Who’s your favourite member of Kraftwerk? It’s a question no one ever asked anyone, or should ask, or ever attempt to answer. The German pioneers of electronic music, who have been putting sound out of their Düsseldorf Kling Klang Studio for over 40 years, are like the very antithesis of 1D; assassins of the cult of personality, eternal limelight eschewers (though there is a place for neon in their world). They’re No Direction. Or – better – Every Direction, because – as the writer and professional talking-head Paul Morley says in Kraftwerk: Pop Art (BBC4) – you can hear their ghosts everywhere.
Yes, Friday is music-doc-on-BBC4 day. And this is both a tricky one and a special one. Tricky because, apart from a 1981 interview with Ralf Hütter, there’s no contribution from any member, past or present. They haven’t even put up any robots for interview.
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by Sam Wollaston via Electronic music | The Guardian
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