It became known that passed away was one of the founders of the German group Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider. On 7 April he was 73 years old. According to reports of the press, he died of cancer a few days after the birthday.The band Kraftwerk, released in the 1970s — early 1980s, became a Canon of electronic music. However, the history group counts from 1969. Students of the Academy of arts in Remscheid Ralph Hutter and Florian Schneider became part of a group Organization, which is usually attributed to the influential musical style of “Krautrock”. The band released the album “Tone Float” (1970), produced by Studio magician Conny plank. The album was not a success, the group disbanded, but in the same 1970 debut album Kraftwerk “Kraftwerk”, which also worked with Conny plank. During the work on the first three albums of Kraftwerk Hutter and Schneider remained the main authors and instrumentalists of the group, which searched for their sound, experimenting with Krautrock, synth music and avant-garde. In 1974, along with percussionist Wolfgang Flur and guitarist Klaus röder, they released the album “Autobahn”, which became a turning point for the history of the band and for popular music in General. The title track of the album was a Studio interpretation of the trips on the autobahn. Sounds recorded directly on the freeway, side by side with booming in those years of avant-garde electronics. After this album Florian Schneider focused on synthesized sound and electronic rhythm, and the flute and violin, for which he was responsible on the previous albums, in the past. Five albums recorded in the years 1975-1986, became the Foundation for all electronic music as a direction, and how dance and its experimental offshoots. With the filing of Kraftwerk instrumentation of popular music had a voice, passed through a vocoder, wholly electronic rhythm, compositions built on repetitive samples, and show, which was not the Central character, the frontman. Classical concert Kraftwerk’s four musicians in the static images, devoid of emotions of robots and androids. The performers hands are on the keys of the keyboard synthesizers and computers, but for the most part hidden from the audience. There existed even a point of view that on stage, the musicians just relax, but once the fans still photographed dark “shelves” of the group — they were full of keys, controllers, and touch screens. It was still the music is handmade. “The perception of the show Kraftwerk — the experience is quite different than the “annealing” at concerts more live bands— wrote “Kommersant” about the concert of Kraftwerk in 2008.— However, from song to song in music increasingly came to the fore low frequencies, and it became clear that a static persanaam owe their madness all the raves of the world.” One of the “robots” to 2009 was Florian Schneider. Moreover, if his colleague Ralph Hutter willingly communicated with the press, Snyder’s preferred and off stage to silence. His music spoke for him and engage in a dialogue such titans as David Bowie, who devoted his instrumental composition on the album “Heroes”, Coldplay, who used a snippet of the track “Computer Love” in the hit “Talk”, and Jay-Z, whose joint with the Dr. Dre song “Under Pressure” you can hear echoes of “Trans Europe Express”. However, there was a man who Kraftwerk in cooperation refused. His name was Michael Jackson. In 2009, Wolfgang flur said in an interview with The Guardian, that, de facto, his colleague, whose departure was much discussion, many years did not participate in the Affairs of Kraftwerk. “How great was the influence of Schneider on all the music that we know, from David Bowie to the most part of the 1980s and then to techno & rap— wrote in his Twitter the leader of the band Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp.— He built a new music metropolis for all of us.” “My dear Florian, your Highway never, never end”, are the words of Jean-Michel Jarre. Alexander Cheparukhin, the organizer of the first Russian concert of Kraftwerk, which took place in 2004, describes his communication with Florian Schneider in his Facebook: “the Appearance of dispassionate “main robot” Kraftwerk might initially be misleading. But that misconception quickly overcame and saw a man gentle, open, vulnerable and humble… After the triumphant, unearthly concert of Kraftwerk in the Luzhniki stadium we was at the club the Jet Set… And here happened the most touching. Florian was courting girls, courting awkwardly, like a shy teenager, and then asking me how to please fantastic Russian beauties. “You know, I have never had rock-n-roll life. We hid behind the images of impenetrable robots, not hanging out with the audience. And now I realize that I missed this life, all these clubs, flirting, light touring novels — none of that almost wasn’t”,— he said to me, shyly smiling next pretty woman.”
