Karl Bartos

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Karl Bartos (2005)

Karl Bartos (* 31 May 1952 in Marktschellenberg as Karlheinz Bartos ) is a German musician, DJ , music producer , songwriter and former member of the band Kraftwerk (1975 to 1991).

Life

Karl Bartos (2005)

Bartos first played in the Anthony String Group and together with Bodo Staiger and Marius Müller-Westernhagen for Sinus . From 1970 to 1976 he studied piano , vibraphone and drums at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf . A lecturer put Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in contact , who were looking for a drummer for Kraftwerk's live performances . Bartos became a band member in 1975 and was co-composer of several titles from 1978 until his retirement in 1991, including Tour de France , The Model and The Telephone Call . The latter is the only band title for which Bartos contributed the vocals; both for the 1986 album version of Electric Café and for the remixes released a year later (7 "and 12" singles).

While working on The Mix , Bartos left the band in 1991 and began working with the former Rheingold musician Lothar Manteuffel under the project name Elektric Music . In 1993 the only album Esperanto was released . The collaboration ended the following year.

From 1994 he worked with Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr on the second album of the Electronic Raise the Pressure project . Bartos has also worked as a producer, songwriter or remixer for various international artists such as OMD , Anthony Rother , Flatz and Deine Lakaien . Clearly shaped by the collaboration with Electronic, a solo album was released in 1998 under the new name Electric Music . Both the name change and the style of music clearly differed from the style of the previous project. Unlike Esperanto , an album clearly influenced by Kraftwerk, this release was shaped by his work with Sumner and Marr. It's guitar pop with echoes of the Beatles . The album and singles were not very successful.

It wasn't until 2003 that an album under his own name was released for the first time with Communication . In the following years Bartos went on tour and participated in festivals.

Since the summer semester of 2004, Bartos has been teaching auditive media design in the Sound Studies course as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin . In the same year, he took part in the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival with the music video I'm the Message , where he was also part of the jury.

In 2013 his album Off The Record was released , with which he also goes on tour in Berlin and Copenhagen, among other places. It entered the German album charts at number 44 and was described as "the best Kraftwerk record in 30 years" in the predominantly positive reviews.

“While Hütter manages the band's legacy with his rightly celebrated appearances in museums such as the Tate Gallery, Bartos draws a bridge into the modern age. And in some moments he is closer to the great, groundbreaking albums of discography than he himself might want to admit. "

On August 25, 2017, the Eichborn Verlag published the autobiography of Karl Bartos with the title The Sound of the Machine .

Discography

With power plant

As Elektric Music

  • 1992: Crosstalk (single)
  • 1993: Esperanto (album)
  • 1993: TV / Lifestyle (single)

As Electric Music

  • 1998: Electric Music (album)
  • 1998: Sunshine / Call On Me (single)
  • 1999: The Young Urban Professional (single)

solo

  • 2000: 15 Minutes of Fame (single)
  • 2003: Communication (album)
  • 2003: I'm The Message (single)
  • 2005: Camera Obscura (single)
  • 2013: Atomium (single)
  • 2013: Off The Record (Album)
  • 2016: Life (single)

Awards

  • 2004: HOW's International Design Award
  • 2004: iF Communication Design Award , "iF silver award" in the "digital media.animation" category
  • Red Dot Design Award , "Communication Design" category
  • 2014: Grammy Award in the category “Lifetime Achievement Award” as part of the band Kraftwerk
  • 2014: The Man with the Golden Ear award

literature

  • Karl Bartos: The sound of the machine. Autobiography. Eichborn, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8479-0617-9 .
  • David Buckley: Kraftwerk: The Unauthorized Biography . In collaboration with Nigel Forrest. From the English by Henning Dedekind and Heike Schlatterer. Foreword by Karl Bartos. Metrolit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8493-0305-1 . (Original English edition: Kraftwerk. Publication. Omnibus Press, London 2012, ISBN 9781847729316 )
  • Rüdiger Esch: "Electri_City. Electronic Music from Düsseldorf", Suhrkamp Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-51846464-9

Web links

Commons : Karl Bartos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Bartos: The sound of the machine. Autobiography. 2017, ISBN 978-3-8479-0617-9 ..
  2. ↑ “When I hear the Beatles, I cry.” An interview with Karl Bartos in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 10, 2010
  3. ↑ Burger Highlife Musicians Short biography of Bodo Staiger on the homepage of the Goethe Institute
  4. ^ Laut.de biography of Karl Bartos on laut.de
  5. ↑ Frank Schmiechen: Karl Bartos only communicated with Kraftwerk via a lawyer in Die Welt on April 27, 2013
  6. ↑ a b Jürgen Ziemer: Karl Bartos: The Hit Machine in Die Zeit on March 24, 2013
  7. ↑ biography Karl Bartos at Allmusic (English)
  8. ↑ Constantin Aravanlis: Karl Bartos - Off The Record ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on web.de on March 16, 2013
  9. ↑ List: Prize winners and jury members 2004 (en) of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  10. ↑ Musicline.de: Karl Bartos - Longplay Chart Tracking ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 23, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musicline.de
  11. ↑ Christoph Dallach: Ex-Kraftwerk-member Bartos: A robot with a face. Spiegel Online , March 29, 2013, accessed January 7, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Ulf Kubanke: The ex-robot makes the best power plant plate for 30 years. Laut.de , March 15, 2013, accessed January 7, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Markus Bellmann: Second from the left. Plattentest.de , March 29, 2013, accessed January 7, 2014 .
  14. ↑ a b weissraum , see Gallery> Artist Branding> Karl Bartos
  15. ↑ iF communication design award 2004 ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , online at prev-ifdesign09.ifdesign.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / prev-ifdesign09.ifdesign.de
  16. ↑ news 2014-01-10 , online at karlbartos.com
  17. ↑ news 2014-11-12 + 2014-08-06 , online at karlbartos.com
personal data
SURNAME Bartos, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Marktschellenberg