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LP – Remastered Limited Edition Clear 180g Vinyl – Includes 16-page booklet
Kraftwerk celebrate Europe’s romantic past and shimmering future (even more so now post Brexit) with a glistening panorama of elegance and decadence, travel and technology. The infinite vistas of Europe Endless and Endless Endless‘ bookend the album, which includes the unsettling kafka-esque fable The Hall of Mirrors‘ and Showroom Dummies – Kraftwerk’s elegantly ironic reply to critiques of their deadpan manner. But it is the streamlined rhythmic locomotive of Trans Europe Express’ which dominates with its doppler-effect melodic swerves and hypnotic, pneumatic, piston-pumping rhythm. along with its sister track, Metal on Metal‘ which New York dj Afrika Bambaataa would re-construct five years later for his own seminal ‘planet rock’, this milestone in avant-pop modernism later becomes a crucial influence on the early pioneers of hip-hop and sampling, electro and industrial music. poetry in motion.
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A1 | Europe Endless | |
A2 | The Hall Of Mirrors | |
A3 | Showroom Dummies | |
B1 | Trans-Europe Express | |
B2 | Metal On Metal | |
B3 | Franz Schubert | |
B4 | Endless Endless |
LABEL: Parlophone
CAT NO: 0190295272357
BARCODE: 0190295272357
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