Entertainment

Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express

The pioneering German electronic outfit Kraftwerk casts a shadow looming over everything from synth pop to techno to hip-hop to the entire city of Detroit, and their songs have been sampled by everyone from Madlib to Coldplay.


March 11, 2011
Software

Make Music Using Kraftwerk’s Kling Klang Machine App

Forget GarageBand for iPad – Kraftwerk’s Kling Klang Machine is the only app you need for creating German-style electronica.


April 18, 2009

Kraftwerk, as Reimagined Through the 90s Lens of Tim and Eric

There are few groups more influential to electronic music than Kraftwerk. Spacevoyaging from Dusseldorf since the 60s, these 4 Germans are the essence of cool. Now, Tim and Eric imagine them as 1990s computer nerds.


October 15, 2008
Software

Stylophone iPhone App Will Add Much-Needed Kraftwerkian Essence To Your Life

Finally, my bedroom recreations of “Pocket Calculator” (nay, Taschenrechner) will be blessed with the added touch of reality they so obviously deserve: a Stylophone, the late-60s pantheon of touch-controlled synthesisers, is coming to the App Store in December for $US6. Music geeks are really going all out on this platform, and I like it.