Re: [Kraftwerk] (OT ish) Can you help?

I was wondering if you have any references of the use of a vocoder by other German groups in the early seventies. As far as I know, it first appears on Ananas Symphonie. But maybe other groups used it before...

The one Kraftwerk used on Ananas Symphonie wasn't a real vocoder, it was some gear the nazis invented to code speech to voltage during world war II to have a kind of encrypted communication. When you used this voltage connected to a synthesizer, you got a vocoder. That's what I've read somewhere...