Album
Autobahn
1974 · Electronic
90 collectors on Gatefold own this
Autobahn is a Rock album by Kraftwerk, originally released in 1974. On Gatefold: 249 pressings tracked, owned by 90 collectors.
About
Kraftwerk's fourth album defined their style and put them on the musical map. While their earlier records had been full of spacy atmospheres but relatively little synthesizer, <i>Autobahn</i> is where they began to incorporate conventional, somewhat pop-oriented song structures and rhythms. The tracks are still mostly instrumental, but the infectious little vocal refrain on the 22-minute title track helped make the three-minute excerpt issued as a single an international hit. While much of the album still features cosmic-sounding textures, the organ riff that emerges toward the end of "Kometenmelodie 2" could have come from a bubblegum pop tune. And the piano, flute, and acoustic guitar at the end of the closing cut, "Morgenspaziergang," can be seen as a farewell to the non-electronic side of the band's early sound.
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Tracklist
Side A
- AAutobahn22:30
Side B
- B1Kometenmelodie 16:20
- B2Kometenmelodie 25:44
- B3Mitternacht4:40
- B4Morgenspaziergang4:00
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Krautrock
- synthetic
- hypnotic
- cerebral
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Florian SchneiderBAND , VOCALS, ELECTRONICS ELECTRONICS, VOCALS PERFORMER , VOCALS, ELECTRONICS
- Klaus RöderBAND , VIOLIN, GUITAR ELECTRIC VIOLIN GUITAR, VIOLIN
- Ralf HütterBAND , VOCALS, ELECTRONICS ELECTRONICS, VOCALS ORGAN, PIANO, GUITAR
- Wolfgang FlürBAND , PERCUSSION PERCUSSION PERCUSSION, PERFORMER
- Emil SchultLYRICS BY, BACKING VOCALS
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