Kraftwerk - Die Roboter

“Die Roboter“ (The Robots in english) is a single by the influential German electronic music pioneers, Kraftwerk, released in 1978. The single and its B-side, “Spacelab“, both appeared on the band’s seventh album, The Man-Machine. However, the songs as they appear on the single were scaled down into shorter versions.[1] In 1991, a remix of the song was issued as a single from the band’s remix album The Mix. The lyrics reference the revolutionary technique of robotics, and how humans can use them as they wish. The Russian lines “Я твой слуга“ (Ya tvoi sluga, I’m your servant) and “Я твой работник“ (Ya tvoi rabotnik, I’m your worker) (also on the rear sleeve of the album) are spoken through a vocoder during the intro and again during its repetition at the bridge. Wolfgang Flür, a member of Kraftwerk at the time of the single’s release, later wrote Ich war ein Roboter (I Was a Robot in English), with his title referencing the lyrics of “The