September 1998 issue of Debug magazine featured an interview with Komputer, in which they talked about Kraftwerk: "Why is Komputer spelled with a K? A homage to Kraftwerk? 'It simply looks nicer', says David. [...] 'It has nothing to do with Kraftwerk. We don't copy them, they're too lazy. One album in ten years is indiscutable. But maybe we're working on a similar idea.' [...]". Oh Jay wrote:
well ... as komputer are from england ( or @ least from the u. k. ;-) , they have a certain kind of humor that some people jus' don't seem to understand
By doing assertations as Komputer did and then saying that they didn't name Kraftwerk as their main influence just because they were being ironic is only to make themselves scarce, in my opinion, of course. Moreover, that doesn't exclude themselves for being a plagiarism. Soleil Lapierre wrote:
Can you verify that the members of Komputer were previously known as Fortran 5?
IIRC, David Wilson-Baker and Simon Leonard formed Fortran 5 and I Start Counting bands previously to Komputer. DER AUTOMAT