Good article. "...The sweat and grind of mountain stages do not fit into Kraftwerk's worldview of smooth, transformative travel, with their concept of a music which synthesises the idea of constant motion." "...An alternative theory as to why Kraftwerk stopped making records is not just that bikes became more appealing, but that music caught up with them." "...Stories, meanwhile, have proliferated of Hütter, now in his mid fifties, cycling vast distances every day as if to make his band's fascination with travel (first cars on 'Autobahn', then trains on 'Trans-Europe Express') an integral part of his life. As Flur melodramatically describes a meeting with Hüin 1996: "I could no longer see the artist; instead, I saw the extremely likeable and dynamic face of a sportsman." Flur's book: "...the band's leaders, "would prefer to study bicycle catalogues...rather than thinking up ideas for new songs. The bicycle seemed to have become an alternative to the synthesiser, particularly for Ralf." amir Edimes Cagliari wrote:

http://www.dotmusic.com/reviews/Albums/August2003/reviews30362.asp

Eddy

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