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of popular music, highlighting the possibilities of the synthesizer as a lead instrument. Live performances played up the mechanical angle, using life-size robot replicas of the band members. Kraftwerk continue to release albums, albeit with increasingly long gaps. Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities | Led Zeppelin | Seventies | Rock ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

the electric guitar. The availability of programmable drum machines and synthesizers during the late 1970s meant that live musicians could be dispensed with for the first time. Bands such as Kraftwerk consisted entirely of synthesizer players, and the instrument dominated 1980s’ music until the re-emergence of guitar-based line-ups with indie music and Britpop in the 1990s. In the late 1980s ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

the nature of the ‘traditional’ band. By the 1970s, Brian Eno had produced the first ambient music, and Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis were writing epic compositions for synthesizers. Kraftwerk explored sampling, and their fusion of synthesized melodies and rigid electronic beats laid the foundation for techno and electro, while Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass’s ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

(DJ/rap artist, b. 1960) As a DJ, Bambaataa (b. Kevin Donovan) was at the forefront of the rise of hip hop in the late 1970s. In 1982, he released ‘Planet Rock’, which borrowed from Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans-Europe Express’, and essentially invented electro. In the mid-1980s he collaborated with both John Lydon and James Brown. His debut album, Beware ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

same time, the clever backwards video of ‘The Scientist’ gained many awards and plaudits. Keeping Momentum Coldplay’s musical influences were apparently shifting by 2003–04. The band began to cite Kraftwerk and the more electronic side of Radiohead as influences, as work for the follow-up to A Rush… progressed. Expectation was high, and when X&Y was finally delivered in ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

in 1979 prompted a change of style to disco for the international hits ‘Ladies Night’, ‘Celebration’ and ‘Get Down On It’. Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities | Kraftwerk | Seventies | Rock ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

(Vocal/instrumental group, 2006–present) A Liverpudlian duo formed by a pair of Eno and Kraftwerk fans, Andy McCluskey (bass, vocals) and Paul Humphreys (keyboards). Their supporting cast varied as they produced a series of fine electro pop albums, including Architecture And Morality (1981) and Dazzle Ships (1983), and a string of brooding hits which married intelligence and innovation: ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

as partial to a bit of Teutonic rock as he was solid funk, and his synth-heavy early collaborations with Arthur Baker and John Robie owed a great deal to Kraftwerk, his favourite group. Rock, rather than soul, played a big part in Run DMC’s introducing rap to MTV: their marrying of heavy metal with hip hop was ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

the 1970s and 1980s allowed Brian Eno to fulfil his goal of making music that cultivated relaxation and ‘space to think’. The advent of this technology also allowed German act Kraftwerk to pioneer their synth-based sound, a development that in turn influenced a whole range of 1980s synth producers, including Trevor Horn, Art Of Noise, The Human League ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

programming’. Kraftwerk’s Role Although electro wasn’t solely a product of the 1970s band Kraftwerk’s pioneering synthesized sound, the German act’s importance cannot be overestimated. By the early 1980s, Kraftwerk had influenced synth pop and new romantic acts like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Visage, The Human League, Heaven 17, John Foxx and Ultravox as well as ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

some uniquely indigenous pop artists – most notably, the sophisticated, seductive pop suites of France’s Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy, and the seminal electronic ruminations of Germany’s Kraftwerk in the early 1970s – Europop as a universally recognized pop language was created in the mid-1970s by two very different artistic teams. One prioritized the song, while the other ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

rhythm approach, and as Sieg Uber Die Sonne, Schmidt makes deep electronic music. Most famously, he has released a series of quirky, salsa-inspired cover versions of Kraftwerk under yet another incarnation, Señor Coconut. For different reasons, the stripped-down electronic sound of the Scape label and its owner, Stefan ‘Pole’ Betke is also an obvious ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

UK synth-pop essentially blended the three major phases of David Bowie’s 1970s trailblazing – peacock glam, smooth, white funk and arty, electronic alienation. Roxy Music and Germany’s Kraftwerk were the other major influences on the two complementary strands of the new romantics and futurism. Pirates And Posers When Londoner Stuart Goddard saw The Sex Pistols, he changed ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

the future. May was friends with Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins at junior high school in Belleville. Atkins turned them on to music by the likes of Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk and the sprawling Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic funk beast. The home of Motown, Detroit certainly was a funk city but its car industry also lent itself well to the motorik rhythms of ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Money Money 2020 The Network’s gloriously loose album Money Money 2020 was released in September 2003 where Devo were thrown into a mixer with bubblegum rock, a dash of Kraftwerk and all manner of salty lyrical concerns from masturbation (‘Right Hand-O-Rama’) to 24-hour catwalk patrols (‘Supermodel Robots’). Accusations that The Network were, in fact, Green Day were batted ...

Source: Green Day Revealed, by Ian Shirley
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