RIP Florian Schneider. This is what true innovation sounds like. We are absolutely gutted to hear about the passing of kraftwerk Co-founder, Florian Schneider, due to cancer. He was 73 years old. Listen below! She is not in Tin Machine. Classic Bands Electronic Music Obituary. View this post on Instagram. Share 5K. Tweet 0. Pin it 1. Alice Teeple Alice Teeple is a photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and writer. Bands Classic Bands Video Premiere. View Post. He left the band in It feels less like a loss than a kind of reclamation: stardust to stardust.
Already, the band was fusing a kind of primal, proto-punk insouciance with a more measured and cerebral approach to music-making. But the album still felt revelatory, if not insane. Kraftwerk wrote often about motion—the band was interested in ideas of repetition, inertia, speed—which might be part of why its records feel so transporting. Kraftwerk reputedly turned down Michael Jackson, who wanted to collaborate. The group faced resistance in the British music press at first, but went on to achieve both musical innovation and commercial success.
Even Kraftwerk's image was mechanical - during the s, they began to portray themselves as robotic figures, dressed identically and standing in a row behind keyboards on stage. With striking album covers adding to their visual impact, their artistic as well as musical identity led to a series of acclaimed residencies in galleries like New York's Moma and the Tate Modern in London in the s.
Schneider had left by then. During the mids, the band's allegiance to what they called "robot pop" set the sonic template for everything from hip-hop to house music via EDM and techno.
In some quarters, they were dubbed "the electronic Beatles", and it's hard to disagree. But Kraftwerk developed a new musical vocabulary, sculpting hypnotic, low-frequency sounds that celebrated Europe's romantic past, and looked forward to its shimmering future. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment. Karl Bartos subsequently worked with Lothar Manteuffel as " Elektric Music ", but now records solo under the slightly different name "Electric Music".
His latest activities are covered by his official web site. In he brought out a privately issued cassette single under the name "Jamo" not "Yamo" : entitled Little Child , it featured lyrics and cover design by long-time Kraftwerk collaborator Emil Schult. In addition to working with bands such as Mouse on Mars 's album Iaora Tahiti and Excelsior their debut release he has developed his solo career under the name Y amo and written a book about his time with Kraftwerk.
You can get some info at www. Emil Schult is an artist who started to collaborate with Kraftwerk as early as He provided lyrics and graphic design for kraftwerk.
In they went separate ways. It looks like Schult and Kraftwerk have started to work together again. See more at his webpage, www.
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