For many of the postpunk persuasion, 1977's most significant singles weren't "White Riot" or "God Save the Queen", but "Trans-Europe Express", a metronomic, metal-on-metal threnody for the industrial era by the German band Kraftwerk, and Donna Summer's Eurodisco smash "I Feel Love", made almost entirely from synthetic sounds by producer Giorgio Moroder, an Italian based in Munich.
Kraftwerk's serene synthpop conjured glistening visions of the Neu Europa-modern, forward-looking, and pristinely postrock in the sense of having virtually no debts to American music.
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express - 1977
Donna Summer - I Feel Love - 1977
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