Kraftwerk from Germany had a lot to do with the origins of current electro music as we know it today, with many new artists forming right out of Germany.
Answers.com: “In the 1970s, the electronic style was revolutionised by the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk, who used electronics and robotics to symbolise and sometimes gleefully celebrate the alienation of the modern technological world. To this day their music remains uncompromisingly electronic.[citation needed] In Germany particularly electronic sounds were incorporated into popular music by bands such as Cluster, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Can, Popol Vuh, DAF and others.”
Projecta: “At the start of the seventies there were many bands in Germany which were part of a movement the outside world called ‘Krautrock’. Krautrock was seen as an reaction of many young German musicians to the influence of American guitarrock imported by military personnel throughout the country it was also a way for many young musicians to react in their own way to the memory of the war and what role their parents or grandparents had played a part in that.”
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