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[IIL] Kraftwerk, Cluster, Plank & Moebius – what contemporary acts should I check out?
reddit.comu/abazabazu — 5 hours ago
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▲ 3 r/kraftwerk
New Kraftwerk inspired release
Electronic Sound issue 137: "The sublime, gliding title track - reminiscent of early Kraftwerk"
This Swedish conceptual artist and producer has turned […] vending machines into art, but his latest project is inspired by something much more personal.
His own experience of suffering from an acute neurological disease is at the core of 'Self Help Manual'. Most of the 10 tracks were written in the lead-up to an ultrasound operation which eventually gave him 90 per cent of his mental faculties back. The sublime, gliding title track - reminiscent of early Kraftwerk - was penned in the immediate aftermath.
It's quite amazing that despite being so ill, he was able to make such beautiful music, revelling in the simplicity that his lack of motor skills lent to compositions like the throbbing, minimal opener
'Symmetry'. Other highlights include 'Overkill', a restrained electro groove underpinned with live bass guitar and sweet, melodic trimmings, while 'NAC' bubbles away with a quietly insistent acid undertow and 'Delta' also taps into the naivety of early Kraftwerk. Like the whole album, it is harmonious, gently joyous and utterly loveable, which in itself is quite the miracle.
Ben Willmott
https://open.spotify.com/album/0eDE5tInc1xhcKlVs76Hrr?si=_AKWbtqNRn6UQMCwMDVzyA
u/abazabazu — 6 hours ago
▲ 2 r/Krautrock
New kraut inspired release
Electronic Sound issue 137: "The sublime, gliding title track - reminiscent of early Kraftwerk"
This Swedish conceptual artist and producer has turned […] vending machines into art, but his latest project is inspired by something much more personal.
His own experience of suffering from an acute neurological disease is at the core of 'Self Help Manual'. Most of the 10 tracks were written in the lead-up to an ultrasound operation which eventually gave him 90 per cent of his mental faculties back. The sublime, gliding title track - reminiscent of early Kraftwerk - was penned in the immediate aftermath.
It's quite amazing that despite being so ill, he was able to make such beautiful music, revelling in the simplicity that his lack of motor skills lent to compositions like the throbbing, minimal opener
'Symmetry'. Other highlights include 'Overkill', a restrained electro groove underpinned with live bass guitar and sweet, melodic trimmings, while 'NAC' bubbles away with a quietly insistent acid undertow and 'Delta' also taps into the naivety of early Kraftwerk. Like the whole album, it is harmonious, gently joyous and utterly loveable, which in itself is quite the miracle.
Ben Willmott
https://open.spotify.com/album/0eDE5tInc1xhcKlVs76Hrr?si=_AKWbtqNRn6UQMCwMDVzyA
u/abazabazu — 6 hours ago
A room with a view
I found a wooden floor underneath my plastic rug. Ready to start working on the follow up to Autorhythm – Self Help Manual.
u/abazabazu — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/Selfhelpbooks
BBC Radio 6 on the life changing story behind Autorhythm – Self Help Manual
youtube.comu/abazabazu — 23 days ago
▲ 0 r/boardsofcanada
Thought this was Boc
At first I thought this was a new video from Boc. But then I realized it was released in 2023.
u/abazabazu — 23 days ago
▲ 39 r/dub
Dub legend Scientist remixing Doom Variations by AUTORHYTHM
youtube.comu/abazabazu — 23 days ago
Autorhythm - - Hand-Eye Coordination [kraut / avantgarde dub] (2022)
youtube.comu/abazabazu — 23 days ago
▲ 3 r/ambientmusic
“I was doing the editing more or less in bed.”
The nature of existence is a subject that also feeds into Forsgren’s music, particularly his latest album Autorhythm – Self Help Manual. He makes chunky electronica that draws from a spectrum of influences – motorik basslines, dubby textures, slices of techno, dashes of psychedelia in the vein of Mort Garson.
Forsgren’s musical innovations don’t stop there, as he found a way to incorporate his disease into ‘Self Help Manual’. We speak about the strange similarities between synthesisers and medical equipment – these hulking bits of machinery that hum and whir in rhythmic ways. Throughout the title track, the sounds of Forsgren’s medication pump can be heard through the microphone of his Ovation Magnum.
“On one of the songs, I think it’s on ‘Overkill’, my tremor is playing one of the synthesisers. It’s like this irregular pattern over and over. It’s playing somewhere in there. I had to reinvent how I played bass. I was both liberated and limited by my lack of dexterity.”
It’s these inspiring touches that make ‘Self Help Manual’ a unique and personal record, flying in the face of adversity when it could be so much easier to admit defeat.
u/abazabazu — 25 days ago
▲ 8 r/kraftwerk
You can hear the Krautrock influence immediately – “I love Kraftwerk and Cluster,” he tells us.
AUTORHYTHM – Self Help Manual is the second LP in a series that started with Forsgren’s 2023 album Songs For The Nervous System. It’s a terrific record, pulsing and whirring like some mechanical automaton that changes gears in ways you don’t expect. You can hear the Krautrock influence immediately (“I love Kraftwerk and Cluster,” he tells us).
Self Help Manual is also a deeply personal record for Forsgren. It was completed while he was going through treatment for a neurological condition that he doesn’t want to dignify in black and white – in his own words “a disease that I no longer wish to mention by its name”. First diagnosed in 2014, he thankfully received life-saving treatment in Switzerland last year. But the road to recovery has not been an easy one.
“I might not even be here if it wasn’t for the surgery,” he says...
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0eDE5tInc1xhcKlVs76Hrr?si=lYGeAIFKQGySu_ybUOf5BA
u/abazabazu — 26 days ago
▲ 6 r/Krautrock
You can hear the Krautrock influence immediately (“I love Kraftwerk and Cluster,” he tells us).
AUTORHYTHM – Self Help Manual is the second LP in a series that started with Forsgren’s 2023 album Songs For The Nervous System. It’s a terrific record, pulsing and whirring like some mechanical automaton that changes gears in ways you don’t expect. You can hear the Krautrock influence immediately (“I love Kraftwerk and Cluster,” he tells us).
Self Help Manual is also a deeply personal record for Forsgren. It was completed while he was going through treatment for a neurological condition that he doesn’t want to dignify in black and white – in his own words “a disease that I no longer wish to mention by its name”. First diagnosed in 2014, he thankfully received life-saving treatment in Switzerland last year. But the road to recovery has not been an easy one.
“I might not even be here if it wasn’t for the surgery,” he says...
https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2026/05/29/autorhythm-interview-we-are-more-than-the-sum-of-our-own-parts/
u/abazabazu — 27 days ago