Scottish rappers, deaf composers and an AI song called Zygotic Washstands: the biggest hoaxes in pop
Ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür was conned into believing he was collaborating with a member of Daft Punk – but it’s far from the first time musicians and audiences have been fooledIt all started as an unsolicited Facebook message, which may have been the first sign of foul play – and led to Wolfgang Flür, ex-member of Kraftwerk, believing that he was collaborating with Thomas Bangalter, formerly one half of Daft Punk.Someone posing as Bangalter contacted Flür on Facebook, complimented his music and asked for a signed copy of his album Magazine 1. Flür happily obliged. He said the person told him, referring to Daft Punk: “Without Kraftwerk we would not find our own robot style, being on stage with the helmets”. Believing they were Bangalter, Flür then asked the person if they would like to work on some tracks. The impersonator agreed and sent over demos for the songs, which were worked up into a two new Flür tracks billed as featuring “Thomas Vangarde”, supposedly a new alias of Bangalter. Continue reading...
