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After introducing us to the techno-tropical pop of via an essential reissue of their stargazing sophomore LP 'Metaluna', those surefooted folks at Hamburg's Bureau B beam back a couple of years to bring us the Hessen outfit's outrageous debut. The collaborative vehicle careers through the cosmos like a high performance clown car, disguising daring chord progressions, technical innovation and a heap of hooks behind its cartoon chassis, and taking us lucky listeners along for the joyride.
'Roboterwerke', both the name of this 1979 LP and the revolutionary drum machine created by Knuttel, tells the story of a mellow tuba-toting frog (apparently an avatar of Kolb), who is technologically transformed by a mad scientist (a Professor Knuttels, as it happens) into a star surfing superhero. So far, so far out - especially considering the lurid, lysergic lunacy of the comic book cover art - but this slapstick silliness also serves as sleight of hand, a daft disguise to keep these sublime sounds away from the squares.
Tracklist
1 Roboterwerke
2 We Found It Out
3 Fantasia
4 Pipedreams On a Lilypad
5 Let's Beam Him Up
6 I'm Gonna Make You Big
7 Be a Man You Frog
8 Supersempfft
9 Out of Time
10 The Best Thing Is to Get High