Elektric Music - TV - 1994 An Test Pattern Music Video
When Kraftwerk first made its mark in the early '70s, critics of the seminal German outfit dismissed its electronic experiments as disposable novelties. But Kraftwerk had the last laugh when its innovations ended up having a profound influence on everything from hip-hop to industrial to Indian bhangra. By the time former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos unveiled his Elektric Music project in the early '90s, electronic music was no longer controversial -- only the most rigid Luddites still believed that synthesizers would be disappearing anytime soon
When Kraftwerk first made its mark in the early '70s, critics of the seminal German outfit dismissed its electronic experiments as disposable novelties. But Kraftwerk had the last laugh when its innovations ended up having a profound influence on everything from hip-hop to industrial to Indian bhangra. By the time former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos unveiled his Elektric Music project in the early '90s, electronic music was no longer controversial -- only the most rigid Luddites still believed that synthesizers would be disappearing anytime soon.
Current TV, an internet channel, flashed back to this prophetic 1981 news package on the computer revolution featuring a young, unscripted Steve Jobs and visions of PCs that one day would be the size of a book (gasp).
Paul Holcomb from The Bold Headed Broadcast mixed this techno version of Ted Stevens' now infamous "Series Of Tubes" speech and Gavin (that is me) from 13tongimp.com made a video out of it