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An exploration of the astounding musical phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionized our cultural landscape The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape 'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their D sseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and machine - to change the course of modern music. This is the story of Kraftwerk as a cultural phenomenon, who turned electronic music into avant-garde concept art and created the soundtrack to our digital age.

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Born in Germany but based in the UK, Schutte is able to assess Kraftwerk from both the German and non-German perspective. This is a lucid, accessible, authoritative and indispensable account of the Dusseldorf group once mocked for their Teutonic otherness but who went on to lay the foundations for modern electronic music. -- David Stubbs, author of Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany

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Uwe Sch tte worked as an academic in the UK for over 20 years until Brexit. He is now based in Berlin and has recently published books on Krautrock, David Bowie, industrial music and the writer W.G. Sebald in both German and English.

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