Fluer, Wolfgang

Artist: U 96 + Wolfgang Flür
P: 2020
Two German electronic music legends and pioneers on a joint album: Hamburg dancefloor act U96 and WOLFGANG FLÜR (ex-KRAFTWERK) present timelessly futuristic beats and melodies. Globally renowned German musicians with pioneering roles are rare, except perhaps in electronic music. KRAFTWERK are icons par excellence, having made unprecedented music history since the 1970s and are rightly considered the forefathers of all subsequent artificial sounds. In the 1990s, the globally emerging rave and techno scene was unthinkable without the legacy of the Düsseldorf band – and German acts are once again at the forefront. Hamburg dancefloor pioneers U96, world-famous for chart hits such as 'Das Boot', 'Love Sees No Colour', and 'Night In Motion', have sold over 15 million records. Early in the new millennium, U96 masterminds HAYO LEWERENTZ and INGO HAUSS met electric drummer WOLFGANG FLÜR, who was directly involved in KRAFTWERK's most important albums during their heyday (1972 to 1987). Their first collaborative tracks have already been released, and now comes 'Transhuman,' a 14-song album that, with a deliberate reduction in sound and content, reveals the astonishing intersections of these era-defining musicians. An absolute highlight between electro-pop and club music! Bonus tracks: the current U96 single 'Let Yourself Go,' plus a remix.

Artist: Wolfgang Flür, Magoo, Transistors u.a.
P: 2009
A tribute to the late great father of the modern synthesizers. Moog and his glorious, poetic instruments are the historic foundation of Electronic music. The original idea for Switched on Bob was to collect material for a multimedia-CD with the participation of a selected group of artists that were each to contribute a piece inspired by Moog's huge influences on music, design, graphic illustration, or simply from the beautiful sounds of Moog's own instruments. This is not a conventional compilation, but instead it is an authentic project dedicated to the father of modern synthesizers.

Artist: Wolfgang Flür
P: 2022
A thrilling return to the Techno-Pop sound that he helped to define with electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk between 1974’s ‘Autobahn’ and 1986’s ‘Electric Café’. An all new electronic album, ‘Magazine 1’, that has been crafted by Wolfgang Flür alongside some of the most famous names of synth-pop and electronic dance, past and present. Featuring Midge Ure (Ultravox), Peter Hook (New Order) and Claudia Brücken (Propaganda), alongside the legendary Techno DJ’s Juan Atkins and Carl Cox and Electro-Pop titans U96, plus appearances by celebrated alternative electronic artists and composers Ramón Amezcua (AKA Bostich), MAPS and Anushka, adding just a frisson of deft contemporary nuance to the proceedings! Wolfgang Flür is the only surviving member of that classic Kraftwerk line-up who is currently making and releasing new music! No-one currently making Techno-pop records has Wolfgang Flür’s career longevity and revered stature and, perhaps, no-one has ever made electronic records with such a warm and radical lyrical humanism. Songs that musically draw on a readily identifiable retro-electro palate, but which lyrically speak to us of our times, of our shared ‘here and now’ with a campaigning humanism that reflects on the challenges, disorientations and uncertainties of this unprecedented time of change.

Artist: Wolfgang Flür
P: 2025
New studio album from Kraftwerk member circa 1974 to 1986. • Featuring many big name synth-pop and dance music collaborators including German techno duo U96, Boris Blank (Yello), Thomas Vangarde (ex-Daft Punk), Juan Atkins, Antony Rother, Emil Schult (ex-Kraftwerk collaborator) and Peter Hook (ex-New Order). • CD edition packaged in a cardboard digifile complete with a 16 page booklet. There were four members in Kraftwerk’s often mooted classic period from 1974’s ‘Autobahn’ to 1986’s ‘Electric Café’ and Wolfgang Flür was one of them, the band’s erstwhile electronic percussionist. Wolfgang Flür’s subsequent and celebrated emergence as a solo, creative electro-pop tour de force has been steadfast and determined. His early life’s musical immersion in Kraftwerk instilled a dramatic electronic / synth sensibility which has become, in his highly productive later life, a gift that keeps on giving with a dependability and surprise factor that has eluded many of his contemporaries. For now, he holds the torch for the continuing creativity of his generation of electronic music pioneers: inspiring and entertaining, while still pushing boundaries within his unique oeuvre of highly melodic, narrative led, retro- futurism. His music is immersive and though he grapples with the accelerated passing of time and the rapidity of changes therein, he does it with a celebratory optimism; a relentless, infectious hope for humanity.