KRAFTWERK – Trans Europe Express (Remastered) - LP - Clear 180g Vinyl

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KRAFTWERK – Trans Europe Express (Remastered) - LP - Clear 180g Vinyl

KRAFTWERK – Trans Europe Express (Remastered) - LP - Clear 180g Vinyl

€22.99

 

LP – 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.

Tracklist

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