“They had a new love, new devices also made from metal: bicycles. Cycling was the end of Kraftwerk”: Our classic lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gave rare insight into the band's internal conflicts

Kraftwerk.

SYNTH WEEK 2026: Kraftwerk are the founding kings of electronic music. Their venerated 1970s canon - which includes the seminal likes of Autobahn, Trans-Europe Express and The Man-Machine - forever changed the language and toolkit of popular music.

But, despite creating and making some of the most advanced, future-predicting music ever recorded, the four central members during this most pioneering era - Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Wolfgang Flür and Karl Bartos - didn’t always see eye-to-eye.