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THE REVIEW
Kraftwerk ergo “How To Build Your Own Automaton”.
Cap. VII: Projections and avant-retro designs.
The product of human industry has finally risen beyond man.
The supreme gesture of human art is to perpetuate itself beyond its own narrow boundaries: bringing industrial automation inside man; automating man.
Automata, machine-men, Robotern: the pinnacle of avant-retro.
From the mechanical artifact produced by man, to the mechanical man re-produced by man.
The threshold of musical automation has now been crossed.
Blinking signals, starkly synthetic rhythms, spasmic and haughty together.
Fiction and imitation: imitation of what, not yet existing, is projected into a future that will never exist.
Imaginary mimicry.
Unreachable mimicry.
Six pieces: three per side.
Six obsessive repetitions for a distant world.
How can the cold pretending-to-be-machines project us into a non-time so alive?
Listening to them is every time a cleansing of oblivion, finding oneself in the shoes of another.
Another that will never be.
CAP.8: https://www.debaser.it/kraftwerk/computerwelt/recensione-123asterisco
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The review portrays Kraftwerk's 'The Man Machine' as a pioneering work symbolizing the fusion of human and machine through music. It highlights the album's futuristic, mechanical, and synthetic nature and its role in pushing musical automation's boundaries. The review emphasizes the conceptual depth and the haunting, repetitive rhythms that evoke a world beyond time. Though rated moderately, it acknowledges the album’s visionary quality and artistic significance.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
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