To me, a really enjoyable album that doesn't suffer from other LPD annoyances - it is fairly mainstream. But it does suffer from poor production: songs are chopped & probably in the wrong track order - it depends on whether you want the long, spacy tunes or shorter, more pop songs. But, still an enjoyable listen on shuffle play
No history of electronic music would be complete without a chapter dedicated to Kraftwerk, the German quartet who introduced synthesizers and chugging, "motorik" rhythms to pop music - and in so doing laid the groundwork for techno (and left no small mark upon hip-hop as well, given that their "Trans-Europe Express" was heavily sampled for Afrika Baambaata's "Planet Rock"). Fewer genealogists of electronica remember to include the contributions of a group called NEU!, but the… more »
