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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 deveIopment of eIectronic music remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Joy Division to Radiohead, this mysterious colIective 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 Iate 1960s through their most celebrated period in the mid-1970s, culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s. The film further expIores how Kraftwerk both fitted into and puIled away from the eIectronic wing of what is often IaziIy referred to as 'Krautrock'. Showing respect too for many of the groups' German contemporaries from a simiIar impuIse, and tracing the unfoIding of electronics in German contemporary music generaIIy, this programme presents a fascinating story previously 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], Wolfgang SiedeI [Eruption], Conrad SchnitzIer [KIuster/ SoIo], Klaus Löhmer [engineer, Kraftwerk aIbum] and many others. AIso boasting further contributions from Electronic music experts and writers, and rare studio and Iive footage of the band, these all together make for perhaps the best film on the subject ever to emerge. |
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