D.A.F.: The Venue, London
Andy Gill, NME, 6 June 1981
'ALLES IST Gut', for sure, ist gut: there's an almost imagistic pointedness to DAF's musical progressions, just simple sequencer patterns stripped bare of "musicianly" encumbrances and beefed up with equally simple clattering drums. The most basic of skeletal dancing hints.
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