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"I think it would be egotistical of me to say, 'I thought of it.' What happened is, I opened my mind up and the idea came through...and into my head." - Robert Moog (which, btw, is pronounced "Mohg")
This documentary is available for puchase on 
for $9.99.
An 11-minute face-melting video edit of Kraftwerk's 23-minute opus. The real cybernetic acid trip is the five-minute breakdown that beings around 3:06. Animation by Roger Mainwood and John Halas in 1979. The video was posted in two parts, so load the rest of the post to view the second half...
SCHEMATIC: Video part two, Mainwood interview and high res vinyl rip...
The title track off Kraftwerk's 1974 LP Autobahn was a genesis moment in nerd music, marking the completion of Kraftwerk's robotic transformation. Without this band or track, electronic music would probably not be what it is today. It represents the seemless merging of musical genius with avant-garde technology. The entire album is available on iTunes for only $3.49!!
Mainwood discussing the history of the film:
No, I never made contact with Kraftwerk, and they had no input into the film images themselves. John Halas got the commission from Kraftwerk’s record company, and it was deliberately experimental in nature and designed to be released on one of the first ever laser discs. Unfortunately the laser disc technology never took off. The film was entered into various film festivals around the world and won a few prizes, but it never got a commercial release in cinemas but was shown on the TV a bit in the UK and I presume in Germany too. I have no idea what Kraftwerk think about it or whether they have even ever seen it.
[audio:http://www.innernerd.de/audio/Kraftwerk/Kraftwerk_Autobahn.mp3|titles=Autobahn (LP Version)|artists=Space]
OK. Check this out: Super hot italian chick doubles as an electronic music pioneer, gets sponsored by Apple and Roland in the 1980s and eventually becomes a consultant to IBM. **sigh**
All video clips taken from the 1984 LP Personal Computer on Durium.
http://youtu.be/FDuIgaC2524
SCHEMATIC: Two more videos and high res studio photo...
I recently scored an original 7" pressing of Player Piano from 1982 on Clark Humphrey Records.
To fuel your AV room rock out, all the songs from Player Piano are presented below in their correct order. These videos are also now available on our youtube playlist. Listen to how different the studio and live versions of Meteoright are!
While working with a group of nutters at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the 1960s, Derbyshire pioneered loop-based composition by manually recording and piecing together magnetic tape loops and rocking multiple reel-to-reel machines (see below). This brief clip of Derbyshire reel-to-reel beat matching is taken from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop documentary Alchemists of Sound, which can be viewed in its entirety on our Equipment + Theory playlist.
To give you an idea of just how progressive this dame was, this audio clip from the BBC archives reveals the makings of a dense, tasty electro track that predates Kraftwerk's Autobahn by at least four or five years.
Lastly, to demonstrate how all this theory and avant garde technical ability combine to create legendary music, I've included the original Dr. Who TV intro which, although composed by Ron Grainer, sounds so amazing because Derbyshire "realised" it.