 Let's do that musicologist. Yes. No I'm not. From ripping off sounds and techniques from Kraftwerk. They took one particular sound from a Kraftwerk song that they liked and kept playing it over and over and said they created something new:rolleyes:. One of those songs was It's More Fun To Compute, notice the steady house styled beat in the background, you'll see what I mean if you know House music. It won't let me embed this http://youtube.com/watch?v=4lX-9liNkoM You can hear where House music was ripped off from right there pretty well.  Kraftwerk was also a major influence in the genre of Chicago . 's (Farley Jackmaster Funk of the Hot Mix 5) recording 'Funkin With the Drums Again pays homage to Kraftwerk's Home Computer and It's More Fun to Compute, which are cult classics in Chicago's house-music history. No it wasn't it was KRAFTWERK KRAFTWERK AND MORE KRAFWERK. Also, Techno sounds nothing like House. Maybe you've never noticed. Kraftwerk invented what came to be known as Techno, negros from the Detroit suburbs immitated them and claimed to have invented something new. Thieves as usual. And..not all of those early Chicago House producers were Black , that's another lie.Whatever you say.  It's roots are with Kraftwerk, go to Europe and tell them Techno was invented by Blacks in Detroit and most people will not take you seriously and will be offended because unlike you, they know better.  Numerous artists have continued to  and pilfer various elements from Kraftwerk's catalog. The influence of Kraftwerk’s distinctive use of synthesizers, drum machine rhythms, and heavily effected vocals can also be heard on early  records. Detroit techno artists  and  tried to replicate Kraftwerk’s sound on early techno records such as ’s Clear (1983), ’s No UFOs (1985), and Derrick May’s Nude Photo (1986). LOL Urban ghettos of Detroit, BELLEVILLE?? The Belleville Three are from Belleville, MI it's a lily White, middle class suburb of Detroit, closer to being Ann Arbor than Detroit, urban ghettos my ass you don't know what you're talking about at all. The Belleville 3 were oreos Black on the outside, White on the inside, they were raised in a lily White, middle class suburban community listening to Kraftwerk and other European Electronic music, they ripped off the sound down to a T and tried to say they created something new. The American people at the time were not familiar with Kraftwerk and so some Americans believed them and it started to be known as Techno. Techno = Black oreos immitating Kraftwerk. Everyone knows that man. You guys are such liars and thieves, just because you immitate someone and give it a new name doesn't mean you created something you losers. They may have been fans of Hendrix or whatever but there is obviously no musical similarity whatsoever. They were mainly influenced by Classical composers and other, lesser known early European Electronic music pioneers. Without Kraftwerk there would be no Techno, Trance, Electro, Breakbeat, Hip Hop as we know it, Synth Pop, House etc... But they did! They even got sued over it!:rolleyes: How can Funk be purely Black when they play...Electric guitars and European originated brass instruments :D I don't get it. Please do not call Funk music art. The word Funk literally means a bad stench haha. Funk is a bad smell. They call it Funk because it stinks! haha. Yes, before they started ripping off Kraftwerk's Electronic beats which is what gave them the breakbeat they were busy ripping off Funk music, I am aware. But hip hop as we know it wouldn't be the same without the breakbeat, without the European, Electronic, Kraftwerk influence. Not at all.   That's an understatement.  But without Kraftwerk and European Electronic producers all rap/hip hop would be is talking over ripped off Funk beats. It wouldn't be anything like it is now or like the old skool 80s rap was.   .