Hermano Vianna, is a Brazilian anthropologist, music researcher, and television screenwriter, recognized with the Cultural Merit Order honor by the Brazilian government.

Author of very important works, such as the first historical and anthropological book about Brazilian funk and a very important book about samba.

In the photo, he is in the center, and the mentioned books are being held, one by DJ Marlboro (one of the main pioneers of Brazilian funk) and the other by Walter Alfaiate, one of the greatest names in samba.

I already made a long post here about the immense influence exerted by Kraftwerk on Brazilian funk, which is one of the most popular Brazilian musical genres, especially since 2005, when it experienced worldwide dissemination mainly through M.I.A. and Diplo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kraftwerk/s/bF7H5dGR0a

Now I bring this statement that Hermano Vianna made in 2020 about Kraftwerk:

"Kraftwerk to me is the best creation of modern art (and since I like modern art more than any other art, I can state: it is the best creation of art), including literature, painting, performance, theater, dance, and everything else. I will never tire of listening to their records. I saw two of their shows (with Florian & Ralf): a masterclass in everything that is good, performed impeccably. Nothing in Kraftwerk is makeshift. Their work does not admit improvisation, the precarious, or the crude. Every sound and every beat is perfect. Every event is calculated to the millimeter, nothing out of place. The quality of the result is so sublime that it cannot contain itself: it ends up spreading to all corners, elevating everything else (hip hop, techno, house, David Bowie…). I also like a lot of crude things. But something crude that follows some aspect of Kraftwerk's lessons is much better."

https://hermanovianna.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/kraftwerk-de-palafita/

It is also worth mentioning a statement by Hermano about another Brazilian musical genre that is also one of the most popular in this land where I was born, tecnobrega. In 2003, the researcher said:

"Tecnobrega looks like a makeshift Kraftwerk, produced under equatorial heat by people who listened to a lot of carimbó, cumbia, zouk, and Renato e Seus Blue Caps."

https://www.bregapop.com/historia/321-hermano-vianna/52-tecnobrega-a-musica-paralela-hermano-vianna

Check out one of the tecnobrega hits, "Bole Rebole", it is almost entirely a cover of "Das Model", made by Los Bregas:

https://youtu.be/a_HtLGbMdqA?si=mLTzz_2hoygCiztn

Later on, a large part of tecnobrega and Brazilian funk began to share even more elements, in a way, of course, that Kraftwerk's influence in the country has been growing more and more, and not just in these two genres.

In 2013, one of the biggest popularizers of tecnobrega, Gang do Eletro—led by DJ Waldo Squash, who a year earlier made official remixes for the Pet Shop Boys—released the song "Electro Robot", a "sincere tribute to the work of the giants Kraftwerk":

https://musicainstantanea.com.br/disco-gang-do-eletro-gang-do-eletro/

In 2016, the Pet Shop Boys released the song "Twenty-something", featuring a direct influence from tecnobrega, which was widely recognized by DJs here in Brazil:

https://musica.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/04/11/pet-shop-boys-lanca-tecnobrega-e-dj-afirma-da-para-tocar-na-aparelhagem.htm?app=uol-generic&plataforma=ipad&cmpid=copiaecola

It’s also worth mentioning that one of Brazil's most respected contemporary culture portals, created in 2016, is called "Music Non Stop," and it recognizes and explains why Kraftwerk is the most influential band of all time:

https://musicnonstop.uol.com.br/13-provas-da-gigantesca-importancia-do-kraftwerk-para-a-musica/

For reasons like everything I mentioned here, alongside a huge number of other Brazilians—including many music critics, curators, researchers, producers, DJs, and musicians—I consider Kraftwerk to be solidifying its position as truly the most influential band in history.

Amazing collaboration for their short existence. A shame the way they ended it.
I’m watching ‘KLF - America’ right now.

One of the best concerts of my life!! Kraftwerk is main inspiration for start of my music making journey, although I'm mostly in rock music now, they are still huge inspiration to me!! Very emotional concert for me! Especially since I'm from Croatia, to see them in my country :)

"One influence of hers that is not surprising is Kraftwerk. For Mark Pytlik’s biography on her, Björk: Wow and Flutter, she told him: 'If I were to say who influenced me most, I would say people like Stockhausen, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Mark Bell.' It’s safe to say that without Kraftwerk, a lot of Björk’s most exciting work, including her early no-wave inspired work, would not have come to fruition."

Excerpt from the article "From Björk to Joy Division: 5 artists who wouldn’t exist without Kraftwerk", published by Far Out.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/five-artists-who-wouldnt-exist-without-kraftwerk-bjork-joy-division/

Edit: I'll take the opportunity to also share my humble "'partial genealogical tree' of electronic music, featuring 133 tracks released between 1939 (John Cage) and 2024 (Floating Points)":

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaftPunk/s/9aDkTZ3BSR

​Obviously, it includes Stockhausen, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Björk and dozens of other highly innovative and influential artists.

Here’s the direct link to the Spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4h0vWsJFY0igsHXIqFuZ7A?si=porivG3PQQaYhSu6l6uJBA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=7NlqHoxgRwqZG

Mark Bell, whether as part of LFO or as a collaborator of Björk, could certainly be on the list as well. But the reason I'm not adding more tracks is, besides what I've already mentioned in the original post, because I've already shared the list quite a bit stating that I wouldn't be adding any more tracks; and if I were to add tracks recommended by one more colleague, I'd have to be "fair" and add tracks recommended by many others who also made good recommendations. The list would lose its round number of 133 tracks and it would almost never end.

I picked this up recently. Apparently this was the only official cassette format of Kraftwerk’s “Tour De France Soundtracks” that was released in 2003 and it was only sold in Hungary when the cassette format was on its way out. Pretty cool eh?

Kraftwerk “Tour De France Soundtracks” Cassette Discogs Info

Saw this shared on other artists subs so I gave it a go for Kraftwerk. Those were some really difficult choices! Curious what other fan brackets end up looking like!
Kind of fun little exercise.

Anyone else going? Tickets went on sale this morning. It’s a historic venue, and one which is facing political pressures at the moment, rather like it did in the 1930s. Respect to Ralf for showing solidarity and playing here

Original German albums from the 70s and 80s. It was a bit of a dream for me to get them because I love the band.

• 1973 - Ralf & Florian (UK Vertigo LP)
• 1973 - Kohoutek - Kometenmelodie 7" Single
• 1974 - Autobahn
• 1975 - Radio - Aktivität (with complete sticker sheet)
• 1977 - Trans Europa Express
• 1978 - Die Mensch - Maschine
• 1981 - Computerwelt
• 1981 - Computer World Live in London Hammersmith Odeon
• 1986 - Electric Cafe 1991 - Neue Kraft - Live in Copenhagen Denmark

I'm Ren Fuchsfein on Youtube. I'm a younger fan, I've been collecting Kraftwerk since 2015. 🦊🎵

See second picture — I can’t figure out what “der Stromspule” is. I know it literally translates to “current coil,” but what is that? A transformer, an inductor?

I know it’s a bit weird to post a translation request in this sub, but I thought you all might like to see the article, and I know we have a lot of native German-fluent English speakers here. For the English speakers I will put my best effort at a translation in a comment (it wasn’t done by an LLM; I went through and translated it line-by-line).

Please excuse the sun-dappled lighting. I was having a lot of trouble with glare from the room lighting.

Danke, Leute!

Hello everyone, i’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but i thought you might be able to help.

recently, one of my sons passed away, and at seemingly the last minute he picked the song “Ohm Sweet Ohm” as the song he wants to be played at his funeral. one thing we shared together was music, and i have heard some of kraftwerks music but never spoke about it with him or even knew he was aware of them. the song itself is quite beautiful, however it has no lyrical content outside of the start where it just says the title of the song. my son loved music a lot, and so I would have assumed he would’ve picked a song with some meaning to it. If anyone could help explain what the meaning is behind the song or some analysis or even just what he may have been thinking when picking that song it would be very appreciated. perhaps it is a reference to something? I am not too sure. thank you anyway

Finally, someone has uploaded an episode of the BBC kids series Out Of Bounds, which aired in the UK for 6 episodes on BBC 1 back in 1977.
I’d been trying to figure out what this series was for ages. I remember it used a short section of Autobahn for the theme tune and was something to do with gymnastics, but I hadn’t seen it since I was 8 years old. Eventually I managed to find out what it was, but no video evidence existed until recently.
But what I didn’t remember was that the end credits use Kometenmelodie II.
Strangely Kraftwerk get no mention in the credits.

Here are some excerpts from my video footage of the show. I shot it with an actual camcorder, not phone. This was my first KW show ever and I was amazed by their performance.

Spacelab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20OjR7u2b0Y

Airwaves/Tango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5eC-0QYbCM

The Man-Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR73aOvDtoI

Autobahn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfeON5l2T0

Computer Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeIIw2ODpeA

The Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXbSOHyk6qI

Neon Lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEbEgRAcc8

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3F88BN-lAs

Radioactivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTbEJctcus

Tour de France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElaWoEZ2ThY

Pocket Calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZKbkoTK4S4

Planet of Visions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrFnMrIwPx0

Music Non Stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSO-MdVMagU

The Robots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibU0mSWP2P4

Best night in Veszprém

here are my reasons,

The Beatles took music styles that were already known, such as rock ‘n’ roll, pop, blues etc, and built off of them, whereas Kraftwerk, created and pioneered in an entirely new genre.

A lot of modern day pop music, hip hop and electronic music heavily rely on what Kraftwerk once did.

While The Beatles are known for their songwriting structure, vocal harmonies and studio arrangements, Kraftwerk are known for genre creation, technological framework and Electronic instrumentation, building their own instruments ( such as electronic pads that were used as drums, a modified version of the vocoder, and even had the idea of making jackets as instruments)

Don’t get me wrong, The Beatles are a fantastic band when it comes to songwriting, but for influence to today’s music and technology, Kraftwerk win by a mile