Wolfgang Flür

An associate of Kraftwerk through the group’s golden era, Wolfgang Flur was the band’s digital percussionist from 1973 to 1987. Delivered in Frankfurt, Germany, Flur became the 3rd person in the music group in 1973, changing a drum machine. He was an associate of the group off their worldwide breakthrough using the record Autobahn (1974), and continued to be as they attempted proto-techno on albums such as for example Trans-Europe Express (1977) and Pc Globe (1981). Frustrated using the half-a-decade it had taken to produce Electric powered Cafe (1986), he still left the band following the LP’s discharge — it wouldn’t end up being until a 2009 reissue that Flur received an musician credit in the record. In 1997, he released his solo profession beneath the name Yamo and released Period Pie, an record that featured use the experimental duo Mouse on Mars. In 2000, he released his memoir I USED TO BE a Robot however the reserve was taken momentarily, and re-released with revisions following a lawsuit from the rest of the associates of Kraftwerk. A 12″ one named following the reserve made an appearance in 2004, and it had been included on the 2015 discharge Eloquence: Total Functions, a assortment of unreleased Flur monitors dating back again to 2002.