Wolfgang Flür

Wolfgang Flür
Background information
Born (1947-07-17) 17 July 1947
Frankfurt, Germany
Genres
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Percussion, keyboards
Years active Late 1960s–present
Associated acts Kraftwerk (1973–1987)
Yamo
Dyko
Spirits of Sound
Fruit
The Beathovens

Wolfgang Flür (born 17 July 1947) is a German musician, formerly a member of the electronic group Kraftwerk[1] from 1973 to 1987, playing electronic percussion. Flür claims that he also invented the group's electric drums used throughout the 1970s. However, patent records dispute this citing Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter as the creators.[2]

Background

Previously he had played an acoustic drum kit in the Düsseldorf 1960s band The Spirits of Sound. Guitarist Michael Rother was also a member of The Spirits of Sound, later forming Neu! with then Kraftwerk drummer Klaus Dinger.

Post-Kraftwerk

In 1997, Flür founded Yamo, which released an album Time Pie, a collaboration with Mouse on Mars. Flür's next release, the 12" and remixes of I Was A Robot, climbed to number 6 in the German club charts. Collaborations with Pizzicato Five and Der Plan founding member Pyrolator have been announced, and the lyrics to the song "Greed" are in Flür's autobiography, but this material remains unreleased.

Flür wrote an autobiography, published in the year 2000, called Ich war ein Roboter (English version: I Was a Robot), and released in 2011 in Spanish as Kraftwerk: Yo fui un robot (Ed. MILENIO),.[3] The autobiography includes his youth, early career as a musician, and some of his activity within Kraftwerk. Hütter and Schneider filed a lawsuit against Flür, causing halt of the publication and rewriting parts that included disputed accounts of his time with the band.

Recently, Flür has been seen DJing in clubs, playing tech house and electro. He has also accompanied the German synthpop duo Dyko, in live shows as an electronic percussionist, and on a single released in 2009. As of 2011, Flür has gone under the moniker Musik Soldat.

Japanese singer Maki Nomiya's album Party People included the song "Yamate Line" with songwriting and co-production credited to Flür/Yamo.

On 16 October 2015, Flür released his first solo album under his own name, Eloquence.[4]

Discography

Solo

Albums

With Kraftwerk

Yamo

Albums

EPs

Singles

Collaborations

References

  1. ↑ Rauch, Sandra (June 2008). Die Bedeutung von Jugendkultur in der Jugendphase am Beispiel"techno" (in German). Grin Verlag. p. 44. ISBN 978-3-638-95493-8. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  2. ↑ Schneider; et al. (1977). United States Patent: Electronic Percussion Musical Instrument (14 June): des. 244, 717. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Flür, Wolfgang (29 November 2000). Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot. Sanctuary Publishing. ISBN 1-86074-320-X.
  4. ↑ Cherry Red Records (2015-10-02). "Eloquence: Complete Works - Wolfgang Flür". Cherry Red Records. Retrieved 2015-11-17.

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