What's more, [Kraftwerk founding member Ralf] Hütter suspects that aesthetic luddites aren't always motivated by a proper Huxleyan suspicion of technological development at the expense of man and his soul but by hidebound prejudice, fear and loathing, even hypocrisy. "Yes, we were attacked, strangely enough by people who expected the latest and most up-to-date equipment when they went to the dentist," he told me. "They would not have liked to have had their bad teeth pulled out with pliers but they attacked us for being too mechanical. When it comes to music, they wanted old guitars from the fifties."

—David Stubbs, Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary new Music