This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Not everyone can use the words “Kraftwerk” and “funk” in the same sentence. Maximilian Lenz can and does.
The German DJ posits that the proto-electromeisters of the ’70s are the only white musicians to influence black music. Consider him the second. As WestBam (taken from his hometown of Westphalia and his idol Afrika Bambaataa), Lenz refocuses and updates the K-men’s sound for the ’90s, taking their simple synth lines, robotic beatboxes, robotic vocoders and four-on-the-floor techno thump and making it funky — sorry, funkier — with syncopation and cutting-edge knob-twiddling. As the man-machines would say: Fun, fun, fun, oh so fun.
