Post by vortex on Jul 15, 2006 10:53:51 GMT
Keyboard magazine September 2005
Michel Sigman Ex 80’s pop band ‘berlin”
In an article on “doing Kraftwerk[/u]
Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the early Kraftwerk records was their pioneering use of sequencers. In the early 70’s sequencers were certainly not the ubiquitous software items they are today. As a result most were stunned by the rigid perfectly executed patterns created on their recordings and likely imagined banks of exotic custom computers behind the scenes operated by droids. Surely this was Kraftwerk’s intention as they went out of their way to shroud almost all aspects of their creation in mystery…….
,,,In reality its likely that Kraftwerk were using nothing more than standard Moog modular and other popular monosynths of the day!
Sour grapes??? I definitely remember a tomorrow’s world”” program circa “autobahn” saying they designed and made their own kit.
Are they less clever than we were led to believe and even if this were so does it matter?
Michel Sigman Ex 80’s pop band ‘berlin”
In an article on “doing Kraftwerk[/u]
Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the early Kraftwerk records was their pioneering use of sequencers. In the early 70’s sequencers were certainly not the ubiquitous software items they are today. As a result most were stunned by the rigid perfectly executed patterns created on their recordings and likely imagined banks of exotic custom computers behind the scenes operated by droids. Surely this was Kraftwerk’s intention as they went out of their way to shroud almost all aspects of their creation in mystery…….
,,,In reality its likely that Kraftwerk were using nothing more than standard Moog modular and other popular monosynths of the day!
Sour grapes??? I definitely remember a tomorrow’s world”” program circa “autobahn” saying they designed and made their own kit.
Are they less clever than we were led to believe and even if this were so does it matter?
