“Electric Cafe” by Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk's "Electric Café" doubles as the title track of the German electronic band's ninth studio album, which finally surfaced in 1986 after a long, stop-start gestation. Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider produced it; the music is credited to them and Karl Bartos, and the words to those three plus Maxime Schmitt.

Work began in early 1982 under the working title Technicolor, then Techno Pop, and EMI even announced a release date for a Techno Pop album, but a cycling accident Hütter suffered in May or June of 1982 held things up. As he told it, the music kept developing and the titles simply changed along the way. It was the first Kraftwerk LP made mostly with digital instruments, though it still went down on analog master tape, and a 2009 remaster finally put it out as Techno Pop.

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