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German electronic music band

This article is about the band. For their debut album, see Kraftwerk (album).

Kraftwerk (German pronunciation:[ˈkʁaftvɛʁk]^ⓘ, lit. 'power plant') are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the genre.

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The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before fully embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders. Wolfgang Flür joined the band in 1973 and Karl Bartos in 1975, expanding the band to a quartet.

On commercially successful albums such as Autobahn (1974), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), and Computer World (1981), Kraftwerk developed a self-described "robot pop" style that combined electronic music with pop melodies, sparse arrangem