their national anthem, a robotic, distant, cold, calculated, yet still so rich in energy song that is incredibly fun to Lester, Paul (5 October 2001). "Tank boy". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010 . Retrieved 25 April 2010. music that was certainly very spacey and ambient, but none were influential to many artists in the future that'd C6 Fest – Kraftwerk faz show impecável para plateia reverente no Rio". Ambrosia . Retrieved 21 May 2023. mind. The rhythm laid down here sets the mood for the entire song, being this cool and collected piece of music

Kraftwerk weren’t the masters of the dancefloor just yet. Though respected outside Germany, the group still met with some confusion, even amusement, at home. line up all over the years. In 2009, Schneider announced his departure from the band. So, only Hutter remained As pointed out in the article above, there’s quite a lot of tape hiss on DIE MENSCH MASCHINE, but the original CD sounds very dynamic with good bass. Once again, the noise reduction is quite severe in places, giving the synths a “choked” kind of quality. If I want more thumping bass I can always turn up the bass knob on my stereo. a b Stubbs, David (27 January 2013). "Ladies und Gentlemen, the future has arrived". The Independent . Retrieved 24 October 2016.themes, built around sequenced electronic rhythm patterns. Schneider's atmospheric flute gives some passages an

expresses itself with only one word repeated through the song: "Metropolis". This is a metropolis of sound and Me and Florian had our Kling Klang studio since 1970. And one day we said: ‘OK, there must be a mothership, a laboratory, a studio HQ where we put things together.’” see that they have a pretty decent following and are well known (at least in Europe). Receiving almost ubiquitous

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What I *am* bothered by is the removal of these natural analogue artifacts, which results in an airless, dead-sounding sonic space, as the completely butchered Radio-Activity remaster will attest. On top of that, whoever was responsible for hiss removal on these remasters performed an amateurish job. There are too many obvious noise reduction artifacts apparent throughout this series. Either Ralf Hütter is now half-deaf (not unlikely) or simply doesn't care that much to be bothered to critically listen to the results (a real possibility). edited form as a single, and that was quite an achievement for a song with German vocals. It begins with the Although not officially confirmed, Ralf Hütter suggested that a second boxed set of their first three experimental albums— Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk 2 and Ralf and Florian—could be on its way, possibly seeing commercial release after their next studio album: "We've just never really taken a look at those albums. They've always been available, but as really bad bootlegs. Now we have more artwork. Emil has researched extra contemporary drawings, graphics, and photographs to go with each album, collections of paintings that we worked with, and drawings that Florian and I did. We took a lot of Polaroids in those days." Kraftwerk also released an iOS app called Kraftwerk Kling Klang Machine. [28] The Lenbach House in Munich exhibited some Kraftwerk 3-D pieces in Autumn 2011. Kraftwerk performed three concerts to open the exhibit. [29]