Wolfgang Flür

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1947, Wolfgang Flür first played in several bands on the West German scene of the 1960s before joining the Düsseldorf quartet Kraftwerk in 1973. He initially served as a studio percussionist and later as an electronic percussionist until 1987. Flür’s trajectory is linked to the period in which the band developed a rigorous, repetitive and melodic form of electronic music, sitting between krautrock, synthetic pop and a machinic aesthetic. He contributed to albums such as Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981) and Electric Café (1986), while also helping to produce stage and studio equipment at Kling Klang. After leaving the group, Wolfgang Flür pursued a more personal project under the name Yamo with Time Pie (1996), made with Mouse on Mars, and continued solo with a body of work that blends electro-pop, spoken word and retrofuturist textures, documented among others by Eloquence: Complete Works (2015).