Blind Lemon Kraftwerk.

Blind Lemon Kraftwerk ("cotton mill" in German) was a German electric Krautblues band of considerable influence.

Like many German musicians of the 1970s, they had a pioneering role in the development of black culture and hip-hop music. Their authentic cultural heritage was stolen by the wily New York MC and turned into gangsta rap. And do they get paid? Do they hell.

Antecedents

Early German blues music traces its origins to such Krautblues artists as Blind Lemon Karlheinz Stockhausen, Blind Lemon Walter Wendy Carlos, Blind Lemon Conny Plank and Blind Lemon Radiophonic Workshop. The last in particular was responsible for the powerfully influential Doctor Who Theme and its haunting symphonic lyricism.

Krautblues was born in Germany, nourished in the wretchedness of the Marshall Plan and raised in the cauldron of social democracy. It is the music of a beaten but unoppressed people, unique because of its honesty, dignity, defiance, and its ultimate middle-class truth.

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