Junte un par de entrevistas a Ralf y Florian porque estoy re-manija con ellos nuevamente, siempre es bueno volver a re-escuchar temas viejos asi que por el momento le estoy dando duro y parejo al Minimum2Maximum. Si alguno las quiere traducir y/o agregar nuevas, bienvenido será.

PD: espero que no sean re-post o fakes... por las dudas, busque aca y no encontre.

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Kraftwerk Interview - first published in Triad Magazine June 1975.

While the casual listener may be quick to draw comparisons to Pink Floyd and "space music" in general, in reality there is far more to Kraftwerk than that. Space is only a part of the total Kraftwerk concept, for it also includes Time and Mechanics, and not only time and space, but visual and other sensory phenomenon. They are working with artists in other fields in conjunction with their music and are anxious to begin producing video discs of their art. Lyrics are becoming a more regular part of their music.

Autobahn has a fully descriptive character taking the listener for a quick cruise down Germany's famed superhighway. It becomes and indistinguishable blend of vision and reality, as it begins with a slam of a car door and proceeds to imitate the sounds of the cars whizzing down the road. The mysterious whispering tones of "Kometenmelodie" soar lightly into the ether and leave the listener with a grandious spatial experience.

They perceive commonplace occurrences and transform them into dramatic situations. Just as writers and poets play with words and phrases, painters play with colors and perspectives, and sculptors play with shapes and forms, so Kraftwerk plays with sounds. The qualities attributed to the arts are equally applicable to their music. It is shaped, phrased, colored, molded, mixed and modified into a unified experience. The music is sketched on broadly fundamental lines leaving leaving the setting and filling in, to a great extent, to the listener. In such such a vague and ethereal art Kraftwerk excels in transforming the commonplace sounds of daily life to a stirring and spiritual experience.
Interview with Ralf Hutter
and Florian Schneider

by Saul Smaizys

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Triad: -is the term "space rock" applicable to your music?
Ralf: -We are part of the Industrial generation. We grew up. . .
Florian: -. . . very impressed by these machinery rhythms that we used in our music, the mechanical aspects of life. Technology is no enemy to us. We use technology as it is. We also like nature but you cannot say the Technology is any better or worse than nature. You have to accept all of these things as they are in the world today.
Ralf: -We have aspects in our music that refer to space, like Kometenmelodie, but we also have some very earthly aspects that are very direct and not from outer space but from inner space like from the human being and the body, and very close to every day life.
Florian: -We see films and we go out and get optical impressions and so this often has an influence on our music and it becomes an acoustic film or acoustic poetry. That's the way that we try to express what we have seen and what we have heard. Several years ago we were on tour and it happened that we just came off the Autobahn after a long ride and when we came in to play we had this speed in our music. Our hearts were still beating fast so the whole rhythm became very fast.

Triad: -The spinning of a roulette wheel is the basis for another one of your tunes.
Ralf: -Yes, movement. The idea is to capture non-static phenomenon because music itself is a non-static phenomenon. It deals with time and movement in time. It can never be the same.

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