innovation as a model for long term success

[polarbear]

http://kraftwerk.technopop.com.br/interview_13.php

[driload]

oh boy oh boy oh boy please dont get me started on Kraftwerk


Switched On Bach was the first record i ever heard as a kid and when dad broke it, i (aged 5) made him find something similar...

...he came back with Kraftwerk

[N4TE]

No chance of an adoption, Driload? I don't eat much and I'm housetrained.

[driload]

oh no no no you dont want that

i wont even go into how much of a challenge it was for the member of a traditionally science and politics family to pull off a stunt like MAKING MUSIC


to make it worse my uncle, a barrister among other political stations, was once in a certain punk rock band of small fame, so i CONSTANTLY get the "oh he will grow out of it like XXXXX did!"


haha why do you think i moved to brisbane! fresh start and to crawl my way up in this seedy industry


but i talk too much...


has anyone got any comments/experiences of kraftwerk?

one thing i grew up loving was the amount of music/acts that were sampling kraftwerk music before it became cool to do so!

go listen to "we are the robots" and you will most likely go "ooooh" and "aahhh!" recognising the samples.... especially if you have been a hiphop fan in the late 80s :P


by the way what was the band that those two ex-kraftwerk guys made?

that was pretty intriguing stuff too!

i really hope to NEVER hear anything new from these guys though... i mean i barely give the Herbie Hancock recent album the tick of approval.... the last thing i need is ANOTHER of my childhood idols trying to "get with the times"


then again, Herbie really is in a class of his own

[kaossproject]

Great article. I am always inspired by the way some artists break new ground well before there time and don't get any credibility until many years later. ;)

[House of God]

Well i couldnt honestly say ive heard much of there stuff:(

But ive seen this one on rage a few times where they all have calculators hooked up and well thats pretty mad:)lol

Id have to be honest tho from what ive heard i doubt you would ever see there cd in more rack.....but thats not a mark on them.

Daft Punk: Now thats well inspiring INFACT they are the reason im even in the dance seen...

Cheers Kirk

[driload]

daft punk would no doubt have everything by kraftwerk, in the same way that kraftwerk were amazed (like the rest of us) at the skills/maths/talent of composers such as Beethoven and his one-time tutor... mozart


if past conversation serves me well a certain female ex-brisbanite partner in crime of polar-bears is a big big kraftwerk fan (or was)

i suppose its around my age that the "cut off point" for people who grew up listening to kraftwerk as kids is

next people will be heralding the genius of Jive Bunny

(or not... :P)

no well kraftwerk may be synth-pop-whatever but put into relevant perspective... fantastic

if you cant appreciate that, just wobble around the room singing


"WE ARE THE RO-BOTS"

doot doot doooo dooot!

WE ARE THE RO-BOTS

doot doot DOOO DOOT!

WEEEE ARRREEE THE ROB-OTSSSS



etc etc

[danielmarshall]

man i'm so envious of your musical legacy! i grew up with nothing more inspiring than niel diamond and abba - bleh. it's been a hard road of people going "pffft, you don't know who jeff mills is!?!??!" etc etc, but i think i'm slowly getting there :blush: