"The only thing I didn’t want to ask Ralf Hütter was his age – but this German visionary has been toying with music since the late 1960s, so that should give you some idea. He is a softly spoken, humble man – yet someone who can rightly take a lot of credit in spawning musical movements over the ages that know no boundaries. He explains: “well, when we started in the late 1960s, we worked on improvisational music. As you can imagine, we couldn’t perform in the classical or rock fields in Germany because these areas were dominated by big English or American groups. So we sneaked in through the University circuit and the art scene. We had this visual collection which worked well within the art world so we played at galleries and museums and experimented with electro acoustic equipment.”