Vorsprung durch Techno
Ian Penman, 10 September 2020
Kraftwerk performing at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin on 16 January 2015
In the autumn of 1977, sober-suited Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of the German synthesiser group Kraftwerk entered a New York nightclub and were surprised to hear an apparently endless version of a track from their newly released album Trans-Europe Express. Hütter was at first delighted to hear...