Automat: Automat
In an ideal world, Automat is what industrial music would have grown into, something which acknowledges the roads its founding members paved without imitating them in the process.
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Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing
There’s a prevalent notion throughout techno and house music of human beings becoming well-oiled machines, or even merging with machines, a vision in keeping with Kraftwerk’s utopian Man Machine futurism or the dignified Soviet toil of Dziga Vertov’s The Man With a Movie Camera.