Karl Bartos
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Karl Bartos was born on 31 May 1952 in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Between 1975 and 1991 Bartos, along with Wolfgang Flür, was an electronic percussionist in the Electronic music quartet known as Kraftwerk. He was originally recruited to play on their US "Autobahn" tour, and his improvisations were an essential part of the earlier Kraftwerk recordings. He later left the group, when the founding members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider became increasingly perfectionist in their attitude towards recording and releasing their music.
In 1992 Bartos founded Elektric Music, performing a style somewhat similar to Kraftwerk. This new project would release Esperanto in 1994 and then Electric Music in 1998. In between the two albums, Bartos collaborated with Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr on Electronic's 1996 album Raise the Pressure, and co-wrote material with Andy McCluskey which appeared on both Esperanto and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Universal album.
In 2003 he released the techno album Communication, featuring such songs as "I'm the Message", "Camera" and "Ultraviolet".
[edit] Discography
With Kraftwerk
- 1975: Radio-Activity
- 1977: Trans-Europe Express
- 1978: The Man-Machine
- 1981: Computer World
- 1983: Tour de France (Single)
- 1986: Electric Café
- 1991: The Mix (sound-data programming)
With Elektric Music
- 1993: Esperanto
With Electronic
- 1996: Raise the Pressure
With Elektric Music (now Electric Music)
- 1998: Electric Music
As Karl Bartos
- 2003: Communication
| Kraftwerk |
| Ralf Hütter | Florian Schneider |
| Karl Bartos | Wolfgang Flür | Fritz Hilpert | Henning Schmitz | Emil Schult |
| Discography |
| Albums: Tone Float (as Organisation) | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk 2 | Ralf und Florian | Autobahn | Radio-Activity | Trans-Europe Express | The Man-Machine | Computer World | Electric Café | Tour de France Soundtracks |
| Live and Compilations albums Exceller 8 | The Mix | Klang Box | Minimum – Maximum | The Catalogue |
| Non-album singles: Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie | Tour de France | Expo 2000 |
| Videography |
| Minimum – Maximum (DVD) |
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