The Man-machine followed in 1978.\u00a0 It spawned the band’s most successful single (The Model) – although the world evidently wasn’t ready for it at the time.\u00a0 It was a hit, three years later.\u00a0 By then, many other bands were copying Kraftwerk.\u00a0 With each album there were fresh ideas.\u00a0 Computer World (1981) pointed everyone in the right direction.\u00a0 Kraftwerk paved the way for every electronic musician in the world.\u00a0 In fact, even rock bands acknowledge Kraftwerk’s influence.\u00a0 For example, Coldplay incorporated a piece of Computer Love on Talk (2005).\u00a0 David Bowie also paid tribute to Kraftwerk.\u00a0 Other bands have used Kraftwerk samples and ideas.<\/font><\/p>\n