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- CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK
- Kraftwerk "Autobahn" 1974 (Germany)
Froehliche Geburtstag, Ralf Hutter und Karlheinz Stockhausen! Dieses Woche
praesentiert die am besten verkaufen kosmische Record Album aller
Zeiten, die is von der Kraftwerk. In other words, Ralf Hutter of
Kraftwerk had a birthday this week, and the classic album is that
group's breakthrough release, the best-selling and most pivotal
released from the entire "krautrock" scene in early seventies West
Germany. Though they would hone the innovations of Kosmik Radiation RadioschauAutobahn to a super-finely (German)-engineered edge on their albums going forward,
this is the record were the group minimalized their sound to basic
rhythms and synthesized sounds which are inspired by the modern
world. In this case, the 23-minute title track recreates the sounds and
feelings of traveling down a highway by car; the other side features a
two-part suite about commets (Kahoutek had just made a visit the
previous year) and two time-mood pieces ("Mitternacht"=midnight and
"Morgenspaziergang"=morning walk).
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