Kraftwerk

This album is simple and legendary. The music is good example of electronic POP in Prog field... Also if 100% Prog. In TEE are good all songs but in particular: 'Showroom Dummies', great example of electronic Disco Music/ Rock with Proto Synthetic New Wave flavor and my first Krafwerk song that I listen to with 'TEE' ('Trans-Europe Express') my first Kraftwerk video that I watch. In 'TEE' is good to evoke a world now lost, where everything was fit for humans. Or rather... It was believed to be still and TEE were created for business people increasingly pressed by the commitments... But that ended up upsetting habits and killing off the TEE. The video highlights all of this: the slow Krafwerk traveling on a TEE (the mythical 'Rheingold') travels fast as the prototype driven by turbine (soon abandoned) of TGV! And the music? A steam train that runs fast (even the mythical 'Rheingold') that crosses the future high-speed trains (TGV? ICE? Thalys? Eurostar? ES?). Interesting is also 'The Hall Of Mirrors', electronics and hypnotic ballad example of Proto Industrial Music, 'Europe Endless', good song to use as a soundtrack for a documentary on European wildlife... Forests, lakes, mountains, rivers, seas, coasts... Another good song is 'Franz Schubert', naturally dedicated to Franz Schubert (1797- 1828), brilliant composer from Wien (Austria), that is a piece of electronic Classic Music.

In general the melodies are evocative and with poor arrangement because the level of melodies are great and not requiring superstructure. So the songs are very light and evocative.

In definitive 'Trans-Europe Express' is a great example of Electronic Prog and one of my preferred Prog album in my discography.