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The whole album is IMO a masterpiece. This does not apply to all their albums.
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The whole album is IMO a masterpiece. This does not apply to all their albums.
They completely part of official culture for some time now and play mainly in museums etc. From the same period and coming from the same surroundings I prefer in a mile Can and Neu. And I never liked the way Ralf and Florian bought out Conny Planck when they realized Autobahn was hitting big time and the way they treated Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flür who are in a major part responsible for the classic Kraftwerk sound and got never any writing credits. BTW the Karl Bartos solo records are excellent.
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
I'd like to put it like this: Even if they had broken up after II or R&F the first two albums would have been (obscure?) classics.
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Among their contemporaries Kraftwerk were known as "The Millionaires" -- Florian Schneider (iirc) won some sort of large settlement in an injury court case, and used his substantial wealth to buy a ton of electronics. They were able to afford keyboards and stage lighting and an elaborate home recording studio that their German contemporaries only dreamed of.
Organisation (note the German spelling) is NOTHING like Kraftwerk, being primarily a psychedelic hippie folk band like the original Amon Duul I. It's interesting from a historical perspective, but not so much musically.
KWI and KWII are both pretty raw. I don't feel KW hit their stride until Ralf & Florian. There is some great stuff on Autobahn, but also the title track -- and unfortunately the title track became a hit, so from then on the band concentrated on this vapid drum machine electronic pop. They completely lost my interest when they began pretending to be robots, while pre-programmed sequences and tapes played at their "concerts."
Incidentally, there's a June 25, 1971 concert from Bremen Radio in circulation, which includes Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger. It's well worth searching out. Would LOVE to see an official release of that!
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Trane, Classics in the krautrock genre (obscure genre for most casual K-werk fans), regardless of sales figures.
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It's mostly 'Krautrock' fans who know of and enjoy the first three.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Had to look up 'vapid first'.... seen that it's unlikely that Kraftwerk will still record (even so Hütter gives still concerts, Kraftwerk will play in Detroit in may) the "classic" Kraftwerk period goes from Autobahn to Computerwelt. These are the records that created the Kraftwerk sound that influenced Africa Bambaataa, Bowie the early Detroit scene etc., and the sound they will be remembered for. It's obvious why Hütter does not want to be connected anymore to his early records and will not re-release them. My personal favourite would be TEE.
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
Kraftwerk-a-Thon today.
Pour the Riesling.
Just listened back to my CDR of this and it's better than I remembered. Lots of kinda aimless musical noodling backed by bongos and hand percussion -- Amon Duul I and/or Arzachel are pretty good comparisons, because of the organ -- but it's fairly restrained and not at all an LSD freakout as I thought I remembered.
Classic looks from my daughter and wife hearing "Even the Greatest Stars, change themselves in the Looking Glass...." in a thick German English accent with what sounds like a $45 Casio accompanying it.....Haha - they just don't get this AT ALL . "Autobahn" threw them for a loop too.
Die Roboter from Mensch Maschine kicks major hole.
(30 minutes ago in my living room with Man Machine cranked up medium volume while I'm making dinner)
Wife: "What is this? It's horrible!"
Me: "Its Kraft Verk. They're from Deutchland."
Wife: "It's horrible."
Me: "They're awesome."
(and then boring stuff related to income taxes)
Any fans of Man-Machine here? Its kind of cheesy, but I really dig it. Count me in.
I'm a fan
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
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Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Probably not.
The "art student, non-musician" half of the band was usually referred to as "Amon Düül 1" back in the early seventies, to distinguish it from the musicians in the collective who split off to try to become a real band. Then there's this:Originally Posted by WikipediaIs that enough minute particles for ya???Originally Posted by Wikipedia
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