Brendan Landis

Hey Exit: Arm's Reach (Else 3)

by James Fleming
May 8, 2020

Writers have been creating worlds for centuries. J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, H.P Lovecraft, they all shaped worlds and mythologies and civilisations out of words. Few musicians, however, have created new worlds out of their music. Kraftwerk's albums and aesthetics form a unique world of Pop Art, industrialism, rhythms and electricity. But it's a world rooted in reality, in the hardness and definition of this dimension. In 1972, Tangerine Dream released Zeit (Ohr), a record that sounds like a panorama of ...