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Autobahn
 
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Autobahn
~ Kraftwerk (Artist)
4.3 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (22 Jun 1987)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000007U6V
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,622 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in these categories:

    #7 in  Music > Pop > Dance Pop > New Romantics
    #36 in  Music > Dance & Electronic > Electronica

Track Listings

1. Autobahn
2. Kometenmelodie 1
3. Kometenmelodie 2
4. Mitternacht
5. Morgenspaziergang

Product Description
Product Description
"All pop music begins with Kraftwerk", it has been said--and, indeed, the 1970s experiments in minimalist electronics on the part of these four reclusive and bourgeois-looking young Dusseldorf men were directly responsible for the electrified landscape of subsequent decades of rock, pop and dance music. The album is dominated by its 22-minute title track, a beautiful electronic simulation of a motorway journey, from cranking up the engine to bowling along grey lanes cutting a swathe through the countryside, swerving and hooting the horn. Kraftwerk were prefiguring music's next step into the machine age but the antipathy they aroused in 1974 exposed the deluded Luddite tendencies of the pre-punk critical establishment who felt that music could only remain "real" by remaining as close to "nature" as possible. Kraftwerk slyly undermined this notion. After Kraftwerk, pop music would echo, not reject the sounds and rhythms of modern life. --David Stubbs

Description
Germanic in approach and delivery, this record gets under the skin and infuriates as you find yourself compelled to humthe melodies. A significant record in the development of electronic music, and not to be confused with other "kraut rock" efforts from the school of mid-70s prog, this is the album from which countless bands borrowed riffs--passages of theCure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, and New Order are to be found among the five lengthy tracks. Don't be fooled: Kraftwerk were there at least five years in advance. Great for driving on the motorway in Europe, incidentally!

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