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“This track had no right to exist in 1973”: How Kraftwerk invented techno, nearly a decade before the genre was officially established

Kraftwerk.

Sliding Doors moments in music? We love them. That time when Gary Numan noticed a synth in the corner of the studio? Brilliant. When Richard James started twiddling about with electronics? Inspired. Or when Phuture found that second-hand TB-303 and invented acid house? Genius. Or what about when you found that unheard-of Kraftwerk track in 1973 and were so blown away that you started a new scene based on it called 'techno' in 1974?

Oh, except that last one didn't happen did it. Because you didn't hear the track and neither did anyone else.

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