Kraftwerk - Future Music From Germany Coffee photojournalist and filmmaker Ruth Orkin

photojournalist and filmmaker Ruth Orkin

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Kraftwerk - Future Music From Germany Coffee photojournalist and filmmaker Ruth OrkinUwe Schtte The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape 'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near total secrecy in their Dsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation even human and machine to change the course of modern music.