Kraftwerk: Electric Café
Biba Kopf, NME, 8 November 1986
IT BEGINS with a word that sounds like BOING! The BOING! Triggers a controlled BOOM!, blanketed by a downbeat TSCHAK! In case you didn't catch it, a deadpan voice intones it again. And again. And yet again.
Total word count of piece: 502
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