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LA RECENSIONE
Kraftwerk ergo "How To Build Your Own Automaton".
Chapter III: Turbines, spirals, divertissement.
Gestures of sound operators: turning on the turbines.
Turbines sounding like a carousel; like the regular rotation of a diamond.
A diamond with 58 facets, from whose spiral rotation images emerge, sometimes floating, sometimes leaden, sometimes tinkling, sometimes bucolic.
Gradually, an element begins to structure itself: repetition.
A whirlwind repetition, a repetition of rotation.
The exploration seems to have now produced stable results — it seems only.
It is only an illusion born from the acquired mastery of operating the machines, in the empathetic dialogue with them, based on understanding their nature (it suffices to pull the right levers).
The narrow dusty spaces, the four walls of the industrial plant, are easily overcome.
Not by exiting, but by forgetting them: cosmic journeys produced only by the sound/noise of the machines.
It is not cosmic unease, but astral playfulness. The icy suites soften and shorten. The sidereal void is rarefied, refracted in the brightness of the diamond: from icy it becomes colorful.
In the end, from the search for new forms, a backward journey is accomplished.
Appearing, as a result of the research, radically transfigured —projected into a future now past, which never was nor ever will be— the song form emerges.
A song form both elementary and complex, both familiar and futuristic.
The operator-technical means-product confidence is such, in fact, that it even allows for an approach to catchy sounds.
Sounds from a lounge-bar of an imagined future.
Sounds of a regained simplicity, not forgetting, however, the journey taken through the noisy and chaotic.
Familiar sounds, with a familiarity of the barren industrial hinterland acquired from long wandering.
"Heimätklange": sounds of home.
CHAPTER 4: https://www.debaser.it/kraftwerk/autobahn/recensione-123asterisco
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The review describes Kraftwerk's album Ralf And Florian as an exploration of industrial and electronic sounds shaped by repetition and technical mastery. It highlights the album's evocation of cosmic yet playful atmospheres and the emergence of a unique song form that is both familiar and futuristic. The sound is portrayed as an empathic dialogue between operator and machine, blending noisy chaos with accessible melodies. The album embodies a journey through sound that balances complexity, simplicity, and imaginative futurism.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
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