Kraftwerk's Computer World

<p><i>Computer World</i> was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement their most influential record and crowning achievement. <i>Computer World</i> transformed the way pop music was composed played packaged and released and in the process helped create entire new genres of music including hip-hop techno trance electro industrial and synth-pop. They influenced the influencers. <p/>Upon its release on 10 May 1981 the record was a revelation. It was unlike anything created for mainstream consumers of music at that time an electronic suite of assured and industrious propulsive forward movement. Kraftwerk set off a sonic detonation that is still being felt today. <p/>This book explores Kraftwerk's revolutionary sonic template their conceptual and artistic preoccupations and lyrical obsessions to provide new insights into one of the greatest records ever made.</p>