"Kraftwerk were using a Bee Gees-branded toy drum machine. You really couldn't make it up": Yes, a band you considered at the forefront of synth technology used a toy beat maker. And a pretty terrible one at that

Kraftwerk.

Kraftwerk have invented genres, influenced thousands, had a mythical recording studio, and a back catalogue that is almost perfect. You'll probably know them as being a kind of electronic version of The Beatles, such is their more hi-tech influence on the music of the last five decades.

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