Throughout their career, Kraftwerk had operated in the tension between their humanity and the cold mechanical tools they employed to compose their music. But on The Man-Machine, they fully embrace their robotik tendencies without apology. While their minimalist pop-songs-by-robots schtick was already fully realized on Trans-Europe Express, Kraftwerk’s next record would take it the next level. With the exception … Continue reading Record #464: Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine (1978)