Fifty Years Ago, Kraftwerk Talked Tape, Paranoia and the Human Machine (opens in new tab)

Read a very long, very fascinating interview with Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider from Synapse Magazine, 1976. In 1976, Kraftwerk sat at a strange, newly powerful crossroads. Autobahn had carried them out of the Düsseldorf art-music underground and onto international radio. Radio-Activity had tightened their focus on transmission, signal and the psychology of modern technology, and the group was beginning to look less like a rock band using electronics than a self-contai...