Deluxe 2009 remaster, originally released 1977.
On Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk celebrates a romantic, retro future of shimmering elegance and glistening decadence where travel and technology merge across infinite sonic vistas. This milestone in avant-pop modernism later became a crucial influence on the early pioneers of hip-hop & sampling, electro and industrial music. 'With Trans Europe Express, they set out to reinvent a different legend: that of Europa itself, in the process they changed pop music forever.' -- Rolling Stone |