Released on 31/01/2000
Label: EMI

It is amazing, when you think about it, that these guys can release a single of this quality in the twilight of their careers. A lesson surely to all those formerly great musicians who paid the ultimate MOR price for losing touch with their musical origins.

Influenced in tiny part by developments in electronic music, Kraftwerk, nonetheless, remain utterly unique. All the hallmarks are here, especially that strangely beautiful contradiction between a harsh industrial means of production and the richly emotional outcome. Music technology has progressed relentlessly since Kraftwerk recorded the significant body of their work but it is testimony to the uniqueness of their vision that it has, in many ways, failed to have a significant effect on their sound.

    by James Poletti