Without Kraftwerk, we'd have no Depeche Mode, Erasure, Nine Inch Nails, no Killing Joke, no Rammstein, no 'Da-Da-Da' one-hit wonders, no Skinny Puppy, no Ministry and so on.
'The Spirit of Radio' by Rush puts it very succintly: "all this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted..."
That's why Techno has gone as far as it has and diversified as it has: it strikes a chord in the living brain. The computer language of Techno speaks to the internal computer we all possess, our computers are forever grateful for that contact. The Heart loves the down beats and the visceral quality. How simple, how perfect. How Kraftwerk:
And Elektro-Kardiogramm from the Tour de France soundtracks:
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