Kraftwerk Cofounder: Auto-Gone
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 01.08.09 | 10:34 AM ET
The Telegraph is reporting that band co-founder (and Krautrock pioneer) Florian Schneider has left Kraftwerk after four decades. It’s just the excuse we need to cue up the band’s 1974 hit song “Autobahn,” which is meant to re-create the experience of highway driving:
Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.
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Jenna Schnuer 01.08.09 | 2:11 PM ET
I don’t know whether I should mourn the end or celebrate how long they lasted. Both, I guess. Either which way, after listening to Autobahn (it had been too long!), I do indeed want to head out on the highway (or get on a train—it feels like train travel, too).