Do you know this about kraftwerk?

• Kraftwerk is internationally known as architects of electronic music. Since then, their popularity help put the genre on the map of popular music.

• Before all the synthesizers, vocoders, drum machines, and Casio calculators, they were a part of West Germany's krautrock scene.

• "Robot pop," is their self-described style of pop and electronic music. Uniform rhythms and matching suits all helped magnify the style.

• Their music has influenced several genres and artists of yesteryear and today, such as techno, synth pop, and ambient.

• Artists like Daft Punk, Gary Numan, Afrika Bambaataa, David Bowie, and ol' I'm going to run for president Kanye West are among the influenced.

• The massive cerebral pioneer of electronic music, Aphex Twin, a constructor of genres such as IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), said: Kraftwerk's album "Computer World" heavily inspired his sound.

• Schneider and Hutter met as students in the late 1960's. They were in a band called Organisation, which released the album Tone Float in 1969 before their split.

• Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger from the band Neu were among the initial Kraftwerk members.

• The Recording Academy gave Kraftwerk a Lifetime Achievement award in 2014. They also won a Grammy Award for Best Dance and Electronic album for their live 3-D The Catalogue album in 2018.