released the synth-pop album Communication, featuring such songs as "I'm the Message," "Camera," and "Ultraviolet." In 2007 his music provided the soundtrack to the documentary Moebius Redux – A Life in Pictures, about the graphic artist Jean Giraud. Karl Bartos announced in early 2008 that he had opened the first edition of the audio-visual exhibition Crosstalk for public viewing at the white cube section on the official Karl Bartos website. The program holds 21 films, remixes, cover versions, and mash-ups from Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, the USA, and Japan. In March 2011, Karl Bartos released Mini-Composer, an iPhone app. It's a simple 16 steps sequencer with 4 basic waves synthesizer. It has been designed with Japanese artist Masayuki Akamatsu and the executive producer is Jean-Marc Lederman. On 15 March 2013 he released his next studio album, Off the Record, preceded by "Atomium" the first single taken from it. The 7" version, released worldwide on 1 February 2013, was limited to 1,000 copies. In September 2020, the official Karl Bartos email newsletter announced that Karl is currently working on a new project and intends to present this work live once the covid-19 pandemic slows down. On 12 May 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Bartos being one of the inductees along with Schneider, Hütter and Flür. Discography With Kraftwerk 1975: Radio-Activity 1977: Trans-Europe Express 1978: The Man-Machine 1981: Computer World 1983: Tour de France (single) 1986: Electric Café 1991: The Mix (sound-data programming, uncredited) With Elektric Music (now Electric Music) 1992: Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock (Classic Mix) 1993: Esperanto 1998: Electric Music With Electronic 1996: Raise the Pressure As Karl Bartos 2003: Communication (GER #85; SWE #30) 2013: Off the Record (GER #44; SWE #47; BE (Vl) #161) 2016: Communication Singles: 2000: "15 Minutes of Fame" 2003: "I'm The Message" 2004: "Camera Obscura" 2013: "Atomium" 2016: "Life" 2016: "I'm The Message (Matthew Herbert's Doctor Rockit Mix)" 2016: "15 Minutes of Fame" Unreleased 1994: 2nd proposed Elektric Music album (Most of the songs were performed at Elektric Music's Virtual Summer Tour in 1994). 2007: Moebius Redux – Ein Leben in Bildern / Une vie en images / A Life in Pictures (original soundtrack) Bibliography 2012: "Kraftwerk: Publikation" – preface (Omnibus Press) 2017: "Der Klang der Maschine: Autobiografie" () 2022: "The Sound of