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Pop for another 1000 years of culture, maybe a lot less than that.

Gigs between 26 December 1970 and 30 July 1971 omitted Htter, with various line-ups including Michael Rother and others.

First known HtterSchneider gig is 2 February 1972 at the Fabrik, Altona, Hamburg, which instigated the partnership that developed into the well-known electro pop band continuing for decades with an expanded line-up after the hit single Autobahn.

Of these, seven have appeared in the UK Top 40 music charts with 2 of them reaching the Top 10 but no albums have reached the No.1 position in the UK.

All 9 charting albums, have in total, been in the UK Charts for 66 weeks and within the Top 40 for 33 weeks.

In February 1982, Kraftwerk hit the singles chart top spot with the (EMI 5207) release of Computer Love The Model but only spent one week at that coveted position.

The single spent 11 weeks in the charts Top 40 (6 weeks in the Top 10) and 21 weeks overall.

The album spent 21 weeks in the UK Chart achieving its highest position of no.4 in its fourth week.

Source: Official Charts Company (UK) (April 2020)).

Electronic music was never the same after these guys came onto the scene, and Schneider was such a driving force in making music better.

I hate that he is no longer with us, but his wonderful music will be with us forever.

In the German context they represent the new post war Germany, the one achieved by total and literal deconstructionism, the one inmolated in rapid growth for progress, dedicated, souless, individualistic, productive, relativistic, cynical to a great measure.

For me its rather interesting that German director Werner Fassbinder included Kraftwerk as part of the soundtrack for the adaptation of Alfred Dblins Berlin Alexanderplatz back in the 70s.

In the world context Kraftwerk is the angel trumpet announcing the beginning of a new glorious era, the triumph from liberal democracy and capitalism.

Again. Unlimited progress, individualism but also the advent of a more veiled accent borderline with dystopia and apocalypse.

All Kraftwerk epic tracks, unforgettable now in world culture are strongly political statements with intelligent display for mere entertainment.

It depicts the progress dream envisioned by prewar Germany (both Volkswagen and autobahn were envisioned by Nazis) only now contextualized in different terms, the ones from post modernism and democratic capitalism.

A view that doesnt contain any limit and thus a place the individual is rather insignificant and apparent, such a mount of veiled solitude is alluded.

Radioaktivitt is an obvious reference to the cold War but the most sinister undertone comes from the anticipation of nuclear disasters such as Tchernobyl or Fukushima and not just the menace of atomic war.

Its in the air for you and me..

And continues to be Perhaps everyday more than before now.

The robots and Computerwelt, is it anything more obvious In the original context from 1970s Germany is rather ubiquitous the presence of this robotic and souless world, human beings who act and live devoid of any meaning other than accomplishing the task of robots.

The Kraftwerk performance of this track is absolutely explicit.

People spending half of their days and nights watching all kind of screens, computing, living automatically, frantically masturbating with multitasking, losing ground with anything that is not demarked by the function of the task itself.

It is so stylish and glamorous, just as the lyrics, yet, once again, symptoms of our times and the politics of reality appear.

This chick who is only reanimated by the flashlight or the attention from many men, who lives for her image and thus her appearance and seems to be an impossible object for the narrator is both the age of extreme narcissism we live today and the absolute dedication of been recognized by the exterior, social media anyone It only takes a camera to change her mind Kraftwerk is contradictory.

An envelope of automatic rhythms and simple notes, almost frivolous at times it seems.

But never forget they are Germans.

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