Advantages: Great song Disadvantages: Where do you get it from??????
My father was downloading some MP3 music from audiogalaxy.com last week and came across an old song he had longed for over the years. The song was called Autobahn so he decided to download it.
As we had chose the full 20 minutes long version we were in for a long wait. Eventually we had it in our grasp. Dad put it on and instantly I knew I had to have it.
THE SONG
The song is basically about the Motorway. It is one of those song where you can listen to it while driving.
SOUNDS
The sounds used in this song are peculiar as they use many different instruments. They also use that strange voice that is recognised in most of their early songs.
KRAFTWERK FACTS
This song was actually sold to a record company for a small amount, about 700 dollars. The record made billions.
WHY I LIKE IT
The song has an unbeilievably ...
Although Kraftwerk's first three albums were groundbreaking in their own right, Autobahn is where the group's hypnotic electro-pulse genuinely came into its own. The main difference between Autobahn and its predecessors is how it develops an insistent, propulsive pulse which makes the repeated rhythms and riffs of the shimmering electronic keyboards and trance-like guitars all the more hypnotizing. The 22-minute title track, in a severely edited form, became an international hit single and remains the peak of the band's achievements -- it encapsulates the band and why they are important within one track -- but the rest of the album provides soundscapes equally as intriguing. Within Autobahn, the roots of electro-funk, ambient, and synth-pop are all evident -- it's a pioneering album, even if its electronic trances might not capture ...
Advantages: Wonderful piece of work Disadvantages: None really
It was in 1974 that Kraftwerk really established their own personal musical style and also came to wide public notice through the hit single Autobahn, taken from the album of the same name.
Produced by Hutter and Schneider at Connie Plank?s studio, Autobahn marked the addition to the group of Klaud Roeder (violin and guitar) and Wolfgang Flur on electronic percussion. Rather like 1973?s Tubular Bells, this was one of those rare records which seemed to be accepted by easy listening, AOR and more progressive audiences alike.
Most of all, though, Autobahn?s title track, like Bowie?s Young Americans, appealed to the growing disco market - Wolfgang and Ralf were habitual disco goers. Kraftwerk had pulled off a trick that has never been equalled or imitated yet - to make synthetic and obviously synthetic percussion sound warm ...
