From: Lord Ruthven <dasfestistzuendeaus@yahoo.de> wrote: btw, *comparisons* between Kraftwerk and Stockhausen are ridiculous. it's like comparing the Beatles with Brahms. ...or Andy Warhol with Picasso. I actually sense an element of improvisation in some of Stockhausen's work (Stimmung, for example) which is missing from Kraftwerk's. Perhaps the only link (apart from both being German postwar generation, with associated cultural experiences) is that they both seek to realise a kind of universal music, one "classical" the other "pop". Otherwise the idea of a link is probably a throwback to the early 70s when any and every kind of electronic music was grouped together by record stores and in the minds of reviewers, as if the common use of electronic equipment implied a kind of conceptual kinship as well. Nowadays, of course, all music is synthesized to some degree -- either the instrumentation or during the recording/mixing process -- unless you're listening to voices or acoustic instruments sung/played "live". -------------------------------------------------------- You too can have your own email address from Eurosport. http://www.eurosport.com