This Is Kraftwerk Playlist on Spotify

Electronic music at its most foundational. This Is Kraftwerk is Spotify’s essential-tracks playlist for Kraftwerk, curated by its editors. It is a chance to hear their most famous moments in a single listen.

The list offers the 2009 remasters of “The Model”, “Trans-Europe Express”, “Pocket Calculator” and “Die Roboter”. The remastered versions keep the tracks crisp and clear, so the old melodies sound sharp on modern speakers.

The sound is precise, mechanical and melodic, electronic music at its most foundational. It suits focused work, long train journeys and curious listeners tracing techno back to its roots. You get 50 tracks across 4 hours 39 minutes. Even after all this time, the machines sound surprisingly human, and the melodies are still easy to hum once the robots stop talking.

Where the machines first learned to dance.