German musician
Wolfgang Flur
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Born
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1947-07-17
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17 July 1947
(age 76)
Frankfurt
, Germany
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Genres
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Occupation(s)
| Musician
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Instrument(s)
| Percussion, keyboards
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Years active
| Late 1960s?present
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Website
| eloquence-wolfgangflur
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Musical artist
Wolfgang Flur
(born 17 July 1947) is a German musician, best known for playing percussion in the
electronic group
Kraftwerk
[1]
from 1973 to 1987. Flur claims that he invented the electric drums the group used throughout the 1970s. However, patent records dispute this, citing
Florian Schneider
and
Ralf Hutter
as the creators.
[2]
Background
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In the 1960s, Flur played an acoustic drum kit in the
Dusseldorf
band The Spirits of Sound, along with guitarist
Michael Rother
, who would also go on to play in Kraftwerk, and who would later form
Neu!
with Kraftwerk drummer
Klaus Dinger
.
Post-Kraftwerk
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In 1997, Flur founded the band Yamo and released the album
Time Pie
, a collaboration with
Mouse on Mars
. Yamo's next release, the 12"
I Was a Robot
, reached number 6 in the German club charts. Collaborations with
Pizzicato Five
and
Der Plan
founding member
Pyrolator
were announced, and the lyrics to a song called "Greed" appeared in Flur's autobiography, but this material remains unreleased.
In 2000, Flur published his autobiography,
Ich war ein Roboter
(English version:
I Was a Robot
).
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The book covers his youth, early career as a musician, sexual escapades, and some of his activity within Kraftwerk. Hutter and Schneider filed a lawsuit against Flur, causing a temporary halt of the publication and revision of parts that included disputed accounts of his time with the band.
Recently, Flur has been seen DJing in clubs, playing
tech house
and
electro
. He has also played electronic percussion with the German synthpop band Dyko in live shows and on their 2009 cover of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn". He has also performed under the moniker "Musik Soldat".
Japanese singer
Maki Nomiya
's 2005 album
Party People
included the song "Yamate Line," with songwriting and co-production credited to Flur/Yamo.
On 16 October 2015, Flur released his first solo album under his own name, entitled
Eloquence
.
[4]
Flur announced three new collaboration albums, the first of which, "Magazine 1", to be released in February 2022.
On 4 September 2020, Flur collaborated with German dance act
U96
to release
Transhuman
, it featured 3 new songs from Flur, the only songs he's released in 5 years.
On 12 May 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
with Flur being one of the inductees along with Schneider, Hutter and
Karl Bartos
.
[5]
Wolfgang's second solo album,
Magazine 1
, was released on 4 March 2022, and included collaborations with Peter Duggal,
Peter Hook
, Maps, Carl Cox, Claudia Brucken and
Midge Ure
.
[6]
A third solo album from Flur is planned for September 2024, titled
Time
. It will feature collaborations with
Thomas Bangalter
, Peter Hook,
Juan Atkins
, and more.
[7]
Discography
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Solo
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Albums
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With Kraftwerk
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Albums
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Singles
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- "Guiding Ray" (1996)
- "Stereomatic" (1996)
- "I Was a Robot" (2004)
Collaborations
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- Maki Nomiya
? "Yamate Line" (featured on the album
Party People
, 2005)
- Dyko feat. Wolfgang Flur ? "Autobahn" (B side to the single "In Ordnung", 2009)
- Empire State Human feat. Wolfgang Flur/Yamo ? "Melancholic Afro" (featured on the album
Audio Gothic
, 2009)
- Giorgio Li Calzi
feat. Wolfgang Flur ? "Freakin' Out" (featured on the compilation
Switched on Bob: A Tribute To
Bob Moog
, 2009)
- Cultural Attaches feat. Wolfgang Flur ? "Golden Light" (featured on the
Lazy Summer Vol 2
compilation, mixed by Chris Coco; 2011)
- U96 feat. Wolfgang Flur ? "Zukunftsmusik" (featured on the album "REBOOT"; 2018)
- U96 feat. Wolfgang Flur ? "Hildebrandslied" (featured on the album "REBOOT"; 2018)
- Anni Hogan feat. Wolfgang Flur ? "Golden Light" "Silk Paper" (featured on the album
Lost In Blue
, 2019)
- U96 feat. Wolfgang Flur ? "Transhuman" (2020)
- Newmen feat. Wolfgang Flur -
Futur I
(featured on the album
Futur II
(2021)
Videography
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(Ahmet Ertegun Award)
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