Kraftwerk
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For someone like me, who always thought Germany was just an extension of the province of Bergamo, discovering an album like this is a pleasant surprise...
Of course, I had fantasized about Kraftwerk for a long time, but I had never really listened to them. Then, thanks to a business trip to Rovigo, I popped the CD into the player... I was in the car.
At first, I was looking at the rather uninspiring landscape of the A4, and suddenly my gaze shifted to the dashboard... my goodness! I couldn't look away! There was nothing I could do! The Man Machine opens the album... great electronic tension, as if two robots kept repeatedly, dazed, "the man mechinemachine the manmechinemachine, themanmachinemachine, the manmachine..." Ad libitum, I believe that’s the most fitting way to refer to this group.
But how Disco are they too! Tour De France combines the freshness of a Colgate commercial melody with the frantic 4/4 beats that even back then at the Number One club, no one danced to... remember Hall 2? The underground one!
But I like it because I've always been a bit of a raver, and also a bit German! My great-grandmother's last name was Bausch, like Pina, so I can understand the desire to be squared like these four solid Germans, in 4/4 though!
But shall we talk about Autobahn? Yes? Then let’s talk about it! Masterpiece! That's when I got excited in the car... I overtook all the trucks and went for a race with a Slovenian who looked like one of the Laibach... we understood each other right away because he heard Kraftwerk from my window... what a race!!!
Television! Reportage! Video and photos! They are fantastic!
Now I understand why so much good stuff was around in the eighties!
But shall we talk about Vitamin? Karboidrat und Protein! I immediately stopped at the Autogrill and picked up in order: a rustichella, a pack of m&m's, a bottle of Gatorade, and the new fantastic chic Powerade!
I got back in the car and off I went... Vitamin! Karboidrat und Vitamin! Protein!!
Look, I'm not kidding you; I genuinely love this stuff... I think it will take a lot to surpass this timeless pum schtak schtak.
A must-have!