I recently zhooshed up this playlist. I went to see Kraftwerk a few weeks ago, and it was only afterward that I realized what a treat it was to have them in my hometown. Kraftwerk are pioneers of electronic, synth influenced, gothy, dancy music, and they made a mini Ohio stopover (!!) before headed to LA and onto Australia.
Kraftwerk often comments on culture around technology, but in this really, almost silly simple kinda way. I love it, and it makes for a fun break from my usually very moody assortments.
Playlists are a work of their own, and when done well, the song before prepares you for the next. I think of placing each song on a bell curve of energy, making their way to a peak and back down. I often look for songs with similar musicality—percussive, melodic, melodramatic, drone-ish, synthy, light, dreamy—that have different paces and and BPMs. This preparatory pattern I used here between the song “Neeve” - Woolfy, Projections, as I feel like this track leads well into “Das Model” - Kraftwerk.