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Post by EraserOfLove on May 7, 2020 16:22:38 GMT
the Borstal Daddies of the Berlin School.
Neu, Wolfgang Riechmann, La Düsseldorf, Tangerine Dream. Kraftwerk were the guv'nors.
Saw them at creamfields, winchester 1998. I was skated out of my nut on £80 a gram plaistow pharmaceutical petrol washed tackle so remember fuck all of the gig but as a 13 year old in East Ham they blew my head apart on my binatone mobile turntable.
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Post by sm001 on May 7, 2020 16:40:01 GMT
Never liked Kraftwerks music. RIP though.
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Post by EraserOfLove on May 7, 2020 17:00:55 GMT
oh well, must be my age.
In the same year 'Radioactivity' was released i was at home by the esso blue parrafin heater watching top of the pops with cunting simon bates introduce Brian & Michael 'Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs', Father Abraham & The SmurFS 'The Smurf Song', Brotherhood of man' figaro' and fucking west coast AOR Yacht rockers supertramp, 'the logical Song'.
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Post by henry on May 7, 2020 18:13:05 GMT
Saw them at creamfields, winchester 1998. I was skated out of my nut on £80 a gram plaistow pharmaceutical petrol washed tackle so remember fuck all of the gig but as a 13 year old in East Ham they blew my head apart on my binatone mobile turntable. Florian would have taken said binatone turntable, weld on a vocoder, and turn it into a instrument worthy of the front page of Future Music 2020AD. I too wasn't a fan of all their stuff. Had a few albums. Most of it was a racket to be fair. Liked enough of their stuff to want to catch them live. Which I did in 91. Can't remember if they were any good or not. I do remember I was on my own, because my mates thought I was a tit for wanting to go (they were all listing to shite like New Model Army and The Pale Saints). I also recall the venue being full of bald blokes in tight white t-shirts, gasping when the vocals started for Tour De France. I think it's fair to say that electronic music would not be what it is today without old Florian and the mad musical contraptions, drum machines, vocoders he conceived. Add to that the way some of the tracks and melodies are structured, which form the basic building blocks of the tracks we hear today. He/they wrote some absolute mad/experimental/unlistenable/shite (delete where appropriate) there is no doubt. But the tracks that were good, were really fucking good. And even if you don't like their music, you have to admire that what they were doing back then and the influence that they have brought to the music we listen to today. RIP. |
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Post by LT 🍺 🤜 🤦♀️ on May 7, 2020 18:24:34 GMT
50 years ago
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Post by sbando on May 7, 2020 18:35:38 GMT
Never liked Kraftwerks music. Jesus wept. |
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Post by alistair on May 7, 2020 18:54:04 GMT
Europe Endless on full blast. Stunning
Saw them twice, once with Florian at Brixton academy for Maximal Minimal tour and once at Royal Albert Hall for their last 3D tour. Made five nigh on perfect albums. No Kraftwerk no techno
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Post by sm001 on May 7, 2020 19:03:59 GMT
Never liked Kraftwerks music. Jesus wept. See, even JC doesn't like it. |
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Post by EraserOfLove on May 7, 2020 19:10:51 GMT
Saw them at creamfields, winchester 1998. I was skated out of my nut on £80 a gram plaistow pharmaceutical petrol washed tackle so remember fuck all of the gig but as a 13 year old in East Ham they blew my head apart on my binatone mobile turntable. Florian would have taken said binatone turntable, weld on a vocoder, and turn it into a instrument worthy of the front page of Future Music 2020AD. I too wasn't a fan of all their stuff. Had a few albums. Most of it was a racket to be fair. Liked enough of their stuff to want to catch them live. Which I did in 91. Can't remember if they were any good or not. I do remember I was on my own, because my mates thought I was a tit for wanting to go (they were all listing to shite like New Model Army and The Pale Saints). I also recall the venue being full of bald blokes in tight white t-shirts, gasping when the vocals started for Tour De France. I think it's fair to say that electronic music would not be what it is today without old Florian and the mad musical contraptions, drum machines, vocoders he conceived. Add to that the way some of the tracks and melodies are structured, which form the basic building blocks of the tracks we hear today. He/they wrote some absolute mad/experimental/unlistenable/shite (delete where appropriate) there is no doubt. But the tracks that were good, were really fucking good. And even if you don't like their music, you have to admire that what they were doing back then and the influence that they have brought to the music we listen to today. RIP. yes!  |
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