KRAFTWERK AUTOBAHN TEST PRESS LP & PAPERWORK

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KRAFTWERK
"AUTOBAHN"
Band's Historic First Release in the United Sates
EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL TEST PRESSING
THEIR MOST ACCLAIMED & HISTORICAL ALBUM
RELEASED 11-8-74

This is "AUTOBAHN" VERTIGO RECORDS
VEL-2003
This Lp was part of the Mercury/Vertigo Engineer's Own Personal Collection who Engineered this LP!
His initials "G.K." are found in the Matrix

VINYL: NEAR MINT CONDITION~NEVER PLAYED
Matrix: "Masterdisk G.K VEL-2003-A-CT1 1T"

TEST PRESS COVER: MERCURY GENERIC PLAIN WHITE

INCLUDES COPIES OF MEGA RARE PAPERWORK THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS TEST PRESSING
THIS PAPERWORK WAS GENERALLY SENT TO THE ARTIST/PRODUCER FOR APPROVAL OR REJECTION

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Although Kraftwerk's first three albums were groundbreaking in their own right, Autobahn is where the group's hypnotic electronic pulse genuinely came into its own. The main difference between Autobahn and its predecessors is how it develops an insistent, propulsive pulse that makes the repeated rhythms and riffs of the shimmering electronic keyboards and trance-like guitars all the more hypnotizing. The 22-minute title track, in a severely edited form, became an international hit single and remains the peak of the band's achievements — it encapsulates the band and why they are important within one track — but the rest of the album provides soundscapes equally as intriguing. Within Autobahn, the roots of electro-funk, ambient, and synth pop are all evident — it's a pioneering album

During the mid-'70s, Germany's Kraftwerk established the sonic blueprint followed by an extraordinary number of artists in the decades to come. From the British new romantic movement to hip-hop to techno, the group's self-described "robot pop" — hypnotically minimal, obliquely rhythmic music performed solely via electronic means — resonates in virtually every new development to impact the contemporary pop scene of the late- 20th century, and as pioneers of the electronic music form, their enduring influence cannot be overstated. Kraftwerk's first album to be issued in the U.S., 1974's Autobahn was an international smash; an edited single version of the epic title track was a major hit at home and abroad, and in America the previously unknown group reached the upper rungs of the pop albums chart. Performed in large part on a Moog synthesizer, Autobahn crystallized the distinctive Kraftwerk sound while making the group's first clear overtures towards conventional pop structure and melody, establishing a permanent foothold for electronic music within the mainstream.

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