Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and MusicNow into its fourth edition, this perennial bestseller has been updated and revised to coincide with the band's 2004 World Tour. Kraftwerk's influence and place in the annals of music history is ever growing. This is the first, and still the best, biography. Appearing in B-format for the first time, Bussy has included information about Kraftwerk's first new album in 16 years. |
Contents
dream sequence | 10 |
germany and the avantgarde | 11 |
sound and industry | 26 |
ralf und florian | 42 |
automobiles and motorways | 52 |
transistors and uranium | 71 |
trains and europe | 83 |
man and machine | 98 |
rhythms and cycles | 139 |
boings and booms | 149 |
past and future | 163 |
expos and zeros | 188 |
kling and klang | 200 |
dream sequence | 203 |
sources and quotes | 205 |
discography | 209 |
Common terms and phrases
20TH AUGUST album appear artists Autobahn avant-garde band bicycle Bizot Bowie CAPITOL classical Computer World concerts cover cycling drum machines Düsseldorf early EDIT Electric Cafe electronic music Emil Schult Europe Express European EXPO fact featured Florian Schneider flute François Kevorkian French German groups guitar Hütter and Schneider idea improvisation industrial influence instruments INTERVIEW BY PASCAL JUNE 5TH Karl Bartos Kling Klang studio Kometenmelodie Kraftwerk krautrock later live LP's LYONS lyric Maxime Schmitt melody musicians Musique noises NOVEMBER 5TH Organisation Paris PASCAL BUSSY Patrick Codenys PAUL ALESSANDRINI piece playing Pocket Calculator pop music punk radio Radio-Activity Ralf and Florian RALF HÜTTER release REMIX rhythm robots rock music Rother scene Showroom Dummies single sleeve song sound Soundtracks stage synthesizer Tangerine Dream tapes Technopop title track Tour De France Trans-Europe Express tune vocal whilst WILLIAM ORBIT Wolfgang Flür World tour