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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can, Cluster, Klaus Schulze, Neu!, Conny Plank, Earthstar, Faust, Uwe Nettelbeck, Kluster, Frumpy, Amon Duul, Moebius & Plank, Harmonia, Urbana Gerila, The Resonance Association, Amon Duul II, Agitation Free, Popol Vuh, Xhol Caravan, Jean Ven Robert Hal, Carsten Bohn, Florian Fricke, Kosmische musik, Embryo, Eruption, Kraan, La Dusseldorf, Dieter Moebius, Ash Ra Tempel, Daniel Fichelscher, Mani Neumeier, Wallenstein, Uli Trepte, Ashra, Fujiya & Miyagi, Jane, Guru Guru, Zodiak Free Arts Lab, Night Sun, Krautrocksampler, Baumstam, Cosmic Jokers, Floh de Cologne, Mythos, Kling Klang, Christian Burchard, Motorik, Thirsty Moon, Magnog, Dusseldorf School of electronic music, Dreamlab, Kuckuck Schallplatten, Kin Ping Meh, Super 16, Amon Duul UK. Excerpt: Kraftwerk (German pronunciation: , meaning power plant or power station) is an electronic music band from Dusseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western Classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk were one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered pioneers in the field. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary, and has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music. Florian Schneider (flutes, synthesizers, electro-violin) and Ralf Hutter (electronic organ, synthesizers) met as students at the Robert Schumann Academy in Dusseldorf in the late 1960s, participating in the German...
