With cause and effect no longer what they seem. In place of ego, and the paradigm of the rock star, a sense of collective, playful, poignant humanity. A hunger for social change reflected in their hypermetabolic innovation. Beauty and romance perceived in the seemingly mundane. Soundscapes for the dawning of a robotic world.

Pioneering the most innovative sounds of their generation: shimmering synthscapes, repetitive exhortations, hypnotic loops, all sculpted with purpose into pop songs of the future.Īutobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans-Europe Express, The Man-Machine, Computer World are delivered like consecutive gospels: worshipped, absorbed, handed on from generation to generation. Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider’s creative vision made manifest: a futuristic soundtrack for the digital age. The Big Bang was at Kling Klang, West Germany, 1970. Kraftwerk, quite simply, are the reason music sounds like it does today.

A longtime, long-held, once-in-a-blue-moon dream. From Düsseldorf to the Supernatural Plains.