The word ' unique' is used in Rock, but Kraftwerk has a stronger revindication than most for this title.
Ralf Hutter, organ, (b. 1946, Krefeld, Germany) and the student of instrument of wood blow Florian Schneider-Esleben (b. 1947, Düsseldorf, Germany) they met while they were studying music improvised in Düsseldorf, Germany. They used the influence of experimental electronic forces like composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and Tangerine Dream to create a music Minimalist in synthesizers, " drum machines " and " close recorders ".
Having registered an album previously with " Organization ( Tone Float)", Hutter and Schneider formed Kraftwerk with Klaus Dinger and Thomas Homann and Highrail after which Dinger and Homann left to form Neu.
Their first two albums were thrown, in Germany, later in the UNITED KINGDOM as a " compilation " published in 1972. Produced by Conny Plank (later to work with Ultravox and Eurythmics), " The Bleak " and " Spartan Music " provoked a small answer.
After throwing a duo game, Ralf and Florian, Wolfgang Flur (electronic drums) and Klaus Roeder (guitar, violin and keyboards) they joined to the group.
Autobahn marked the innovation of Kraftwerk and it established them as precursors of the hi-tech and computerized music. The strip title with more than 22 minutes, it was an attempt to relate the monotony and tedium of a day of a long highway. A published version reached Top 10 in the USA and " charts " in the UNITED KINGDOM.
In 1975, Roeder was substituted by Karl Bartos.
Radioactivity was an album of concepts based on the sounds to be found in the " airwaves ".
Trans-Europe Express and Man-Machine were strong influences in groups of New Wave as Human League , Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and OMD, while David Bowie revealed to have been for a long time an admirer.
The New Music Express said Man-Machine of the album: ' It is the only completely prosperous, produced Rock of audio-visual coalition. '.
Kraftwerk passed three years building their own studio, Kling Klang in the seventies, completed with, unavoidably, scores " of computers.
The single " The Model ", of the album Man-Machine, gave for the band, a surprise blow when it was in Top of " Charts " of the UNITED KINGDOM in 1982, and it drove to a hits trio that includes " Showroom Dummies " and " Tour of France ", a song that it was characterized in the film Breakdance and he/she became the theme for the cycling event that took the same name in 1983.
Electric Café was seen as a pioneer of the dance, and the group was mentioned as a main influence in artists of dance of Afrika Bambaataa, for respected him producing Arthur Baker.
In 1990, Flur left to be substituted by Fritz Hijbert. (Flur ever since collaborated with Mouse on Mars under the name of Yamo).
They reached " Chart " of the UNITED KINGDOM with the additional " success The Robots ", that was accompanied by the robots' shy exhibition similar to the members of Kraftwerk.
The best songs of Kraftwerk were gathered in 1991 in the album, " The Mix ", pointed mainly in the dance market, through EMI Records.

' I think that our music has to do with emotions. Technology and emotion can unite the hands. . . ' Hutter said in 1991.

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