KRAFTWARK (Aspie Music Personified)

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Aspie music isn’t no Country-&-Western song the story of a misfortunate Aspie. It is the MR SPOCKS of music, who don’t dance around making fools of themselves, sing about love, or smile while they sing or have load of female fans.

Pocket calculator: Kraftwerk dancing! as you can see they dance like ret*ds; good thing they give it in eventually
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIaa_QHC1yY

Autobalm 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c81X6BiI0Y

Aerodynamik 2000 somewhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSm0IEhY55c

http://www.kraftwerk.com/

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kraftwerk is good. topic is confusing.

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I love Kraftwerk
they story of the phone in thier studio is the coolest rock and roll story in history

computerlove!! !

hehe

what's the story? I'd love to hear it!

Do you mean the song The Thelephone Call?

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Kraftwerk were perfectionists and hated noise polution so if the label wanted to call the band at the studio to see how the new album was going they would have to call at a certin time. The watches of the record executive and the band were sycronised so if the agreed time was 3pm at 3pm the band would pick up the phone which had no rigner and say "Hello"(In german obviously) if nobody answered they whould hang up the record company would have to try agian tomorow.

HAHAHAHAAA!

damn, if that isn't aspie I don't know what is

I missed seeing Kraftwerk on their last tour and all i got was the double live album

I saw them it was great

i really like autobahn i have the LP

Love Kraftwerk.

I wish I'd seen this thread before. I absolutely adore Kraftwerk, and have since I was 17 or 18.

Kraftwerk is SO awesome...

My two kids even love Kraftwerk. My oldest is 3 and my youngest is 2. And, I mean, they are hardcore more addicted to Kraftwerk than they are Wall-E or Thomas the Tank Engine.

Gotta raise these kids right, I says.

But, yeah, Kraftwerk...

Makes me wanna hook up a microphone to my computer, fire up a vocoder plug, and shout "Aaaaauuuuuuu...tooooo...baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"

i've got their first album before they quite figured out their sound

glad that these days lots of people revere them as originators; at the time they were hardly taken seriously & being a fan was seen as a sign of mental imbalance

Oh, I only just heard about them fairly recently. I studied electronic music composition in music school for my master's degree. I had NO IDEA back then what people were doing. I was used to a lot of Stockhausen, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Morton Subotnik, John Cage, Terry Riley, and the like. Kraftwerk embraces pop music from an artistic perspective, and their identity hadn't quite solidified in their younger days (I'm talking about early 1980s), nor had the technology really caught up with them yet. If you are a music student, early Kraftwerk really needs to be on your listening list.

If I'd been more familiar with Kraftwerk before studying composition, I'd have made more effort to perform live with a laptop. It's just at the school I attended no one really did that. The thought of it makes me giddy with excitement for going back for my doctorate one day.

I've also become more exposed to people using laptops, like with Max/MSP, Reaktor, PD, etc. I don't really get so-called "interactive music," but Kraftwerk is the kind of modernist, techno-pop ART that even my very small children can understand. It's inspiring, because it shows that it's possible to keep artistic integrity, incorporate commercial styles into your own art, AND reach an audience without selling out to either a purely academic mindset or to passive, commercial-oriented listeners. It's art you can dance to, and the fact that their influence has extended far into the academic world as well as the world of pop, electronic, and hip-hop worlds is absolutely astounding.

I think I have the same double live album, it's really good how they get the crowd to stay more or less quiet all the way through. Very good sound quality for a live album.