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Rating: 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
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 The Robots (06:12)
We're charging our battery
And now we're full of energy
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We're functioning automatic
And we are dancing mechanic
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
Ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)
We are programmed just to do
Anything you want us to
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We're functioning automatic
And we are dancing mechanic
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
Ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)
Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
Ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)
[Repeat to fade]
We are the robots
04 The Model (03:44)
She's a model and she's looking good
I'd like to take her home that's understood
She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time
It only takes a camera to change her mind
She's going out tonight but drinking just champagne
And she has been checking nearly all the men
She's playing her game and you can hear them say
She is looking good, for beauty we will pay
She's posing for consumer products now and then
For every camera she gives the best she can
I saw her on the cover of a magazine
Now she's a big success, I want to meet her again
05 Neon Lights (08:54)
[repeat]
Neon lights
Shimmering neon lights
And at the fall of night
This city's made of light
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