Kraftwerk announce 50th anniversary North American tour

The influential group — which has impressed artists from David Bowie to Kanye West and Daft Punk — will kick off the 27-date trek all through the US and Canada in Seattle on June 19, with locations together with Los Angeles, New York and Chicago together with Vancouver and Montreal.

The act guarantees immersive “Three-D Concert events” — an idea launched in 2013 that fuses three-dimensional visuals and efficiency artwork with Kraftwerk’s music catalog — that can return stateside for the primary time since 2016.

Ralf Huetter and Florian Schneider began Kraftwerk in Dusseldorf in 1970 as a part of the experimental “krautrock” motion, a broad style mixing psychedelic rock with digital rhythms and early synthesizers.

The group, who famously mentioned that they wished to make music extra as machines than as males, rapidly gained worldwide recognition for industrial sounds, sparse preparations and computerized beats that supplied a blueprint for later genres together with electro, hip hop, techno and synthpop.

Kraftwerk — whose main albums embody “Autobahn,” “Trans-Europe Specific” and “The Man-Machine” — had been honored in 2014 with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.

The notoriously reclusive act has been a significant contributor to music expertise, developing do-it-yourself devices and units to craft its progressive sound.

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