Kraftwerk - Autobahn Artist_Kyle Dixon

Kraftwerk - Autobahn Artist_Kyle DixonAutobahn is an epic ode to the joys of highway travel. It wraps a mesmerizing beat around a sampled collage of car horns, engine noise, whirring tires and radio crackle so infectious that US pop press at the time declared Kraftwerk's music does for driving what the Beach Boys did for surfing! The impact of this album is so strong that Spin magazine includes it in their list of the 15 most influential albums not recorded by The Beatles, Bob Dylan,

and New Order

Continuing from last year

a shadowy figure rose from the dust that settled atop forgotten record collections throughout Africa

This is a stark contrast to the almost rainbow palette of Awake

The instructions were simple “We told Cooper to keep it really fat but to feel free to play around with the other elements

mixing the delicate composition of composers such as Eric Satie and Harold Budd with a quiet and elegant simplicity

known as the "blue forest

it’s exceedingly limited

Over a year since the release of their exhilarating debut Could We Be More

honesty and vulnerability have been cornerstones of Kelela's art - even when clad in the armor of the avant-garde electronics she so deftly inhabits - and T​ake Me Apart​ sees her double down on both the emotional intensity and resonance of her message as well as the sonic seeking she is renowned for

punctuating memories of childhood

as ‘DIVE’) created instant vibrations in the blog-world with their impressionistic debut single ‘Sometime’