Ok, and let us not forget Eno/Michael Rother/Neu!/Moebius/Roedelius
(Cluster), Connie Plank, and other German Prog-gies. I find a lot of
their material has aged better and holds up a little more strongly than
Kraftwerk as a pre-cursor, who seem to be--to me anyway--rather dreary
and overly-pretentious. Anyone who caught their tour/side show last
year might agree--they are too easy to parody; in fact, they're doing
it themselves. The Tour De France Soundtracks make me think of
hampsters running on wheels. Harmonia's "Tracks and Traces" is a truer
grandaddy of "Geogaddi" than "Autobahn" (and most certainly "Electric
Cafe" ;)
just my 2 cents,
m*