Artist: Kraftwerk

by Ryan Muir "Sell-out rock shows usually mean a lot of shouting, some sweating, maybe a few drunken pass-outs. Kraftwerk inspired none of that on Tuesday night. The first of its eight consecutive sold-out performances at the Museum of Modern Art had reverence and stylistic weight; even for a New York museum crowd, there was a lot of black. Artfully swept hair, uncomfortable-looking shoes, architectural glasses: check, check and check. The high-design audience was rewarded with an equally aesthetically tuned [...]

Last night, Kraftwerks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 retrospective commenced at NYC's MoMA, the German electro pioneers' first show in the city since 2005. The series, a chain of events whose ticket sale process famously blew up Internet with grievances , began last night with a celebration of 19742s seminal Autobahn . Check out Mike Coppola's gallery up top and the set list down below. Read More...

Kraftwerk begin their eight-show run at MoMA tonight (4/10), and MoMA is now selling a limited edition Kraftwerk boxset , but there's more! MoMA PS1 in Long Island City is also doing this thing ... Kraftwerk - Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 On view April 12, 2012--May 14, 2012 In conjunction with Kraftwerk - Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at The Museum of Modern Art, an eight-channel video and sound installation especially developed for the exhibition is now [...]

In celebration of the MoMA shows that start TONIGHT (4/10) ( maybe you won a ticket? ) (or are going to the tribute show at Littlefield instead), here's this entire press release about the boxset (that became available today): Continue reading "Kraftwerk begin MoMA run TONIGHT, new limited edition boxset now available" at brooklynvegan

For the longest time, I always dismissed Orbital as some spiritual continuation of Kraftwerk . To me, they came from the same mentality: create pleasant IDM that doesn't try to stretch the imagination. It's only now, after their first album in eight years, that I realize how wrong I was. Since Orbital's break-up in 2004, the electronic music scene has completely reinvented itself many times over. Gone are the days of rave, electronica, and breakbeat. Orbital reintroduces itself to a world consumed with [...]

Dance music pioneers Kraftwerk , who are about to play an eight night residency at New York's Museum Of Modern Art havee announced a rerelease limited edition box set of all their albums! This limited edition version of their 2009 box set "The Catalogue" will be available on the MoMA website . Fact have revealed its original release, the set contained remastered editions of all of the band's seminal albums, augmented by fancy supplementary booklets. The differences between the 2009 and MoMA box sets are fairly superficial: The [...]

There's a lot to get excited about this week. Choir of Young Believers has already gotten a bunch of good buzz, a new record from Counting Crows came as a complete surprise, and MoMA's Kraftwerk box set is sure to please a lot of people who couldn't get tickets to their New York shows. And that's not enough beginning to scratch the surface. There's also plenty of reissues from Opeth , long-awaited self-titled albums from Scars on 45 and Lissy Trullie , and a new record from Black Francis [...]

Tomorrow a retrospective paying homage to Kraftwerk and its 40-year career opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) in New York City. Tickets for the eight-day Kraftwerk–Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 series at MoMA were impossible difficult to get, but fans of the pioneering German electronic group now have another chance to celebrate the outfit's history with The Catalogue (Retrospective Edition ), a limited edition version of the 2009 digital box set The Catalogu e, released via Astralwerks on April 10. The collection retails [...]

A while back we reported that Kraftwerk would hold residency at the Museum of Modern Art ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ kraftwerk-releasing-limited-ed ition-box-set-throug/64128/

Como ya sabemos, del 10 al 17 de abril Kraftwerk ofrecerá la serie de conciertos Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York, donde presentarán en orden cronológico los álbumes: Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The [...]

Next week, German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk will perform eight of their albums in their entirety, from 1974's Autobahn through 2003's Tour de France, at New York City's Museum of Modern ... Continue reading "Forget Kraftwerk, 5 Acts We'd Like To See In Houston Museums" >

In case you were living under a rock this past week, you'd know that Winter Music Conference/Miami...

DJ Food continues his pretty ADDHD excursions in tribute to electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. Six volumes of Kraftwerk related covers and inspirations in six volumes are up on Soundcloud . It's a lot to get through but with covers from The Divine Comedy, Trouble Funk, Senor Coconut, Rammstein, Souxsie & the Banshees interlaced with interview audio all appearing in Volume 1 alone, this might just be the perfect summer sunshine listening. Kraftwerk Kover Kollection Vol.1 Michael Bailey - Solid Steel [...]

Goin' Old School isn't a trip down music memory lane, it's a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia: After years in the German underground. Kraftwerk were basically saying "Hello world, here we are' with 1982's 'The Model', the coolest people in the world took notice. New Order 's 'Blue Monday' from1983, still the biggest selling 12" of all time, here's the original video. Jungle Brothers [...]

"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die." -Lenny Bruce According to the company's website, "DayGlo Color Corp. is the world's largest manufacturer of daylight fluorescent pigments. We develop technologies that improve and enhance any color, from subtle specialty effects, to glow-in-the-dark pigments, to our classic range of fluorescents." One might argue they not only improve and enhance any color, but also human beings - that is, if Ultra Music Festival is any indication. Throughout the festival's three-day excursion, which sets down on Bayfront Park in Miami each March, thousands upon thousands of festivalgoers [...]

Madonna is pulling out all the stops on the support of her new album, "MDNA." She introduced Avicii, and obvy, the crowd went bananas. Kind of funny to hear her ask about "Molly" in front of the whole crowd. New Order and Kraftwerk were among the notables playing in Florida. Check out the interview with Bernard Sumner talking about the possibility of making a new album and reuniting with old bandmates with Fuse below. Check out this review and take a look at their setlist that has me hoping/wishing for [...]

• Kraftwerk - The Robots
• Madonna { MP3WAXX } - I Fcked Up { MP3WAXX }
• New Order - Leave Me Alone

Ultra Music Festival 2012 , taking place March 23-26, at Bayfront Amphitheater in Downtown Miami, sold-out almost instantly thanks to its stellar lineup of talent including: Tiësto, Kraftwerk, Carl Cox, Skrillex, Afrojack, Miike Snow, Pretty Lights, New Order, Groove Armada (DJ set), Dirty South, Loco Dice, A-Trak, Dada Life, Avicii, Justice, Fatboy Slim, Duck Sauce, M83, Carl Cox, Laidback Luke, 2manydjs, Metronomy, David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Kaskade, Bassnectar, Chase and Status, Bloody Beetroots (DJ set), Fedde Le Grand, Knife Party, Magnetic Man, John Digweed, Steve Aoki, Ferry Corsten, and many more. Tickets are impossible to get, but [...]

You probably didn't get a ticket , but Volkswagen is giving you another chance to get into one of the eight Kraftwerk shows at MoMA ! Over eight consecutive nights from April 10 to 17, MoMA presents a chronological exploration of the sonic and visual experiments of Kraftwerk. Each evening consists of a live performance and 3-D visualization of one of their studio albums. Volkswagen has reserved 50 pairs of tickets to each night's Kraftwerk performance at MoMA , and 500 pairs of tickets to attend a temporary Kraftwerk exhibition at MoMA PS1 from April [...]

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