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Rating: 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!
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By northernsky
Kraftwerk gives us a lesson. And we sit back and take notes.
Their songs have always been soundtracks for films never made: there is an utopian aspect to their roboticism that detaches the songs from the cold mechanicity that guides them.
By Ilpazzo
Kraftwerk was STUDYING the future at the drawing board over 40 years ago; a meticulous, attentive, perfect, almost scientific study.
The fan’s joy is to see the old-style Kraftwerk, updated to modern means, but still remaining faithful to the style that made them famous.
