…members of Kraftwerk then vomited them out onto an array of steampunk regalia. This album is deadly in a way only Lightning Bolt could muster, and their new recording set-up…

…are a rough and tough selection, ending with Aphex Twin’s Heliosphan and a rather dubious Richard X bootleg of Whitney Houston and Kraftwerk. All that, plus the odd obligatory clanged…

…100 percent hated every scrap. The electronic music I liked was radical and different, shit like the White Noise, Xenakis, Suicide, Kraftwerk, and the earliest stuff form Cabaret Voltaire, SPK…

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…the powerplant through unamplified sound.” This year also marks the first time Atonal have utilised Berlin’s Kraftwerk venue for the festival. The venue will host performances from Abdulla Rashim as…

…for the very first time at the event. Other noteworthy additions include Powell, Peder Mannerfelt live, Skarn, and Talker. Berlin Atonal takes place 19-23 August in Kraftwerk Berlin, an abandoned…

…by day is set in the large Fira Montjuïc exhibiton centre in Barcelona, Spain and has previously seen performances from big names across a broad range of genres from Kraftwerk…

“We’re at the bottom of a mountain, struggling to get to the summit.” There’s a browbeaten inflection to Bernard Sumner’s words. “There’s a big task ahead of us and you…

…the signal pulses so akin with Radioactivity by Kraftwerk. The track’s movement is superb and melds into the detuned for the following track Pink Section’s dystopian warbling and then the…

…brought in Belinda Carlisle. We felt like it would be a good laugh. One of my biggest influences is Kraftwerk. They are one of the funniest bands around. I like…

…vein as that shy Kraftwerk live set up, who feature in Avery’s Boiler Room and share that doctrine of the 4×4 behind one simple, catchy riff. Factory Floor steam along…

…14. A lot of my brother’s music really. Kraftwerk, Art Of Noise. As someone who operates as a DJ and someone who fronts a band, do you find there are…

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…admittedly a reductive, pared down account of events – the sounds emanating from Chicago in the mid 80s collided with funk, jazz, and the European electronics of Moroder and Kraftwerk,…

…luminaries as DJ Harvey, Jeff Mills and Kraftwerk brought to the capital in 2013, let alone the glut of festival sightings, the quivering level of calendar-ticking excitement should speak for…

…the Michigan town 30 miles from Detroit they hailed from – began combining the lugubrious elasticity of funk records with the stiff synthetic workouts of Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra…

“The first German tour of Underground Resistance, at Tresor, I will never forget. It was really dark and, like the name says, underground.” Moritz von Oswald, widely acknowledged as a…

…Copenhagen and more already announced. The crown jewel in the series, however, will be the Tresor 25 Years Festival which will see the club’s cavernous Kraftwerk hall open from 21…

…the smaller Ohm club, and an industrial venue called the Kraftwerk. “I’m a big fan of the nighttime,” Hegemann says with a laugh. “It is beautiful, not only for partying,…

…the Saturday. Red Bull Music Academy have curated the line-up for the Neo stage on the second day. The latest names that have been added to the bill are Kraftwerk…

…be relocating to a new site. After two years at Postbahnhof, the late-August festival is moving to Altes Kraftwerk Rummelsburg, ringing in the change with a fittingly impressive line-up that…

Dance music has always pivoted around the dichotomic relationship between flashiness and function: dancefloor darkness versus narcissism and desire, the track versus the transition, Amnesia versus Berghain. It places physical…

On a Friday evening in September, Solange Knowles attended a Kraftwerk gig in New Orleans. While dancing, she was reportedly told to “sit down” by a group of white women,…

…Situated on Köpenicker Strasse in Berlin’s Mitte district, the now legendary Kraftwerk building acts as the central gathering point at Berlin Atonal. This former power plant, built around the same…

…brand of synthesisers to give a keynote presentation. Plus Daniel Miller of Mute Records will bring some of his amazing collection of instruments (he famously owns the vocoder Kraftwerk used…

…Trio $ – D.R.A.M. When I Die – Goldlink The Man-Machine – Kraftwerk Asiko – Tony Allen Earth Bound Hearts – John Mclaughlin feat. John Surman Simply Beautiful – Al…

…& Sleeparchive as TR-101 Tresor’s 25 Years Festival will takes place from 21 – 24 July 21-24 at Tresor and the lower floor of the adjacent Kraftwerk building. For more…

In many cases, when reviewing a festival, there’s a tendency to narrow your focus. Several days’ worth of performances end up boiled down to a handful of tangible highlights, which…

…designed by Kraftwerk in the acid-drenched basement of Tresor. The psych-infused mini-melodramas soon make way for Marcel Dettmann’s straight laced tedium of beat though, as confirmation of his belated arrival…