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Karl Bartos was born on 31 May , 1952 in Berchtesgaden , Germany . Between 1975 and 1991 Bartos, along with Wolfgang Flür , was an electronic percussionist in the Electronic Music group Kraftwerk . He was originally recruited to play on their US "Autobahn" tour. In addition to his percussion playing, Bartos was credited with songwriting on the ''Man-Machine'', ''Computerworld'' and ''Electric Café'' albums, and sang one lead vocal on the latter. He left the group in 1991, reportedly frustrated at the slow progress in the group's activities due to the increasingly perfectionist attitude of founding members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider . In 1992 Bartos founded Elektric Music, performing a style somewhat similar to Kraftwerk. This new project would release ''Esperanto'' in 1993 and then ''Electric Music'' in 1998. In between the two albums, Bartos collaborated with Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr on Electronic 's 1996 album '' Raise The Pressure '', and co-wrote material with Andy McCluskey which appeared on both ''Esperanto'' and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 's ''Universal'' album. In 1998, he also produced an album by former synthpop Swedish band The Mobile Homes, much in the style of his work with Electronic; guitar-pop with very slight synthetic references. It was receieved as a great disappointment to synthpop fans, but sold more than any of their previous albums, and was used in TV advertisements for an airline to moderate success. In 2003 he released the Techno album '' Communication '', featuring such songs as "I'm the Message", "Camera" and "Ultraviolet". DISCOGRAPHY '' (1977). Karl Bartos with Kraftwerk. Bartos is centre left.]] With Kraftwerk
With Elektric Music (now Electric Music)
With Electronic
As Karl Bartos
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