Kraftwerk, the inevitable grand masters of electronic music, even owned a prototype of the 808 before its official release in 1980 and used it in their studio.
While that's not nearly as deep or verbose as his epic manifesto, through which he rightfully excused himself from the conventional creative constraints of ordinary musicians, his words about Ufabulum speak volumes for those who have been waiting for one of the masters of electronic music to return to the genre's roots.
A Finnish designer Onar Studios has sought to expand the Italian DJ's wardrobe by including in its winter line the Dozzy: "Dozzy vest is named after the master of hypnotic electronic soundscapes," they write on their Instagram.
Purified, unaligned, SWCNT films of enriched length distributions and controlled chirality responded in ways consistent with power law behaviour, where the D G ratio is proportional to the fourth power of excitation wavelength, inversely proportional to SWCNT length, and fits to a master curve independent of electronic species concentration.
On the BBC Radio 6 yesterday evening, host Tom Ravenscroft premiered a 12-minute long brutal track by the masters of sinister electronic music Autechre.
Tonight the tradition returns briefly with a concert by Pamelia Kurstin, a master of the theremin, an electronic instrument that makes ghostly music when a player moves her hands between two metal rods.
Techno sages, Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer, have put out a wobbling 12-minute remix of one of electronic music's master shape shifters, Luke Vibert.
More as I hear it.... Dorothy Kalins says "everyone is trying to master the electronic version of what we (food writers) have always done".
The godfather of electronic music has not mastered the sound-bite.
In our next article, Bob Fitrakis, Sheri Myers and I will write in detail about the history of electronic election theft and its long-time master of disenfranchisement, Karl Rove.
