{"id":807155,"date":"2020-05-06T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=994735"},"modified":"2020-05-06T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:38:20","slug":"kraftwerk-co-founder-florian-schneider-dead-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/kraftwerk-co-founder-florian-schneider-dead-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dead at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist of the influential German electronic music group Kraftwerk<\/a>, has died at the age of 73.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf H\u00fctter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades. Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,\u201d the band said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the year 1968 Ralf H\u00fctter and Florian Schneider started their artistic and musical collaboration. In 1970 they founded their electronic Kling Klang studio in D\u00fcsseldorf and started the multi-media project Kraftwerk. All the Kraftwerk catalogue albums were conceived and produced there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Formed by Schneider and Ralf H\u00fctter in the late Sixties, Kraftwerk\u2019s pioneering use of keyboards and synthesizers would later inspire artists in all genres of the musical spectrum, from rock and electronic music to hip-hop and pop.<\/span><\/p>\n

While undergoing numerous lineup changes over Seventies and Eighties, the partnership of Schneider and H\u00fctter remained the group\u2019s creative backbone.<\/span> The duo recorded three albums alongside famed Krautrock producer Conny Plank \u2014 1970\u2019s Kraftwerk<\/em>, 1971\u2019s Kraftwerk 2<\/em> and 1973\u2019s Ralf und Florian<\/em> \u2014 but Kraftwerk considered their 1974 album Autobahn<\/em> to be the true start of their famed catalogue, which earned the group a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Autobahn<\/em>, Schneider and H\u00fctter solidified the Kraftwerk sound: Hypnotically looping and repetitive beats and synths and vocoded vocals to create boundless soundscapes that, like in the case of the influential title track, could span the entire side of a record.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now joined by Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flur on electronic percussion, with their Kling Klang studio in Dusseldorf their official outpost, Kraftwerk next released 1975\u2019s Radio-Activity<\/em> and 1977\u2019s Trans-Europe Express<\/em>; the latter album, inspired by David Bowie\u2019s 1976 LP Station to Station<\/em>, would foster a mutual admiration between the two artists, with Bowie\u2019s Heroes<\/em> track \u201cV-2 Schneider\u201d an ode to the Kraftwerk keyboardist.<\/span><\/p>\n

While H\u00fctter was the voice and mouthpiece of Kraftwerk, the notoriously press-shy Schneider<\/span> \u2014 the son of the architect Paul Schneider-Esleben, who designed Germany\u2019s Bonn Airport \u2014<\/span> is credited with navigating the band toward its boundary-pushing limits.<\/span> \u201cFlorian is a sound fetishist. I am not so much, I\u2019m maybe more a word fetishist,\u201d H\u00fctter told Mojo<\/em> in 2005. \u201cThese roles are not an obligation, they have just developed over the years as our preferences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist of the influential German electronic music group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73. \u201cKraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf H\u00fctter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades. Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 23:46:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}