TIMES

Description

New studio album from a Kraftwerk member from 1974 to 1986. With many renowned synth-pop and dance music collaborators, including German techno duo U96, Boris Blank (Yello), Thomas Vangarde (ex-Daft Punk), Juan Atkins, Antony Rother, Emil Schult (ex-Kraftwerk collaborator) and Peter Hook (ex-New Order). CD edition packaged in a cardboard digifile with a 16-page booklet. There were four members in Kraftwerk’s much vaunted classic period from 1974’s “Autobahn” to 1986’s “Electric Café” and Wolfgang Flür was one of them, the group’s former electronic percussionist. Wolfgang Flür’s subsequent and celebrated emergence as a solo and creative electro-pop tour de force has been consistent and determined. His early musical immersion into Kraftwerk imbued in him a dramatic electronic/synth sensibility that has in his highly productive later life, been a gift that keeps on giving with a reliability and surprise factor that has eluded many of his contemporaries. For now he carries the torch of the continued creativity of his generation of electronic music pioneers: inspiring and entertaining, whilst pushing the boundaries of his unique oeuvre of highly melodic and narrative retrofuturism. His music is immersive and though grappling with the accelerating passing of time and the rapidity of changes that occur within it, he does so with a celebratory optimism; a relentless and infectious hope for humanity.