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The second of three albums in the Rubato Series, which featured piano interpretations of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan and DEVO respectively. "Rubato" refers to music performance that does not adhere to a strict sense of time. From the original accompanying essay (included as PDF):

I purchased my first record in 1979 at the age of eleven after hearing Gary Numan's, "Cars," in the now defunct Saints West roller disco in West Saint Paul, Minnesota. Its performance was ceremoniously accompanied by a flood of flashing colored bulbs and swirls of light rings from the mirror ball. With some sleuthing I discovered that the song was not performed by The Cars, as I had first suspected, and eventually located a copy of Numan's record, The Pleasure Principle, in a Target discount store. The album was newly released and fully priced at $6.99, which was more money than I had saved for it. Without hesitation, I removed a fluorescent red "$3.99" tag from another record, covered the true price tag, and proceeded to buy it. And so my consumer relationship to music began with a lie at worst, an ambiguous half-truth at best, an exuberant deception in the name of self-fulfillment in any case. The Pleasure Principle.

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