Kraftwerk

"The first two Kraftwerk albums, named "Kraftwerk" and "Kraftwerk 2" compiled on a double LP with the famous ‘oscilloscope' gatefold artwork. It's impossible to tell where the first album ends and second one begins, because they are similar in sound, concept and presentation of the ideas. Both are electronic masterpieces, melodic Krautrock classics, and while far more challenging than the popular later Kraftwerk albums, all the more perfectly accomplished as well as highly experimental. Most of the songs are simple structured: they are following one simple pattern, developing dynamics and layers (and sometimes tempo) until the end of the track. A highly meditative conception. Electronic experimentation is omnipresent, but there is no sign of synthesizers - at least not the keyboards with the purpose of synthesis. They will appear in years to come. All the electronic sounds here are simple-circuit-generated basic waveforms, with no drastic modulations or accented melody. The main instrument here is flute; there's just one single pattern played by Herr Schneider often augmented by a tape echo units. Playing a consonant interval in the same time when tape loops the sound over and over again is producing ascending simple chord effect - no dub-like double-tap echo here. Creating an organic tapestry, band continues with minimalistic interventions of other instruments here - including the guitar, but only in traces."