The followers of Kraftwerk's music are many, in fact everybody in the electronica scene should pay their respect to Kraftwerk. There's ofcourse some people who give props to them whenever they can, but there's also the ones that don't want to admit the genious of Kraftwerk. In the early days people like David Bowie & Iggy Pop was the ones that acknowledged their music. David Bowie wanted Kraftwerk to be the opening act on his Station to Station tour but they said no. Instead David played a tape almost exclusively made up of Kraftwerk music before he started the concert. On David Bowie's album Heroes (1977), there's a track called V2 Schneider which probably is a dedication to Kraftwerk. At a Party in Paris 1977 held by David Bowie & Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk were given a 5 minute standing ovation when they entered the room. Kraftwerk has also sung about David & Iggy in the song Trans Europe Express(1977), so they had mutual respect for each other.

Maybe the most important Kraftwerk follower must be Afrika Bambaataa. He was a big fan of Trans Europe Express and he used to play the song on the party's they organised in the late 70's. Funny enough, this was party's that was mainly for black people, and Kraftwerk being white guys from Germany makes this a real unique combination at the time. When Kraftwerk released Numbers in 1981, Bambaataa fused that track with Trans Europe Express and made the song called Planet Rock, the first electro-hip hop song. This track changed the whole hip hop music at the time, and paved way to other music geniouses like: Mantronix, The Egyptian Lover, Cybotron and the track even inspired Jazz musicians like Herbie Hancock to try out the new musical phenomenon (with great success). One of the greatest innovators in hip hop, Grandmaster Flash has also praised the work of Kraftwerk. Flash, as Bambaataa, used to play Trans Europe Express in the park where he was mastering the turntables in a unique way. He was making music by cutting up pieces of other peoples music and made it into party music. Flash once said "this record by kraftwerk is great, i can even go to the bathroom while i play it...it mixes itself!!". Man Parrish, one of the first electro artists in the early eighties said in a interview "What can I say? Kraftwerk was the inspiration for dozens of "Hip Hop" artist back then (now it's called electro or freestyle). I just happened to be one of the first to combine Kraftwerk stylings with sounds and words we experienced on the New York Street Scene. Other than Kraftwerk, there were few other sources of that amazing "new" sound, so we made our own!!

In Detroit a new music genre was developing in the mid 80's. Juan Atkins from Cybotron and Derrick May was the front men of this new sound named Techno. Though they were more reluctant to say where this new sound came from, it was no doubt that Kraftwerk was their biggest inspiration. The word Techno was probably from Kraftwerk too as they had used the term Techno Pop for awhile. In the early 90's Alex Patterson from Orb made another genre to the big tree of techno called "ambient". this was a more mellow sound and pushed the limits of techno by producing songs that lasted over 40 minutes. Alex has also praised Kraftwerk as his influence. Patrick Codenys of Front 424 has said in an interview, "When i Bought Autobahn I had the feeling that the music scene was changing. For the first time it was music that was impossible to touch - not being made up with the usual components of rock."

And even today over 20 years after their innovative Autobahn (1974), people still sample Kraftwerk's music and give their praise to the living legends. In a recent concert at Tribal Gathering in Luton England 1997, all the other groups that played on the event closed down in respect to Kraftwerk. The effect Kraftwerk has on people are undiscribable, There where grown men crying during the concert in Luton. That should make you think what those German guys from Dusseldorf mean to people around the world...after almost 30 years they still love their music....and i, a 28 year old guy from Norway are one of them!!