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Kraftwerk: Working
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Kraftwerk eschewed rock stardom for an art-house ideology, and even that was cloaked in ambiguity. Kraftwerk are elusive and writing a book about them is a difficult task confined mainly to interpretations of the interviews or studies of the influence they have had on others. The books by Bussy and Barr were both handicapped by this limitation. Then there's the book by ex-Kraftwerk insider, Wolfgang Flür. One would have expected this finally to lift the lid, but it still fails to penetrate Kraftwerk's Hütter-Schneider core or bring any great new revelations.
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[F]rom here on it’s up, up all the way, as Kraftwerk blast through their back catalogue with effortless brilliance. Highlights here have to be the thoroughly enaging Neon Lights, which has been lovingly upgraded yet lost none of its sparkling, spage-age essence, whilst Radioactivity is a real blast, ending in an absolutely pulsating blaze of electronic vignettes and rhythms. Meanwhile, Trans Europe Express is simply the monster Kraftwerk classic, especially when backed by the pounding industrial rhythms of Metal On Metal.
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HAVING deprogrammed and unplugged themselves for much of the '80s and '90s, German electronic pop pioneers Kraftwerk reappeared at the start of the new millennium. But where 20 years before they'd fought for space on stages cluttered with tons of temperamental analog equipment, they returned to stages bare except for a single widescreen video screen and four identical lecterns bearing laptops.
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[A]s the 1970s progressed, more and more artists were getting hip to Kraftwerk's innovations - and its impact could be heard in recordings by Giorgio Moroder, David Bowie and Tangerine Dream. The list of artists Kraftwerk influenced is amazingly long, but suffice to say that everyone from Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Zapp/Roger Troutman, The Egyptian Lover, Whodini and The System to Throbbing Gristle, Bauhaus, The Human League, Depeche Mode, The Shaman, Skinny Puppy and New Order was directly or indirectly influenced by Kraftwerk. From hip-hop, disco, Latin freestyle and house to new wave, industrial noise, alternative rock, techno and gothic, Kraftwerk's influence seems unending.
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Surely one of the highest accolades for any electronic production unit is getting called up for an official Kraftwerk remix. Hot Chip got commissioned for two such reworkings, taking on 'Aerodynamik' and 'La Forme', and in so doing splitting into pairs. Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard get to grips with 'Aerodynamik', and do so with no short supply of skill, serving up a sparkling, effortlessly glossy production that befits such a task. READ MORE ABOUT: KRAFTWERK, Aerodynamik / La Forme (Hot Chip Mixes), Emi
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Reading three biographies of Kraftwerk, more-or-less in parallel, is a demanding - some would say unrewarding task. Inevitably, some impressions about Kraftwerk themselves have tended to merge and these are addressed in the later sections of this review.
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