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Video: Ralf and Florian: The Kraftwerk Sitcom
the listenerd (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
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Q.F. 40mm Mk1 in front of Le Blockhaus D'Eperlecques
RupertStClair Photography (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taken on a recent trip over to France and Belgium, this Q.F. 40mm Mk1 is situated in front of Le Blockhaus D'Eperlecques. The breech casing number is L12371 and its year of manufacture is 1942 Le Blockhaus D'Eperlecques was built by Nazi Germany under the code name Kraftwerk Nord West (KNW) (Powerplant Northwest) to be a V-2 rocket launching bunker. The site was an Operation Crossbow bombing target...
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Emission Dimanche 22 Novembre 2009
Label Rock (Free subscription) | yesterday
LABEL ROCK Radio Show PLAYLISTE DIMANCHE 22 NOVEMBRE 2009 http://www.archive.org/details/LABELROCKLABELROCKRADIOSHOWDIMANCHE22NOVEMBRE2009 (Download/téléchargement) DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN “Remote view” (Chicken feed remix) ( http://www.myspace.com/darkcaptain ) WINDMILL “Airsuit” ( http://www.melodic.co.uk ) FRANZ FERDINAND “Feeling kind of anxious”...
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New Music: Theophilus London - "Humdrum Town"
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | yesterday
" Brooklyn's own Theophilus London is a pioneer in today's electro-fueled urban pop movement. His self-released mixtapes , JAM! and This Charming Mixtape had blogs ablaze last year as he expertly rhymed on everything from Kraftwerk, Amadou & Mariam and a classic Whitney Houston torch song to his own unexpectedly clubby jams. Recently London has toured the US and UK with A-Trak and Jack Peñate...
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Stretchmarks on a rock cabbage
Click opera (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Krautrock - the Rebirth of Germany is a BBC4 documentary on the mystical electronic music British rock critics dubbed "Krautrock" (which is a bit like calling Alberto Camerini a "Woprocker"). Directed by Ben Whalley, the film is a companion to the one I linked the other day about UK synthpop, Synth Britannia . Does anyone else see the influence of Adam Curtis here? The voice-over...
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Forget the squelch of Glastonbury and have a Massive Attack in the sun
Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
It is Glastonbury Mediterranean-style, without the rain or the mud, and every year thousands of Britons flock to a tiny town near Valencia to watch bands such as Kraftwerk and Oasis and to top up their tans.
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Grace E-motorbikes are ultralightweight, German, and very expensive
Laptop blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
We've ridden our fair share of electric bikes and motorcycles , but we've yet to get our hands on one that's been hand assembled in Berlin/Biesenthal. Grace boasts a water-tight / ultra-light CNC-Aluminum frame, a 1300-watt motor, lithium-ion batteries, a 40 MPH top speed, a range of up to 31 miles, and a one-hour recharge time. Looks good enough for a Kraftwerk video, although you'd better steer...
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Conversation with Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk from 2005 (via Arthur Magazine)
Grandgood (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Originally published in the LA Weekly on June 2, 2005. Link Q: There’s a bumper sticker that says “Drum machines have no soul.” Do you think that is true? RALF HUTTER: It depends on who is programming. [Chuckles.] It sounds to me like a sticker from the ’70s, “Kraftwerk is anti-music” or “Synthesizers have no feelings.” It [...]
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Electronic harlequins
Click opera (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yesterday I watched Synth Brittania, a fascinating BBC4 documentary about the development of synthpop in the UK from the mid-seventies on. This was a time -- I remember it well -- when music show Top of the Pops and future tech show Tomorrow's World went out back-to-back on a Thursday night, and it didn't take a huge amount of imagination to start wondering what would happen if you put them together....
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Déjà vu: Disco Mafia vs. Kraftwerk
AlbumArtExchange Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I am not sure if the cover for Disco Mafia’s Stop Vol. 2 E.P. is a tribute or a blatant rip off of the cover for Kraftwerk’s Autobahn. The cover of the Kraftwerk album is so well known that I...
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Krautrock
Soviet Panda (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I've watched the recent BBC 4 documentaries, Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany and Synth Britannia , twice each. Both are well done and incredibly inspirational. Stream Krautrock below, or search for it on Google or your favorite torrent site to watch. Krautrock explores the social and political climate in post-war Germany during the 60's and 70's that led musicians to explore truly new music, with...
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Podcasts are killing music!
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Just a quick thought: I love music, I love podcasts, but there is now no time in my busy schedule to listen to both. Car- and tube-time is now occupied with The Word Podcast, Collings and Herrin, Phill and Phils Perfect 10, The Definitive Word, Trev & Simon, Starbase 66, Adam and Joe, Into the Gamescape, Friday Night BBC Comedy on Radio 4 and Kermode/Mayo Film Reviews (amongst others) No time...
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[Documentary] Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
The Decibel Tolls (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The recent BBC Four documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany, the most thorough examination of the genre since Julian Cope’s definitive Krautrocksampler, has finally made its way onto the Interwebs. And it’s as solid as you’d expect. From the BBC: “Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock [...]
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Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu...
mosses from an old manse (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll to create some of the most original and uncompromising music ever heard...