Electronic Music

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk were the pioneers of Electronic music, Kraftwerk were form by Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider in 1970. Kraftwerk sound were combines with a lot of synths, repetitive rhythms and catchy melodies, they were also the pioneer of using the vocoder generated by a computer speech software, they used a lot of Flutes, synthesizer, electro violin, electric organ and a vocoder, Kraftwerk music influences in many groups of that decade, using the same style of music and the same style of clothing.

In 1974 they release Autobahn moving away from the sounds of its earlier albums, they start using more sophisticated and advanced synths like the Minimoog. Autobahn was also the last album that Conny Plank would engineer. Autobahn was a success in Europe and United States this album was inspire and creating for the road trips the band had to do. After the success of Autobahn they start touring around Europe, The two albums releases afterward, Radio activity and Trans – Europe Express. They won a Gold disc in France for radio activity even though wasn’t to success in UK and United States, Trans- Europe Express won a disco award in New York. In 1978 Kraftwerk release the Man Machine recorded at the Kling Klang Studio, the cover of the new album was produced in black, white and read, this showed the band dressed in red shirts and black ties.  After three years of the released of Man Machine Kraftwerk released a new album called Computer World the single of this album “The Model” reached the position number one in UK making the “The Model” Kraftwerk most successful record in the UK

Kraftwerk music has directly influenced in many groups of that decade and until now Kraftwerk music still influenced in many groups and artist some examples are: Depeche mode, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Human League and Soft cell and just to name few. Kraftwerk aslo influenced other type of music like hip- hop and minimal electro

Another Kraftwerk influences were their clothing and style. They were also the Pioneer of Led lights with their name on it in the stage.

I like electronic music before I read about Kraftwerk, but for me its good to know who were the pioneer of Electronic music, they influenced so much until now that you can still hear that type of music in radios, podcast and television, Kraftwerk sound is so unique and robotic that just to listen the first seconds of any track you know are them.