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• Artist: Kraftwerk
• Album: Autobahn
• Label: Warner
• Year of Release: 1974
• ME Rating: Indie Classic
• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-25

Everyone from Chemical Brothers to Madonna has to lift their hats to Kraftwerk for the groundbreaking electronic music that they put out in the 1970's. Out of all their outstanding albums that they put out it's hard to pick just one as the most influential but with one listen to the 22 minute title track opus on Autobahn you will start to see how far ahead of their time they were. This day and age any hack could put together something like this with their home pc and some sort of sampler but imagine this group of Germans doing this strictly electronic form of music in 1974. It wouldn't be hard to throw this on as a brand new album to anyone that hadn't heard of the band and they would think it of this day and age. The pulsing beat becomes hypnotic and it pulls you into every electrobeat that the band plays. Pretty much anyone in music today owes a debt of gratitude to Kraftwerk and their Autobahn masterpiece. Also be sure and check out their Trans-Europe Express and The Man Machine, two other great albums.

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