Electronic Sound May 2015 (Regular Edition) | Page 6

THE SINGLE

Many electronic music fans share an obsession with Kraftwerk.
Jack Dangers, who I first met in 1990, around the time Mute
released the classic Meat Beat Manifesto album '99%', is no
exception. My earliest conversations with Jack would often
veer off into Kraftwerk chat, dissecting the group’s records,
noting the shift from the experimental noise of the first album
to the tunefulness of the second, through to the change in
sound that came after ‘Autobahn’, when they abandoned studio
genius Conny Plank and produced themselves on ‘RadioActivity’.
Jack and I have stayed in touch over the years, even when
we had nothing particular to talk about. There was an email
here, a phone call there, and the Kraftwerk chat was never
far away. These days, Jack Dangers has a regular column in
Electronic Sound, which involves us talking regularly again. The
conversations we have about his column almost always end
with discussions about Kraftwerk.
A while ago, Jack told me that The Prodigy's Liam Howlett
had on