Table of Contents

1. Ohm Sweet Ohm
2. We Are the Robots
3. Planet Rock
4. Speak & Spell
5. From Station to Station
6. “We had no fathers”.
7. Interpol and Deutsche Bank, FBI and Scotland Yard…
8. Hiroshima Mon Amour
9. Tomorrow’s World
10. “Here’s to the Crazy Ones”
11. The Pleasure Principle
12. Neon Lights

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Explores how Kraftwerk impacted so significantly the broader music world from the relative solitude of their Kling Klang studios in Düsseldorf.

About the Author

Steve Tupai Francis has over 25 years’ experience in writing in a range of contexts including music, academia and civil society. Steve is obsessed with music, with David Bowie, Kate Bush, Prince, Japan and Kraftwerk taking pride of place in his collection of over 3,000 records.

Reviews

Steve Tupai Francis pops the hood on Kraftwerk’s Computer World and delivers a lovingly exhaustive examination of the road to realizing their perfect sonic vision, the reverberations of which are still felt today … Artfully balancing key elements from the band’s previous work while shedding light on the various tools that helped create Computer World, (shoutout Speak and Spell!), Francis does an exceptional job of managing an avalanche of information, and keeping it moving and relevant.
*The Owl Mag*

Francis brings clarity to subjects like Bauhaus-influenced design, the Düsseldorf division of IBM, Hazeltine 1500 computers (the monitor that graces the album’s cover) and the intricate details of how Kraftwerk's Kling Klang studios came to be.
*Spectrum Culture*