KLING KLANG
Founded in Düsseldorf in 1970 by the German musician-composers Ralf Hütter and the late Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk were less a band than an Andy Warhol-like art project, that radiated a spirit of perceived “Germanness” and conveyor-belt efficiency in its studio production wizardry. During the punk-heyday in the 1970s a very British fear and suspicion of …