RockHall2020: For this first time in the Hall of Fame’s history, a majority of inductees, including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, and the Notorious B.I.G., built their careers with synthesizers and drum machines
, once again missed the cut — they’ve been nominated an astonishing six times without making it in — their influence is palpable among the artists who will be getting inducted this spring. Kraftwerk formed half a century ago in Düsseldorf and settled into lineup of four musicians who stood in a neat row and performed their mechanical masterpieces like robots — and it’s incredible.
, but it was Kraftwerk and a few of their peers who made that sound undeniably cool and a viable avenue for music creation in the Seventies. Even so, some artists resisted.
All these choices reflect something that John Sykes, the new chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,last year about the changing nature of the institution. “I’ve always thought that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — having been involved in it myself for 25 years now — is no longer about a single genre of music,” he said. “It’s about a spirit that connects with young people.”
What’s more extraordinary is that that spirit is appealing to the Rock Hall’s once-rockist voters, and electronic music is finally getting a foothold in the Hall. In recent years, synth- and sample-friendly artists like the Cure, Radiohead, Roxy Music, 2Pac, N.W.A, Public Enemy, and Madonna, among many others, have helped open the doors for this year’s class, and the definition of the Rock Hall will surely keep evolving in the years to come.
That change is something that especially appeals to one of this year’s inductees, Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor. “[The spirit of rock] can be a turntable, a computer, a synthesizer, sequencer,” he recently told. “They are all tools. It’s the spirit of expression and, to me, freedom and no limits to expression. That’s my version of what rock means and the method of achieving doesn’t need to be quantified to where it has to have this instrument.
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