I've found my album

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I've finally found the album of my dreams:

Kraftwerk: Radio-Activity

And I need more more more...

I've got all other Kraftwerk studio albums (from Autobahn onwards) but none of these have the same "mechanicalness" as this one.

So people, tell me other albums in this "mechanical" genre now!! !! please

ahhh Kraftwerk.

Probably stuff from the same era, Gary Numan? "Cars" "Are Friends Electric?"

I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but from a different era, if you like older movie soundtracks, the soundtrack from "Forbidden Planet".

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music

my album is. in utero by nirvana :]
i love the more less played songs like radio friendly unit shifter and scentless apprentice

search wikipedia for Uwe Schmidt's many aliases
maybe try some industrial music, early stuff like cabaret voltaire, bauhaus, etc
ambient stuff like aphex twin's "selected ambient works"
electronica like underworld, specially second thoughest on the infants
maybe noisier stuff like primal scream's evil heat

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwYskTUVobo[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtBvKb6XNE

Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries (1984)

It has an effect on many people much like another influential product of the 80s; it was very pure and made you feel like soaring (and many yuppies liked it). The only difference was that the high was natural and the proceeds went to Windham Hill Records, not Colombia.

http://vimeo.com/7835424

hmm... mechanical from the rhythm/instrumentation angle, or mechanical from the vocoder angle? two different things you could mean there.

if you mean 'mechanical rhythm' i suggest you check out the musical genre known as Krautrock. Most popular in the seventies (coming out of Germany, it emphasised metronomic beats and mechanical fluidities in its rhythm structure, to the point where this concept was named - Die Motorik. Often mixed with far-out electronics (as german experimental rock musicians were some of the first to compose 'new age'-type songs'.

Suggestions - the band Neu! (esp Neu! 1 and Neu 2) - the founders of Neu! were early members of Kraftwerk. Can, Faust, Amon Duul, and the early albums of Tangerine Dream like Zeit and Phaedra too. Krautrock techniques heavily influenced many post-rock bands as well (like Tortoise), and experimentally-minded indie bands like Stereolab - I'd suggest Stereolab's Dots & Loops for the contemporary angle.

Or, mining the deep vein of former Kraftwerk bandmembers still further, check out Karl Bartos - big emphasis on heavily-processed analogue rhythms and 'classical' vocoder voice processing. See: http://www.karl-bartos.de/comdatas/communication.html

If you mean 'mechanical voices' let me direct you to the master, the God of Vocoder - Giorgio Moroder.

comments? additions? i could go on and on about this.

cheers,

Luke

neat video - i'll have to check Uwe Schmidt out. he's got more names than an identity thief!

-luke