Alexei Monroe will be participating in the first ever international academic conference on Kraftwerk: “Industrielle Volksmusik for the Twenty-First Century – Kraftwerk and the Birth of Electronic Music in Germany

The conference will take place at Aston University in Birmingham on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22, January 2015.

Alexei Monroe will speak on Thursday 22 at 14:15 and the title of his lecture is “Trans-Slovene Expressions: Kraftwerk on the Sunny Side of the Alps”. He will discuss the stylistic and cultural connections between Kraftwerk and Laibach and the two Trans-Slovenia Express compilations