Music
To feel the atmosphere in which the giants have made their first steps, it is worth remembering that in the late sixties pop music in Germany was in very poor condition, and most groups engaged in perepevaniem or simply the execution of British and American hits. However, this situation suited, fortunately, not all. Several young highbrow Germans remember the traditions and roots, and began making art entirely his own, most do not like the English-speaking samples, based on the Germanic tradition of analysis and reflection of an aggressive and complete a sad irony, quite pertinent to the defeated superpower. So there is a new German wave that gave cinema Wenders, Herzog and Fassbinder, and completely changed the idea of pop music thanks to Faust, Can, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. Almost all members of these groups has been a classical music education, and they made music on the structure and sound quite similar to the one which occupied the first rows of the charts - even though a similar duty on the rock. Soon they began to imitate dozens of German groups, and the British music press dubbed the group "Kraut-rock. Among the founders of this style of Kraftwerk were the farthest from the rock, and as close to the German avant-garde. Suffice it to say that the founders of the group, Floreana Island, Schneider-Esleben and Ralf Hütter, met in 1969 in the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where studied at the conservatory. They decided to write their own music together and called Organisation. The first intervention group were more likely to categories of avant-garde happenings than to musical events: they played on opening day and in the galleries, and artists among their friends prevailed over the musicians.
" Roles in the group then distributed as follows: Ralph played elektroorgane and Floreana Island - the violin and flute. Inviting three other musicians, they (that was unexpected for the German team at the time) signed a contract to release the disc with the English company RCA. The plate - it was called Tone Float - a fate very unenviable - England team no one knew, but in Germany it has not been reissued and sold as "imported". However, for Ralph and Florian when events occur much more important - they made the studio. Hard to believe, but now, after nearly thirty years, they work in the same shestidesyatimetrovoy room in the center of Düsseldorf, near the station! They called her "studio, Kling Klang" and okleit wall soundproof material, began recording a collection of strange and unusual sounds. Archives are stored on a stereo - current sound of what was then the fashion. Soon, they recorded their second album, changing the very name of an international Organisation for the German Kraftwerk ( "power station").
The disc that was not only a musical continuation of the first, but even went with the same cover - many thought it was just overprint the circulation of the first album. So he sold worse than the first did not even up to 50000 copies. Themselves as members of the group blamed for all the prewar emigration from Germany, which resulted in the country remained very few people capable of appreciating their music appreciated. Their first two albums, unfortunately, a rather little known, even among admirers of the group (perhaps because it has only recently been reissued on CD in large quantities), but sorry - it is surprising and unusual experiments with sound and rhythmic structures, no less interesting than any good art-rock album of the early 70's. Ralf and Florian lot of experimenting at this time of noise and sounds artificial, superimposing them on the record analog synthesizer.