KRAFTWERKFEATURE
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the balm.
December 1, 2023
With Al beginning to take over the planet, it’s quite an eye-/ear-opener to read Lester’s 1975 combination (as we used to call it in rock write circles) “think piece"/interview with Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider, the uberlords of Germany’s pioneering techno-pop band, Kraftwerk. Somehow, as only he could, Lester manages to give context to the band’s futuristic synthesizerand vocoder-driven music and colder-than-freon image by beginning the story with thoughts on the relationship between sound and technology, including a nifty shoutout to the group’s homeland for its role in post-World War II counterculture by way of
