head to spotify. every week pop export publishes a new playlist on spotify with twenty songs all made in germany. you'll also find chart toppers new releases and classic hits the follow up export on spotify. from early on traffic wanted to perform what they called musical paintings and fittingly in recent years they've been staging their fusion of sound and vision at museums around the world one of the standout shows was at the noir lets you know gallery in berlin with. a multimedia installation petering robot. and know its profit.

on top. for the robots mannequins take the place of the musicians but only for this one track. in january twenty fifth teen perform their principal albums here in eight evenings the three d. concerts were sold out in minutes. taken on the job for fourteen years and that's still chalked up on a fun time testing the technically perfect three d. show i've never experienced anything like it the precision is stunning and so i'm not seeing the idols of mine used to live on stage is just incredible and. ski is professor of media and cultural studies at the university of dissent or for years he's been following come back as a fan and in an academic capacity. and with an icy foam and i was the consistent use of. synthesisers

a mission of classic instruments the avoidance of a classic song structure. that was all very new back then. never resorted to classic rock cliches they were inspired by artistic style such as constructionism their concept of the merging of man and machine was perfectly embodied by the cycle of their music and style influenced generations of musicians . with fact there would be no british post-punk no new way without a back of hip hop would never have existed without fact there would have been no techno or house. photographer paper butcher has accompanied the musicians since the early one nine hundred ninety s. and his images are central concept the interface of man and machine he put them

together in the exhibit the robots. photos represent the total work of all of the craft. the photos embody the visual concept of man machine as. i try to blur the line between man and machine. the viewer shouldn't be able to figure out what the motif is a robot or a real person. have become regular museum guests in two thousand and twelve they first performed a complete albums during a concert at the museum of modern art in new york. performing in a museum is the completion of a crucial stand leaving the world of. behind. transients

. presenting themselves as. their own. forming their own. minimalist and. twenty seven. three d. the catalog a compilation of audio video highlights documenting those museum concerts. also features a new version of the classic the robots complete with video. this

week's extras is chock full of trivia related to. produce the most is back have been fighting over this piece of music for two decades in one thousand nine hundred seven pelham sampled an excerpt from metal on metal for two seconds without permission sabrina's that song. one stands on that's as lame and then you can sell your entire life to this odd one jim and then someone else presses a button and grabs a part of it and an turns it into something else that was on the cement. germany's federal court of justice ruled in crop facts favor on the grounds of plagiarism but in twenty sixteen pallam filed an appeal. i can explore other sound media or on the forms if i can sample then if i'm banned from sampling. my art form can exist comes

from. the federal constitutional court ruled that limited sampling is allowed but said the case back to a lower court but now it's up to the european court of justice to decide. in one thousand nine hundred nine crash created this short audio jingle for the two thousand world expo in hanover. the band were paid four hundred thousand marks for it that's about two hundred five thousand euros in today's currency event organizers were criticised for spending so much for such a short play of commissioner general be a good boy defended her decision with expo patron and then german chancellor gerhard schroeder looking on. as soon as we signed the contract we'll have all the rights to this jungle the expo is going to host exclusive events by this world famous group.