Big fan of kraftwerk over the years but there must be other bands making electronic music around that time, no Giorgio moroder please. The more obscure the better.

Anyone go to Tate? TEE would of been my choice.

Tonto’s Expanding Headband

White Noise

The residents o_O

Do The Art of Noise count?

Anyone go to Tate? TEE would of been my choice.

Yes, had two tickets for Techno Pop.
Would have preferred The Mix but by the time I got through (after most of a day spent hitting redial!) the only tickets left were for Techno Pop. It was actually a brilliant gig, most of the TP album but with a few other bits thrown in including the excellent Autobahn complete with really simple but beautifully done 3D graphics.

Yello

Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis?

Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis

They were hardly overshadowed, though…

CaptainFlashheart – Member

Do The Art of Noise count?

Not sure, but ‘The Art Of Noises’ does. 😀

Have a bit of Terry Riley: 🙂
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2CEh66gTg[/video]
Rock. And indeed, Roll.

Yellow Magic Orchestra?

Also around the same time, the band’s future “fourth member” Hideki Matsutake was the assistant for the internationally successful electronic musician Isao Tomita. Much of the methods and techniques developed by both Tomita and Matsutake during the early 1970s would later be employed by Yellow Magic Orchestra.[2][17] Other early influences on the band included Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder.[1] The former was particularly an influence on Sakamoto, who heard the band in the mid-1970s and later introduced them to his fellow band members.[18] They were impressed with Kraftwerk’s “very formalized” style but wanted to avoid imitating their “very German” approach. According to Sakamoto, they were “tired” of Japanese musicians imitating Western and American music at the time and so they wanted to “make something very original from Japan.”[18] He described Kraftwerk’s music as “theoretical, very focused, simple and minimal and strong,” contrasting it with YMO’s “very Japanese” approach of fusing many different styles of music like a “bento box.”[14] Their alternative template for electronic pop was less minimalistic, made more varying use of synthesizer lines, introduced “fun-loving and breezy” sounds,[19] and placed a strong emphasis on melody.[18]

Very similar to Kraftwerk:

Harmonia

Have you heard of Giorgio Moroder? He’ll take your breath away.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbrS3Msgww&list=FLdPJd8Ku9jbhbURQPMuQSjA[/video]

Kitaro

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb0VVG9bvd8&list=UU_eQTR18f-kcgVj-S03RZhw&index=1[/video]

Cabaret Voltaire.

krautrock wasn’t it?….wiki has a few options

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kB9LRZ0sAs[/video]

utter class

I freakin love that Stereolab track. What about early OMD or Tubeway Army?