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CONTENTS
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RUDI ESCH
GABI DELGADO
As a key player in the
Düsseldorf music scene
since 1983, who better
to ask than all-round
Electri_City champion how
his hometown became
the epicentre of electronic
music... and how it’s
planning to stay there
He pretty much drew the
blueprint for industrial
electronic music with DAF
in the late 1970s, and has
just released a heavy new
solo album. We talk to him
about those Düsseldorf days,
and where he’s headed now
KRAFTWERK
TRAVELOGUE
PROPAGANDA
When Ralf Dörper quit Die
Krupps to head up a new
musical project back in the
early 1980s, few would have
predicted that ‘A Secret Wish’
would be the direction he’d
take. Read the full story in all
its strange glory
Join us on the TEE and head
to Düsseldorf in search of
the spirit of Kraftwerk. Does
the journey tell us anything
more about Ralf and
Florian’s roots? It’s in the air
for you and me…
WOLFGANG FLÜR
On the eve of the release of
his complete works, his name
remains synonymous with
the golden age of Kraftwerk,
and probably will be forever
more. But underestimate him
as an artist in own right at
your peril
‘RADIO-ACTIVITY’
As the darkest of Kraftwerk’s five
masterpieces celebrates its 40th
anniversary, we get up as close as
we dare and tell the album’s full
story from conception to reaching
its four-decade milestone
TECH
BEATSTEP
PRO
A controller, performance
sequencer and composing
tool all in one? Why, if such
a thing existed, that’d be
a sequencing powerhouse
would it not. Oh, look...
TINY
SYNTH
We had this little synth. And
we got it signed by the good
and the great of electronic
music before selling it 2'@