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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (, ) is a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk was among the first successful acts to popularise the genre. The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders. Wolfgang Flür joined in 1973 and Karl Bartos in 1975.
Tangerine Dream
German music group
La Bouche
German band
KMFDM
KMFDM (originally Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid, loosely translated by the band as "No Sympathy for the Majority") is a multinational industrial rock band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art project.
Die Krupps
German musical group
Snap!
Snap! is a German Eurodance group formed in 1989 by record producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has undergone several lineup changes over the years, featuring American singers, songwriters, and rappers such as Thea Austin, Turbo B, Niki Haris, and Penny Ford. Their most popular hits include "The Power" (1990) and "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (1992), both of which achieved no. 1 in the charts of multiple countries.
Mr. President
German band
Cosmic Gate
German DJ duo
Ash Ra Tempel
German musical group; krautrock band of the 1970s
Popol Vuh
German band
Blutengel
Blutengel (; stylized BlutEngel; German for "Blood Angel") is a German electronic music group formed by singer Chris Pohl (also of the groups Terminal Choice, Tumor and Miss Construction and the owner of the Fear Section label) after leaving Seelenkrank. The lyrics are written primarily in German and English and are presented with male and female vocals. The themes of the songs usually centre around themes common in Gothic fiction such as love, vampirism, sexual fetishism, death and immortality. The band calls their musical style "dark pop".
U96
U96 is a German musical project formed by DJ and producer Alex Christensen, and a team of producers named Matiz (Ingo Hauss, Helmut Hoinkis, and Hayo Lewerentz). After a decade-long hiatus, the band returned in 2018 without Christensen and Hoinkis.
Fragma
Fragma is a German vocal trance music group, originally comprising three producers. The group was successful in the early 2000s when they released several singles that charted successfully across Europe, especially the United Kingdom and Ireland, but also found some success in the United States and Australia. They continued to produce music until 2012 following the departure of vocalist Damae. After several years of hiatus, Fragma recruited a new vocalist in 2017, Tess, to front the group.
Unheilig
Unheilig (German for "Unholy") is a German band that draws from a variety of influences, including various pop and electronic styles as well as heavier, nihilistic hard rock. The band was founded in Aachen in 1999 and principally consisted of singer Bernd Heinrich "Der Graf" (the Count) along with various musical partners. He was accompanied for live shows by musicians Christoph "Licky" Termühlen, Henning Verlage, and Martin "Potti" Potthoff. The group's debut, Phosphor, came out in 2000.
Masterboy
Masterboy is a German Eurodance group best known in Europe for the hits "Feel the Heat of the Night", "Anybody (Movin' On)", "I Got to Give It Up", "Generation of Love", "Everybody Needs Somebody" and "Is This the Love".
D.A.F.
German band
Maxx
Eurodance act from Germany
666
German musical group
Deine Lakaien
German band
Polarkreis 18
German band
Propaganda
German musical group; synthpop band
Atari Teenage Riot
German digital hardcore band
Magic Affair
German eurodance band
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Wumpscut (stylised as :wumpscut: or simply :w:) is a gothic-influenced electro-industrial music project from Germany. It was founded in May 1991 by Bavarian disc jockey Rudolf "Rudy" Ratzinger (born 1966). Through 2016, Rudy Ratzinger released seventeen studio albums plus a number of compilations: demos, compilation tracks, and remixes from deleted singles and EPs.
Cluster
German experimental musical group
Zombie Nation
former band German musician
Stereo Total
band
Moderat
Moderat is a German electronic music supergroup originating in Berlin between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Modeselektor members Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The band have released four studio albums to date, their most recent being More D4ta, released on May 13, 2022. The group was voted "The #1 Live Act of the Year" in 2009 by the readers of Resident Advisor.
Tyske Ludder
German band
Captain Hollywood Project
German music project
Qntal
Qntal is a German "electro-medieval" band founded in 1991 by Michael Popp and Ernst Horn. They later added vocalist Syrah (Sigrid Hausen) to complete the band.
Project Pitchfork
German band
Q695385
De-Phazz is a German downtempo and jazz ensemble founded in 1997, whose music integrates modern turntablism and elements of Latin, soul, trip hop and drum and bass into a lounge music sound. De-Phazz is led by Pit Baumgartner, a German producer who has varied the lineup of band members for every new album. However, some regular members are Barbara Lahr, Karl Frierson and Pat Appleton. Discoverer and namesake of De-Phazz was Haluk Soyoğlu, who also released the first albums on Mole and later on founded Phazz-a-delic New Format Recordings (https://phazzadelic.com) as innovative music label toget
Diorama
German electropop band
The Notwist
German rock band
Von Thronstahl
German martial-industrial band
Jam & Spoon
German trance duo
Terminal Choice
German electronic rock band
Pharao
Pharao is a German Eurodance act produced by Alexander Hawking and DJ Stevie Steve. The band was fronted by Egyptian-Indian singer Kyra Pharao (Claudia Banerjee) (born 17 January 1971) and American rapper Deon Blue (born 20 January 1970). Pharao released two studio albums, Pharao (1994) and The Return (1998).
La Düsseldorf
band
Neuroticfish
Neuroticfish is a German musical project whose styles are borrowed from electronic body music, futurepop, and synthpop, as well as other types of electronic music. It has released music on the Dancing Ferret Discs record label.
Baracuda
German electronic band
Lali Puna
German band
Heimataerde
Heimatærde is a German electro-industrial band with a medieval motif. It was created as a studio project by Disc jockey Ashlar von Megalon (DJ Ash) in 2004.
SITD
SITD, stylised [:SITD:], is a German EBM and industrial band consisting of vocalist Carsten Jacek and keyboardist Francesco "Frank" D'Angelo, the name an acronym for Shadows in the Dark.
Harmonia
German band
Pan-Pot
Pan-Pot is the name of the Berlin-based techno duo, German DJs and music producers Tassilo Ippenberger and Thomas Benedix.
Agonoize
Agonoize is a German aggrotech band consisting of Mike Johnson (composition, programming, production and mastering), Oliver Senger (composition and programming) and Chris L (lyrics and vocals).
Highland
German dance/hip hop group
Rotersand
Rotersand is a German electronic music act, formed in September 2002 by musician/producer Gun and singer Rascal with dance music producer/DJ Krischan J.E. Wesenberg joining them shortly after. Rotersand's music can generally be described as futurepop; the band themselves refer to it as "industrial pop."
Basic Channel
German music duo
Moonbootica
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Split Mirrors
German Synthie-Pop-Band
Die Tödliche Doris
German performance art and music group
Monolake
Monolake is a German electronic music project founded in 1995, initially consisting of members Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke. Monolake is now being perpetuated by Henke while Behles has focused on running the music software company Ableton, which they founded in 1999 together with Bernd Roggendorf. In 2004, Torsten Pröfrock became a member of the project. Monolake is now perpetuated by Henke alone.
Music Instructor
German electro-dance music project
Liaisons Dangereuses
German new wave band
Hypetraxx
Hypetraxx is a German band composed of Cengiz Özmaden, Frank Kuchinke and Jesse B. Foerster.
RMB
band
Ganymed
Austrian/German band