Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine LP Red Vinyl
49,00 €
The Man-Machine by Kraftwerk, released 9 October 2020, includes the following tracks: “Metropolis”, “Neon Lights” and more. This version of The Man-Machine comes as a 1xLP. The vinyl is pressed as a opaque, red disc.
The Man-Machine (German: Die Mensch-Maschine) is the seventh studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk. It was released on 19 May 1978 by Kling Klang in Germany and by Capitol Records elsewhere. A further refinement of their mechanical style, the album saw the group incorporate more danceable rhythms. The album has a satirical bent to it. It is thought to address a wide-range of themes from the Cold War, Germany’s fascination with manufacturing, and humankind’s increasingly symbiotic relationship with machines. It includes the singles “The Model” and “The Robots”.
Although the album peaked at 53 initially on the UK Albums Chart, it reached a new peak position of number nine in February 1982, becoming the band’s second highest-peaking album in the United Kingdom after Autobahn (1974).
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Matt Mitchell of Paste magazine said that “the album was where Kraftwerk took their mechanical style of old and re-tuned it into a club-worthy aesthetic”. The staff of GQ India assessed: “Taking electronic music from the German counterculture – a still influential moment termed Krautrock by UK audiences – across the 1970s and early ’80s, [Kraftwerk] sculpted something modernist […] out of the possibilities of synthesiser music.” According to Alex Linhardt of Pitchfork, the band “just sound like robots” on the album. He explained: “While the fast-paced world of Ralf Hütter quotes knows no limits of pretension, this is the only album that conceivably expresses his ideal music: No emotions, no philosophies, no performances, and virtually no humor. It is pure technology: the whistles and surging circuitry of unmanned factories; twinkling hydraulic tubes; flaring odometers and cogs; and pre-Pong claw-claps.” According to Steve Huey of AllMusic, “The Man-Machine is closer to the sound and style that would define early new wave electro-pop – less minimalistic in its arrangements and more complex and danceable in its underlying rhythms.” He further described the style as “more pop-oriented than any of their previous work”
Themes explored on the album include science fiction and urbanization.
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Ralf Hütter except "The Model", lyrics by Hütter and Emil Schult.
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Robots" ("Die Roboter") |
|
6:10 |
| 2. | "Spacelab" |
|
5:50 |
| 3. | "Metropolis" |
|
6:01 |
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4. | "The Model" ("Das Model") |
|
3:38 |
| 5. | "Neon Lights" ("Neonlicht") |
|
9:03 |
| 6. | "The Man-Machine" ("Die Mensch-Maschine") |
|
5:28 |
| Total length: | 36:10 | ||
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