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point out the offbeat grace and unlikely persistence of a vivid personality in a machine, Kraftwerk endure. On the canny French-house-style tracks such as "AŽro Dynamik," you can even claim it contains Porsche components.

MILO MILES
(RS 930, September 4, 2003)

Kraftwerk update their cold robo-techno sound on an album inspired by the legendary biking event. Impressively, a lot of it actually makes you feel as though you're riding along -- "Etape 2" is like speeding downhill without holding on. There's enough of the "old" Kraftwerk here to appeal to fans, yet this album is probably their most accessible.