Kraftwerk

    There as so many words that come to mind when you first hear some of Kraftwerk’s music. I think the best word would have to be experimental. Some of the earlier albums were extremely experimental even to the point were I could not sit there listening to it and consider it music necessarily. The later albums started to create and mold their true sound. The self titled album, Kraftwerk was an album that is considered experimental to this day in my opinion. The first time I heard one of the songs off of this album, I sat there in aw. I couldn’t believe that anyone considered it music. To me it just sounded like a lot of random noises coming from those early synthesizers.
    Once the band kind of developed their sound a little better, they created the album called Autobahn. This album was made to sound like a car traveling down a road.   One of the very cool things Kraftwerk did with their albums was the idea of having a concept behind each album. They said that this was necessary in order to create good albums. For instance, Autobahn was about the car driving down the road. Another good example of this would be Trans-Europe Express which had the feeling of a train as the concept for the album. Whenever they performed live, they would dress up all the same and do everything in a very robotic style. Their emotionless attitude on stage was a brand of its own.
    Like I said earlier, at first Kraftwerk was a band I thought I would never listen to again after the first song I heard by them. They had this album that was basically an album of random sounds they could create with synths,tape delays and other new stuff. As the progression of their sound was perfected more and more, they started to sound a bit like music we have today. I probably won’t sit down and listen to Kraftwerks albums over and over, but I respect the fact that they were the innovators of the music I enjoy now and days. Without them, we wouldn’t have great music like dubstep or really any techno music that we have today.