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Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe Audio CD

A fair review of the Kraftwerk "Electric Cafe" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Kraftwerk reviews here, or go back to the Kraftwerk tabs.

Kraftwerk Band: Kraftwerk
Title: Electric Cafe
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Boing Boom Tschak 2: Techno Pop 3: Musique Non-Stop 4: Telephone Call 5: Sex Object 6: Electric Cafe

A Classic
Much slower in pace than Dance but rich in electronic sound effects. What else can you add to a Classic that has been reviewed many times? Just a reminder for those who did not grow up with or where too young when Kraftwerk's Electric Café came out: this is the group that started the Genre Techno Pop and on the long run what it is known now as Dance music. We could call it "European disco" (vs American disco music) more similar to Giorgio Moroder's "I Feel Love" sung by Donna Summers.
Why a 4? For I don't like all songs, but this is subjective.


Initially Disappointing, It Keeps Sounding Better With Age
Even then, I didn't especially like the minimal proto-techno of the first 3 tracks, but 20 years later it's hard to see what the fuss was over. This album made a LOT of Kraftwerk fans ex-fans in 1986. I like it now! It has a lot over tons of lame techno I've heard in the meantime! But tracks 4-6 were clearly successful even then, being much richer musically than the rest of the album. "Telephone Call" and "Sex Object" are prime Kraftwerk, full of stimulating electronic and acoustic eddies and currents of sound.


Review of a collector of electronic music.
Indeed the first half of the disc (17 minutes over 36) is "filled" with three tracks with virtually the same, almost monotonous melody and vocal repetition (Musique not stop! Techno Pop!). Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe: compared to other masterpieces of the 70s is decidedly less brilliant, too much simplicity in the rhythms and melodies. As collector of Cosmic sound, disco of the 80 Italian, with its electronic music synthesizer, looking pieces that are included in the CD, and in that period played Dj Baldelli, but nothing more. Continuing with the review find a voice that sings in a Spanish equal to my Italian that I am really puzzled (I do not define). "Telephone Call" and "Sex Object" I do not quite indifferent, even if you do not listen. And, finally, the title-track, which seems the same melody of "Europe Endless" (try to remember the chorus lyric of this and compare with "Electric Cafe" . . . there is a certain similarity, right?) And then I think the comparison is improponibile with the song of'77, despite the melody almost equal.
In short, it can also pleased, but at historical did not, in my humble opinion, very important. In conclusion, do not stars, not because it is horrible, but because there is no comparison with their other work: lacks intensity, rhythm, poetry. Sorry.


Superb Music !!
Excellent quality of music. Superb Condition. Perfect packing and forwarding. Got in perfect condition. Cheers. . Recommendable to others defenitely !!.


Show some dignity and respect
After all, it was almost five years since the boundary shattering "Computer World. The last Kraftwerk album of the 20th Century was looked on rather softly at the time. " Hip-hop was already starting to find electronic sampling as a source of inspiration, and suddenly, those ideas seemed a bit old hat. However, I have always considered the original side one of this album to be a masterwork of electronic music, on a par with Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" or even "Autobahn. "

Those first three pieces, "Boing Boom Tschak," "Tecno Pop" and "Musique Non Stop," formed a perfectly building suite of the machines that make the music, building from the elemental three words to the final explanation of purpose. "Boing Boom Tschak" (pronounced 'chuck') set out everything that Kraftwerk considers musical in three simple words. The electronic percussion begins to layer underneath and "Techno Pop" is born. Finally, "synthetic electronic sounds, industrial rhythms all around" wrap it all up. It is as close to a summation of electronica as has ever been recorded, and I love "Electric Cafe" because of it.

The other half of the CD is pedestrian by comparison. Where before Kraftwerk would lay down electronically altered robot-voices, this time much of the work is sampled. "The Telephone Call" was a minor dance hit, but it seems less groundbreaking and more of the times. Same with "Sex Object," which seems like the aftermath of "Computer Love" - "you turn me on, then you forget. " The CD comes to a satisfying conclusion with the title track, a chill piece. Little did we know that it was the last we would hear from them till 2006 and the "Tour de France Soundtracks. " Fortunately, the art on the front may be the only thing on the album that's dated. "Electric Cafe" has really gathered luster over the years. .


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