Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist of the influential German electronic music group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73.
“Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” the band said in a statement.
“In the year 1968, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider started their artistic and musical collaboration,” the statement continued. “In 1970, they founded their electronic Kling Klang studio...
“Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” the band said in a statement.
“In the year 1968, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider started their artistic and musical collaboration,” the statement continued. “In 1970, they founded their electronic Kling Klang studio...
- 5/6/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
UK electronic music trio Nero has certainly been one of the more highly anticipated acts to pop back up on the Edm world’s collective radar in 2015. This weekend saw the release of a their new full-length effort, Between II Worlds, and they’ve followed it up with a spectacle of a BBC Radio 1 essential mix.
Four years after having played such a memorable role in the dubstep breakthrough of 2010-11, the outfit returned to the mainstream consciousness with an update production style. The mix builds on this hype by showcasing their how their dynamic song selection could complement the change in direction. Regarding the mix, Joe Ray explained:
The idea behind this mix was to create a journey through some older tracks that we love, going back as far as the ’70s right through present day. Tracks on there span from Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode to Björk, and Underworld...
Four years after having played such a memorable role in the dubstep breakthrough of 2010-11, the outfit returned to the mainstream consciousness with an update production style. The mix builds on this hype by showcasing their how their dynamic song selection could complement the change in direction. Regarding the mix, Joe Ray explained:
The idea behind this mix was to create a journey through some older tracks that we love, going back as far as the ’70s right through present day. Tracks on there span from Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode to Björk, and Underworld...
- 9/14/2015
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
A few more relics excavated from the tomb of “lost” Krautrock classic Krautrock has become synonymous with a steady motorik pulse, but the German electronic-music vanguard of the 1970s was more diverse than that. Cluster, for instance, had more in common with Brian Eno than Kraftwerk—and, after Cluster became Harmonia, the band collaborated with Eno in an epic jam session that remains mostly mythical. The recordings weren’t released, and Eno’s masters were lost. But one Harmonia member, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, edited together an album from the plentiful four-track material and released it in 1997 as Tracks and Traces. This reconstituted version...
- 12/17/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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