Whom does Kraftwerk overshadow?

What artists are explicitly overshadowed by the German Beach Boys? If Kraftwerk were to somehow disappear from the record tomorrow, who would potentially "text search/replace" their position in history?

Answers don't necessarily imply preference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr393Dm6s9w

Bohannon

Moroder? Tangerine Dream?

Telex

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Owl City

Bruce Haack?

Cat Stevens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBu_zGGpeg

Falco

OMD

need to predate the 80s and to be an important influence on pop/dance artists using synths. Giorgio and TD seem like good calls, YMO and Telex up to a point, maybe Cluster's influence wd be writ larger in the absence of Kraftwerk

Human League? Yello?

Kraftwerk don't overshadow either of those acts, they predate them.

Well obviously, but I wasn't thinking about contemporaries, I was thinking about what bands you could build modern electronic music out of in the absence of Kraftwerk. Being Boiled and Bostich seemed like good starting points. But yes, it's debatable as to whether or not they would even exist without Kraftwerk being there. Maybe Throbbing Gristle would be a better answer?

UK number one single by Kraftwerk
Preceded by
"Oh Julie" by Shakin' Stevens
Succeeded by
"Town Called Malice" by The Jam

Underrated zydeco jam from yer man Shakey there.

I kind of wrote about this question last year.

http://www.spin.com/articles/we-are-also-robots-8-essentials-post-kraftwerk-pop/

And here too, maybe.

http://www.spin.com/articles/essential-eurodisco-italo-disco-albums-moroder-cerrone/

I'm not sure if YMO's "Japanese Kraftwerk" label got more people interested in them or led more people to dismiss them

Jean-Jacques Perrey?

Pretty sure Telex would be a lot more celebrated if Kraftwerk hadn't been around

hot butter would be playing MOMA.

everyone would have been forced to buy les rockets albums instead. not a bad thing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGs3jAsXS0

these guys really are my daft punk. love them so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffjArWLlrtg&NR=1&feature=endscreen

xhuxk that list looks awesome!! I am putting all of those up on my to-listen to list today.

Ok, I did some actual research and came up with this:

Everything you think you know about electronic music is probably wrong. For example: techno. Developed by inner city Kraftwerk-inspired Detroit youth, right? Wrong. According to the groundbreaking (and internationally banned) An Oonst Oonst Oonst That Could Not Be Heard: The Secret History of Electronic Music, techno was actually invented in 1962 by Herman Poltswalski, a shoe salesman and dedicated electronics audio hobbyist from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He called the beat-driven music that he coaxed from his home-made synthesizers and drum machines "indestructible polka" despite the fact that it generally followed a 4/4 beat and exceeded the speed of the fastest polkas by about 30 bpm. In a desperate effort to popularize the sound, he pressed up 500 45s (containing "The Indestructible Polka" b/w a track mysteriously titled "Big Beef!") and sent them to church groups and veterans halls across the state, to no avail. Having found no home for his music in Wisconsin, he sent a couple dozen of these singles to distant relatives in Poland. Six years later, young Florian Schneider came across a copy of the single in a rummage shop in a little German town near the Polish border. And the rest is history.

wait No results found for "The Indestructible Polka". wtf?

oh. nvm.

Wow! That's an international ban, then!

WE MUST BUILD IT!

Wow Les Rockets pretty damn cool.

I'd say The White Noise.