Kraftwerk

another melody. There are only four melodies in the entire song which two are the exact same. The other two are different melodies with different sounds. Throughout most of the song when the melodies aren’t playing, all you hear is the vocals and the drum machine. The melodies are only played in the chorus and not in any of the verses that had someone rapping over them. This made me think and I feel like they did this to put the spotlight on the melodies. I also noticed that the melodies were never progressed by another melody and that the first two melodies played were played for four bars while the last two melodies played for eight bars. Out of the four, the two same melodies were sampled from Kraftwerk's song "Trans Europe Express". Kraftwerk is a German electronic music band who released "Trans Europe Express" in 1977 and five years later in 1982 was when Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force released “Planet Rock”. The melodies were altered so it sounded sharper and had more attack, but still generally the same sound. The rhythm of the song was the same and pretty consistent throughout the song. Rhythm is defined as the combination of long and short musical values and since this song is monophonic the only parts besides the melodies that have long and short values would be the synthesized sounds throughout the song. This would include the explosion sounds that appeared on the first beat of each measure for the first four measures of the song and the bells shaking…

The History of Rap/Hip-Hop Rapping, also known as rhyming, spitting, and emceeing it is still referred to as rap and hip-hop. But, it seems that nobody ever talks about the story of how rap and hip-hop started. The history of rap and hip-hop was not only the start of a genre but, something new and creative. Rap and Hip-hop has an interesting origin story, has influenced by different genres of music, and created a new movement of freedom of speech. Dating back to the 60s and 70s in the South…

Influences, by Bowie David Bowie influenced many people, but these are just the famous people who he influenced. David Bowie influenced Syd Barrett (who is now insane) , Kraftwerk, The Beatles, and William Burroughs. David Bowie was very inspirational, his ,music and style helped shape people like The Beatles the way they are today! Bowie also influenced the artist James Murphy. Murphy talked about David’s influence to him after his passing, and you can even hear Bowie’s influence on him…

The first one, “Alfombra Magica”, authored by the saxophonist Bill McHenry, evinces classical cadences. The second is Ornette Coleman’s “Broken Shadows”, which proceeds calmly and softly as in a morning sunrise. Definitely a highlight, “The Robot”, a 1978 song composed by the German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, pulses with a forceful energy, inviting us to a robotic dance. All the ten tunes boast a relevant freshness through the treatments they were subjected to, proving The Bad Plus as…

and Popol Vuh, but not particularly to the industrial sound of Eno’s influence, Kraftwerk. 'Imagine the moral outrage, if a British journalist had chosen to dub the Hendrix sound ‘spaderock’. Krautrock is nowhere near as dubious a term; if anything it reveals a lingering British fear/loathing of the Germans'. (BBC, Kraftwerk: Pop Art) NME Krautrock articles from the mid-1970s even carried such dubious headings as Can: They Have Ways of Making You Listen", or "Kraftwerk: The Final Solution to…

historical backdrop isn’t something Cole’s piece particularly touches on. Still, Baudelaire asserts that the dandy appeared during periods of transition; New Romanticism rose up between ‘the last grasp of Labourism and the full flush of Thatcher’ (Rimmer, 2013). When asked if it was a response to the recession of the late seventies, fashion designer (and member of the scene) Keanan Duffty, used the analogy: ‘the late 1970s were black and white. The early 80s seemed to transform the world…

As he becomes more comfortable talking to the dissimilar does he truly begin to not only fully listen, but also fully be able to find beauty and joy in what is foreign to him. His talk with Triolet at the end of the story is the first and only time we witness him truly listen to what the girls had to say to him. By listening and accepting the differentness, for the only time in the story Enn is seemingly at peace. In its creation of unity, the story creates irony in almost every scene that takes…

when compared to other forms of pop music. The overarching genre of most early '80s synth pop is New Wave, the same applies for minimal synth, the umbrella genre is New Wave in its minimal form: Minimal Wave. The Minimal Synth features explained in this description are often favoured by dark wavers and the avant-garde pop and electronic music fans. Many Minimal Synth records were released in very limited quantities at the time, so have become collectors’ items and 7"s can go for several hundred…

era of punk music was used to describe “underground artistic” In the 180s which were descended from the punk music.in the 1990s and 200s alternative became a general term for almost all rock music with the breakthrough of the band Nirvana into the mainstream and commercial market caused the meaning of alternative rock to change. Once Nirvana had their commercial breakthrough alternative came into common use. (Alternative Rock, 2015) Alternative rock can bet traced back to the late 1960s. Bands…

Nanking. 1945 to 2001 A 1973 Siemens electron microscope on display at the Musée des Arts etMétiers in Paris In the 1950s and from their new base in Bavaria, S&H started to manufacture computers, semiconductor devices, washing machines, and pacemakers. In 1966, Siemens & Halske (S&H, founded in 1847),Siemens-Schuckertwerke (SSW, founded in 1903) and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke (SRW, founded in 1932) merged to form Siemens AG. In 1969, Siemens formed Kraftwerk Union with AEG by pooling their…