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Kraftwerk - Die Mensch Maschine Audio CD

A fair review of the Kraftwerk "Die Mensch Maschine" 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: Die Mensch Maschine
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Release Date: 1992-01-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Die Roboter 2: Spacelab 3: Metropolis 4: Modell 5: Neonlicht 6: Die Mensch-Maschine

"Die Mensch Maschine" still holds up today
In today's age of lifeless electronic music, Kraftwerk's icy, almost stereotypically sterile Teutonic sound has, ironically, aged so well as to sound like a breath of fresh air in the 21st century. Kraftwerk has been often imitated, yet never duplicated.

"Die Mensch Maschine" doesn't revolve around a central theme as do some of their earlier albums, but is something of a commentary to the modern age (such as it was in the late 1970's) and the "constructionist" art movement (in particular, the late Soviet artist El Lissitzky).

This is the original German language recording, and frankly, doesn't vary in any appreciable way from the English language recording in any other regard. The outer space funk (is it possible that Kraftwerk are simply Parliament-Funkadelic from another dimension?) of "Die Roboter" and "Das Modell" are strong points, while the atmospheric "Neonlicht" gives you some breathing space before the angular finale of the title track. Whether you listen to it in German or English, fans of techno and electronic music can't go wrong here.


A masterpiece from Germany
viel zu teuer hier; gibt's bei anderen on-line Laeden billiger 2. Trotzdem die Platte toll ist, hier einige Anmerkungen: 1. auf der CD ist ein Fehler: bei "Das Modell" an der Stelle "hat hier alle Maenner abgecheckt" ist die stimme ploetzlich zu laut. Dieser Fehler ist auf der Schallplatte nicht zu hoeren!

Ansonsten: mit "Computerwelt" sicherlich Kraftwerks bestes Werk.


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