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Kraftwerk were still on a roll in 1986, and Electric Café is more than a suitable successor to the defining techno-pop trilogy that was Trans-Europe Express (1977)/The Man Machine (1978)/Computer World (1981). Okay the music was even harder, leaner, brutally so, but that’s good – they were still evolving, still breaking new ground (heading into hip-hop territory this time), and still underpinning it all with great tunes. Where the album fails is that it lacks a real stand-out track to lend it focus: imagine The Man Machine without The Model smack in the middle, or Computer World withoutmore… Computer Love and you get the idea – it all tends to drift. It doesn’t help that side one (the first three tracks) is virtually instrumental, so the songs don’t kick in until side two. Ironically, they did have a killer track that could have unified the album: Tour De France, released as a single three years earlier and supposedly the lynch-pin of their subsequently abandoned 1983 album, Techno-Pop (in fact the 1984 remix by Francois Kervorkian – available along with the original on the 1999 Tour De France CD single – would have slotted in on Electric Café a treat).I won’t bore you with a critique of the music. Buy Trans-Europe Express, The Man Machine, Computer World, Tour De France (single) and Electric Café and you have their classic period (77-86) complete. The early albums are good but hardly techno-pop. When you hear the phrase “godfathers of techno” or “they invented dance music/trance/house/garage (delete where applicable),” it's down to these works.

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CD

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Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe (1995) Retail CD

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