STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - KRAFTWERK - TRANS - EUROPE EXPRESS

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Good Monday morning gang and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. 43 years ago this month, German electronica band, Kraftwerk, released their sixth studio album, Trans-Europe Express, on Kling Klang Records. The album reached #119 in America, #49 in the UK, #32 in Germany, and #2 in France. It was produced by band members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Two singles were released ; the title track (#96 Canada, #67 US, #34 Italy, #26 France, #15 Sweden) and "Showroom Dummies" (#28 Ireland, #26 UK) were released as singles.

1. "Europe Endless" ("Europa Endlos")
Ralf Hütter Florian Schneider
Hütter 9:40

2. "The Hall of Mirrors" ("Spiegelsaal")
Hütter Schneider Emil Schult
Hütter 7:56

3. "Showroom Dummies" ("Schaufensterpuppen") Hütter Hütter 6:15 

Side two

4. "Trans-Europe Express" ("Trans Europa Express")
Hütter Schult
Hütter 6:52

5. "Metal on Metal" ("Metall auf Metall") Hütter 2:11

6. "Abzug[a]" Hütter 4:53

7. "Franz Schubert" Hütter 4:26

8. "Endless Endless" ("Endlos Endlos")
Hütter Schneider
0:55

Kraftwerk :

Ralf Hütter – voice, synthesizers, Vako Orchestron, synthanorma-sequenzer, electronics, producer

Florian Schneider – voice, vocoder, votrax, synthesizer, electronics, producer

Karl Bartos – electronic percussion

Wolfgang Flür – electronic percussion

Technical :

Peter Bollig – engineer
Bill Halverson – engineer (The Record Plant, Hollywood)
Thomas Kuckuck – engineer (Rüssl Studio, Hamburg)

Design :

Maurice Seymour – photography
J. Stara – photography
Ink Studios – typographic design