Original geschrieben von Ger
@evil-rider
hier mal ein auszug aus dem web:Maybe the most important Kraftwerk follower must be Afrika Bambaataa. He was a big fan of Trans Europe Express and he used to play the song on the party's they organised in the late 70's. Funny enough, this was party's that was mainly for black people, and Kraftwerk being white guys from Germany makes this a real unique combination at the time. When Kraftwerk released Numbers in 1981, Bambaataa fused that track with Trans Europe Express and made the song called Planet Rock, the first electro-hip hop song. This track changed the whole hip hop music at the time, and paved way to other music geniouses like: Mantronix, The Egyptian Lover, Cybotron and the track even inspired Jazz musicians like Herbie Hancock to try out the new musical phenomenon (with great success). One of the greatest innovators in hip hop, Grandmaster Flash has also praised the work of Kraftwerk. Flash, as Bambaataa, used to play Trans Europe Express in the park where he was mastering the turntables in a unique way. He was making music by cutting up pieces of other peoples music and made it into party music. Flash once said "this record by kraftwerk is great, i can even go to the bathroom while i play it...it mixes itself!!". Man Parrish, one of the first electro artists in the early eighties said in a interview "What can I say? Kraftwerk was the inspiration for dozens of "Hip Hop" artist back then (now it's called electro or freestyle). I just happened to be one of the first to combine Kraftwerk stylings with sounds and words we experienced on the New York Street Scene. Other than Kraftwerk, there were few other sources of that amazing "new" sound, so we made our own!!
Gruß
Ger
Hier noch ein Auszug:Hip-hop? Down to them; over 100 rap records in '83 alone were built on 'Trans-Europe Express'.
oder auch einfach alles zusammen, besonders peinlich: neopren jacken 
