{"id":34202,"date":"2022-08-03T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/karl-bartos-kraftwerk-turned-into-the-dehumanisation-of-music-music\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:16:50","slug":"karl-bartos-kraftwerk-turned-into-the-dehumanisation-of-music-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/karl-bartos-kraftwerk-turned-into-the-dehumanisation-of-music-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Bartos: ‘Kraftwerk turned into the dehumanisation of music’ | music"},"content":{"rendered":"
When a teenage Karl Bartos told his parents that he wanted to dedicate his life to music, his father was so furious that he kicked his son’s acoustic guitar to pieces.<\/p>\n
After hearing the Beatles at 12, something had awakened in him \u2013 \u201cI wanted to feel like how they sounded,\u201d he says \u2013 and so he persisted past that smashed guitar. Tripping on LSD listening to Hendrix was another portal. \u201cThe music spoke to me in all the world’s languages \u200b\u200bat once,\u201d he recalls in his memoir. \u201cI understood its message down to the very last frequency. Never before had the essence of music been as clear.\u201d<\/p>\n
The memoir, The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond, is an incredibly detailed book about Bartos’s life: from those pivotal childhood moments, years spent at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Dusseldorf where he studied percussion, through to his time in what is considered the classic Kraftwerk line-up \u2013 Bartos, Ralf H\u00fctter, Florian Schneider, Wolfgang Fl\u00fcr \u2013 in which he played from 1974 until 1990.<\/p>\n
Kraftwerk were looking for a percussionist for some live dates and Bartos was recommended by his professor. Being summoned to their infamous and secretive Kling Klang Studio, he immediately clicked with H\u00fctter and Schneider. \u201cWe were attracted to each other and it just felt pure,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI knew from the first meeting it was something very special.\u201d<\/p>\n