Work is said to have begun as early as 1982 (with the working titles of "Technicolor" and then "Techno Pop"), but the project was delayed for several reasons: Ralf Hütter suffered a cycling accident in May or June of 1982, there were concerns within the band that the production quality of the album was not sufficiently cutting-edge, and more generally Hütter had become more focused on cycling than on the band's activities.