Starting with Kraftwerk's 'Ruckzuck', and driving on through Neu! and the hooligan terrace chant electro-punk of La Dusseldorf, this relentless pulse is the modernist impulse in excelsis - calmly driving ineffably forward, a changing .... Werckmeister overstates his case here: indeed, what is interesting in Kraftwerk is the melancholy of the machines themselves, the sex appeal of the inorganic, the machine not as the war machine, but as interconnective, utopian in its ...