I stumbled upon a great great great BBC documentary about a month ago, on Kraftwerk and their influence across all branches of electronic music. A digital rights dispute made the video disappear a couple of hours after I saw it, preventing me from sharing it with you guys at the time – now it has come back up, catch it while you can. This documentary reframes how pioneering Kraftwerk’s experiments have been, pretty much inventing what music should sound like in our digital age before the digital age even existed. It then elevates their work to the status of high art and we are ultimately seeing them play at Tate Modern turbine gallery in London, for 8 sold-out nights in a row. There is great footage of their 2014 3D live show: Pop Art, which I have to agree, was the highlight of all music concerts I saw last year (at Metropolis). Homages abound from lots of music personalities, including Derrick May, father of the Detroit techno music scene.

Somehow, get YouTube on a big screen and enjoy this for the next hour.

 

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Julie was born from a trumpeter dad and a drummer mum with music written in her DNA. She is from this generation that went from listening to vinyl, to creating mixtapes on cassettes, to splurging her early savings on a CD player, to discovering Napster, the iPod and so on... In 2005 she took part in the launch of Radiolibre, Quebec's first music streaming service and in 2006 started Palmares.ca, a francophone MP3 store. She spent 10 years looking after over 80 Canadian radio websites and has a ticket stub diary of over 300 shows.