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Advantages: Classic Minimatist Soundscapes Disadvantages: Not as Comercial as Subsiquent Releases
Trans Europe Express was released in 1977 and was the first album to feature what most refer to the classic 4 piece line up of founder members Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider augmented by percussionists Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flur. The next ten or so years would be considered a golden age for the band by many fans.
The album explores themes of travel and change within post war Europe and is a more demanding listen than their subsequent releases, ... ...journey through the countryside and Trans Europe Express is more of a journey through Europe's Industrial landscape with sinister overtones. The most obvious single from this is the rather sinister and possibly quite pervy "Showroom Dummies" which was an obvious precursor to "The Model".
One of the original intentions behind Kraftwerk's music was to create something that was uniquely German and not copy American and British groups. In following ...
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...groundbreaking in their own right, Autobahn is where the group's hypnotic electro-pulse genuinely came into its own. The main difference between Autobahn and its predecessors is how it develops an insistent, propulsive pulse which makes the repeated rhythms and riffs of the shimmering electronic keyboards and trance-like guitars all the more hypnotizing. The 22-minute title track, in a severely edited form, became an international hit single and ... ...the band and why they are important within one track -- but the rest of the album provides soundscapes equally as intriguing. Within Autobahn, the roots of electro-funk, ambient, and synth-pop are all evident -- it's a pioneering album, even if its electronic trances might not capture the attention of all listeners. ...
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