Without Neu!, David Bowie and Brian Eno would have been stuck for ideas during the late Seventies. Without Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa wouldn't have caught the Trance Disco Express called electro, and without that Juan Atkins wouldn't have laid the bare bones of techno for Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson to see.

Without the more extreme experiments of Krautrock, The Aphex Twin would sound like Disco Tex and PIL's much-lauded 'Metal Box' simply would not exist. And that twisted wail John Lydon uses on Leftfield's 'Open Up'?
That belongs to Renate Knaup, a woman who toured Japan with Amon Düül II a few months ago - meeting teenagers obsessed with records she helped make 25 years ago.

And check The Beastie Boys' listening recommendations in their own magazine.
Yes, that's why their spaced-out jams sound so engagingly raw and CAN-like.. <