Karl Bartos

After all, the band have pretty much been playing The Mix all week; over an hour of the show each night has been devoted to running through their hits, and many of the live renditions, like "Radioactivity," are closer to the souped-up Mix versions than to the original recordings. Read More

The thing started about twelve or more years ago before Rhe White Stripes. Read More

And then last week I found myself watching a Swedish documentary about Kraftwerk on Youtube in which ex-member Karl Bartos frankly admitted that the band had lost their humanity while working on Electric Café. Read More

Because cake is always good, but we don't always have an excuse to eat it, here are Five Things About . . . Read More

In the comments on my Stylophone post today, Alex_M kindly points to this excellent live performance from 1981 by Kraftwerk of "Pocket Calculator."Read More