That voice heard in Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and the sound of Peter Frampton's guitar speaking like a human. Both are lumped together as "robot voices," but when you listen to them side-by-side, they ...

While Cher, Britney, and Kid Rock have twiddled the Vocoder in their day, Kraftwerk was probably the first band to really remind us of the techno-hell we’re descending into by opened Autobahn with the ...

The collection includes a "treasure trove of synths, drum machines, and vocoders" alongside an extensive number of historic woodwind and brass instruments When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Sale includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France video He was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced ...

Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider met as students at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf in the late 1960s. They formed Kraftwerk in 1970; the name is the German word for “power plant.” After ...

The vocoder—part military technology, part musical instrument—has had quite a history. In our new Object of Interest video, we explore the vocoder in settings ranging from the Second World War to ...

Florian Schneider, co-founder of electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, died in 2020 and now a massive collection of his instruments, equipment and memorabilia is going up for auction via Julien’s ...

Here’s an unfamiliar scene from the front entrance of the Museum of Modern Art last Friday: a shady looking bald man was saying, “You got any extra tickets?” sounding more like he was trying to score ...

If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...