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“Everyone says Vienna was an electronic track, but it’s mainly piano, violin and viola. Those strange combinations made us what we were”: You may think Ultravox were a synth-pop band. They know they were prog

Midge Ure and Billy Currie aimed to create timeless music by crossing previously-closed musical borders – and they argue that their biggest hit worked because of human imperfections rather than digital precision

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Scottish rappers, deaf composers and an AI song called Zygotic Washstands: the biggest hoaxes in pop

Ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür was conned into believing he was collaborating with a member of Daft Punk – but it’s far from the first time musicians and audiences have been fooled

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“We love you guys. Without Kraftwerk we would not find our own robot style, being on stage with the helmets, you know”: How a fake Daft Punk fooled Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür into a collaboration

They pretended to be Thomas Bangalter

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“To listen now is to be dazzled by how many of its ideas were embraced and expanded by key artists… its ripples today dominate modern music”: Kraftwerk’s 50th anniversary edition of Autobahn

The less-is-more electronic music milestone returns with Ralf Hutter Atmos remix

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“Karl left because they spent millions on these machines but never played one note. They were caught by the technology and it overtook them”: Our lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gives rare insight into the band's internal conflicts

Back in 2007, we caught up with Kraftwerk’s former rhythm robot, who had much to share about the fraught relationship with the band that defined electronic music

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“We should use the tools of today’s society to create music – otherwise it is just antique”: How Kraftwerk’s The Model set the prototype for modern pop

The No.1 hit from the band that liked to say: “Our drummers don’t sweat!”

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"They inhabited the future of their time, but they sound historical to me now": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Kraftwerk's Autobahn

Following the landmark album's 50th birthday, we pop the hood on Kraftwerk's breakout release to inspect its musical mechanics

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Kraftwerk to celebrate 50th anniversary of classic Autobahn album with reissues in March

Kraftwerk will release a new Dolby Atmos mix of Autobahn on Blu-ray and digitally, as well as their first official vinyl picture disc in March

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“This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next 15 years”: How a song intended to be an album track would leave a massive mark on music’s future

When Brian Eno first heard it, he could sense its potential to revolutionise the way pop would be made

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Members of Yello, Daft Punk and New Order guest on new Wolfgang Flür album Times

Former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür to release new album Times in March

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Mogwai's new single Fanzine Made of Flesh sounds like "ABBA meets Kraftwerk" according to guitarist Stuart Braithwaite

Scottish post-rock quartet Mogwai will release their brand new studio album The Bad Fire in January

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"A new era of accidental techno is upon us": 2025's new DIY drum machine craze is here, and all you need is a flashlight and an FM radio

A producer creates a kick drum pattern using a torch, and it even has sidechain compression

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$“The Doctor Who theme was just a fraction of what she could do… She felt sound very deeply – things that haunted her came out”: Actress Caroline Catz on hearing Delia Derbyshire’s unreleased archive$

“The Doctor Who theme was just a fraction of what she could do… She felt sound very deeply – things that haunted her came out”: Actress Caroline Catz on hearing Delia Derbyshire’s unreleased archive

Doc Martin and DCI Banks star’s record collection also features krautrock, space rock, acid folk, Canterbury and metal music

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‘Like Depeche Mode, but evil’: the sweaty, sexual music of 80s EBM

As documented in a new book, electronic body music swept Belgium and Germany as its artists strove to make something entirely new – but their militaristic look became controversial

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“Unfriendly immigration officers read ‘musician’ and ask, ‘Anything I should know?’ I say, ‘Oh yeah!’ They remember Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and it’s OK”: Yello’s offbeat synth prog ethic gets Dieter Meier round the world

The “Dada version of Bryan Ferry” – who says he uses bandmate Boris Blank’s audio imagery to find structure then leap off into chaos – admits he was never a tortured artist

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Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk recruit skate legend Tony Hawk to announce North American tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of their game-changing Autobahn album

German electronic music legends Kraftwerk promise “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art” for 2025 multi-media tour

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Kraftwerk and Billy Idol set for new UK festival Forever Now

Billy Idol is among the huge names set to rock Forever Now in Milton Keynes next summer.

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Kraftwerk, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Death Cult, The Damned, Public Image Ltd, The The and more to play first Forever Now festival

New UK festival Forever Now, a celebration of alternative culture, will take place at The National Bowl, Milton Keynes on June 22

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Five Great Reads: life after top surgery, fun on the Autobahn, and why we’re all so tired

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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“It was the B-side that became one of the most important pieces of music ever - certainly one of the most sampled”: How breakbeat took over the music world

“It was the B-side that became one of the most important pieces of music ever - certainly one of the most sampled”

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‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn

Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of its futuristic brilliance

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Is Teenage Engineering about to release a new product to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kraftwerk's Autobahn?

Will it be a Kraftwerk-themed EP-133 K.O. II, or is it the OP-XY?

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"Kraftwerk is not a band, it’s a concept": How Kraftwerk introduced the world to electronic music - and showed us that we could make it too

We explore the resounding influence of the German innovators credited with popularizing electronic music-making and launching a thousand genres

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“He wasn’t like a mad scientist with all these live wires hanging around in the studio – the wires were all in his mind”: The prog credentials of pioneering producer Conny Plank

He helped create krautrock before his influence stretched round the progressive world via his belief that “craziness is something holy”

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Techno godfather Juan Atkins: ‘There were 5,000 white kids going crazy to my music’

How did a kid from rural Michigan – who lived among cows, haybales and strawberry festivals – change the face of music? As Atkins blazes into the UK, he relives his wild times at early British raves

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