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News 25.02.15

Sonar adds new names to Barcelona line-up

…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

Album Reviews 25.03.15

Lightning Bolt

…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…

Live Reviews 27.10.15

Fabric 16th Birthday

…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…

Long Reads 28.11.16

Feedback Culture: A Short History of Carhartt WIP and Music

Carhartt WIP has undeniable gravity on the street, but it hasn’t always been that way. The brand actually has its roots in a 19th-century workwear company. Founded in the suburbs…

News 29.09.15

Powell is trolling Steve Albini

…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…

17.07.15

Berlin Atonal announce more names

…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…

Live Reviews 14.09.22

Finely-tuned headliners land the inaugural Cala Mijas on the Costa del Sol

Events 23.06.15

Berlin Atonal releases second wave of acts

…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…

Album Reviews 27.04.17

Dopplereffekt – Cellular Automata

…Dopplereffekt’s earlier Kraftwerk-esque electro into an eerily alien suspension that hangs heavy as if there’s an shortage of gravity. The shimmering harmonic opening of the title track steadily disorientates the…

NHS
Long Reads 13.09.15

New Order:
Complete Immersion

“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…

News 13.09.12

ORBITAL

…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…

Album Reviews 02.10.14

Thom Yorke

…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…

Live Reviews 18.08.14

Divided Love with Daniel Avery, Factory Floor and Dopplereffekt

…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…

News 20.09.12

MATTHEW DEAR

…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…

News 24.04.14

Astral Pattern

The Macbeth, London | 22 April The first time Crack spoke to Astral Pattern was at their very inception. They’d marked it by going on a collective pilgrimage to Kraftwerk’s…

News 07.11.12

JEFF MILLS

…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,…

News 27.01.14

DESPACIO

…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…

News 05.12.13

WHP & Paxahau Present: Movement Detroit

…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…

Long Reads 14.06.16

Borderland:
The Cross-Cultural Bond Between Two Techno Pioneers

“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…

News 11.02.16

Tresor details 25th anniversary celebrations

…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…

Long Reads 10.03.16

25 years on,
Tresor’s founders
fan the flames of Berlin’s nightlife

…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,…

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Events 18.04.17

Avalon Emerson, Tale Of Us and more announced for Neopop Festival 2017

…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

Events 14.03.17

Pure & Crafted Festival Announce 2017 Line-up

…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…

Long Reads 15.09.14

Roman Flügel weaves conviction with irony

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…

Album Reviews 07.10.16

Solange – A Seat At The Table

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,…

Live Reviews 10.09.16

Berlin Atonal 2016

…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…

Events 24.08.16

New names added to ADE Sound Lab Programme

…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…

News 23.08.16

Frank Ocean’s favourite songs revealed in Boys Don’t Cry zine

…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…

News 24.06.13

CARL CRAIG

…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…

Live Reviews 07.09.15

Berlin Atonal

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…