Kraftwerk - Computerwelt (1981)

Computer World (Computer Welt) (5:06) and Computer World..2 (Computer Welt 2) (3:23) Line-up / Musicians - Ralf Hütter / voice, keyboards, electronics - Florian Schneider / voice, keyboards, electronics - Karl Bartos / keyboards, programming - Wolfgang Flür / electronic Percussions, programming Releases information LP Kling Klang/EMI (1981) Unlike previous LPs, this is Kraftwerk predicting the future, and how. In 1981 the computer was part of society, but as a monolithic object, the preserve of business, academia, industry and the military. It would be sometime yet until the home computer was the everyday object it is now. Ironically no computers were used in the making of this LP. Kraftwerk&oeuvre has always been to talk about everyday life, or "alltagsmusik" as Ralf Hutter has often called it. Here they predict mass communication of data (Computer World), the reductionism of technology (Pocket Calculator), Internet Dating (Computer Love), and even have time to poke a little fun at things (It&More Fun to Compute). They stripped down these concepts to simplistic ideals with a beauty that no other artist has matched. The conceptual globalisation of data is represented by the different languages used, from German and English to Italian, Russian and Japanese. As in their previous album, Kraftwerk took these themes and allied them to a rhythmic template that would underscore much of the electronic dance music that would follow them. As T.E.E and Die Mensch Maschine were...