Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
Read moreBlack Box Recorder – The English Motorway System
Song of the Day: After James Carr's Dark Street and Van Morrison's Bright Road, let's now travel down the darkly humorous musical highway of the English trio, first from their second album The Facts of Life
Read moreKraftwerk – Autobahn
Song of the Day: Our previous two selections have been big synth pop hits, but here is where that all really came from – down an unclogged motorway all the way to Düsseldorf, and the timelessly influential work of Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider
Read moreKraftwerk – Tour De France
Song of the Day: There could hardly be a more appropriate way to mark the beginning of the Tour De France 2017 that sets of in Düsseldorf, the origin city of the highly influential man-and-machine band
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