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I’m gutted, this is from kraftwerk.technopop.com.br

It was also in a German newspaper, when I searched it on the internet…

Florian Schneider leaves Kraftwerk…

Florian Schneider leaves Kraftwerk after a 40 years
partnership with Ralf Hütter.

This partnership has generated an incredible
music and huge advances in music technology.

Florian is a great musician, always seeking
the perfect sound through technology. Refined
and perfected sounds and vocoders to impossible
levels of perfection.

Our thanks for the state of art that led to
Kraftwerk’s music all these years.

And our wishes for success Florian’s new
projects as well as to this new Kraftwerk.

2

No good can come from this. :open_mouth:

3

man 40 years?

Jeez

4

Wow, wouldn’t have seen that one coming. That outfit has seemed pretty nutty over the last few years tho, with all their lawsuits and such. So it goes. :cry:

5

Ohhh this sad. I wonder what it was that finnally pushed him over the edge, or if he just decided it was time to move on to something new?

6

If you are 61 you should start thinking about retiring from the rock business. Playing concerts on a world tour is not fun only.
I think they should have splitted up after “Electric Cafe”.

7

Someone should give Keith Richards and Mick Jagger this memo. :unamused:

8

They just can’t stop this. And I just had no valid mail adress of them :wink:

9

THey will retire when they finally get some satisfaction, but not a minute before.

10

EricK, and till, the song Sympathy for the Devil comes to mind. They just need to realize they are too old to rock and roll but they’re too young to die. :laughing:

11

You lot may not have heard of this… but Kraftwerk came out to Melbourne in November last year, a festival which I went to soley to see them, and 10 minutes before they were due on stage Ralf Huetter (the “lead performer” if you could call him that) came up on stage and announced that one of the band members had suffered heart failure. And so Kraftwerk was cancelled! :frowning:

Just thought I’d tell the story, seeing we’re talking about aging rockers retiring.

12

oh well theres plenty of great contemporary electronic bands out there Pluxus for example , looking forward to hear some of florians solo music anyways .
:smiley:

13

That was not Florian Schneider, but Fritz Hilpert that suffered a heart failure.

And he is even 9 years and more younger (born May 31, 1956 in Germany) then the founding members!

14

Yes, which is even more scary when you think about it. Florian Schneider wasn’t there to perform anyway, he had stayed behind in Germany (an early sign that he was leaving perhaps?)

15

yes.

And he had apparently a pain full back when he “played” in Tilburg/NL.

You could see that when he entered and left the little 10 inch high podium where the four laptops stand.
I have gone through an lumbago and know how this feels.

BTW: Florian Schneider now owns the old rooms of the Kling-Klang Studio. The Kling-Klang Studio was moved from Dusseldorf (near the main train station) to a new office complex in Krefeld. This was also noted by the german news press last summer. It is also said, that Florian bought the old instruments of the WDR Studio where Stockhausen and other early pre-Moog pioniers worked.

My guess: retiring, being a collector and not a single track of Florian. A solo carrier is not the thing I expect from him.