Description
The multi-media project Kraftwerk was started in Düsseldorf, Germany 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums.
Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century. AUTOBAHN 1974, RADIO-ACTIVITY 1975, TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS 1977, THE MAN-MACHINE 1978, COMPUTER WORLD 1981, TECHNO POP 1986, THE MIX 1991, TOUR DE FRANCE 2003. Their compositions, using innovative techniques, electronic sounds and synthetic voices combined with computerised rhythms, had a major musical influence on Electro, Hip Hop, Techno and Synth-Pop.
The year 2003 marked the centenary of the Tour de France, the conceptual starting line for Kraftwerks first album for over a decade. Although it features an immaculate new version of a 20-year-old former single, the exquisitely graceful Tour de France, pop nostalgia is not on the menu. From the chunky cyber-funk of Vitamin to the restless metallic shimmers of Aéro Dynamik, this is emphatically the sound of 21st century techno visionaries.
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