Imagine an era when mainstream music wasn't filled with synthesizers. When electronic music wasn't a force propelling everything from pop and hip-hop to music from the underground. There was a time ...
When the sad news of Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider’s passing at 73 years old due to complications associated with cancer was announced yesterday, one might not expect mid-Aughts pop singer ...
Kraftwerk have spent much of their career blurring the lines between man and machine. They are from a generation that grew up thinking that computers and machines would depersonalize us all and make ...
WHO SPEAKS for Europe? Henry Kissinger’s question has never found a satisfactory answer, but a literalist might turn to the press room of the Berlaymont building in Brussels. Here, day after day, well ...
Joy Division's Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook performing live onstage at Bowdon Vale Youth Club (Photo by Martin O'Neill/Redferns) “You never knew Kraftwerk individually. I ...
The German band he helped found toyed with ideas about technology and society, leaving a profound mark on rock, dance music and hip-hop. By Ben Sisario Florian Schneider, one of the founders of ...
Florian Schneider, who co-founded the seminal German electronic band Kraftwerk in 1970 and went on to become a godfather of genres including synth-pop, hip-hop, electronic dance music and post-rock, ...
Imagine an era when mainstream music wasn't filled with synthesizers. When electronic music wasn't a force propelling everything from pop and hip-hop to music from the underground. There was a time ...