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“They had a new love, new devices also made from metal: bicycles. Cycling was the end of Kraftwerk”: Our classic lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gave rare insight into the band's internal conflicts

Back in 2007, we caught up with Kraftwerk’s former rhythmic robot, who had much to share about the fraught relationship with the band that defined electronic music

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“This track had no right to exist in 1973”: How Kraftwerk invented techno, nearly a decade before the genre was officially established

House music might well have been called 'Dorf' music if this Düsseldorf track had only reached the right ears

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Kraftwerk copyright battle rages on as CJEU delivers landmark ruling in sampling case

The Court of Justice of the EU's decision could have wide-ranging implications for artists that sample other artists' work

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“When the computer came along, the magic was over because we didn’t play together anymore”: How technology ultimately killed Kraftwerk

They were certainly the pace makers, but did the band get overtaken by the very technology that made them?

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“We play the machines, and sometimes the machines play us”: Delving into the inner workings of the title track from Kraftwerk’s most influential record

Back in the 1970s, Kraftwerk anticipated the machine-dominated world we now inhabit. We prise open The Man Machine to see how they managed it

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“It revealed what went on behind the doors of Kling Klang, and for once the truth is almost up there with the fiction”: What we’ve learned about the inner workings of Kraftwerk’s mythical studio via a recent auction

Here are five takeaways that seal the band's legendary Man Machine status - and shed a light on how Kling Klang really worked…

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“The Beatles might have made more music over a shorter period of time, but Kraftwerk has an ace up their sleeve”: Who has really been the most influential on the future of music, the Beatles or Kraftwerk?

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who will be the fabbest of these four?

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I went to the Kraftwerk auction to buy their chairs, but came back with loads of gear from Florian Schneider’s studio and a massive bill instead

To say I got a little overexcited is an understatement - here are the hard lessons I learned so you don't have to

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Kraftwerk's 'Tour de France' bike just sold for $57,600

The Speedwell bike sold amongst an array of treasures left by Florian Schneider

Cycling Weekly

Bike ridden by Kraftwerk in ‘Tour de France’ music video sells at auction for jaw-dropping price

The bike, ridden by Florian Schneider, is up for auction as part of a much wider collection

Cycling News

Kraftwerk’s equipment defined electronic music. Now it’s on sale to the highest bidder

On November 18 and 19 in Nashville, United States, auction house Julien’s will auction more than 450 items from the estate of Florian Schneider, the co-founder of German electronic band Kraftwerk.

The Conversation

Florian Schneider's Kraftwerk instruments go up for auction – including an EMS Synthi AKS likely used on Autobahn

The collection includes a "treasure trove of synths, drum machines, and vocoders" alongside an extensive number of historic woodwind and brass instruments

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“Nobody knew you could do that, we always try to do things to break the normal order”: More than 30 years before Teenage Engineering, Kraftwerk saw the future of portable music-making and released a pocket calculator instrument

Marking an album that foresaw the 21st century’s computer-addicted society, Kraftwerk dropped their own branded handheld synth decades ahead of the trend

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Thursday news quiz: Jailhouse books, museum trouble and an unexpected bear

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US

Auction in US includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France video

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“Karl left because they spent millions on these machines but never played one note. They were caught by the technology and it overtook them”: Our lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gives rare insight into the band's internal conflicts

Back in 2007, we caught up with Kraftwerk’s former rhythm robot, who had much to share about the fraught relationship with the band that defined electronic music

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“We should use the tools of today’s society to create music – otherwise it is just antique”: How Kraftwerk’s The Model set the prototype for modern pop

The No.1 hit from the band that liked to say: “Our drummers don’t sweat!”

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"They inhabited the future of their time, but they sound historical to me now": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Kraftwerk's Autobahn

Following the landmark album's 50th birthday, we pop the hood on Kraftwerk's breakout release to inspect its musical mechanics

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‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn

Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of its futuristic brilliance

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"Kraftwerk is not a band, it’s a concept": How Kraftwerk introduced the world to electronic music - and showed us that we could make it too

We explore the resounding influence of the German innovators credited with popularizing electronic music-making and launching a thousand genres

The Times of India

Xi Jinping’s nationalism faces reckoning after murder of Japanese boy

President Xi Jinping has overseen a surge in Chinese nationalism to boost his government’s popularity as tensions have frayed with rivals. Now, the murder of a Japanese boy is exposing the dangers of that tactic.

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"Kraftwerk were using a Bee Gees-branded toy drum machine. You really couldn't make it up": Yes, a band you considered at the forefront of synth technology used a toy beat maker. And a pretty terrible one at that

And it's certainly not the only piece of weird gear the iconic German band have used…

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“We spend a month on the sound and five minutes on the chord changes”: Remarkable classic interview with Kraftwerk reveals how the band created their iconic electronic tunes, and what really went on in their mythical Kling Klang studio

If you like don't like having your music myths busted, you might not want to read this…

Louder

Karl Bartos and Kraftwerk: "The endless cycling didn’t help invent new music!"

The former Kraftwerk musician and composer looks back over his career and discusses working with 'his former partners'!

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Fears for China’s Twitter users after ethical ‘compromise’ claims

Peiter Zatko’s allegations raise questions about big tech’s responsibility towards users in authoritarian countries.

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