Organisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (German: "Organisation for the Realization of Shared Music Concepts") was an experimental

krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments ...

band, that was the immediate predecessor of the band

Kraftwerk Kraftwerk (, "power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the ...

. In addition to the founding members of Kraftwerk,

Ralf Hütter Ralf Hütter (born 20 August 1946) is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1969. On May 12, 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of ...

and Florian Schneider-Esleben, Organisation included Basil Hammoudi, Butch Hauf, and Fred Monicks. The band was assisted by Paul Lorenz, Peter Martini, and Charly Weiss during their career.

History

A video recording by German TV broadcaster WDR exists of the band performing "Ruckzuck", a piece that appeared on the first Kraftwerk album in 1970. The performance took place at the Grugahalle in

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on 25 April 1970 as part of the

Internationales Essener Pop & Blues Festival The Internationales Essener Pop & Blues Festival was a three-day music festival held 9–11 October 1969 at the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany. Some of the artists that performed included Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Free, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Mud ...

. This was their last performance as Organisation, Hütter and Schneider-Esleben (later just Schneider) went on to form Kraftwerk, leaving Hammoudi, Hauf and Monicks to go to university. Their only album, '' Tone Float'', produced and engineered by Konrad "Conny" Plank along with the band themselves, was released on the

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label in the

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in 1970. As it was available in

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only as an import, sales were poor and RCA opted to drop the band shortly afterwards, at which point Hütter and Schneider-Esleben left the band to form Kraftwerk, with Organisation dissolving as a result. Hammoudi, Hauf and Mönicks all returned to university to complete their studies. According to Mönicks (interviewed in the mid-1990s and June 2002 - January 2003.) the quintet had already begun to perform under the name Kraftwerk some time after ''Tone Float'' had been recorded, but RCA had been keen for them to have a band name more appropriate to the English market, since the album was to be issued only in the UK, so the name Organisation was used. Hammoudi was later a member of jazz-rock band

Ibliss Ibliss were a progressive Krautrock jazz fusion band from the Rhineland in Germany. Founded as a quintet in 1971 by former members of Kraftwerk and its predecessor Organisation, they recorded one album in Hamburg—with notable Krautrock produce ...

, along with early

drummer Andreas Hohmann.,

Members

* Basil Hammoudi – glockenspiel, conga gong, musical box, bongos, percussion, vocals * Butch Hauf – bass, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer, percussion *

– Hammond organ * Alfred "Fred" Mönicks – drums, bongos, maracas, cowbell, tambourine, percussion * Florian Schneider-Esleben – electric flute, alto flute, bell, triangle, tambourine, electro-violin, percussion

Discography

* '' Tone Float'' (1970)

References

External links

Kraftwerk.com
��official Kraftwerk site. * 1969 establishments in Germany 1970 disestablishments in Germany German musical groups Krautrock musical groups Musical groups established in 1969 Musical groups disestablished in 1970 RCA Victor artists {{Germany-band-stub