{"id":3571852,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571852/?format=json","airdate":"2025-10-30T14:19:45-07:00","show":64976,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64976/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/c7dbc3ba-51ab-489a-ac8b-c9fc98e6ccca/23403677403-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/c7dbc3ba-51ab-489a-ac8b-c9fc98e6ccca/23403677403-250.jpg","song":"The Robots (single edit)","track_id":null,"recording_id":"200d1870-c4d7-4813-acf7-0d16a05d83ab","artist":"Kraftwerk","artist_ids":["5700dcd4-c139-4f31-aa3e-6382b9af9032"],"album":"Die Roboter","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"d6407db3-6381-3b0a-bb86-c9133c389c39","labels":["Elektra"],"label_ids":["873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9"],"release_date":"1978-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Kraftwerk’s The Robots has been an electro-pop classic ever since its release–on Kraftwerk’s classic seventh album, The Man-Machine—in 1978.\n--\n\"The Robots\" is the classic example of Kraftwerk at their finest. The opening synth swells and bleeps that sounded so transfixing and alien to a 1980s child, now feel like well-craft soundscapes to plot the course. The kick dropping in under the analogue sequencer arppegio, the catchy topline melody, the vocal hook, the pop-style arrangement of verses and choruses... all elements we take for granted in modern pop music, were nothing if not pioneering in the 1970s. : https://www.voltagecontrol.blog/kraftwerk-we-are-the-robots/\n--\nDid you know that this song has been sampled nearly 75 times? Dr. Octagon sampled the hook for \"Blue Flowers.\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}