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315 relations: "Heroes" (David Bowie album), A cappella, A-side and B-side, Afrika Bambaataa, Aftermath of World War II, Air (French band), Alex Kapranos, Alex Paterson, Alexander Bălănescu, Alexander Gerst, AllMusic, Ambient music, Amsterdam, Andy McCluskey, Aphex Twin, Apollo 11, Argentina, Armando Manzanero, ARP Odyssey, Art pop, Astralwerks, Autobahn, Autobahn (album), Avant-garde music, Balanescu Quartet, Balkans, Bauhaus, BBC Radio 4, Bee Gees, Berghahn Books, Bernard Lovell, Bestival 2009, Billboard 200, Björk, Blondie (band), Blu-ray, Blue Monday (New Order song), Bluedot Festival, Bonn, Bootleg recording, Breakin', Brian Eno, BrooklynVegan, Buddy Guy, Bulgaria, Can (band), Capitol Records, Carole King, Charles Shaar Murray, Charlie Haden, ... Expand index (265 more) »
- 1969 establishments in West Germany
- Art pop groups
- Avant-garde music groups
- English-language musical groups from Germany
- German electronic rock musical groups
- German musical quartets
- German synthpop groups
- Grammy Award winners for dance and electronic music
- Musical groups from Düsseldorf
"Heroes" (David Bowie album)
"Heroes" is the twelfth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14October 1977 through RCA Records.
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A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
A-side and B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.
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Afrika Bambaataa
Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York.
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Aftermath of World War II
The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US).
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Air (French band)
Air is a French music duo from Versailles, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Kraftwerk and Air (French band) are Astralwerks artists.
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Alex Kapranos
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972) is a British musician.
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Alex Paterson
Alex Paterson (also known as Dr Alex Paterson, born Duncan Alexander Robert Paterson; 15 October 1959) is an English musician and co-founder of ambient house group the Orb, in which he has worked since its inception.
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Alexander Bălănescu
Alexander Bălănescu (born 11 June 1954) is a Romanian violinist, and founder of the Balanescu Quartet.
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Alexander Gerst
Alexander Gerst (born 3 May 1976 in Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg) is a German European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist, who was selected in 2009 to take part in space training.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Ambient music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Andy McCluskey
George Andrew McCluskey (born 24 June 1959) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ. Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin are Grammy Award winners for dance and electronic music.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1935 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America. Kraftwerk and Armando Manzanero are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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ARP Odyssey
The ARP Odyssey is an analog synthesizer introduced by ARP Instruments in 1972.
Art pop
Art pop (also typeset art-pop or artpop) is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by art theories as well as ideas from other art mediums, such as fashion, fine art, cinema, and avant-garde literature.
Astralwerks
Astralwerks (or Astralwerks Records) is an American record label primarily focused on electronic music that is now owned by Universal Music Group.
Autobahn
The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.
Autobahn (album)
Autobahn is the fourth studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk, released in November 1974 by Philips Records.
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Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.
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Balanescu Quartet
Balanescu Quartet is an avant-garde string ensemble formed in 1987. Kraftwerk and Balanescu Quartet are Mute Records artists.
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Balkans
The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees --> were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Kraftwerk and Bee Gees are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Mercury Records artists, Philips Records artists and Warner Records artists.
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books is a New York and Oxford–based publisher of scholarly books and academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on social and cultural anthropology, European history, politics, and film and media studies.
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Bernard Lovell
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell (31 August 19136 August 2012) was an English physicist and radio astronomer.
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Bestival 2009
The Bestival 2009 was the sixth installment of the Bestival, a boutique music festival held at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight.
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Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Kraftwerk and Björk are Elektra Records artists.
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.
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Blu-ray
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.
Blue Monday (New Order song)
"Blue Monday" is the fifth single by the British rock band New Order.
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Bluedot Festival
Bluedot is a music, science and culture event held annually in July since 2016 at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, combining music, live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks.
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Bonn
Bonn is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine.
Bootleg recording
A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority.
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Breakin'
Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84 in other regions) is a 1984 American breakdancing-themed musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife.
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. Kraftwerk and Brian Eno are Astralwerks artists and Warner Records artists.
BrooklynVegan
BrooklynVegan is an American online music magazine founded in 2004 by David Levine.
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Buddy Guy
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. Kraftwerk and Buddy Guy are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
Can (band)
Can were a German experimental rock band formed in Cologne in 1968 by Holger Czukay (bass, tape editing), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitar), and Jaki Liebezeit (drums). Kraftwerk and Can (band) are English-language musical groups from Germany, krautrock musical groups and Mute Records artists.
Capitol Records
Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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Carole King
Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. Kraftwerk and Carole King are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
Charles Shaar Murray
Charles Shaar Murray (born Charles Maximillian Murray; 27 June 1951) is an English music journalist and broadcaster.
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Charlie Haden
Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Kraftwerk and Charlie Haden are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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Chris Martin
Christopher Anthony John Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, producer and philanthropist. Kraftwerk and Chris Martin are Parlophone artists.
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Christian Prudhomme
Christian Prudhomme (born 11 November 1960) is a French journalist and general director of the Tour de France since 2007.
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Clifton Chenier
Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), was an American musician known as a pioneer of zydeco, a style of music that arose from Creole music, with R&B, blues, and Cajun influences. Kraftwerk and Clifton Chenier are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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Cluster (band)
Cluster were a German musical duo consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, formed in 1971 and associated with West Germany's krautrock and kosmische music scenes. Kraftwerk and Cluster (band) are German electronic music groups and krautrock musical groups.
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Coachella
Coachella (officially called the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and sometimes known as Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert.
Coldplay
Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1997, consisting of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer and percussionist Will Champion, and manager Phil Harvey. Kraftwerk and Coldplay are Parlophone artists.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Compilation album
A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.
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Computer Love (Kraftwerk song)
"Computer Love" (German version: "Computer Liebe") is a song by the German electronic band Kraftwerk.
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Computer World
Computer World (Computerwelt) is the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 11 May 1981.
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Concept album
A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.
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Concert tour
A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations.
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Conny Plank
Konrad "Conny" Plank (3 May 1940 – 5 December 1987) was a German record producer and musician.
Consequence (publication)
Consequence (previously Consequence of Sound) is an independently owned New York–based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television.
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Daft Punk
Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Kraftwerk and Daft Punk are Grammy Award winners for dance and electronic music, Parlophone artists and Warner Records artists.
Daniel Miller (music producer)
Daniel Otto Joachim Miller (born 14 February 1951) is a British music producer and founder of Mute Records. Kraftwerk and Daniel Miller (music producer) are Mute Records artists.
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Das Model
"Das Model" ("The Model" in English) is a song recorded by the German group Kraftwerk in 1978, written by musicians Ralf Hütter and Karl Bartos, with artist Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics.
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Kraftwerk and David Bowie are EMI Records artists, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Mercury Records artists, Parlophone artists and Philips Records artists.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany.
Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980. Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode are Mute Records artists.
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Derrick May (musician)
Derrick May (born April 6, 1963), also known as Mayday and Is, is an American electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States.
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Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
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Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
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ECW Press
ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario.
Ed Clancy
Edward Franklin Clancy (born 12 March 1985) is a British former professional track and road bicycle racer, who competed between 2004 and 2021.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
Eindhoven
Eindhoven is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also located in the Dutch part of the natural region the Campine.
El Baile Alemán
El Baile Alemán ("The German Dance" in Spanish) is a cover album by Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto which was released on 23 December 1999 on vinyl in the US and released on other formats and regions on 26 January 2000.
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El Lissitzky
Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий,; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лиси́цкий; על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect.
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Electric Café
Electric Café is the ninth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 10 November 1986.
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Electro (music)
Electro (or electro-funk).
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Electronic drum
Electronic drums are a modern electronic musical instrument, primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electronic rock
Electronic rock (also known as electro rock and synth rock) is a music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres.
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Electropop
Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles.
Elektra Records
Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
EMI Records
EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.
Emil Schult
Emil Schult (born 10 October 1946) is a German painter, poet and audio-visual artist.
EMS Synthi AKS
The EMS Synthi A and the EMS Synthi AKS are portable modular analog synthesisers made by EMS of England.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
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Evoluon
The Evoluon is a UFO-shaped building located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Experimental rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.
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Expo 2000
Expo 2000 was a World Expo held in Hanover, Germany from 1 June to 31 October 2000.
Expo 2000 (song)
"Expo 2000" is a song by Kraftwerk.
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Falk Grieffenhagen
Falk Grieffenhagen (born 1969) is a German musician who is a member of the electronic/experimental pop band Kraftwerk.
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Fernando Abrantes
Fernando Fromm-Abrantes (born 1960) is a German-Portuguese producer and musician.
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Flaco Jiménez
Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. Kraftwerk and Flaco Jiménez are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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Florian Schneider
Florian Schneider-Esleben (7 April 194721 April 2020) was a German musician.
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Fritz Hilpert
Friedrich "Fritz" Hilpert (born 31 May 1956) is a German musician who is best known for his work as a member of the electropop group Kraftwerk.
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Fuji Rock Festival
is an annual rock festival held in Naeba Ski Resort, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician.
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Kraftwerk and George Harrison are EMI Records artists, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Parlophone artists.
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Geraint Thomas
Geraint Howell Thomas, (born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam, Wales and Great Britain.
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Gilbert & George
Gilbert Prousch, sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch (born 17 September 1943), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942) are artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George.
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Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (né Gold; 25 September 19324 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. Kraftwerk and Glenn Gould are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.
Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album
The Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards — a ceremony that was established in 1958 — honor quality dance and electronica albums in any given year. Kraftwerk and Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album are Grammy Award winners for dance and electronic music.
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Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album
The Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album (until 2018: Best Surround Sound Album) was first awarded in 2005, as the first category in a new "Surround Sound" field.
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Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was an honor presented to recording artists for quality instrumental rock performances at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Grammy Hall of Fame
The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.
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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is a special Grammy Award that is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers. Kraftwerk and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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Hanover
Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.
Harmonia (band)
Harmonia was a West German musical "supergroup" formed in 1973 as a collaboration between members of two prominent krautrock bands: Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius joined by Neu! guitarist Michael Rother. Kraftwerk and Harmonia (band) are German electronic music groups and krautrock musical groups.
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Heart of Glass (song)
"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.
Ian Curtis
Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.
Improvisation
Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found.
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.
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Instant camera
An instant camera is a camera which uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after taking the picture.
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International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician. Kraftwerk and James Brown are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
Jamie Staff
Jamie Alan Staff MBE (born 30 April 1973) is an English racing cyclist and coach, formerly on BMX and later on the track.
Jason Kenny
Sir Jason Francis Kenny, (born 23 March 1988) is a British former track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints.
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. Kraftwerk and Jimi Hendrix are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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Jingle
A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses.
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.
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John Foxx
John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh; 26 September 1948) is an English singer, musician, artist, photographer, graphic designer, writer, teacher and lecturer.
John Frusciante
John Anthony Frusciante (born March 5, 1970) is an American musician and the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Johnny Marr
John Martin Marr (born John Martin Maher; 31 October 1963) is a musician, songwriter and singer. Kraftwerk and Johnny Marr are Warner Records artists.
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976.
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Juan Atkins
Juan Atkins (born September 12, 1962), also known as Model 500 and Infiniti, is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan.
Karl Bartos
Karl Bartos (born 31 May 1952) is a German musician and composer known for his contributions to the electronic band Kraftwerk.
Karl Hyde
Karl Hyde (born 10 May 1957) is an English musician, composer and artist.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Kevin Saunderson
Kevin Maurice Saunderson (born September 5, 1964) is an American electronic dance music DJ and record producer.
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Klaus Biesenbach
Klaus Biesenbach (born 1966)Erica Orden (December 26, 2009), New York Magazine.
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Klaus Dinger
Klaus Dinger (24 March 1946 – 21 March 2008) was a German musician and songwriter most famous for his contributions to the seminal krautrock band Neu!.
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Klaus Röder
Klaus Röder (often spelled Roeder; born 7 April 1948) is a German musician and music teacher.
Kling Klang Studio
Kling Klang (also spelled as Klingklang) is the private music studio of the band Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk and Kling Klang Studio are 1970 establishments in West Germany.
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Kompressor (musician)
Kompressor was a parody industrial hip hop act (2000-2005) performed by "Andreas K.", a stagename of webcomic artist Drew Fairweather from Washington Court House, Ohio, United States.
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Kraftwerk (album)
Kraftwerk is the debut studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk.
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Kraftwerk 2
Kraftwerk 2 is the second studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released in January 1972.
Kraftwerk discography
The discography of German electronic band Kraftwerk consists of 10 studio albums, two live albums, one remix album and 26 singles.
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Krafty
"Krafty" is the twenty-ninth single by English music group New Order, released as the first single from their eighth studio album, Waiting for the Sirens' Call (2005).
Krautrock
Krautrock (also called, German for) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American retired country singer, songwriter and actor. Kraftwerk and Kris Kristofferson are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Mercury Records artists and Warner Records artists.
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La Stampa
(English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023.
Ladytron
Ladytron is an English electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999.
Latitude Festival
Latitude Festival is an annual music and arts festival set within the grounds of Henham Park, near Southwold, Suffolk, England.
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LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem is an American electronic rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002 by James Murphy, of DFA Records. Kraftwerk and LCD Soundsystem are Grammy Award winners for dance and electronic music and Warner Records artists.
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. Kraftwerk and Lightnin' Hopkins are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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List of ambient music artists
This is a list of ambient music artists.
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List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, established in 1983 and located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential musicians, bands, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the area of rock and roll.
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Manchester International Festival
The Manchester International Festival is a biennial international arts festival, with a specific focus on original new work, held in the English city of Manchester and run by Factory International.
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Mannequin
A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles.
Martin Gore
Martin Lee Gore (born 23 July 1961) is an English musician and songwriter. Kraftwerk and Martin Gore are Mute Records artists.
Mastering (audio)
Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).
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MC Frontalot
Damian Alexander Hess (born December 3, 1973), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an American rapper and web designer.
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MC5
MC5 was an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963. Kraftwerk and MC5 are Elektra Records artists.
Melody Maker
Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.
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Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (instrumental)
"Merry Christmas, Mr.
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Michael Rother
Michael Rother (born 2 September 1950) is a German experimental musician, best known for being a founding member of the influential bands Neu! and Harmonia, and an early member of the band Kraftwerk.
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Mike Myers
Michael John Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.
Minimal music
Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music.
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Minimoog
The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981.
Minimum-Maximum
Minimum-Maximum is the first official live album release by Kraftwerk, released in June 2005, almost 35 years after the group gave its first live performance.
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Minimum-Maximum (video)
Minimum-Maximum is a double DVD by German band Kraftwerk, consisting of live shows performed during their 2004 world tour.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.
MTV Global
MTV Global (formerly MTV Europe) is the international version of the American TV channel MTV as 24-hour music video and entertainment pay television network officially launched on 1 August 1987 as part of the worldwide MTV network.
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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Music recording certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.
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Music sequencer
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.
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Music technology
Music technology is the study or the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, playback or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music.
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Musique Non-Stop
"Musique Non Stop" is a 1986 single by German techno group Kraftwerk, which was featured on the album Electric Café.
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Mute Records
Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller.
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Naeba Ski Resort
is a ski resort on the eastern slope of in, Niigata Prefecture.
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Neon Lights (album)
Neon Lights is a covers studio album and twelfth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in October 2001.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Neu!
Neu! (German for "New!"; styled in block capitals) were a West German krautrock band formed in Düsseldorf in 1971 by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother following their departure from Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk and Neu! are Astralwerks artists, krautrock musical groups and musical groups from Düsseldorf.
New Order (band)
New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris. Kraftwerk and New Order (band) are Mute Records artists.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic band formed in the Wirral, Merseyside, in 1978.
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Organisation (band)
Organisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (German: "Organisation for the Realisation of Shared Music Concepts") was an experimental krautrock band, that was the immediate predecessor of the band Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk and Organisation (band) are krautrock musical groups and musical groups established in 1969.
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Ostinato
In music, an ostinato (derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.
Out of print
An out-of-print (OOP) or out-of-commerce item or work is something that is no longer being published.
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Paradiso (Amsterdam)
Paradiso is a music venue located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Parallel Lines
Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 23, 1978, by Chrysalis Records to international commercial success.
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Parlophone
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.
Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer. Kraftwerk and Patti Page are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Mercury Records artists.
Paul Humphreys
Paul David Humphreys (born 27 February 1960) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.
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Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.
Philips Records
Philips Records is a record label founded by Dutch electronics company Philips and Dutch-American music corporation Universal Music Group.
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Phonogram Inc.
Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. Kraftwerk and Pierre Boulez are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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Planet Rock (song)
"Planet Rock" is a song by the American hip hop artists Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force.
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Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.
Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
Purple Haze
"Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967, in the United Kingdom.
Q (magazine)
Q was a popular music magazine.
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Radio-Activity
Radio-Activity (German title: Radio-Aktivität) is the fifth studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk, released in October 1975.
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Ralf Hütter
Ralf Hütter (born 20 August 1946) is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1969.
Ralf und Florian
Ralf und Florian (English title: Ralf and Florian) is the third studio album by the German electronic band Kraftwerk.
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Rammstein
Rammstein ("ramming stone") is a German band formed in Berlin in 1994.
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. Kraftwerk and Ravi Shankar are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
Record Plant
The Record Plant is a recording studio established in New York City in 1968 and last operating in Los Angeles, California.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Retrofuturism
Retrofuturism (adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era.
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Richard Witts
Richard "Dick" Witts (born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is an English musicologist, music historian, and ex leader of 1980s band the Passage.
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Robert Schumann Hochschule
The Robert Schumann Hochschule (Robert Schumann University of Music and Media) is a school for music studies at the university level located in Düsseldorf.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Roy Carr
Roy Carr (1945 – 1 July 2018) was an English music journalist, covering pop, rock and jazz.
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
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Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s.
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Simple Minds
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.
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Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synth-pop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s.
Sony
, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is a Swedish-founded German headquartered audio streaming service owned and operated by SoundCloud Global Limited & Co.
Sprockets (Saturday Night Live)
Sprockets was a recurring comedy sketch from the NBC television series Saturday Night Live, created by and starring comedian Mike Myers as a fictional West German television talk show.
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Station to Station
Station to Station is the tenth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 23 January 1976 through RCA Records.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.
Sugar Tax (album)
Sugar Tax is the eighth studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released on 7 May 1991 by Virgin Records.
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Summer Sonic Festival
, is an annual music festival held on one weekend in August simultaneously in both Chiba and Osaka, Japan.
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Suprematism
Suprematism (супремати́зм) is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles), painted in a limited range of colors.
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.
T in the Park
T in the Park festival was a major Scottish music festival that was held annually from 1994 to 2016.
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Talk (Coldplay song)
"Talk" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay.
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Tate
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.
Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM).
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Warner Records artists.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Kraftwerk and The Beatles are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Parlophone artists.
The Belleville Three
The Belleville Three are three American musicians, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, who are credited with inventing the Detroit techno genre in Belleville, Michigan.
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The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 independent crime comedy film written, directed, produced and co-edited by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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The Catalogue
The Catalogue (Der Katalog) is a box set consisting of the eight albums by German electronic music band Kraftwerk that were released from 1974 to 2003.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Human League
The Human League is an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.
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The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that began as a vocal trio consisting of the brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley in the 1950s. Kraftwerk and the Isley Brothers are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and Warner Records artists.
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The Louvin Brothers
The Louvin Brothers were an American musical duo composed of brothers Ira and Charlie Louvin (né Loudermilk). Kraftwerk and The Louvin Brothers are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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The Man-Machine
The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) is the seventh studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk.
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The Mix (Kraftwerk album)
The Mix is the tenth studio album by the German electronic music band Kraftwerk.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Orb
The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty. Kraftwerk and The Orb are Mercury Records artists.
The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer, keyboardist, and songwriter Liam Howlett. Kraftwerk and The Prodigy are Elektra Records artists, Mute Records artists, Vertigo Records artists and Warner Records artists.
The Recording Academy
The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals.
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The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982, composed of Morrissey (vocals), Johnny Marr (guitar), Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums). Kraftwerk and The Smiths are Warner Records artists.
The Stooges
The Stooges, originally billed as the Psychedelic Stooges, and also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander. Kraftwerk and the Stooges are Elektra Records artists.
The Temptations
The Temptations are an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s to mid 1970s. Kraftwerk and the Temptations are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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Through the Looking Glass (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)
Through the Looking Glass is the eighth studio album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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TivoliVredenburg
The TivoliVredenburg is a contemporary music complex located in Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Toby Mott
Toby Victor Mott (born 12 January 1964) is a British artist, designer, and sometime Punk historian known for his work with the Grey Organisation, an artists' collective that was active in the 1980s, and for his fashion brand Toby Pimlico.
Tone Float
Tone Float is the debut and only LP by the German band Organisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (Organisation).
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France.
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Tour de France (song)
"Tour de France" is a song by German electronic band Kraftwerk.
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Tour de France Soundtracks
Tour de France Soundtracks (renamed to Tour de France for its remastered release) is the eleventh and final studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk.
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Trans-Europe Express (album)
Trans-Europe Express (Trans Europa Express) is the sixth studio album by German band Kraftwerk.
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Tribal Gathering
Tribal Gathering is the original British electronic dance music festival that between 1993 and 2004 catered for different types of dance music cultures such as techno, house and drum & bass.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976. Kraftwerk and U2 are Mercury Records artists.
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UK Albums Chart
The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Ultravox
Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily.
Underworld (band)
Underworld are a British electronic music group formed in 1987 in Cardiff, Wales and the principal collaborative project of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith.
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United Palace
The United Palace (originally Loew's 175th Street Theatre) is a theater at 4140 Broadway in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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Utrecht
Utrecht (Utrecht dialect) is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the province of Utrecht.
Uwe Schmidt
Uwe H. Schmidt (born 27 August 1968), also known as Atom™, Atom Heart, or Señor Coconut, is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music.
V-2 Schneider
"V-2 Schneider" is a largely instrumental song written by David Bowie in 1977 for the album "Heroes", and released as the B-side of "'Heroes'".
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Vaio
VAIO (バイオ) is a brand of personal computers and consumer electronics, currently developed by Japanese manufacturer, headquartered in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture.
Vertigo (U2 song)
"Vertigo" is a song by Irish rock band U2.
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Vertigo Records
Vertigo Records is a British record company.
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Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family.
Visage (band)
Visage were a British synth-pop band formed in London in 1978.
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Vocoder
A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Waiting for the Sirens' Call is the eighth studio album by English rock band New Order.
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Walt Disney Concert Hall
The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry.
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Warner Records
Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Kraftwerk and Wayne Shorter are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
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West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States.
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West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.
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Wolfgang Flür
Wolfgang Flür (born 17 July 1947) is a German musician, best known for playing percussion in the electronic group Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987.
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World's fair
A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.
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X&Y
X&Y is the third studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released on 6 June 2005 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and a day later by Capitol Records in the United States.
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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ZDF
ZDF, short for i, is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate.
1960s in music
This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s.
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1970s in music
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1970s.
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24th Annual Grammy Awards
The 24th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1982, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and were broadcast live on American television.
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3-D The Catalogue
3-D The Catalogue (3-D Der Katalog) is the second official live album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk.
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48th Annual Grammy Awards
The 48th Annual Grammy Awards took place on February 8, 2006, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning from October 1, 2004, through September 30, 2005.
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56th Annual Grammy Awards
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards presentation was held on January 26, 2014, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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57th Annual Grammy Awards
The 57th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 8, 2015, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
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60th Annual Grammy Awards
The 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on January 28, 2018.
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See also
1969 establishments in West Germany
- Autozeitung
- Bavarian Classic
- Biblis Nuclear Power Plant
- Bielefeld University
- Billstedt station
- Boot Düsseldorf
- Bundesjugendorchester
- DU&ICH
- Damals
- Embryo (band)
- FC Augsburg II
- Fachhochschule Wedel University of Applied Sciences
- Falke Nürnberg
- First Brandt cabinet
- Frog Design
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
- Garstedt station
- German Aerospace Center
- German Informatics Society
- Gesamtschule Berger Feld
- Heidelstein transmitter
- International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development
- Interprint
- Kern AG
- Kluster
- Kraftwerk
- Langer Eugen
- Les Humphries Singers
- Münster Osnabrück Airport
- Mainz-Bingen
- Muschelhaufen
- Panavia Aircraft GmbH
- Parkstadion
- Ramstein-Miesenbach
- Rheinkniebrücke
- S.Oliver
- Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co.
- Sport auto (Germany)
- Sporthalle Gießen-Ost
- TV Hüttenberg
- Unsere Zeit
- Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller
- Viersen Jazz Festival
- Westdeutsche Landesbank AG
Art pop groups
- 10cc
- Austra (band)
- Blur (band)
- Chairlift (band)
- Freur
- Heroina (band)
- Jakarta (band)
- Kero Kero Bonito
- Kraftwerk
- Little Fuss
- Roxy Music
- Talking Heads
- The B-52s
- The Buggles
- The The
Avant-garde music groups
- Bull of Heaven (band)
- Clown Core
- Contact Trio
- Cukor Bila Smerť
- Deerhoof
- Group Ongaku
- Headkase
- Henry Cow
- Irreversible Entanglements
- Just Music
- Kazma-Kazma
- Kraftwerk
- Oathbreaker (band)
- Renaldo and the Loaf
- Sloppy Jane
- Super Numeri
- Tartar Lamb
- The Blunder of a Horse
- The Kropotkins
- The Residents
- Tribalistas
- Walls of Genius
English-language musical groups from Germany
- Alphaville (band)
- Antique (band)
- Atlantic Popes
- Beautiful Sin
- Boney M.
- Can (band)
- Captain Jack (group)
- Die Happy
- E-Rotic
- Formosa (band)
- Interactive (band)
- Kraftwerk
- Les Humphries Singers
- No Angels
- Pyogenesis
- Queensberry (band)
- Scooter (band)
- Scorpions (band)
- The Free
- The Stripes
- Tokio Hotel
German electronic rock musical groups
- Axxis
- Bonaparte (band)
- Chicks on Speed
- Digitalism (band)
- Jesus on Extasy
- Kraftwerk
- Terminal Choice
- Tokio Hotel
- Unheilig
German musical quartets
- Ahab (band)
- And Then She Came
- Avantasia
- Böhse Onkelz
- Bethlehem (band)
- Beyond the Black
- Blind Guardian
- Blumfeld
- Boney M.
- Celebrate the Nun
- Crown of Creation (band)
- Darxon
- Defeated Sanity
- Desaster
- Destruction (band)
- Downfall of Gaia
- Ensemble Sortisatio
- Eyes of Eden
- Fire On Dawson
- Flowing Tears
- Gods of Blitz
- Grave Digger (band)
- H-Blockx
- Holy Moses
- Iron Savior
- KMFDM
- Kraftwerk
- Kreator
- LaViVe
- Leandah
- Mirror of Deception
- Necromance
- Necrophagist
- Obscura (band)
- Pink Cream 69
- Queensberry (band)
- Rage (German band)
- Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
- Room 2012
- Saphir (band)
- Snowgoons
- Sodom (band)
- Suidakra
- Tankard (band)
- The Magic I.D.
- Warrant (German band)
- We Butter the Bread with Butter
German synthpop groups
- Accessory (band)
- Alphaville (band)
- And One
- Atlantic Popes
- Beborn Beton
- Blue System
- Boytronic
- C.C.C.P. (band)
- Camouflage (band)
- Cetu Javu
- Cinema Bizarre
- Cleaner (band)
- Crown of Creation (band)
- De/Vision
- Edge of Dawn
- Ex machina (group)
- Final Selection
- Glasperlenspiel (duo)
- Hubert Kah
- Kraftwerk
- Melotron
- Midnight Resistance (band)
- Modern Talking
- No Carrier (band)
- Paso Doble (band)
- Queen of Japan (band)
- Seabound
- Silent Circle
- Silicon Dream
- Sixth June
- Sweet Connection
- Tokio Hotel
- Toy (German band)
- Wave in Head
- Welle:Erdball
- Wolfsheim (band)
Grammy Award winners for dance and electronic music
- Alex Metric
- Aphex Twin
- Baha Men
- Basement Jaxx
- Black Coffee (DJ)
- Britney Spears
- Cher
- Clean Bandit
- Daft Punk
- Daya (singer)
- Diplo
- Dirty Vegas
- Donna Summer
- Flowdan
- Flume (musician)
- Foxes (singer)
- Fred Again
- Giorgio Moroder
- Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album
- Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording
- Jack Ü
- Janet Jackson
- Jess Glynne
- Justice (band)
- Justin Bieber
- Justin Timberlake
- Kraftwerk
- Kylie Minogue
- LCD Soundsystem
- La Roux
- Lady Gaga
- Madonna
- Peter Rycroft
- Q-Tip (musician)
- Rüfüs Du Sol
- Rihanna
- Serban Ghenea
- Silk City (duo)
- Sirah (rapper)
- Skrillex
- The Chainsmokers
- The Chemical Brothers
- Timbaland
- Zedd
Musical groups from Düsseldorf
- Östro 430
- Belfegore
- Black Raven
- Blumio
- Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
- Der Plan
- Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
- Die Krupps
- Die Toten Hosen
- Farid Bang
- Fehlfarben
- Kraftwerk
- La Düsseldorf
- La! Neu?
- Liaisons Dangereuses (band)
- Male (band)
- Mouse on Mars
- Neu!
- Nichts
- Propaganda (band)
- Storm Seeker (band)
- The Lords (German band)
- Warlock (band)
- Warrant (German band)
References
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