Wolfgang Flur - Born in 1947 in the German town Frankfurt am Main, is one of world's cornerstones in todays electronic music and pop music. Influenced by music at an early age, and with the age of 16 he quickly started his own "schoolgroup" which was called: The Beathovens. With 18 he refuses to join the army and studied for Interior Architect in Dusseldorf. In 1973 he was asked to join a newly formed electronic music group called "Kraftwerk", which he is a founding member of. In that same year he builds
worlds first "Metal Sticks" playable "Electro-schlagzeug" supporting the group for several years in a row..
After joining Kraftwerk as a drummer composing on his custom-built drum controllers Electro-schlagzeug containing 6 metal pads and were played by metal drum sticks with wires attached to them, (which was an ingenious invention at that time), when electronic music and pop music were on the verge of "breaking through" in the analog era of that time. He took part in album classics like: "Autobahn", "Radio Activity", "Trans Europe Express", "Man Machine", "Computer World", "Tour De France" and ''Electric Cafe" which as of today, still are of major influence, not even mentioning their impact. Machine Music to the fullest...
In 1986 Wolfgang Flur leaves Kraftwerk, and after leaving music for seven years and doing his "Little Child" benefit project, for the orphans of the Bosnian war in 1992, he got "addicted" to the music again,
founding Yamo Music in 1996. In 1997, 11 years after leaving Kraftwerk, he releases his album: Yamo - TIME PIE - collaborating with "Mouse On Mars" member Andy Toma
At futuresonic 2007 Wolfgang gave an in depth interview together with Graham Massy from 808 state before performing a DJ set at the UFO club event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Flür
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