I program my home computer
Beam myself into the future
I program my home computer
Beam myself into the future
I program my home computer
Beam myself into the future
I´m a Black Metal fan but I always loved Kraftwerk since I heard them the first time in the 80´s. I still love them, this album and Electric Cafe is my 2 favorite albums.
Saw them in the Detroit area at a club called Nitro's during this tour. The audience was white new wavers and black techno fans about a 50/50 mix. Kraftwerk had such a huge impact on techno which started in Detroit that it was cool to see so many black kids. Most of the shows I saw back then had hardly any blacks in the audience. Strange for me because I was following Kraftwerk since the Autobahn days when almost nobody I knew had any idea who they were and you could not have foreseen that Detroit DJs would be using their tracks in their mixes just a few years later. Glad I can say I saw Kraftwerk.
Btw, this album was so far ahead of its time that it's scary. Back in '81, there were almost no computers except in very advanced applications. Some people had little computers you hooked to your TV to play chess and tennis--we had one at my house, a Tandy. No CDs yet, no cell phones, no PCs or Apple. Word processors were still typewriters. Cable was just getting started for most of the country and TVs had CRTs. Yet Kraftwerk predicted the rise of the computer, saw that it would take over the world and told us not to fear.
"I program my home computer
Beam myself into the future"
They're right! 35 years later I'm doing exactly this! This was 12 years before I was even born lol.