Kraftwerk

The music that Kraftwerk did was very innovative and also pioneering to electronic dance music. They used synthesizers, mini moogs, digital keyboards, and electronic drum kits.

The albums they released within the seven-year span of 1974-1981, they had their 1^st album that they put out and gave such a scenic concept with Autobahn. Kraftwerk, had an unusual approach with their long songs, which wasn’t your typical 3 minute song on the radio. What else was interesting was that they didn’t use to many refrains/chorus’s. The album titled song Autobahn was 20 minutes long and was unique with how they lyrics were in German, and the song was about driving around. The word Fahrn sound like the word Fun in America and was a popular song in the billboard.

Kraftwerk dropped their 2^nd album called Trans-Europe Express and that was a really good album with its innovation. On the hit record, the album titled hit song itself recorded a train for the rhythmic beat of the song. There were a few bands other there that were in Kraftwerk’s lane but nobody at that point in time was as big as them. But at the same time Giorgio Moroder was inspire by Kraftwerk music and made a pop record with that kind of style for Donna Summer’s hit song I Feel Love.

They released a 3^rd album The Man Machine, besides how good their new songs were, they sparked controversy with their album cover because it seem militant and a little racy with Matching outfits and how they were posed for the picture.

Their concepts for albums were brilliant because of a few albums and how it went with the album: Autobahn, Radioactivity, and Trans-Europe Express, and The Man Machine. In Radioactivity their talking about music and radioactive materials and even the sounds were complementing to it. Autobahn the album itself is about driving and riding about. Tran-Europe Express is about how Europe connects together and trains how it connects. 

The impression they left me was that they were experimental with sounds and it was successful and at times it wasn’t, but they kept evolving their sound and because of that it’s so popular to others.