Tune of the Week: Trans Europa Express

Here’s the icey title track to Kraftwerk’s sixth album, “Trans Europe Express”. The traveling theme first presented on their epic “Autobahn”, this tune eludes to travel by train. The proto-industrial vibes are continued on the next track on the album, “Metal on Metal”:

These tunes very much exemplify the band’s evolution towards more syncopated and proto-techno output that would come in the proceeding years.