RIP Florian Schneider

[A_Northern_Soul]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... es-aged-73

There can't be many musicians who have so completely shaped virtually all contemporary music: I think the Beatles are the closest comparison. There can't be anyone making electronic music who can't trace an influence back to Kraftwerk.

[Mexicola]

Man, that's a kick in the nuts. Sad day.

[noisy]

Very sad. Kraftwerk were truly innovative early on. And Dave greenfield of The Stranglers Sadly passed away as well, another great exponent of the keyboards.

[Moloch]

Makes me much sadder that I'm willing to admit. RIP.

[mechanismj]

Dammit. That is sad. He was a legend.

I am still seeing them live in June, as far as I know.

[jcnporter]

Absolute giant of 20th century culture.

[mechanismj]

KEEP YOUR PLANET CLEAN!

[Josh]

RIP.

I still haven't seen Kraftwerk live. I hope I can remedy that.

[turquoise70]

Agree with all the above.

This one hurt a lot. These will be among my saddest listen-throughs of Autobahn or Computer World ever in my life.

[Rikkiebags]

Caught Kraftwerk last night in Bournemouth on their Multimedia tour. Whilst it was lovely to have a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto and a cover of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, it's strange that no tribute not mention made of Florian.

[turquoise70]

That's..... interesting, to say the least... maybe it was his wish not to be? I dunno

[mechanismj]

Caught Kraftwerk last night in Bournemouth on their Multimedia tour. Whilst it was lovely to have a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto and a cover of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, it's strange that no tribute not mention made of Florian.

It has been a number of years. Did they do that closer to when he passed?

[llydia]

KEEP YOUR PLANET CLEAN!

A lot of comments say this was his final song, may he rest in peace by the way, but this true?

[Rikkiebags]

Caught Kraftwerk last night in Bournemouth on their Multimedia tour. Whilst it was lovely to have a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto and a cover of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, it's strange that no tribute not mention made of Florian.

It has been a number of years. Did they do that closer to when he passed?

It's just a wee bit odd, since Sakamoto died in 2023, but the tribute only started last winter (Autumn 2025) with only one prior performance according to setlist.fm: https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/kraf ... d=1bc71154

I can't find evidence of a Hutter tribute to Schneider. No insight at all, just something that struck me as strange.

[Samplehunter]

Caught Kraftwerk last night in Bournemouth on their Multimedia tour. Whilst it was lovely to have a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto and a cover of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, it's strange that no tribute not mention made of Florian.

It has been a number of years. Did they do that closer to when he passed?

It's just a wee bit odd, since Sakamoto died in 2023, but the tribute only started last winter (Autumn 2025) with only one prior performance according to setlist.fm: https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/kraf ... d=1bc71154

I can't find evidence of a Hutter tribute to Schneider. No insight at all, just something that struck me as strange.

Yes, that's quite strange, we never knew the reason of Florian leaving the band 12 years before leaving us, and let's say that's it's up to Ralf finally, but even if they finished on bad terms for whatever reason, there's no excuse for not paying tribute to Florian while he did it for Ryuichi.