It may be that I was born in 1975, and my first electronic music experiences were Chris Sheppard’s Still Trippin’ and going to raves to dance until dehydration to house music and techno, that I find this 2025 deep listening to Kraftwerk’s debut album underwhelming. It’s impossible for me to put myself in the place of someone hearing this in 1974. To my “tainted” modern ears, the arpeggiated synths sound rudimentary and boring in their elemental simplicity.
Born too late, I suppose.
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