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| | Kraftwerk: Call Them the Beatles of Electronic Dance Music |
 | | Think of the band as a lab technician synthesizing the DNA that provided the code for rap, disco, electro-funk, new wave, industrial and techno -- basically everything that has shifted the spotlight from guitars to studio technology in the last 20 years. |
 | | The band now disavows the first three albums it recorded as Kraftwerk, which are available today only as bootlegs, and prefers to begin its history with the 1974 "Autobahn" album, when its roots in hippie improvisation gave way to meticulous technology. |
 | | The band consisted of Hutter, Schneider and, later, the drummers Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flur, who were all living communally with Schult, the unofficial fifth member of the band. |
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