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by Supernaut 225 days ago
> the billboard hot 100 [...] all looks like Beatles style pop songs played with electronic instruments

Correct, and Kraftwerk's enduring influence on the charts is not their compositional style, as excellent as it was. It was by demonstrating that pop music could be performed solely with electronic instruments that they changed the world.
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Affric 225 days ago
It’s interesting their schtick was that they were robots and that the line between man and machine was blurred but I think that really it was just the instrument.

A dehumanisation of themselves while exploring human themes contrasts well with the GAI craze whereby humans are ripped off by anthropomorphised mathematical models.

Truly music for our age anf anticipating the future.

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