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Whatever Wednesday: Kraftwerk's "The Robots"

Posted about 1 year ago

Artist:
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Kraftwerk
Album:
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The Mix
Track:
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The Robots

Metal, New Wave, Electronica . . . Wednesday has sort of taken on a wierd life of its own here in MOGville, so I decided today was as good a day as any to post this.I have been listening to a serious amount of Kraftwerk lately. Early and later stuff. One song that has been a particularly huge hit around my house has been "The Robots." My 3 year old and 5 year old love this song and beg me to play it on an almost daily basis. When I do, they always do their best to do the robot dance. I don't know if you've ever seen young children trying to do the robot, but it's hysterical.

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Cody B says I think it is almost better when you imagine the cuteness explosion...Nice one! Gonna have to try some 'werk on mine.

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Groon says Cody--go for it. I think I'm going to have to try and get some of it on video, it is that funny.

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Groon says For those nitpickers out there--for some reason I tagged this as being on the album The Mix, but it's really on The Man Machine.

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I am says Oh yeah, this one has Baylor written all over it. What a blast from the past. Good call Chuck.

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mollifire says Robot music rules! Have you heard BassKraft? It's an album of "covers" basically Kraftwerk's greatest hits that were perfectly recreated on modern synths with enhanced bass response. It sounds exactly like Kraftwerk but it will rattle the floorboards, windows and anything else! Perfect for boom boom cars... Anyhow, Robots is one of the tracks and those kick drums really thump.

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Groon says Chris: glad to be of help there! You'll have to let me know if you try it out on Baylor. The more I think about it, the more I might try to video the girls getting their kosmische on. Mollifire: I haven't heard that, but it's definitely something I need to check out. The lack of boom is something I always notice when listening to tracks like this (I'm not sure how it would play on tracks from something like Radio-Activity, though), and I know at the time that low end wasn't part of the standard electronic sound. Thanks for the heads up!

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Charley Rogulewski says a lot of musicinas i've interviewed through the years always site these guys as a major influence. i've never gotten into them, so i appreciate the post. thanks.

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Dzendvokh says Love this track Chuck.... my daughters love to dance too (well the little one just kind of bobs up and down), good call with this one, although I can just picture my wife rolling her eyes... I'll blame it on my Mog friends..

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Groon says Charley: I was kinda in the same boat, for a while. I saw their name pop up everywhere but never really heard anything. I got into their early stuff first, as it's very organic and much less electronic. It took a lot longer for me to delve into the more techno-driven sounds, and I'm still a newcomer to it. Nick: that's why we're here! I get the eye roll, too, more times than I could ever count, and it's nice to have some outside, unknown third party to blame it all on!

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dermahrk says Interesting. I'm in the same boat as Charley (and the water is seeping in) but found this enjoyable. Much better than Metal, IMHO.

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contrabandwidth says I'm totally gonna steal this idea from you and play it for my son and tape him dancing to it. Love it.

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Doomsayer2001 says Look! I'm doing "The Robot"! You can't see me? I'm the ghost in your machine.

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Groon says So THAT explains why my computer's acting so screwy!

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Hermes says I hardly know anything of Karftwerk, though it's a kind of corner stone for electronic music. But I certainly plan to get more of them, so I enjoyed this post. And that link to the remakes on modern synths is something I surely have to check out, 'cause that's something that sometimes hinders me of listening to older electronic stuff as it sometimes - not here - just sounds crappy. And that's a bad thing as many ideas sure have been very good, just they didn't have the right means to express themselves adequately back then. If I imagine Kraftwerk would have had a thing like 'PureData', what would have put them in the place of building their very own synths, I'm wondering what they would have done with that. Something similar and coveval like Kraftwerk is Anthony Rother, though darker and not so funny like this here. I've already planned posting something of him on a Wired Wednsesday, just wasn't here this week to do so -> next WW hopefully.

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