Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator
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Artist: Kraftwerk
Single: Pocket Calculator
Label: EMI
Year: 1981
Designer: Unidentified
Type of music: Electronic pop
Notes: American promo. Kraftwerk are characterised by the uninformed as emotionless robots, but this is far from the truth as their taste for deadpan humour and playful design reveals.
This is neat – very simple, but neat nonetheless. The images themselves lose some of the effect without the record inside the sleeve – all the overlapping makes it seem, well, frankly, kind of ugly – but eh. It’s still cool.
I know what you mean, but I don’t think ugly is always bad.
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Think the fluro yellow, often beloved of cyclists for greater visibility, might suit a Tour De France 7″ better :)