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Former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flur to release brand new album Magazine 1

WOLFGANG FLÜR - MAGAZINE 1
BRAND NEW ALBUM released 4 March 2022 on CD / VINYL formats

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 Coxand 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.


Track Listing
1. Magazine [ft. Ramón Amezcua]
2. Zukunftsmusik [ft. U96]
3. Best Buy [ft. U96]
4. Das Beat [ft. Midge Ure]
5. Birmingham [ft. Claudia Brücken & Peter Hook]
6. Night Drive [ft. Anushka]
7. Electric Sheep [ft. Carl Cox & U96]
8. Billionaire (Symphony Of Might) [ft. Juan Atkins]
9. Say No! (ft. MAPS)