Kraftwerk
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Kraftwerk
The band’s best-known album in the early 1970s was Autobahn, which featured a 20-minute long “drive” in a car down the freeway, created in the studio with electronic instruments and recording tricks. The group’s members were photographed in costumes that made them look like engineers or scientists, or later, robots. Many of their album titles featured technological themes, such as 1975’s Radio-Activity, 1977’s Trans-Europe Express, and 1978’s Man-Machine. The melding of technology and music was carried forward in the 1981 album Computer World, which featured the song “Pocket Calculator.” By the late 1980s, however, many other groups had adopted the use of electronic instruments, and a whole category of music called synth had become popular. Kraftwerk faded away, releasing only a few more recordings before the end of the 20th century. Today, they are still together but not very active.
