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Kraftwerk - Computer World (2009 Digital Remaster) '1981/2009

Computer World (2009 Digital Remaster)
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Album name Computer World (2009 Digital Remaster)
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Date 1981/2009
GenrePop
Play time 00:34:45
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 80.5 MB / 201,20 MB
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

[5:06] 01. Kraftwerk - Computer World (2009 Remaster)
[4:57] 02. Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator (2009 Remaster)
[3:20] 03. Kraftwerk - Numbers (2009 Remaster)
[3:25] 04. Kraftwerk - Computer World 2 (2009 Remaster)
[7:19] 05. Kraftwerk - Computer Love (2009 Remaster)
[6:21] 06. Kraftwerk - Home Computer (2009 Remaster)
[4:16] 07. Kraftwerk - Its More Fun to Compute (2009 Remaster)

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Computer World (2009 Digital Remaster)
by Kraftwerk
The last great Kraftwerk album, Computer World captured the band right at the
moment when its pioneering approach fully broke through in popular music, thanks
to the rise of synth pop, hip-hop, and electro. As Arthur Baker sampled
Trans-Europe Express for Planet Rock and disciples like Depeche Mode, OMD, and
Gary Numan scored major hits, Computer World demonstrated that the old masters
still had some last tricks up their collective sleeves. Compared to earlier
albums, it fell readily in line with The Man-Machine, eschewing side-long
efforts but with even more of an emphasis on shorter tracks mixed with longer
but not epic compositions. While the well-established tropes of the band were
used again -- electronically treated vocals, some provided by Speak and Spell
toys; crisp rhythm blips; basslines and beats; haunting, quirky melodies --
theres a ready liveliness to the songs, like the addictive Pocket Calculator,
with its perfectly deadpan portrait of the operator and his favorite tool, and
the almost winsome Computer Love. Cannily, the lyrical focus on newly accessible
technology instead of cryptic futurism and vanished pasts matched this new
of-the-now stance, and the result was a perfect balance between the new world of
the album title and a withdrawn, bemused consideration of that world. The title
track itself, with its lists detailing major organizations presumably all wired
up, echoes the flow of Trans-Europe Express, serene and pondering. Pocket
Calculator itself is more outrageously fun, thanks to the technical observation
that by pressing down a special key it plays a little melody. Others would take
the bands advances and run with them, but with Computer World Kraftwerk -- over
a decade on from their start -- demonstrated how they had stayed not merely
relevant, but prescient, when nearly all their contemporaries had long since
burned out. ~ Ned Raggett

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