[KRAFTWERK] Electric Cafe theme

[Robert Plunkett]

Interesting. So in a sense this is Kraftwerk looking both to the past and to the future. Also in Sex Object you have the idea of people being treated like objects rather than people with feelings. You could contrast this with something like the man machine which took a more positive view I guess.

Toby Frith <Toby.Frith at telegraph.co.uk> wrote:       It  pales into insignificance against the other albums because  their messages are beautifully coherent and simple. I guess the one  thing you can glean from it follows on from Computer World into detailing a  vague form of cultural and technical globalisation (Electric Cafe,  Industrial sounds ALL around) that sat with what became the Internet. My own  opinion of it (whether it be true or not) is that from a technical aspect they  seemed a bit obsessed with what was available, for example with sampling, and I  feel that the instrumentation and relative lack of detail in the digital  production overshadows the album as a whole.
  
 The  only thing I will say about it is that "Telephone Call" has a romantic air to it  in its fixation with what they saw as an outmoded form of technology. There is  none of this in Computer World, which slightly detracts from that LP  IMHO.
  
  
  
  
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EC has often been criticised for not having a theme    like the previous albums. Do you see any theme or connnection between the    songs?. Maybe the theme just isn't as apparent as in previous releases.
      

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