{"product_id":"kraftwerk-trans-europa-express","title":"Kraftwerk - Trans-Europa Express","description":"\u003cp\u003eKraftwerk 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 Endlessand 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Parlophone","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":59375299854681,"sku":"SDZ-51910","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/61j0DPghsXL.jpg?v=1789146219","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/kraftwerk-trans-europa-express","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}