Karl Bartos

Karl Bartos (born 1952 in Marktschellenberg) is a German electronic musician and composer. From 1975 to 1990 he played electronic percussion in Kraftwerk, and he is credited as co-writer on The Man-Machine, Computer World and Electric Café. After leaving the group he continued in electronic pop under his own name and with the project Elektric Music. Karl Bartos studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf and joined Kraftwerk for the American Autobahn tour, then played on Radio-Activity and Trans-Europe Express. In 1992 he founded Elektric Music, which released Esperanto (1993).