Author: Kraftwerk

Format: Import

PartNumber: 077774603928

Release Date: 26-09-1995

Details: Amazon.caThe album on which Kraftwerk got serious about their legacy of fusing human flesh and the technology it has inspired into an indistinguishable whole, Man-Machine also ironically embodies some of the band’s most endearing contradictions. The case is stated up front with the techno classic “The Robots”, the journey continues to worlds both utopian (“Spacelab”) and dystopian (“Metropolis”), then it segues into a bona fide, hook-laden dance track (“The Model,” perhaps inspired by the club success that Kraftwerk’s previous album, Trans-Europe Express, experienced at the hands of enterprising early mixmaster DJs). There’s also a downright sentimental cityscape, “Neon Lights”. But lest anyone think that Schneider, Hutter and company are too human, they wrap up the proceedings with the robotic dance-gr