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| | Kraftwerk Biography |
 | | Ralf and Florian rejoined and released the "Kraftwerk 2" album. | | | The album was recorded between July and August of 1970 in their new Düsseldorf studio. | | | Kraftwerk's best known songs were collected together in 1991 on the double, The Mix, aimed chiefly at the dance music market by EMI Records. |
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| | Kraftwerk (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, bootleg CDs of the album were widely available in the 1990s on the 'Germanofon' label. | | | No material from this album has been performed in the band's live set since the Autobahn tour of 1975, and to date, the album has not been reissued on compact disc, with the band seemingly reluctant to consider it a part of their canon (Schneider described the early albums as "archaeology"). | | | Hütter and Schneider managed to get through two drummers during the album, Andreas Hohmann and Klaus Dinger. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_(album)
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| | Kraftwerk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After several early experimental albums, their breakthrough came in 1974 (1974 in music) with the Autobahn album and its 22-minute title track (you can hear a sample on the album's page), which was a worldwide hit and demonstrated their increasing reliance on synthesizers and electronics. | | | Released with the album was a Minimum-Maximum DVD, featuring live footage of the band performing the Minimum-Maximum tracks in various venues all over the world. | | | Kraftwerk (pronounced [ˈkʁaftvɛɐk], German for "power station") is a German musical group who have made significant contributions to the development of electronic music. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
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| | BBC - Classic Rock/Pop Review - Kraftwerk, Tour De France Soundtracks |
| | This is classic kraftwerk album from the sounds of it, a concept lp that perfectly captures musically and atmospherically some aspect of the man and the machine. | | | The album when listened to in full is nothing short of brilliant the tracks roll into one another and the sounds of bike chains, hearts beating and panting throughout bring it all together. | | | This new album is another lesson of wisdom, the wisdom in the choice of the exatly things,old ones and news, for create the perfect Kraftwerk music. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classicpop/reviews/kraftwerk_france.shtml
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| | Arts Unlimited Arts Friday Review Desperately seeking Kraftwerk |
| | Kraftwerk were so far ahead of their time that the rest of the world has spent 25 years inventing new musical genres in anattempt to catch up. | | | As evidenced by the title of their new album, Hütter and Schneider are obsessive fans of cycling. | | | After all, Kraftwerk are one of the few bands in history who genuinely bear comparison to the Beatles. |
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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1004937,00.html
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock KI-KY |
| | Rosalia) track is the gem of the album. | | | Both of the studio albums are impeccably recorded and mixed. | | | Peter Sinfield's lyrics on the early period albums, and Richard W. Palmer-James' lyrics on the middle period albums, are regarded by many as self-indulgent and pretentious. |
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| | Kraftwerk - The Mix |
| | As the title suggests, it's an album of remixes covering all of Kraftwerk's albums from Autobahn to date. | | | I was rather worried before this album that they might overdo the remixes and ruin what were otherwise perfectly good songs. | | | This is perhaps due to the prominence of the vocals in this, one of Kraftwerk's sillier tracks. |
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http://www.awrc.com/review/k/the_mix.html
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| | Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum: Pitchfork Review |
| | I have Kraftwerk live bootlegs from 1971, 1975, 1981, and 1998, and the sound varies from horrid to passable. | | | So it is in a sense odd that Kraftwerk has chosen this time to release their first officially sanctioned live album. | | | Far be it for Kraftwerk to let substandard sonics soil anything born in the Kling-Klang studio. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/k/kraftwerk/minimum-maximum.shtml
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| | Komputer - The World Of Tomorrow |
| | The album is nicely padded out by three remixes of tracks. | | | It says something about Kraftwerk's influence on contemporary music that, in the absence of any new releases from the band themselves, a number of surrogate Kraftwerks have appeared. | | | I was, however, very pleasantly surprised by this album. |
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http://www.awrc.com/review/k/world_of_tomorrow.html
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| | Kraftwerk Fanpage |
| | In the same vein as the previous album, this is the first commercial album to use a drum machine throughout. | | | This album is the most conceptual by far but this doesn't get in the way of the tracks. | | | Many people say Kraftwerk are a pop band, they aren't - there are pop songs for sure but the avant-garde and darker techno songs are more abundant. |
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| | The Kraftwerk Influence: Cultural References |
| | Kraftwerk are mentioned briefly in the 2000 movie High Fidelity, when two characters are discussing the possible musical influences of a band of local skateboard punks. | | | Apparently the cover of their album Freedon of Choice is a reference to the cover of The Man Machine. | | | The liner notes of this album say that Kraftwerk are the only white rhythm group to influence black music. |
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http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~lapierrs/creative/kraftwerk/references.html
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| | Kraftwerk Blowing Dust - djmixed news |
| | Kraftwerkâs ralf hütter likes to refer to the group as musikarbeiter, which translates in English to âmusical workers.â Musical prophets might be a more apt description of the group who virtually invented modern electronic music. | | | Kraftwerk has just released their first album in 17 years, Tour de France Soundtracks. | | | But Kraftwerk first made music on their Casio calculators in the â80s, when pressing play on a giant Ampex tape machine was the most you could expect from their synth-pop disciples. |
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http://www.djmixed.com/djmixed/newsandfeatures/article.cfm?Article_ID=2812
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| | DVD Talk Forum - Which Kraftwerk album would you recommend to me ? |
| | What amazes me about Kraftwerk is that their recordings still sound fresh to me. I'm not a musician so I might not be able to word this well, but their percussion and drum sounds aren't annoying like a lot of early 80's synth music. | | | New Order is one of my favorite bands, but a large chunk of their 80's songs have a dated, clunky sound. | | | My favorite album is probably "The Man Machine". |
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http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/printthread.php?t=256983
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| | Amazon.com: Tour de France Soundtracks: Music: Kraftwerk |
| | Kraftwerk, on the other hand, have always seemed adept at making pithy, melodically rich albums with a good dose of humor, but on this album they abandon many of the quirky touches they are known for, opting instead for long, beat and loop driven tracks. | | | I was struck by an irony as I listened to this album: Kraftwerk and Orbital seem to be traveling in opposite directions. | | | This is not really important if you don't come in with this expectation, but given Kraftwerk's previous talent at creating concept albums, the uniformly muffled, clubby sound of the tracks is disappointing (despite the inclusion of various "bicyle sound effects"). |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A4G4N?v=glance
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| | K R A F T W E R K - M I N I M U M M A X I M U M |
| | To co-incide with these dates, Astralwerks released Kraftwerk's first ever official live recordings, a 2 x CD set entitled Minimum-Maximum, a milestone event in the band's illustrious career and one which has galvanized Kraftwerk fans, both young and old. | | | Now the band's followers have more reason to rejoice as we release the first ever official filmed document of the Kraftwerk live experience on a double DVD set. | | | The long-awaited 2 x DVD companion release to the recently acclaimed 2 x CD live set - This is the first ever official document of Kraftwerk's legendary live show. |
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http://www.astralwerks.com/kraftwerk
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| | Conscientious: New Kraftwerk Album |
| | Kraftwerk, probably the most influential music act to come out of Germany over the last 50 years or so, are supposedly releasing a new album in about three weeks. | | | From what he said I think Kraftwerk would have been well-advised not to release the song because they got quite the reputation to lose - and the snippets I just listened to seem to indicate that that is what is going to happen. | | | However, this time, they already released a single, a remake of the song "Tour de France". |
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| | It is the albums from the 70's you should be listening to, not the "newer" ones. | | | Subject: (Fac33) Kraftwerk I agree that listening to Kraftwerk is good for the musically taste palette. | | | I felt that album was a masterful reconstruction/update of some of the tracks that Kraftwerk has done that have had a major influence on popular music in this part of this century.... |
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http://www.monkey.org/~laps/ceremony/digests/_1998/v98.n037
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| | Kraftwerk - MEGASTORE |
| | Communication, the debut album from Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos has been two years in the making, having been on the boil since his first single 15 minutes of Fame. | | | Each of the tracks here represents an edited version of longer tracks to be found on the album. | | | The Tour de France album has a cycling theme/concept and should be seen as a 'special project'. |
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http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~lenin/Kraftwerk.html
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| | Kraftwerk MP3 Downloads - Kraftwerk Music Downloads - Kraftwerk Music Videos |
| | Although Kraftwerk's first three albums were groundbreaking in their own right, Autobahn is where the group's hypnotic electronic pulse genuinely came into its own. | | | This album is available for download from our partnered music services. | | | The 22-minute title track, in a severely edited form, became an international hit single and remains the peak of the band's achievements -- it encapsulates the band and why they are important within one track -- but the rest of the album provides soundscapes equally as intriguing. |
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http://www.mp3.com/albums/20015606/summary.html
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| | FLUXEUROPA: Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks |
| | In some ways the album is quite contemporary sounding owing to use of modern dance beats, but the vocoded voices and distinctive riffs give it an unmistakable Kraftwerk signature, which, of course, is what we all want to experience. | | | This had been destined for inclusion on the projected Technopop album, but various factors including Hutter's serious cycling accident caused the album to be abandoned and the track never found its way onto an album - until now. | | | The album and single present new versions of the successful 1983 'Tour de France' single. |
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http://www.fluxeuropa.com/review.htm?item=61
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| | Kraftwerk, The Early Years '68 - '73 |
| | The story of Kraftwerk is the story of how electronic music has influenced modern music. | | | They are, quite simply, the most influential pop group of the late 20th century. | | | You can define it as you want; sci-fi music, techno-disco, cybernetic rock. |
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| | Senor Coconut |
| | However, Coconut said, "Kraftwerk songs contain a strong musical content even if freed from their electronic arrangements. | | | Although the disc is credited to Senor Coconut y Son Conjunto, it's purely the work of Schmidt on keyboards and samplers, helped by three vocalists. | | | And he's fully aware of the irony involved in what he's doing, noting that "since the entire album is programmed and not played by real musicians, it contains the simulation aspect and questions the term of authenticity. |
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| | Kraftwerk : Computer Welt - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | The last great Kraftwerk album, Computer World captured the band right at the moment when its pioneering approach fully broke through in popular music, thanks to the rise of synth pop, hip-hop, and electro. | | | Compared to earlier albums, it fell readily in line with The Man-Machine, eschewing side-long efforts but with even more of an emphasis on shorter tracks mixed with longer but not epic compositions. | | | The title track itself, with its lists detailing major organizations presumably all wired up, echoes the flow of Trans-Europe Express, serene and pondering. |
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| | Kraftwerk - Czech Pages |
| | 8.8.2003 Audio and Video samples from Kraftwerk album Tour de France Sountracks | | | 4.8.2003 New Kraftwerk album Tour de France Soundtracks | | | 1.10.2000 3 years of KRAFTWERK CZ 30.9.2000 Update related music |
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| | ENergylog / breaking news - new KRAFTWERK album: EVOLUTION |
| | ENergylog / breaking news - new KRAFTWERK album: EVOLUTION | | | unbelievable news just popped into my mailbox - dirk matten - better known as the former synthesizerstudio bonn owner and a “hobnob” to the kraftwerk guys - an “intimus” as we say in germany - announced the release of a new kraftwerk album called Evolution. | | | This blog is protected by Spam Karma 2: 10602 Spams eaten and counting... |
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