Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution

In mid May 2008 I was contacted by the producers of a new Kraftwerk documentory - Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution. They were finalizing various aspects of the project due to be released a few months later.

I was able to contribute in a small way by providing scans of some covers and pointing them in the direction of some video material.

In the end Chrome Dreams, the company behind the DVD, gave me several copies of the DVD. I gave these away to various KW fans including 3 people from the Kraftwerk Mailing List who were the winners of a draw that I organised.

There were many people who entered and after a while I wondered if I couldn't do anything else for the member of the group. So I contacted the producers at Chrome Dreams and after a brief discussion they agreed to a £2.00 reduction of the price of the DVD for people passing through my site.

So here is your chance to pick up the DVD for a great price (the postage is FREE in the UK and very reasonable for the rest of the world). Just read the banner below, note the code to enter in the checkout, then click on the banner to take you to their website.

Please Note: I am not in anyway connected with Chrome Dreams or other companies that they may trade under. I am not getting commision for any purchases of the DVD either at full cost or when using the discount code.

Details of the DVD:

Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution

As innovative as they are influential, Kraftwerk‘s contribution to the development of electronic music since their formation in 1970 remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Coldplay, Siouxsie to Radiohead, this bizarre collective have also proven partly responsible for entire genres to emerge– electronica, techno and synth-pop to name but three. This DVD reviews the career and music of Kraftwerk, from their inception in the late 1960s (as pre-Kraftwerk ensemble Organisation), through their most celebrated period in the mid 1970s, and culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s with the popularity of synth-pop and techno. The film further explores how Kraftwerk both fitted in and pulled away from the electronic wing of what is often lazily referred to as ‘Krautrock’. Sparing time also for many of the group's contemporaries from the same field, and tracing the unfolding of electronics in German contemporary music generally, this programme presents a fascinating story previously untold on film.

Features Include:

Rarely seen live and performance footage of Kraftwerk and of other Electronic and ‘Krautrock’ bands – much from private collections.

Exclusive and extensive Interviews with ex - Kraftwerk members Karl Bartos and Klaus Röder, other German ambient and electronic musicians, Dieter Moebius [Kluster/Harmonia], Hans Joachim Roedelius [Kluster/Harmonia], Klaus Schulze [Tangerine Dreams/ Ash Ra Tempel /Solo], Wolfgang Siedel [Eruption/Tangerine Dream/ Kluster], Conrad Schnitzler [Kluster/ Solo] and Klaus Löhmer [engineer, Kraftwerk album]

Contributions, review and enlightenment from German academics, writers and journalists, Professor Diedrich Diedrichsen [German Sounds],Ingeborg Schober [German Sounds] , Manfred Gillig-Degrave [Stereoplay, Audio, Musicwoche] – and from the UK, David Stubbs [Melody Maker, Wire], Mark Prendergrast [author The Ambient Century], Edwin Pouncey [Sounds], David Ball [Soft Cell/The Grid] , Rusty Egan [Visage/The Blitz Club]

Rare photographs of Kraftwerk and others

Live and studio recordings of many of Kraftwerk’s pivotal tracks,including; Ruckzuck, Kling Klang, Autobahn,Antenna, Radio-Activity, Trans Europe Express, Computer Love, The Robots, The Model, Metropolis, Pocket Calculator and many others.

Live and studio recordings of many other bands form the ‘Krautrock’ movement.