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5 November 2024

Electronic music pioneers KRAFTWERK released their 4th LP, named AUTOBAHN
on 1 November 1974, 50 years ago (their self-titled, debut album came out in 1970).

The album marked several personnel changes in the band, which was initially a duo consisting of Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter; later, the group added Klaus Röder on
guitar and flute, and Wolfgang Flür on percussion. From there on Kraftwerk became
the complete robot-like act, as we know it.

The LP peaked at #4 in UK, #5 in the US and
Canada, #7 in Germany and #9 in Australia.

AllMusic/Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: “Although Kraftwerk’s first three albums
were groundbreaking in their own right, Autobahn is where the group’s hypnotic electronic pulse genuinely came into its own. The main difference between Autobahn and its predecessors is how it develops an insistent, propulsive pulse that makes the repeated rhythms and riffs of the shimmering electronic keyboards and trance-like guitars all the more hypnotizing.”

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