As a shorter-than-usual week's "excitement" working from home draws to its close (it's a bank holiday for the 75th anniversary of VE Day tomorrow), so our thoughts should normally be drawing towards party planning, and all that!
By bizarre happenstance, the sad news of the death of the "Chief Robot", founder-member of the one of the most influential bands in pop history Kraftwerk Florian Schneider has provided us with an opportunity (of sorts) to do so - firstly with an unexpectedly camp remix of one of their classic hits Man Machine by the genius that is Matt Pop...
...and a possibly even more unexpected appearance by another of their tracks, here being whooped up by the enthusiastic dancers on what appears to be a "modern" follow-up to America's iconic Soul Train show:
Faboo!
RIP Florian Schneider-Esleben (7th April 1947 – 30th April 2020)
An evening of listening to them and DEVO back to back could put you into an automated coma.
ReplyDeleteOr else turn you into a Stepford Wife. Jx
DeleteHow different the world of music would be with out them to inspire and influence it.
ReplyDeleteSo true. Without them (and their contemporary Mr Moroder), would we have had Human League, OMD, Joy Division/New Order, Depeche Mode, Trevor Horn, Duran Duran or indeed any of the "synth-pop" bands of the 80s? Unfathomable, given that they were producing such "modern-sounding" music way back in the mid-70s... Jx
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