50th-anniversary nod to when Krautrock began embracing melody
In 1974, two albums by German kosmiche musicians working with electronics became the first from the seedbed of what’d been dubbed Krautrock to explicitly embrace – and merge – melody and rhythmic structure. One was Kraftwerk’s Autobahn. The other was Cluster’sZuckerzeit. Once on the record player, each LP instantly made its presence felt more directly than anything either had released previously.