Hier ein Statement von Grandmaster Flash über Kraftwerk:
Q)- You were the only DJ to take the electronic music of the German techno rock band Kraftwerk and invented the music which later would become today’s hip-hop genre.
Grandmaster Flash- Kraftwerk was a hip-hop record for me. At the hip-hop parties, the music on the albums by Kraftwerk was a way for me to take a brief break after playing twenty records in five minutes time or even two hundred records in twenty minutes time. No one at these parties had ever even heard of Kraftwerk or the music by Kraftwerk, so I would play the record to take a break.
(Q)- Why was that important?
Grandmaster Flash- The key was that I’d keep the crowd at those parties moving. I’d never let them be idle, I’d never let them take a break. That is how I was the innovator of hip-hop. I always wanted to keep the crowd moving on the dance floor. And that is still my point today, I don’t ever want to let the people on the dance floor be idle. And there were very few records that passed that test. Kraftwerk had music that happened to be one of those records.I was the only person who they ever licensed the record to. So, that was a very important moment in history for me.
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