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Kraftwerkian
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English
Etymology
From en Kraftwerk ian.
Adjective
Of or relating to the pioneering German electronic music group Kraftwerk (formed in 1970).
en 2004 Phoebe Hoban Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art 47 He was this Kraftwerkian techno-creature, sort of a caricature of the future.
en 2009 SPIN December 30 Just tap and slide a finger along this pocket-size synth's touchpad to create your own Kraftwerkian sounds.
en 2010 Stuart Lenig The Twisted Tale of Glam Rock 79 Producer Rhett Davies played a key role in the band's sound, adding a cleaner, more Germanic Kraftwerkian sheen.
en 2011 Sean Albiez; David Pattie Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop 201 Kraftwerkian masculinity is calculated and rational. By replacing themselves with static, emotionless robots, and quietly laughing about it, Kraftwerk posed as a team of characterless, almost faceless, male technologists engineering a hypnotic spectacle of electronic dance music.
Translations
French: fr kraftwerkien
German: de kraftwerkisch
Italian: it kraftwerkiano
Spanish: es kraftwerkiano