look, i have nothing but love for kraftwerk. much of their oeuvre is
quite good, and i've been a fan since, i dunno, 1985. but i just
think their importance is overrated. like i said, nobody can deny
their influence, but i really believe that american disco, funk and
electro and dare i say synthpop as a conglomeration was more important
to the detroit techno sound than the individual effect of kraftwerk.
i don't think that's too hard to understand, or agree with. i mean,
really, when it comes down to it, the biggest influence on the B3 is
consistently listed as mojo, and kraftwerk was just one of many MANY
things that he played, right???
It's pretty hard to envision WHAT Mojo would have played had there been
no Kraftwerk and the bands THEN-influenced by them.
And as soon as you raised that electro flag in the above paragraph, it
really derailed your pitch. I don't know too many variations of electro
which don't somehow hearken back in that direction.
Good Lord - can anyone imagine the Nu Dance Show without 50 versions of
Egyptian Lover/Tour de France (or even Egyptian Lover without Kraftwerk
in the wings)?
jeff
