saying it sounds "just like kraftwerk" is missing the point. it sounds heavily influenced by kraftwerk, but it also sounds like all the other things atkins and davis were listening to: moroder, human league, neu, p-funk, etc. as well as kraftwerk.

all of those were vital to the creation and evolution of techno. but none of those were the first releases OF techno. this is musicology 101: you might say kraftwerk were, and are, techno's godfathers, or that techno is kraftwerk's spiritual descendent...but cybotron was the first techno group, responsible for the first releases of the musical style, from the musical scene, for which the term techno emerged to describe.