Kraftwerk - Computerwelt

Crijevo, Aug 19, 2007

Kraftwerk moved on with every next release, trying hard to push the futures boundaries towards technological extremes but Computerwelt (or Computer-World if you like it), is undoubtedly one sole example of such perfection when there is no need for any further updates.

The bizarre case of the groups sometime-multilanguage album/single versions here reflects in the very mix - German variant of more popular English one is at times different or say, confusingly errored - while Computerwelt 2, Heimcomputer and Taschenrechner all appear in irrelevantly different but still altered mix, Computerliebe on the other hand suddenly slows down at the end, seeming like a tune disobeying its computers pre-programmed session.

As a whole, only geniuses like Kraftwerk could have made such an album - thrilling in the wake of forthcoming techno-progressive mankind but just as equally as fightening for all of that very mankinds weaknesses before total control and power. In seven songs, or better - topics, Computerwelt summarizes economics, financial disputes, administration and the secret services, virtual sex, the internet and by the time Its More Fun To Compute ends this virtual trip, youre left with fair share of anxiety - the future is always now but its still not...

Kraftwerk are very wisely suggesting the ways the future can be directed as friendly but also leave sharp, discrete warnings of its abuse.

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