Kraftwerk's Unrecognized Masterpiece | Video Essay 

Please read this before commenting for clarification on specific points! My newest Video Essay here! ru-vid.com/group/PLrTWlMf3497XmJZafZFUrQW4-HdrcctJo At 20 : 37 it isn't Kraftwerk's studio, it was a different studio (a mistake from when I collected reference photos). It was the EMS Putney Studio. 01 : 48 There's a typo of "Deustch" instead of "Deutsch" lol, missed that in the editing phase. I already understand Kraftwerk translates to Powerplant/Power station, the disambiguation screen was more so to clarify the pronunciation for English compared to Deutsch, not a translation of the name. As I claimed in the video "the instruments many people *suspect but aren't certain of* ". So with the Instruments portion of the video is what others have guessed, I did not state it as a certainty. So yes, the Synclavier was acquired after the album lol. I misquoted the interview with Wolfgang Flür with the incorrect title, an error during editing: Malik Bendjelloul made a film called "Searching for Sugarman" that I misquoted. Malik made the interview in 2001 though. When working on these videos they are done in my free time, and they are for entertainment purposes. Mistakes happen to everyone, especially when it's one person editing and reviewing a 30 minute long video lol. This was my first time making a video of this caliber: Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Synopsis 01:56 - Album History 03:29 - Reception 04:18 - Boing Boom Tschak 05:30 - Techno Pop 08:31 - Musique Non-Stop 10:53 - The Telephone Call 13:15 - Sex Object 15:53 - Electric Café 18:11 - Demos 19:38 - Technological Advances 22:21 - The Art 23:04 - Band Member Experiences (Interviews) 27:05 - Conclusion & Opinions

Calling a kraftwerk album too cold and sterile is like saying salt is too salty

In 1984 I was 14yrs old. My personal opinion - this is the best Kraftwerk album. I was really surprised that it was unrecognized. Anyway I think I know why. I always had very good stereo system with very good base. Most people didn't. So they lost 50% of this music. It is not cold or sterile. It is soft, full of power and life. Computer life.

I find it really hard not to fall in love with every Kraftwerk song. absolute legends.

In my world, Tour De France was the single most important piece of music in the breakdancing scene in 83-84. That song defined the popping and locking style of movement, and practically served as the theme song for stutter liquid and robot popping style dance.

I have been an electronic nerd ever since I listened to Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity" as a teenager in the 70s. I rarely found the music cold, but rather meditative and hypnotically relaxing, I was a dancing electron in a fantastic future world. Thank you Kraftwerk.

Interesting story: growing up in the US in the 1980s, Kraftwerk and their music was one of the great influences of mine that drew me to Europe to follow my European dream, where I ended up in Germany spending the greatest days of my life raving non-stop throughout the 90s. thank you Germany and Kraftwerk for the great times and rest in peace Flo.

Being from Detroit, MI, the album Electric Cafe was a huge hit. Kraftwerk was always in rotation from our local legend radio DJ Mojo and the Detroit dance show, The Scene/New Dance Show. I personally own their entire discography.

I've seen Kraftwerk live 3 times, and every time they had absolutely the best live sound I've ever heard.

Probably the most influential album of theirs to a whole generation of young electronic music producers. Inspired me when I started in the mid 80's. I actually bought their mixing console from Kling Klang studio that was used on Tour de France and Electric Cafe etc. Still my prized possession.

Strangely, in Brazil, this was Kraftwerk's best-selling album, it was a very big success, I listened to this album so much that I got to memorize it and get sick of it. Strange to say it was a flop elsewhere. Best album of their carreer, best recorded, rich in details, impossible to beat...seminal.

As a musician, programmer, engineer and writer, I think Kraftwerk is one of the most unsung influencers of multiple genres of music. I became a fan in 1981 and own their complete discography. I had the pleasure of seeing them live in Detroit MI, where I grew up. I could give at least three hours of positive commentary but I'll just say this: If you aren't fully in the know, take the time and educate yourself pleasurably by a deep study of this band! You won't regret it! Love Their work, especially the 80's albums.

No album in electronic music will come close to this. This is a masterpiece in not only concept but synthesis and engineering production. Im not even talking about composition.

They are not the kings of Electro....but the GOAT Electro....I still feel their contribution to music hasn`t received the due recognition it should have!

The impact of Kraftwerk's music on pop, techno, ambient, electro or hiphop is still underrated

I was lucky enough to see them in London in the 80s. It was an extraordinary evening I shall never forget. Durch dieser erlebnis bin ich so inspieriert worden das ich deutsch gelernt habe; gebrochen, aber versteht Mann. Danke an Power station.

This and Jean-Michel Jarre's "Zoolook" are two underappreciated but really interesting departures from respective artist's previous styles. Less flow-with-it and more food-for-thought kind of thing.

The sonic coldness of the album must have been exactly their point. It wasn't their job to make pop songs. They leaned into the idea that synths can create every part of music and combined it with sexual coldness, unanswered phone calls/love, and robots/computers that have taken over from humans. In the end it was really worth the complete sound redesign, layering and rhythmic complexity which those earlier recorded versions didn't have. It has given it an air of ultimate timelessness. Love this album!

I never disliked this album, but it was one of my least-listened of their discography. I started getting into it within the last year, and this video helped me get a better appreciation of this album. As an electronic musician, Kraftwerk is my biggest inspiration. Great video

The reason it was not as well received in 1986 was that it was too far ahead of it's time for music critics to understand it. 30 odd years on, even though it still sounds from the future it can now be understood and comprended.

Kraftwerk´s discography are all masterpieces! Magnificent audio vibrations!

This Album was AHEAD of its time and I consider it a CLASSIC and one of their BEST Recordings

EC is a sonic masterpiece. The A side is "digital" at its finest. The head room and production allows you to play it at "11" and immerse yourself in the crystal clear frequencies & repetition. The B side, particularly "Telephone Call" & "Sex Object" is a wonderful return to that German kitsch they were renowned for. "Electric Cafe" contains all of the wonderment of cosmopolitan 70s Europe that they gave us with Autobahn/TEE/Europe Endless/Neon Lights. It is quite clear the dynamic that was the four of them was lost when Karl & Wolfgang left, very much like the end of that golden era of Tangerine Dream with Chris Franke and Johannes Schmoelling departing. KWerk was an evolution and it is pointless judging one album against the others. They and we were all at different levels of perception and state of mind at every release. I am grateful to them for giving me the opportunity to be able to remember and re-live my own history.👍

Not even a fleeting reference to Radioactivity? A great album It has a really beautiful, hypnotic, retro-timeless sound, I'd say. Their best work created a peculiar tension between seeming polarities - retro/future, melodic/mechanized, emotive/glacial.

I still LOVE Boing Boom Tschak. The recording of this album is precise and gorgeous.

Electric Cafe is quite literally my favorite album ever since my dad introduced it to me when I was about 7

Kraftwerk,Jarre,Tangerine Dream,Schulze,Vangelis,Oldfield...Masters Electronic Music ! Greets From Poland ;-)

My favourite kraftwerk album. This needs to be played at extreme volume to be appreciated

My parents had this album and I put it on the record player for the first time when I was five. I'm now 30 and this is still a regular listen.

I'm really glad RU-vid suggested this to me, good to see this one get some justice. "Telephone Call" is prolly my favorite Kraftwerk track, especially that 4 minute cut like you said. It's practically a perfect pop song ☺️

I was introduced to Kraftwerk, and this album, in the late 80's through the car audio community. The sounds are so clear throughout all of the frequency ranges that it makes a a great showcase for a high-end audio system. Over time I fell in love with the actual songs and have since explored all of their catalog. Ich liebe Kraftwerk!

I have always seen this album as the most amazing and extraordinary electronic music made in the history of electronic music. It is definitely a groundbreaking piece of music. It is my favourite Kraftwerk album.

Electric Cafe was the first Kraftwerk album I ever heard, it had absolutely blown my mind, it felt like something I've never heard before and it was my introduction to electronic music. This was back in 2015 while I was in highschool, my friends found so weird what I was listening to, even to this day they don't get it, but their music opened a door for me in the world of synthesizers and I immediately started to learn more about it and shortly after I discovered Emerson Lake and Palmer, that made me go even further in music. But Electric Cafe is an album that will always be one of my favorites and for a long time I thought it was considered their masterpiece, after reading online I found that it was considered one of their weakest or the weakest album of their discography, which made me so confused because it is such a groundbreaking album. That being said, I really liked your analysis and it is pretty much how I feel about it, the so called coldness is one of the reasons I liked it. Also the music video is a masterpiece, I think that for being so weird, it hasn't aged at all and it is so aesthetic, it feels like it came out of Tron, a digital world, which fits perfectly with the rest of the album.

I wasn’t really familiar with their post Computer Love work but I was lucky enough to see them in 2017 and when they played the Tour de France and Electric Cafe tracks I was blown away. They really don’t have any bad releases, just different ones

I was starting to think that I was the only one who loved this album. I think it is their best album and a masterpiece. Not only does it still sound great today I think it sounds better than most modern albums, especially on a good vinyl hi-fi setup. It to me has the best of both the analog and digital worlds. It still sounds rich and analog but also embraced the creativity enabled by sampling and sculpting sounds that way. Such an underrated gem of an album. Great job on the video!

I was 19 when this album was released. Bought the "Musique Non-Stop" single beforehand and played it on repeat for hours. This was the first Kraftwerk album I had purchased new, as I hadn't started getting into them until around 1982 through a Swedish penpal I had. We would exchange cassettes of our favorite records and she opened up a whole new world to me. By the time 'Electric Cafe' had been released I had thoroughly caught up with all their previous albums. Electronic music had progressed SO MUCH from 1981 to 1986, I'm sure it was nearly impossible for them to try and keep ahead of the curve. The advancements in technology, although primitive by today's standards, were so groundbreaking back then. I'd never heard electronic voices like those on 'Electric Cafe' before, never heard synth snaps and programmed rhythms from samples of telephones before. When I got my first CD player in 1990, this was one of the very first discs I bought. This album is best heard through headphones.

Musique Non-Stop is one of greatest EDM tracks I’ve ever heard, period!!! The funny thing I was in Germany when this track came out and it absolutely a classic.

This is an awesome video essay! Really cool departure from your normal content, while being just as well-done. I never really listened to the Electric Cafe album by Kraftwerk much. However I always adored the song, "Techno Pop," and you did a nice analysis of its many moving parts. Might have to give that LP a listen! Nice work Music Arbeiter!

If it not for Kraftwerk music, I would not have become a Break Dancer. I have so much respect for their counter-culture music and I agree, this album is a masterpiece! Peace and love!

this album was and is still a masterpiece.

Fantastic video, love your editing and pacing. Super happy to hear people diving into this album. The stretch of the first three tracks is among my favorite Kraftwerk pieces of all time. These guys are my childhood heroes, and when I finally got to see them live, the Musique Non Stop ending jam was one of the highlights of the show for me. Still trying to figure out how to make my snare hits sound even half as cool.

I have always liked this album, and we used to call their sound music for robots to dance to so we had embraced their style as it evolved. Kraftwerk was the band that started me off on electronic music when I was very young and influenced my own work.They are essential to Modern music and their value is incalculable (no pun intended).

This crew was phenomenal and before thier time. THESE GUYS ARE ELECTRONIC/SYNTH LEGENDS!! I am 53 years old and I have(& STILL listen to), all of these albums. This groups music was a great inspiration to my inner self as all those years ago I considered myself a LONER. I never wanted to live my life as everyone else did. I remember so many times I was referred to as wierd/different when all alone, just as this group-I was UNIQUE. The discovery/enjoyment of this group's music will live forever...

Thank you for taking the time to create this documentary :) I learned something new about Kraftwerk's music and a look at the behind the scenes. The first time I heard of Kraftwerk was their hit tune, "Autobahn" playing on the AM radio and I just had to go buy the album and find out who these guys were. I was not disappointed. I plan to see them this June (2022) when they come to Toronto, Canada :)

Don't forget "Radioactivity" between Autobahn and Trans Europe Express !! It's a masterpiece with synths they have built on their own.

I love all Kraftwerk’s music, but TransEurope Express remains my absolute favourite album. Even my mum liked it and played it often.

Fun Fact: Rebecca Allen, also provides vocal works on the 'Musique non stop' track. 😀👍

I have two copies of this album on vinyl. The use of reverb on those vocal samples in Musique Non Stop is just so awesome.

I absolutely love this album and I don’t understand the dislike for this album. Thank you so much for making this. You did an amazing job in this!!!

For some reason, I never really got this album until this year when I finally saw them live, and they finished with the medley of the first three tracks here. I love when they each solo on "Musique Non Stop."

Bought this album on a school trip to stockholm... it was sooo new and I was 13? and got home in middle of the night... and it took me 2 songs to see I was playing at 45 speed... instead of 33... :)

The trouble with big gaps between records is people have their nostalgia for the music but forget the time frame of it, and forget the different production aesthetics of the time. So when the bands (gnr for example) emerge with new material, it’s like “this is weird” “it’s not good like their old stuff” etc. it’s because bands that go off for long periods to make work lose touch with the wider music scene and production aesthetics that are contemporary, they might overhaul their production but it doesn’t end up sounding current. Updating sound whilst remaining current is incredibly hard, only a few acts have done it. Michael Jackson with Dangerous, Metallica with the Black album etc.

Thanks enormously for putting both the time and the energy into this fantastic video. I enjoyed it from start to finish. I can say for myself that I'll definitely revisit this album as a result of your video. Good work!

What an excellent analasys of this album. Your research and putting it all together into a very well edited and informative video is just stellar!!! Thanks.

I remember rushing to the record store to buy this record ... and playing it on my killer sound system. Seemed to be a pure distillation of Kraftwerk's aesthetic. They entered the uncanny valley here. Somber sound manifesto. Scared people off. And with no follow-up album, they never left. Fitting final album in many ways.

I bought Man Machine on a whim, fell in love… bought Computer World and played it all the time. Then I bought Autobahn, then TEE. This was the soundtrack of my youth. I had to wait a cold long hard year before I heard in NME that Kraftwerk would soon release their latest album I can remember the joy of queueing on Monday morning to be the first to buy this masterpiece. Others hated it…. That made me feel special, personal and close to my heroes of heroes. I’m off to see my heroes in Barcelona next Saturday. So glad to be alive.

I was 14 in '86 and bought this album from a tiny record shop in Houston. was my first experience with kraftwerk. blew my mind open. I sampled it extensively as a dj and later as an "artist". absolute classic.

Electric Cafe is one of my favorite Kraftwerk albums.

Very cool video; Lots of content that I didn't know about one of my fav albums!

Great review! I was first a bit surprised when the album came out but after two times listening through, on my hifi at good volume, I totally loved it and still do

I have been a huge kraftwerk fan for 10 years and I have loved this record very deeply throughout that time (especially the telephone call). Your essay has opened my eyes quite a bit as to what this album was truly trying to accomplish and expanded my feelings towards it. I always had the sense that this album was very futuristic but never quite understood how. Thank you for your extensive research and thought into such an amazing album.

I must confess that I loved the album Electric Cafe. And thank you for explaining exactly why there was that 5-year gap between albums because at the time, I don't recall reading anything that explained what you have done so wholesomely in this video. Finally, I've been a great fan of Kraftwerk since I was a 13-year boy. Now 61, I have to say "Thank you" for creating this 'documentary'. It's been one of the most informative and educational pieces about the group I have ever seen. I learned a lot from you today and I look forward to watching more of your work. Thanks again! 🙏

I was first introduced to this album in 87 in Brazil as young kid and it is still my favorite album.

Whoever did the Mastering mix on this was a certified genius. It pushes any sound system I’ve owned from the to current to the maximum

Great work and analysis with this video! Nicely put together, thank you for sharing your interpretation of their work in this manner, been an enjoyable journey.

This album was a hit in the dance clubs of New York City at the time. DJs loved it. I remember dancing to it many times.

Man, the subversion of expectation’s they pushed with this album was so far into the future, we are just now truly “getting it.” Those in the electronic underground around this time knew they had achieved something special that would take decades to unwrap. And they were right.

“Boing Boom Tchak” gets stuck in my head all the time. I love it so much. It’s amazing that a lot of it was done in old school drum machines using really basic circuits and fairly simple sequencers. Brilliant stuff.

Thanks for sharing. Electric Cafe was my introduction to Kraftwerk. I danced to Boing Boom Tschak at a club in Perth back in 1986 and I still have the LP. It sounded so futuristic back then and still holds its own even today. I was fortunate enough to see them live on two occasions.

I love "Electric cafe". It was one of the albums I bought when I was a child, listened again and again in a strong competition VS Jarre and Vangelis. Thx for the video.

The biggest shock for me when I first heard is that they were now using conventional drum machine sounds. Kraftwerk's unique sound up to that point had strange electronic sounds (clicks, sine wave sweeps, etc.) as percussive elements. Now those were mixed in with the drum sounds we heard in songs on the radio.

In recent years I've reached the conclusion that Electric Cafe was to Kraftwerk what Human After All was to Daft Punk. While the public seem to consider both albums as deviations from the bands respective "classic" styles, they still greatly reflected the creative state of both bands at the time. Instead of continuing replicating the so called winning formula of their time, they did what all great artists do: Something unpredictable and unexpected. Kraftwerk ditched the analog synths and went full digital, and Daft Punk made a record with mostly guitars and pedals. Whether these albums were worth the approx. 5 year long wait both albums took is debatable, but both have in later years been "re-evaluated" as important parts of music history despite it not seeming like it at the time of their releases. Much like all other Kraftwerk records, Electric Cafe has been sampled countless times and due to it's repetitive nature was a great addition to any dancefloor dj's arsenal. Human After All launched a new wave of grittier sound of electronic music, and it's influence on bands like Justice and Carpenter Brut is very noticeable.

Absolutely loved this album as a teenager, it became my favorite together with Computer World. I think it got fairly big here in Sweden, it was sampled a TON by DJ's, unlike the previous albums.

Great video! Electric Cafe was the first Kraftwerk album I ever heard, and ever since hearing it, I've been a Kraftwerk fan. Electric Cafe certainly was a turning point for Kraftwerk; their albums after it had a different style. Electric Cafe truly is a masterpiece and was extremely ahead of its time. Also, I love that you used one of the unrealeased songs (called Lichthof) at 22:25!

In the klingklang rack at the livetour in 1991 they had atari 1040ste, atleast two akai s1000, Studio Electronics MidiMini, Roland Octapad and a Eventide H3000 harmonizer. Evidence to back it up? i have none, but as a gearhead these are what i could see and remember from the upstair balconyview.

This is an excellent analysis, thank you. I guess for a lot of Kraftwerk fans we were brought up on the earlier stuff like TEE and Computer World, and then moved into other genres. I'm talking personally here as I moved into electro and hip hop, a direct influence of those earlier Kraftwerk albums, so by the time this album came out we had moved on to other things and didn't pay as much attention to it. Only in recent years have I given this album more time and yes, it is as exceptional as their earlier work and deserves all the credit you give it.

Love your breakdowns, when i feel mody i watch your videos an instantly feeling better. Your enthusiasm is contagious

100% agree! The melding of FM synthesis with sampling is brilliant. The modular randomness at times is awesome! A welcome departure using newer technology for the time, IMO. Excellent vid!

Thank you for make this video! I know that “historically” this is the less important album in Kraftwerk discography, but I love every minute of it. Because I was introduced to their music with this album, it have a special place in my heart ❤

Strange to think I listened to this band's discography _a lot_ when I was in middle school. Back in 2012. I only learned of Kraftwerk due to some remixes my brother loaded onto my iPhone, and after hearing the original tracks, I've never forgotten these melodies. I still lean towards their 1970s albums more, yet their whole catalogue has always had this mysterious and cool sound to it. It's only until these past few years that I gained the notion that their music had such a long-lasting impact of electronic music. Great video essay for a great album.

love it LOVE IT! Electric Cafe was the first Kraftwerk album I heard and I still really dig it and listened to it earlier today. It is so many good things to me and I get goose bumps honestly. The beats are precise and the day my cousin played me this when we were in JR high school my life changed. Thanks for showing how great it is!

This video essay of Kraftwerk is a gem! Keep it up mate!

For me this album is seamless as fascinating as all albums before since I heard it directly after releasing. Loved it, love it and will love it forever in my life. In the meantime I also understand more and more, why Kraftwerk did and currently do not release a complete new album up to now: They may simply think about , that they claimed the music output to the max with "Electric Cafe" I think so. But they are still give fascinating concerts all over the world. Their gigs in Berlin 2015 in the Nationalgalerie ... unforgotten. Respectful and highly suitable review of this musical gem, thanks. 🎹🙏

Wow, what a great analysis of this heavily underrated album. This has grown to be one of my favorite Kraftwerk albums over the years and is probably the one I listen to most nowadays. It's so nice to see someone who doesn't just echo the same tired, lazy criticisms of it. I also love the way you presented it, which almost felt more like an educational film at times. I'd love to see you do one of these for every album in their catalog.

Thank you so much for devoting much of your personal time into this video documentary that is as entertaining as it is informative/educational. I think your analysis is balanced and insightful. You answer some questions I've had since the 1980s, like why the big gap between 1981 and 1986 albums, and then another big gap until their Mix remixed singles album, and then longer gaps into the 1990s through today. I always thought this 'unrecognized masterpiece' was their best album too, although in close competition with Computer World, because their cohesion, deeper and broader mix of sounds and technology, and consistent quality, and the artwork and videos it inspired really advanced their brand image as well as the music industry.

Some of my favorite music! Thank you for this!

I love this video! Electric Café is definitely one of the most misunderstood albums ever, very well done, from one Kraftwerk fan to another! 🖤

Yes, "Der Telefon Anruf" is also my favorite track of the Electric Cafe album because it again showed the sweet romantic melodic side of Kraftwerk. Something they really embraced and showed a lot in the early 70s albums. It almost feels like a part 2 of "Computer Liebe". When the electronic love transitioned from BTX chats to a phone call. Kinda like Karl Bartos' song "without a trace of Emotion" feels like a "Neonlicht" Part II.

Absolutely a fantastic essay and tribute to a truly important band. I was struck by how well you transitioned segments and the quality writing. Thank you. Much of the music I love can be traced back to influence or inspiration by Kraftwerk. But because I was a teenager when this album was released, I feel that the reason it wasn't held in higher regard at that time was that it just didn't make a splash compared to other music in 1986(since it was a December 1985 release). EBM, Electro, Freestyle, early Hip Hop, early House, Post-Punk, Belgian Big Beat, Gothic Rock... not to mention popular radio offerings. In that context, Kraftwerk were dour and quiet, even if clever and refined. My take is that they were simply too subtle for good reviews in the late 80's.

Thanks for the video. I remember listening to Electric Café in my friends VW Rabbit when it 1st came out on repeat. We were completely blown away.

I remember very well listening to a late night radio program one evening, when Musique Non-Stop was premiered to Canadian listeners. Mesmerizing... I have no doubt that the electronic music revolution of the late 80s / early 90s exploded with the premier of this song / album. Still amazing today... Boing Boom Tschak indeed!

I am amazed at how many samples and hooks I recognize from various styles of music that have been taken from this album.

This video reminded me why I love this album so much. Great work.

I don't know how the rest of the world reacted to it, but it certainly was being played at the dance clubs I went to at the time, with the computer videos accompanying them it seemed really cutting edge.

"La música ideas portará, y siempre continuará". Music ideas will bring, and will always continue...

In den 80ern, ging ich mit Freunden zu einem Konzert von Kraftwerk in Zürich im Volkshaus. Ein grandioses Konzert. Und noch grandioser waren die Jungs Selbst. Wir warteten am Hinterausgang vom Volkshaus und redeten über ihre Arbeit, Vorgehen und hatten viel Spass. Zuletzt hätten wir noch zu Ihnen ins Hotel gehen können um einen zu trinken. Aber wir hatten damals kein Auto, so mussten wir auf den Zug. Immer wenn ich sie höre sehe ich die sehr MENSCHLICHEN JUNGS VON DAMALS....DANKE für dieses ELEBNIS und für diese tolle Doku!!!

My favorite song by them is Radio Activity, but Boing Boom Tschak brings back the most memories and has a special place in my heart as it was the first song of theirs I've heard growing up.

This is a wonderful album. I frequently listened to it many decades ago in my late teens. I experienced goosebumps upon hearing these songs. Wunderbar!

Musiqe Non Stop is one of the GREATEST songs ever made!! I bought that tape in 1986 when I was a freshman in college, and still have it till this day! Even though I I have it digitally too!! Reminds me of a funky James Brown beat!! LOVE the entire side 1 of Electric Cafe, all songs belong together in 1 play!! I went to my first Kraftwerk concert 2 months ago! What an AMAZING experience!! I was a young kid in 1978 when my Brother brought home "Man Machine" album, and I was hooked!!

I knew songs of the album and have heard some of them on two of their live shows. I did not realize it was an "underrated" work of them - figuring it was just one of the great selection of albums they released. This might however be contributed to by the fact that I generally like unearthly music and am very open to abstract/experimental pieces. Thanks for the background details and the nicely done video - you found a great balance between music/video samples and explanations!