Don´t forget Ian Curtis, from Joy Division... he LOVED Kraftwerk... so, BANG: New Order. And John Foxx Catch Connie Plank for Ultravox. Well, post-punk has many contacts with KW music. And the do it yourself punk concept is the same from electronic scene until now. Any e-artist can did it for yourself. My first contact with KW was Autobahn 7", in 1980. Then I got Ralf & Florian and Exceller 8. KW1 and KW2 were never released here in Brazil. So, the first experimental KW era is so important to me. Them Computerworld opened my brain and put me into the future I saw 16 years later. Actually you can see at live concerts from the 70´s that KW were much more jamming, more organic, and that´s a fantastic point of view for a "cold" band... peace Nicolau www.kraftworld.hpg.com.br
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Message: 9 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:19:15 +0200 From: johan.andersson@allers.aller.se Subject: SV: [Kraftwerk] kRAFTWERK: then and now (and inbetween)(and over the gap) To: kraftwerk@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Filtre4Pole Wrote: ... in Tim Barr's and Pascal Bussy's books). I will ever disagree: Kraftwerk *elite* attitude had not to be compared with the punk attitude. Not the same world, and the punk emergence changed nothing in the perception around Kraftwerk music (nor in R&F's mind)... *btw* punks have never been really musicians nor artists *imho*, just ...
IMHO wonderful things happened when some of the English punks f.ex. Gary Numan & John Foxx, heard KW:s music, suddenly The punks came from out of space, and Foxx even mentioned he thought Punk became all same and that it was a natural step to go electronic (punk concept: everyone can play) so I personally think there was a connection between the two music styles
Filtre4Pole Wrote: ... What happened ? Nobody has ever been able to explain that spectacular mutation. It will be always a *fascinating* mystery for me ! I can't understand (after all perhaps I don't need to...
After what I've heard Ralf met four Aliens called wwrekaft or someting... ;-) Regards / Johan