Well,
I think we all own our lives to two people. Ralph hautter and Lorien schneider, better known as kraftwerk (power plan in German).
the two guy's met each other in the conservatory in the industrial city of dueseldorff in wester Germany, but insted of studying classic music they have listend to the noises of the factories and industry around them.... which sounded to them like music.
the first album they released called "kraftewrk". it was released in 1970 ans its the first electronic music album ever to be relsead.....
And the rest is History