How Kraftwerk’s Autobahn remade pop
Half a century ago, the art-rock band introduced the world to the vocoder. Their sound – and pop music –…
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Fred Again, EDM’s everybro
How did the unassuming producer of polite, emotive dance music become social media’s superstar DJ?
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Daniel Avery’s Q&A: “I’m fascinated by the professional wrestling world”
The electronic music producer and DJ on faith, The Sopranos and culture war fanatics.
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Reuniting Everything But the Girl, pop culture’s high priest, and perfecting the art of the selfie
Now our album is being released, I feel like I could cry at any moment – while reaching for the…
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Everything is Clapham now
It’s no longer possible to be cool.
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Is techno about to die?
And has trance music killed it?
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SOPHIE’s playful, defiant music broke pop boundaires
The work of the pioneering electronic artist, who died last week aged 34, asked: why be one thing, when you…
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Kraftwerk’s music for a Europe without end
Born out of Germany’s industrial heartland, Kraftwerk’s epic electronic pop did not just soundtrack a decade: it created a global…
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Patrick Cowley’s pioneering electronica
Today, Patrick Cowley is barely known outside record-collecting circles: but his ecstatic electronic disco left an indelible mark on the…
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Yesterday’s tomorrows: Kraftwerk are today less a band than a conceptual art project
Even back in the Seventies, they understood that ours had become a “Computer World”.
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