Kraftwerk - Godfathers of Electronic Music

Hey kids, I have put this video together because I was tired of explaining why Kraftwerk are often called the godfathers of electronic music

Now I leave the talking to Phil Oakey, Human League, hip hop legends Afrika Bambaataa of the Zulu Nation and Grandmaster Flash,TV interviews with Stockhausen, Bjork, Jean-Luc de Meyer, Front 242, Andy Mc Cluskey, OMD, Komputer, Karl Hyde, Underworld, Johnny Marr, The Smiths, Detroit Techno DJs Derrick May, Blake Baxter, Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin. Nice snippets of Andy Fletcher, Depeche Mode, George Clinton, Wolfgang Fluer, Egypt Lover

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• Kraftwerk
• electronic
• music

[HolisticSounds]

Although Kraftwork are great they are not the first or true grand fathers of EM that goes to Tangerine Dream (The Tangs) But electronic music goes back further than that,,,,

[vanelektrik]

@HolisticSounds

Nobody has invented electronic music - it`s the result of a very long process.

Kraftwerk`s music historical achievement is that they have transfered electronic music from sound labs, esoterical & avant-garde circles into pop(ular) culture!

They did not use synths to reproduce traditional songs or classical music (like Kingsley, Carlos) or to pimp up rock songs (like ELO, Yes).

They wanted to create a new form of electronic pop-music - and this is exactly what they did.

[professormessor]

version of the man machine at 8:20 is not the one off the album, where is it from? ta.

[vanelektrik]

It`s Jay-Z "My Sunshine" a song which is based on the riff of Kraftwerk`s "The Man-Machine"

[ajittffcure]

Lovely footage. It is interesting to note the influence of Kraftwerk on so many great artists. I think rap and hip-hop borrowed a lot from Kraftwerk's records. Having said that Kraftwerk were influenced a lot by funk and Motown records. So, it was counter-productive and there was a lot of cross-pollination of ideas. Kenny Larkin's statements in the end make sense.

[vjfperez]

They did not invent "electronic music" in a very strict sense of making musical sounds out of eletronic equipment, but they've defined it as an aesthetic genre in itself.

Karls Stockhausen and other experimenters may have been even more of pioneers in the usage of electronic apparel but was Kraftwerk the igniters of a revolution.

[prittwitz1]

Rousseau!



[prittwitz1]

Vilen danken!

[theargosy23]

@vanelektrik:

The point here is the direct link between KW and SO MANY current popular styles,  perhaps most importantly techno/electronica and hip hop. TG nor anyone else is in the mix there. TG was a space music band, probably more important to Vangelis and Brian Eno than to popular music. As for the origins of electronic music itself, the standard call is Walter/Wendy Carlos, the pre-Moog transgender genius.

[retrofan42]

It's really something to see Karlheinz Stockhausen, another pioneer in electronic music, giving Kraftwerk their props.

[Soundfetischist]

@HolisticSounds "What The Beatles Are To Rockmusic, Kraftwerk Are To The Electronic Dance Music".

(New York Times, 1997)

[Rayimix3000]

@MrSYSTEM20 Yes, they are... just ask Chris Carter whose work owes everything to the music of Kraftwerk .... THX for the history lesson gramps.

[MrSYSTEM20]

@Rayimix3000 [Cont] The only constant figure in these line-ups was Schneider, whose main instrument at the time was the flute; at times also playing violin and guitar, all processed through a varied array of electronic effects. Hütter, who left the band for six months in 1971 to pursue studies in architecture, played synthesiser keyboards (including Farfisa organ and electric piano)...YUP..such masters of electronic music.

[MrSYSTEM20]

@Rayimix3000 you didn't need to be a cocky little punk about it ! Early Kraftwerk line-ups from 1970–1974 fluctuated, as Hütter and Schneider worked with around a half-dozen other musicians over the course of recording three albums and sporadic live appearances; most notably guitarist Michael Rother and drummer Klaus Dinger, who left to form Neu!.

[Rayimix3000]

@MrSYSTEM20 Kraftwerk was dabbling with experimental electronics way before TG was even planned to be a band... documented on CD's and live performances, not old-man pseudo intellectual dabblings... However, if you say you're right I'm nobody to take you down your Ivory Tower, good luck :)