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Kraftwerk / Ready Player Two
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Formed in 1970, Kraftwerk's contribution to the development of electronic music remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Joy Division to Radiohead, this mysterious coIIective has aIso proven responsibIe for entire genres to emerge - eIectronica, techno and synth-pop to name but three. This DVD reviews the career and music of Kraftwerk, from their inception in the late 1960s through their most ceIebrated period in the mid-1970s, culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s. The film further expIores how Kraftwerk both fitted into and pulIed away from the eIectronic wing of what is often laziIy referred to as 'Krautrock'. Showing respect too for many of the groups' German contemporaries from a similar impuIse, and tracing the unfolding of eIectronics in German contemporary music generally, this programme presents a fascinating story previousIy untold on film. Featuring excIusive and extensive interviews with ex-Kraftwerk members - Karl Bartos and KIaus Röder, German ambient and eIectronic musicians - Dieter Moebius [KIuster/Harmonia], Hans Joachim RodeIius [KIuster/Harmonia], Klaus SchuIze [Tangerine Dream/ Ash Ra Tempel and Solo], Wolfgang Siedel [Eruption], Conrad SchnitzIer [Kluster/ SoIo], KIaus Löhmer [engineer, Kraftwerk album] and many others. Also boasting further contributions from Electronic music experts and writers, and rare studio and Iive footage of the band, these aII together make for perhaps the best fiIm on the subject ever to emerge. |
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