Kraftwerk news but old

Old but news to me, according to Wikipedia:

“Florian Schneider, one of the two original co-founders of the pioneering German electronic group Kraftwerk left on 21 November 2008. Commenting shortly after Schneider left the band, the Independent newspaper had this to say about Schneider’s departure: ‘There is something brilliantly Kraftwerkian about the news that Florian Schneider, a founder member of the German electronic pioneers, is leaving the band to pursue a solo career. Many successful bands break up after just a few years. It has apparently taken Schneider and his musical partner, Ralf Hütter, four decades to discover musical differences.‘”

Perhaps The Hacker is right. Is Computer World the best album ever?

On the other hand, you can’t hate on someone if he prefers one of these meisterwerken.

“Along with their message about the unification of man and machine, it seems, Kraftwerk is suggesting that we are all citizens of the same global community. “This is because we live in Düsseldorf,” Hütter points out. “It’s in Germany but it’s only 20 minutes from Holland and a little more than half an hour from Belgium, not even two hours from France. It’s a very mixed area.”

The tunes Europe Endless and Trans-Europe Express also express this idea. “We travel a lot in Europe,” Hütter reports. “And it’s not like in America, where you travel a thousand miles and you’re still in America. Here we have to adapt to different situations more. And electronic music, I find, is by nature an international medium. Radio waves go around the world, and this music can be understood and can communicate with people all around the world. Our music has been called industrial folk music. That’s the way we see it. There’s something ethnic about it. Wherever you go, you never leave the modern world.” This is especially true of Düsseldorf, because the town was the center of German industry before World War ll and consequently was bombed and completely destroyed. The entire city today is newly built. “All our traditions were cut off” Hütter says. “It left a vacuum. We are the first post-War generation, and so we are the beginning of something new”

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