Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (Instrumental Remix) 1977

[Da5thSith]

I've heard this on Uncle Luke Luke In The Nude 1993 Its The Intro Called Do You Hear The Lambs Calling...So that's where it came it from?

[Jerseysson27]

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[Bunjamin27]

this is not the instrumental, it simply is the parts of the song where there is no singing, cut/pasted together.

[CLIAM1]

the crazy thing is...this was one of the roots of hip hop as it was a summer hit in the bronx 1977...

[diegomolina70]

true. but whodini came out in the early 80's. these guys came out in the 70's with digital beats and sound effects very similar to drum machines. i don't want to take anything away from whodini, ice t, curtis blow, sugar hill gang, etc. these guys were the foundation of hip hop. but if you listen to kraftwerk closely you don't have to be an expert to the strong influence. for many years i thought "tour de france" was a hip hop song, many kids used to break-dance to it.

[diegomolina70]

If you want a perfect picture of what I'm talking about, compare: Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" vs. MC ADE's "Bass Rock Express" and you'll see a hip hop clone from the original. This is just one example of many.

[DjVinylFrontier]

@diegomolina70 Magic's Wand by Whodini has the original TEE drum machine beat

[diegomolina70]

yes. this is where hip hop came from. people talk about NY and l.a. but its not true. if you listen to all of krafwerk songs and then compare them to many songs of africa bambata, and other initial songs of hip hop, you'll see, sampling, similar beats, and similar keyboard sound effects.

[ElectronicMusicUK]

@diegomolina70 NO! It did not start with the Germans, they just utilized already existing Afro-American 60s funk and adapted it to electronic sounds, so what? They were innovators with synths, that's it. The only style they invented was "Electronic Krautrock" which is basically fuckin boring. Thank god for the black Americans to show the world what rhythm really means!

[epics7]

@diegomolina70 Smh. Hip Hop is not Kraftwerk origins. Hip Hop roots actually started during the Disco years where the DJ spin the records at the clubs and they actually rhymed before it was called rap. If you look at an old movie called "Fish that saved Pittsburg", you'll see a 1970s dj rapping. Hip Hop is rap, clothing style, art and many things that started in the New York young underground culture. Africa Bambata didn't start Hip Hop either.

[BBQFanNo1]

Tangerine Dream,Vangelis,Jean Michel Jarre,and Kraftwerk. These are the pioneers.

[BBQFanNo1]

And people think Trance's 009 Sound System Dreamscape and Derube's Sandstorm is incredibly new and different advanced.

They should check out this by Kraftwerk along with their next album Man Machine and the group Cybotron songs from 1977.

[epics7]

@BBQFanNo1 Even Kraftwerk's influence started from other artist. Giorgio Moroder's Disco electronic music can be heard in this Album and Man Machine album.

[P828282]

Hey, it's not an instrumental version. Someone have just cut out the parts with lyrics, that's all. You can hear it clearly at the begining when the first line 'trans europe express' should be. A part of 'tr' still can be heard. Fake...

[diegomolina70]

THIS IS HIP HOP'S MOM AND DAD. YOU ARE WITNESSING THE BIRTH OF HIP HOP. NOT NEW YORK OR LA, THE BIRTH OF HIP HOP IS IN GERMANY BY KRAFTWERK.

[MidnightinSavannah]

@diegomolina70 Listen to 1:50 there is the music Afrika Bambaataa stole to make the song planet rock.

[ElectronicMusicUK]

@MidnightinSavannah Fuckin bollocks mate, the Germans did not invent HipHop, the beat you mentioned at 1:50 , a similar beat can be heard in the first minute of one of the first Hip Hop sounding works from 1968 by a black singer/actor called Pigmeat Markham. This beat by Kraftwerk is almost the same, just a speeded up funky sound. Kraftwerk stole their ideas from 60s Black Funk music! The only thing I'll give Kraftwerk credit for is creating funky sounds through purely electronic means.

[epics7]

@MidnightinSavannah They didn't steal anything. One of K.W. ex members made a tribute to Africa Bambata's Planet Rock, which it's origins is from T.E.E.

[epics7]

@diegomolina70 Lol. Wrong. Hip Hop isn't K.W. it was around before K.W. K.W. music was just added to the Hip Hop culture. Hip Hop's roots is from Disco.

[TheDematerialized]

Kraftwerk are Legends, honestly... I love the makjority of their stuff and i'm only like 17 :)

[rcalde6421]

I remember getting stoned to thie music

[chrisnoaro1]

wow, didn't know this existed, cheers.

[khaliamoon]

This is a classic!

[coolassdad68]

Classic! This is where "Planet Rock" was sampled from. This was the start of hip-hop after Afrika Bambaata got ahold of it.

[ElectronicMusicUK]

@coolassdad68 no it wasn't the start of Hip Hop, it's an Afro-American style going back to the late 60s. All Kraftwerk did was make electronic sounds which gave some Black DJ's in the USA more ideas to expand an already existing style. There's no clear beginning to electronic music, many acts have contributed to the genre, beginning with Varsese in the 1920s and 30s.

[epics7]

@coolassdad68 Nope. Hip Hop was before A.B. K.W. had nothing to do with Hip Hop, they were added to the already existing equation.