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Electric Café is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Satanicpornocultshop. Those roots explain a lot about how Electric Café arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Depeche Mode and The Human League, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around Electric Café, reaching back through Satanicpornocultshop and forward to Depeche Mode. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Electric Café is the ninth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 27 October 1986. The initial 1986 release came in versions sung in English and German, as well as a limited Edición Española release, featuring versions of "Techno Pop" and "Sex Object" with only Spanish lyrics. It was the first Kraftwerk LP to be created using predominantly digital musical instruments, although the finished product was still recorded onto analog master tapes.
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Electric Café grew out of Satanicpornocultshop, went on to shape Depeche Mode and The Human League. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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