Electronic Music

Kraftwerk was a mainly experimental electronic group from Germany.   Their release of autobahn, one of their first album, is what really propelled this group to success.  A lot of the instruments that the main members of the group played were electronic instruments like synthesizers such as a minimoog.  Their next album came in 1975 called Radioactivity in which the theme of the album is about radio communication.   The album after that came out in 1977 and was called Trans-Europe Express, which was about  a journey on a train.  Kraftwerk came out with their final album for a couple of years called The Man-Machine, where they would not come out with another album for three years.  1981 is when Kraftwerk would release their next album, called Computer world.  Funny part was that they did not even own a computer at the time.  For this album they would take basically the entire studio live with them on tour.  The next album released from Kraftwerk a would be Techno Pop where one of the songs are called "Tour De France".  Some things that Kraftwerk did to set themselves apart from the norm was to use mainly electronic elements and experimenting with different sounds to get something that sounds food. Also the way the vocals were done like the Beach Boys made their music easier to listen to for the general audience.  As a listener and an industry professional, I can look to Kraftwerk and go in and just experiment with different sounds and it kind of encourages you to do something different and maybe something that sounds weird but cool.