Word: kraftwerk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That process is already underway, prompted in part by the pathbreaking funk-electropop fusion of Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock," which combined chants with a purloined Kraftwerk riff and computer pyrotechnics by Arthur Baker...
...properly operating a motor vehicle) was financed by Road Movies, the Wim Wenders film company. It comes as no surprise that the film is the British equivalent of the early Wenders movies, Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, and others. Punctuated by songs of David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and more, the black-and-white film follows the odyssey of a man in search of his brother's house, where an unexplained suicide has just taken place. After a confrontation with a psychotic lower-class hitchhiker, an encounter with a German woman searching for her daughter...
...apparently, won. Foxx has taken a handful of songs and a handful of song fragments and given them the grand tour of the synthesizers. Nothing more, nothing less. Even though there's nothing experimental about Metamatic, the overall conceptualization more than compensates for form, as with the best of Kraftwerk...