Florian Schneider

[Egyptian Feast]

I've been seeing an increasing number of posts on Facebook and Twitter this morning saying he's died. No confirmation yet, so hopefully this will sink or turn into another Kraftwerk appreciation thread.

[mrClaypole]

I can't find anything on the web. I hope its not true.

[wosl]

This would be horrid if true. Hope like mad the baldy old boffin's all right. (This reminds me that I once put the willies up dear old Serge by creating a thread about Florian that featured just his name in the title.)

[Egyptian Feast]

It all seems to have started from a post on Mark Reeder's Facebook page. There's plenty of people posting about him on Twitter now and someone apparently updated his Wikipedia page earlier, though it seems to have changed back. I'm going to assume it's bollocks for now.

[PaulTMA]

I can't get this to load, but saw it in my newsfeed.  Don't know if it's been pulled or what
https://louderthanwar.com/florian-schneider-kraftwerk-rip/

[Egyptian Feast]

It's not working for me either. There seems to be more and more tributes appearing to him on Twitter, a couple of which cited Louder Than War.

[alan nagsworth]

A lot of places reporting this now...

[steveh]

Billboard are saying they confirmed it: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/9372433/florian-schneider-dead-kraftwerk-co-founder-dies

[Crabwalk]

Agh, atrocious news. Tony Allen going last week was bad enough.

[imitationleather]

Oh bums. :'(

[Dewt]

Das ist scheiße.

[Inspector Norse]

Sure there are some robot jokes coming (planned obsolescence?) but this is sad to hear. Such an important, influential and interesting guy. RIP

[wosl]

A huge shame.  One of those people you can't begin to do justice to at a time and in a thread like this. .

[Cuntbeaks]

Was watching the Beat Club videos of him along with Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger at the weekend, again. For me, the most potent Kraftwerk line up that ever existed.

The whole 'robotnik' thing got old for me very quickly, yes it was groundbreaking, but they booted the arse right out of it.

The first three Kraftwerk albums have been criminally overlooked with recent remasters etc. An absolute travesty.

Farewell Florian, hopefully you're playing the techno flute up there with Klaus again.

[wosl]

There's that footage of a Hütter/Schneider/Klaus Dinger line-up doing a live version of Ruckzuck that Florian absolutely makes with some dreamy flute passages.  Kraftwerk 2 and Ralf And Florian are terrific, and it's a shame that Ralf seems to have reneged on giving them the dust-off-and-brush-up reissue treatment. 

[Egyptian Feast]

Bollocks, I was hoping it wasn't true. RIP.

[mrClaypole]

Its true. I'm really quite upset. I hope he was working on some music in the 12 years he was out of Kraftwerk that we might get to hear.
Sad sad day. R.I.P Herr Schneider

[Danger Man]

sob

[Joy Nktonga]

Das ist scheiße.

Das ist sehr scheiße! Bloody horrible news. RIP Florian.

[chveik]

that's really sad indeed.

[Gregory Torso]

Very shit news. A cool guy. A genuine pioneer. It's fucking mad the influence Kraftwerk had.

[Absorb the anus burn]

Numbers (Up) RIP.

[Jockice]

There's that footage of a Hütter/Schneider/Klaus Dinger line-up doing a live version of Ruckzuck that Florian absolutely makes with some dreamy flute passages.  Kraftwerk 2 and Ralf And Florian are terrific, and it's a shame that Ralf seems to have reneged on giving them the dust-off-and-brush-up reissue treatment.

A mate of mine used to play Ruckzuck on the record player in the sixth form common room just to annoy people. It usually worked. Kraftwerk was the third proper concert I went to. And Florian was my favourite member, basically cos he really looked like a mad professor. Saw them again ten years later but couldn't get tickets last time they played the same venue but I wasn't too bothered because it was just Ralf Hutter and some other blokes.

I hope his brother Fred's not taking it too badly.

[Natnar]

I'm the operator with my pocket corpse cremator :(.

[Sin Agog]

A mate of mine used to play Ruckzuck on the record player in the sixth form common room just to annoy people.

Must admit, I'm more of a fan of that first Kraftwerk record than most of their later stuff.  I just love that first year or two of freakout krautisms courtesy of things like Kluster/Cluster 1, Electronic Meditation, Monster Movie, German Oak etc.  It's all like a lot of the best post-psyche stuff, violent, occasionally sepulchral, always paranoid, and completely at odds with the love-ins afoot elsewhere.  Can see why the 'verk would want to distance themselves from such a rudely undisciplined phase in their development, but wadda they know?

[sevendaughters]

controversially I like all their stuff pretty much and think it was awesome how he never really broke kayfabe

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Christ , terrible news :(

[DrGreggles]

Shit news.
RIP.

[kalowski]

The first three Kraftwerk albums have been criminally overlooked with recent remasters etc. An absolute travesty.

Yes, genius works. Loved the later stuff too. RIP you big dumkoff.

[greencalx]

Musik. Ist stop.