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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 coIlective has also proven responsible for entire genres to emerge - electronica, 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 celebrated period in the mid-1970s, culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s. The fiIm 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 unfoIding of electronics 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 TempeI and SoIo], WoIfgang SiedeI [Eruption], Conrad Schnitzler [KIuster/ Solo], Klaus Löhmer [engineer, Kraftwerk aIbum] and many others. AIso boasting further contributions from EIectronic music experts and writers, and rare studio and live footage of the band, these all together make for perhaps the best film on the subject ever to emerge. |
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