Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (2009 Digital Remaster) (1977/2009) flac

Tracklist:

[9:41] 01. Kraftwerk - Europe Endless (2009 Remastered Version)
[7:56] 02. Kraftwerk - The Hall Of Mirrors (2009 Remastered Version)
[6:15] 03. Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies (2009 Remastered Version)
[6:37] 04. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (2009 Remastered Version)
[2:12] 05. Kraftwerk - Metal On Metal (2009 Remastered Version)
[4:54] 06. Kraftwerk - Abzug (2009 Remastered Version)
[4:26] 07. Kraftwerk - Franz Schubert (2009 Remastered Version)
[0:55] 08. Kraftwerk - Endless Endless (2009 Remastered Version)

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With the emergence of the new wave, all kinds of synths and keyboards were being integrated more and more into rock instrumentals. In Düsseldorf, Germany, Kraftwerk were capturing the spirit of the age and the industrial civilisation in their completely synthetic and electronic melodies. With their sixth album which was released in 1977, entitled Trans Europe Express, these avant-gardists who were driven by contemporary music reached sublime perfection. Coldness turned into art, minimalist aestheticism and atmospheric harmonies, Kraftwerk’s music would fascinate David Bowie (cited with Iggy Pop in the song Trans Europe Express) and Brian Eno just as much as the first rappers (Afrika Bambaataa) and the future popes of electro. For when this forerunning universe of Kraftwerk collided with the stakhavonist groove of disco, techno would be born.



2009 Ralf Hütter/Kraftwerk under licence to Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
2009 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company