Zitat von elektroakust.;64806Alles anzeigenIt didn't seem to have any influence on their follow up album "Radioaktivität" in 1976.
Like on the previous album "Autobahn" (before that tour) there are a few tracks with playfull
rhythms (speedy enough to dance to if you wish), but they are not more funky or "danceable"
compared to the last album. Like i said, it was a slow progression over a number of albums.
In their early Krautrock phase some of the "beats" are percussed in a jazzy way. I don't know
enough about the influences that led to the Krautrock style, but probably Jazz played a role,
since Krautrock was also labeled "Jazz Rock" in Germany.
Man, I don't hear anything near a danceable beat on any of those albums prior to TEE. It is obvious that before TEE they were not concerned with people dancing to their music, and that from TEE on they were. That change in mindset had to come from somewhere. Of course I am just conjecturing that Hip-Hop played some influence on that, but something made them decide that they wanted to make music that people would want to dance to.
Zitat von elektroakust.;64806The second time they played in the USA and in New York was 1981 with the release of the
"Computerwelt" album which includes "Numbers" which is still seen by many as the prototype
beat of the later typical "Electro" style.So if their 1975 visit to New York didn't seem to have a immediate effect on their beats. Other than
the influences that the drummer states (Funk, James Brown etc)... what internationally available
record released in the late 70s by HIPHOP mindset driven producers should have been an influence
for Kraftwerk on "Trans Europa Express" or "Numbers"?
Before 1976 there were no Hip-Hop mindset producers as it was still an revolution that was being driven by DJs. However, at the same time that Kraftwerk was being influenced by this mindset others were as well, and '77 saw the beginning of break based tracks starting to drive the market, both in Disco and in other forms of dance music. They had started to trickle out in '76, then there were many more in '77. By '80 it was a flood. I am not accusing Kraftwerk of following this trend, I am pointing out that they were part of it.