MOJO: Computer World still seems your most prescient album, conceptually. But what could you have known about computers in the late ‘70s?
Ralf Hütter: When the album was finished we didn’t even have computers. When we went an tour we got our first computer, an Atari. The Mac didn’t even exist then. So it was vision and the way we conceived the music. There was already a lot of synchronisation, analogue sequencing and automation in our music. Not as much as today, but we were thinking ahead of the actual record, which was an analogue recording. We were very interested back then in the creative energy of computers, the idea of everybody being able to make music.
