Kraftwerk documentary part 3

Made by Malik Bendjelloul for Swedish TV:s Pop i fokus in 2001. Interviews with Karl Bartos, Wolfgang Flur, Bjork, Moby, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Peter Saville.

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[IceFloeHyoga]

I WANT MORE...

[justinlecktschimmel]

fuck afrikan bambata

[SovietSpaceBat]

Brilliant documentary of a brilliant band. I love Kraftwerk.

[Lashid4u]

@salmonico ..and FUCK YOU! Be grateful for the exposure they were given, MOSTLY through hip-hop (and house)!

[Lashid4u]

@MrModulator ...and before Kraftwerk get mad at hip-hop artists, etc., who have sampled their songs and used their music for mixes, etc. ...They should think about how popular they would NOT have been, had not they been so accepted by the hip-house/funk community ...It is US that, REALLY, embraced their music ..It was ONLY the black radio stations in my city (Chicago) that would play "Numbers", "It's More Fun to Compute".... There's a short ytube on House music that talks about this

[Lashid4u]

@MrModulator Oh, and did you miss the part in the documentary, where one of the members spoke of funk being incorporated into their songs? Before that, what was their music like? Could you have danced at the club to it? ...Keep it real

[Lashid4u]

@MrModulator ..and they HELPED to pave the way for electronic dance music, but it's CRAZY to leave out the strong influence that gospel, soul, jazz and funk had on dance music! Disco is, basically, a more mainstream, Euro-influenced, sped-up, and electronic form of funk music .."Disco" is a commercialized term, anyways ...and before Disco, there was there was the "Motown sound", which was another root to disco...

[Lashid4u]

@MrModulator Just about ALL popular music that derived from the Western world, from the 1920s and on, was influenced, to some degree, by black music (i.e, blues, soul, jazz) You say they had NOTHING in common with funk? I don't think they would even agree w/ that! This is why you had blacks radio stations (at least in the US) that were MORE APPRECIATIVE of bands such as Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Kano, Yazoo, etc., than white stations who tried to keep much of that OFF of the radio...

[MrModulator]

@Lashid4u No, it wasn't. In Europe the electronica scene grew during the early 80;s and it was not funk based. Bands like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell. And lots of Italo Disco. One of the most important songs was by the way "I fell love" which was produced by Giorgio Moroder in 1977. A 4 on the floor straight sequenced thing.Had nothing in common with funk or hip hop but paved the way for electronic dance music later (also house, which in addition incorporated funkier rhytms).

[salmonico]

FUCK HIP HOP!!

[swanceva]

"Couldn't have said 'Guten Tag'? Just 'Guten Tag'?"

CRYING RIGHT NOW OMG

[Lashid4u]

@incabloc1 People need to realize that it was hip-hop that ressurrected/kept alive music that the mainstream tried to ban and destroy, such as funk, disco, and electronica ..After that whole "death to disco", when they tried to ban/destroy any and everything too upbeat, funky & electronic, it was hip-hop/house djs, underground, that kept James Brown alive ...and helped Kraftwerk bloom ...Many of us learned about Kraftwerk through house & hip-hop cuz they were the "prohibition smugglers" of music