The artist I chose for the Electronic Music Innovations blog is Kraftwerk since that band is already the topic for today.
Kraftwerk’s impact was that signature sound they had with repetitive rhythms & catchy melodies, and strictly electronic instrumentation, which is being heard a lot in today’s pop music. The group also used a lot of simplified lyrics that they also put through vocoders or generated by computer-speech hardware, which is also heard a lot in pop music today.
Kraftwerk were influenced by electronic composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Tangerine Dream. The influence lead them to create minimalist music on synths, drum machines, and tape recorders. The Beach Boys were also an influence on the band. On the track Autobahn, the part that says, “Fun fun fun on the autobahn,” section is heavily influenced by them. Hutter specifically admired the experimentation on the “Pet Sounds” album.
Kraftwerk as a band is very influential because how they were not scared to experiment and became one of the most revolutionary bands of that genre.
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