Ahora sí, KRAFTWERK - THE CATALOGUE

[bart_os]

Ahora sí que parece que va pa´lante la cosa. Se confirma oficialmente:

Kraftwerk

12345678 THE CATALOGUE

FOUR DECADES OF MASTERWORKS

CD, CD BOX SET, VINYL & DOWNLOAD

Mute: 5th OCTOBER 2009

KRAFTWERK: Electro Pioneers, living legends and globally revered masters of electronic sound, celebrate the 35th anniversary of their landmark 1974 hit 'Autobahn' by releasing digitally remastered versions of eight astounding albums on 5th October 2009. Rolling back musical barriers with every forward-thinking phase of their career, Dusseldorf's Zen masters of electronic minimalism laid the foundations for four decades of computerised pop and dance music. By chain reaction and mutation, they have influenced generations of artists in all genres, mapping musical futures yet to come. From Bowie to Daft Punk, Aphex Twin to Portishead, Dr Dre to LCD Soundsystem, and almost everyone in between, the mark of Kraftwerk is endless, endless.

In 2009 Kraftwerk have upgraded their Kling Klang masters with the latest studio technology and these eight magnificent recordings still sound like nothing else in the history of music. Kraftwerk are unique, pristine, profound and beautiful. Decades may pass, but their streamlined synthetic symphonies stand outside time, as fresh as tomorrow, transcendent and sublime.

12345678 The Catalogue will be released across the following formats;

· 8 x individual CDs presented in special slipcases featuring newly expanded artwork, including many previously unseen images all of which have been reproduced to the highest technical standards.

· CD Box Set containing 8 x CDs in 'mini-vinyl' card wallet packaging, plus individual large format booklets.

· 8 x individual heavyweight vinyl LPs with large format booklets.

· Digital downloads.

After their recent jaw dropping 3-D show at the Manchester Velodrome, Kraftwerk's next UK live appearance will be as headliners for Bestival on 12th September.

For further information please contact Caroline, John, or Nicki at Out Promotion

on 0207 434 4525 or firstname@out-london.co.uk

www.mute.com / http://www.kraftwerk.com/

12345678 THE CATALOGUE

AUTOBAHN (1974)

With its iconic Emil Schult sleeve, Kraftwerk release their international breakthrough album. The symphonic title track, an epic ode to the joys of motorway travel, wraps a mesmerising motorik rhythm around a sampled collage of car horns, engine noise, whirring tyres and radio crackle. In edited form, it becomes a revolutionary hit single around the world.

Elsewhere, in wordless industrial folk music, the band reveal both their light and dark sides – 'Mitternacht' is all creeping midnight shadows, while 'Morgenspaziergang' is fresh with morning dew and birdsong. Two versions of 'Kometenmelodie', one a starkly gothic prowl, the other a sunny electro boogie, provide further instrumental sound paintings. Pure and strong and bold, Kraftwerk compose cinema for the ears. The pop world falls in love with them.

RADIO-ACTIVITY (1975)

Kraftwerk embrace the atomic age with mixed emotions. Surfing on sine waves, scanning the stratosphere for stray radio signals, they plug themselves into a buzzing grid of energy and communication. From the stately eco-angst anthem 'Radioactivity' to the synthetic Gregorian chants of 'Radio Stars' and the melancholy machine processional of 'Ohm Sweet Ohm', a sombre but engrossing monumentalism dominates.

With heavily processed vocals in both German and English, Kraftwerk go global with depth and majesty. If factories and power stations are the new cathedrals, they write liturgies for a new industrial epoch.

TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS (1977)

Kraftwerk celebrate Europe's romantic past and shimmering future with a glistening panorama of elegance and decadence, travel and technology. The infinite vistas of 'Europe Endless' and 'Endless Endless' bookend the album, which includes the unsettling Kafka-esque fable 'The Hall Of Mirrors' and the hilarious 'Showroom Dummies' - Kraftwerk's elegantly ironic reply to critiques of their deadpan manner.

But it is the streamlined rhythmic locomotive of 'Trans Europe Express' which dominates with its doppler-effect melodic swerves and hypnotic, pneumatic, piston-pumping rhythm. Along with its sister track, 'Metal On Metal' which New York DJ Afrika Bambaataa would re-construct five years later for his own seminal 'Planet Rock', this milestone in avant-pop modernism later becomes a crucial influence on the early pioneers of hip-hop & sampling, electro and industrial music. Poetry in motion.

THE MAN MACHINE (1978)

A bold new look, sound and concept for Kraftwerk. Over supple processed rhythms which predate the rise of European techno and trance, they address automation and alienation, space travel and engineering, the seductive allure of urban landscapes and the vacant glamour of celebrity. Clipped and funky, 'The Robots' adds another dimension to Kraftwerk's ultra-dry sense of humour. Behind its intoxicating melodic pulse, 'The Model' is a highly prophetic satire on the beauty industry, so ahead of its time that it only becomes a UK chart-topper by accident three years later. And 'Neon Lights' is Kraftwerk's most achingly romantic song to date, a sci-fi lullaby for cities at twilight. Pure magic.

COMPUTER WORLD (1981)

Kraftwerk beam themselves into the future by writing about home computers, online dating and globalised electronic surveillance years before these phenomena truly come into being. A journey into the bright hopes and dark fears of the booming microchip revolution, 'Computer World' is a serenely beautiful and almost seamless collage of sensual melodies and liquid beatscapes. Tracks like 'Numbers' and 'Pocket Calculator', with their weightless bleeps and elastic beats, predict the silky rhythms of Chicago house and inspire a generation of Detroit techno artists. Kraftwerk's fanfare for the silicon age still sounds ageless, timeless and throbbing with invention.

TECHNO POP (1986)

Kraftwerk return from five years of silence to reclaim their throne as leaders of a machine-pop revolution that they themselves began over a decade before. Their 'Techno Pop' album, first released under the name 'Electric Café' but now restored to its originally intended title, provides a 360-degree overview of a multi-lingual, multi-channel, musically diverse global village.

From the block-rocking beats of 'Boing Boom Tschack' to the electronic funk and computer animation of 'Musique Non Stop', Kraftwerk soar into the digital age. Their first excursion into digital recording finds both beauty and unease in a polyglot world of permanent media overload. Once again, Dusseldorf's test pilots of the musical future effortlessly break new ground.

THE MIX (1991)

Kraftwerk's first fully digital album confirmed their clubland credentials and reworked 11 of their best-loved tunes for a new generation. Painstakingly reconstructed and sequenced in the band's Kling Klang studio, new versions of tracks like 'The Robots', 'Trans Europe Express' and 'Home Computer' now feature more funky rhythms and cleaned-up, liquid-crystal sounds. A stark warning about pollution at Sellafield is added to the glistening overhaul of 'Radioactivity', sparking a war of words with British Nuclear Fuels. But most of all, 'The Mix' is a career-spanning collection of legendary electro anthems and a classy acknowledgment of the two-way traffic between Kraftwerk and club culture.

TOUR DE FRANCE (2003)

The year 2003 marked the centenary of the Tour de France, the conceptual starting line for Kraftwerk's first album for over a decade. Although it features an immaculate new version of a 20-year-old former single, the exquisitely graceful 'Tour de France', pop nostalgia is not on the menu. From the chunky cyber-funk of 'Vitamin' to the restless metallic shimmers of 'Aéro Dynamik', this is emphatically the sound of 21st century techno visionaries.

www.mute.com / http://www.kraftwerk.com/

[Umbopo]

Electrik Cafe pasa a llamarse ahora "Techno Pop" aunque por los temas que se mencionan es el Electrik Cafe de toda la vida... 

No parece que haya nada nuevo excepto el sonido, ahora sonarán mejor me imagino.

[CitizenErased]

¿Joder, cuanto tiempo ha pasado? ¿Cuatro años? :-D
Con calma se lo toman los chavales.
¿Alguna idea de que paso con el pleitazo que les metieron Ralf Hutter y Wolfgang Flür?
Y más importante todavía ¿Se sabe algo del I y el II? En principio se hablo de que saldrían por separado al estar, de alguna forma, fuera del contexto ...

[QUIMGAGARIN]

Uauuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-o :-o :-o

Por fin!!!!!!!!!

[bart_os]

¿Joder, cuanto tiempo ha pasado? ¿Cuatro años? :-D
Con calma se lo toman los chavales.
¿Alguna idea de que paso con el pleitazo que les metieron Ralf Hutter y Wolfgang Flür?
Y más importante todavía ¿Se sabe algo del I y el II? En principio se hablo de que saldrían por separado al estar, de alguna forma, fuera del contexto ...

Cuatro años no, cinco!!

Wolfgang Flür se va a echar bastante tiempo en los tribunales, ya no por lo de si aparece su nombre (y el de Bartos) en estas nuevas ediciones, que no tengo ni idea (dentro de poco salimos de dudas) sinó por lo del lío de la peli...

De Kraftwerk 1, 2 y Ralf & Florian nada de nada. Veo difícil su publicación mientras Hütter y Schneider sigan vivos...

[darkpadawan]

A mí lo que me joroba es que cualquiera que lea la noticia de pasada se ponga cachondo al ver "Tecno Pop" y luego se entere de que simplemente le cambian el título a "Electric Café". Malditos cabezas cuadradas  :-P  :-D

[J.J.]

Wolfgang Flür se va a echar bastante tiempo en los tribunales, ya no por lo de si aparece su nombre (y el de Bartos) en estas nuevas ediciones, que no tengo ni idea (dentro de poco salimos de dudas) sinó por lo del lío de la peli...

Creo que esto lo "arreglarán" de manera similar a Jarre y su Oxygene New Recording. Dirán que han regrabado y remezclado los albums para evitar así poner en los créditos a Bartos y Flür  :roll:

[Nelman Music System]

Alguien me puede explicar exactamente el problema que hay entre los ex-miembros de Kraftwerk ??
Es que he oido alguna cosa, pero no lo tengo muy claro...  :|

[bart_os]

Alguien me puede explicar exactamente el problema que hay entre los ex-miembros de Kraftwerk ??
Es que he oido alguna cosa, pero no lo tengo muy claro...  :|

Pufffff, si puedes cómprate el libro "I was a Robot" de Wolfgang Flür (o cualquier otro publicado sobre Kraftwerk) y ahí te explican perfectamente todo el lío.  :-)

A ver, la salida de Flür y de Bartos del grupo no fue muy buena, y cada vez la relación ha ido a peor, siempre con abogados de por medio, etc... una pena. Estos sí que va a ser imposible que se vuelvan a reunir alguna vez...

[bart_os]

A mí lo que me joroba es que cualquiera que lea la noticia de pasada se ponga cachondo al ver "Tecno Pop" y luego se entere de que simplemente le cambian el título a "Electric Café". Malditos cabezas cuadradas  :-P  :-D

Ya, y no esperes algún extra con las versiones del Techno Pop original... allí estarán bien guardaditas no vaya a ser que alguien las escuche y diga algo malo de ellos...  :-)

Por cierto, antes de Techno Pop la idea era llamarlo Technicolor pero por no sé que rollo legal no pudieron hacerlo. Y The Man Machine iba a ser Dynamo, Trans Europe Express iba a ser Europe Endless (creo recordar...)...

[darkpadawan]

Ya, y no esperes algún extra con las versiones del Techno Pop original... allí estarán bien guardaditas no vaya a ser que alguien las escuche y diga algo malo de ellos...  :-)

Si los rumores acerca de un tracklist tal que así son ciertos:

Techno Pop (imagino que parecida al corte que aparece en The Mix)
The Telephone Call
Sex Object
Tour de France

aún en versiones prematuras, y con el "tono" de la banda de finales de los 70 y principios de los 80, es pura y simplemente para matarlos.

[Alexey Kiddo]

Señoras y señores:

HABEMUS PORTADAM:

[Alexey Kiddo]

EDITO: Post repetido

[Alexey Kiddo]

EDITO: Post repetido por segunda vez erróneamente.

[J.J.]

Señoras y señores:

HABEMUS PORTADAM:

Todo un alarde de barroquismo  :-D  :-P