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Topic: AUTOBAHN PROG OR NOT?

Posted By: PROGMAN
Subject: AUTOBAHN PROG OR NOT?
Date Posted: June 17 2004 at 16:50

IS KRAFTWERK'S 1974 ALBUM A EARLY FORM OF TECHNO MUSIC OR A PROG ROCK ALBUM I CANT FIGURE IT OUT SAME WITH TANGERINE DREAM'S PHEDRA ALBUM ALSO RECORDED 1974.

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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: June 17 2004 at 19:12

As I work for the radio station which the Kraftwerk's record company, tell us we got the interest going in the band in the first place, I can report the full length Autobahn used to compete with Genesis's Supper's Ready for the most played track here in the 70's. The same djs here played both albums. Please note we were playing Autobahn 6 months before BBC Radio 1 took it up (having ignored/rejected the album from their play lists the first time round) and Radio 1 was the first national radio station in the world outside Germany to play it. However, we were promoed with Kraftwerk earliers albums (I think they were on Phillips), but these remained in near mint condition because of lack of play, being electronic industrial sounds for the most part. And then Kraftwerk helped start the electro dance scene with their subsequent releases. So rather like Wishbone Ash or Spooky Tooth, you could argue one or two albums but much of their catalogue is outside the scope of this group.

Posted By: ummagumma08
Date Posted: June 18 2004 at 09:13

It would be fairer to call Autobahn Prog Rock, rather than Techno, especially due to the experiments, the lengthy title track & tracks like Morgenspaziergang & Mitternacht. It's not prog in the style of ELP, Yes, Genesis etc... though.

But it would be reasonable to call it Kraut Rock, a special German version of prog rock, with more focus on electronic means, rather than traditional rock instruments. So if Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Can, Faust etc. is considered prog, Kraftwerk's Autobahn certainly should also be. &nb sp;