I’m pretty sure I laughed when I first heard “The Robots” for the first time in 9th grade. It was… ridiculous. I had never heard anything like it before and it truly seemed like a parody, yet there was something ingenious about it that I couldn’t quite comprehend. When I finally came around and really started listening to electronic music ten years later, it dawned on me that Kraftwerk were true pioneers and far ahead of their time.
I saw them perform seven years ago and they absolutely blew my mind with a triptych of video projections at Hammerstein Ballroom, but last night the venue was MOMA and the video was 3D. It was… ridiculous. The influence is obvious today in music everywhere, including my own.
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