Glamour model turned reality TV superstar Katie ‘Jordan’ Price ridiculed seminal electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk this week in an interview with The Quietus.
“Never heard of them,” the hugely influential tastemaker admitted when played their ground breaking 70s pop hit The Model.
“This reminds me of 'Don’t You Want Me' by the Eurythmics. That was by the Human League? Ah, OK. It’s really like that though,” she continued. “What do I think of it? It’s boring. It’s all right,” she shuddered.
Her near sacrilegious assessment struck an unlikely chord with the views of acid techno legend Chris Liberator who in an interview with Skrufff in 2004 admitted to being distinctly unimpressed with the acclaim routinely accorded to the Teutonic pioneers.
“Take Kraftwerk, for example; I love them, I went to see them live in the 80s, but I don’t see why they’re so massive now in terms of their influence on the electronic music scene,” Chris complained, “Or bands like Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire- I never got into rave or techno because of those people; they weren’t the missing link for me.”
Chatting to Skrufff the same year Ed Simons from the Chemical Brothers was more reverential, after watching Kraftwerk at Brixton Academy just weeks before the duo were scheduled to headline Creamfields in the UK.
“Tom (Rowlands) and I were absolutely gob-smacked and energised by the absolute technicality of that Kraftwerk show; they way they synchronised the music with the visuals and the sheer artistry of the visuals and it definitely prompted us to have a big rethink about how we present our own show,” Ed admitted.
“A few days later we had a meeting with our visual guy and we conceived a new look and a new way of combining the visuals with the music. Our lighting man also designed a new stage set,” he said.
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