“Drawing from traditions of 20th century instrumental synthesizer music, Jonas Reinhardt represents a love affair between analog electronics, sweeping atmospherics, and driving motorik beats. Combined together, these elements bring the album’s 13 pieces into focus as the soundtrack for an inner-eyelid space epic that never was.
Inspired in equal measure by the natural beauty of his [...]
“Ralf und Florian is a 1973 album created and produced by the German music group Kraftwerk. It was also released under the English name of Ralf and Florian. Unlike Kraftwerk’s later albums, which featured language-specific lyrics, only the titles differ between the English and German editions.
Along with Kraftwerk’s first two albums, Ralf und Florian [...]
The Wire: Issue #303 (May 09)
MM: I mean, The Germs definitely had something of interest to them. But I think The Screamers are the ones that deserved recognition as what could have been the most important band from that era. Their music was excellent. Yeah, they were good, we saw them when we were like, [...]