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Radio & Podcasts

Christoph Dallach: Krautrock Origins from Schlager to Synthesizers

Read "Christoph Dallach: Krautrock Origins from Schlager to Synthesizers" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


Today, the Spotlight shines On author Christoph Dallach, who joins us to discuss his book Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock (Faber & Faber, 2024). Christoph has spent years tracking down the pioneers who spent the late 1960s in West Germany's basements and practice rooms, creating sounds unlike anything else in rock and roll.Through conversations with members of bands like Can, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream, Christoph uncovers how these artists shaped a distinctly German sound in the ...

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Recording

Kraftwerk: Box Set

Kraftwerk: Box Set

Source: JamBase

Kraftwerk To Release Four Decades of Werk As Box Set - 12345678 The Catalogue Select CD, Vinyl & Digital Releases To Accompany

Kraftwerk Electro pioneers Kraftwerk are celebrating the 35th anniversary of their landmark 1974 hit Autobahn by releasing 12345678 The Catalogue, a special collector's CD box set featuring remastered versions of eight of Kraftwerk's albums on October 6. Rolling back musical barriers with every forward-thinking phase of their career, Dusseldorf's Zen masters of electronic minimalism laid the ...

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Performance / Tour

Radiohead Snags Kraftwerk for Spring Shows

Radiohead Snags Kraftwerk for Spring Shows

Source: Billboard Magazine

Radiohead has drafted legendary German electronica act Kraftwerk to support its spring tour of Latin America, which begins March 15-16 in Mexico City. Kraftwerk will also play headlining shows April 25-26 in Wolfsburg, Germany. However, the group's lineup appears to be in flux. Founding member Florian Schneider, who did not appear onstage with Kraftwerk during its 2008 world tour, has left the group, according to Kraftwerk's official fan Web site. Lone remaining original member Ralf Hutter told the New Zealand ...

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Music Industry

Kraftwerk Copyright Case Overturned in Germany

Kraftwerk Copyright Case Overturned in Germany

Source: Billboard Magazine

Germany's highest civil court has dealt Kraftwerk a blow in ruling that sampling music does not in principle violate copyright. Today's (Nov. 20) decision overturns a Hamburg state court ruling in Kraftwerk's favor that said reusing even the shortest bit of a song infringed on copyright. The Hamburg court will now have to take up the case again. The civil court ruling, however, forbids sampling of a song melody and insists that the sample must be part of a completely ...

Javier García
guitar, electric

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