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089: Kraftwerk - Computer World (1981)

Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

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What Time Is Love by the KLF

electro isn't technically hip hop, but they're very closely related and overlap a lot. The middle section of the song is built around this echo-y ascending synth sequence that I guess is what it sounds like when you beam yourself into the future. It's also reminiscent of an earlier Crawford song called Hall of Mirrors from Trans-Europe Express. Similar sort of eerie funhouse feel, but this time it's a digital funhouse. Home computer is another song that has been sampled a lot, although not quite as often as numbers. Sometimes it's a direct sample, sometimes it's an interpolation, and sometimes it's hard to tell.

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