kraftwerk Archive
25 Mar 2026
Take Five: Important Kraftwerk Tracks
When Kraftwerk began, it was an outgrowth of a project called Organisation, a highly experimental German group that released only one album, the avant-garde Tone-Float. After the demise of that […]
27 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… In Perfect Harmonia (continued) A subsequent performance would yield more positive results. “We once played in Hamburg,” he recalls. “That was 1974, and there was a […]
26 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Something Neu! (continued) For his part, Rother played multilayered electric guitar parts that skittered around, over and under a repetitive, often one-chord musical structure. The meter […]
25 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 1 of 3)
A pair of 2024 releases on vinyl refocuses a well-earned spotlight on an important corner of modern music. A deluxe version of Musik von Harmonia, the 1973 debut album from […]
07 Sep 2022
Five Landmark Krautrock Albums from 1972
While it didn’t make more than a ripple in the commercial waters of 1970s American popular music, the subgenre known as krautrock would exert a significant influence on the music […]
17 Jun 2020
DVD Review: Krautrock: Romantic Warriors IV Part 1
The term krautrock may just be one of those labels that is meaningful only to those who exist inside a kind of bubble. The person on the street, so to […]