Browse by Artist: KRAFTWERK

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Expo Mixes
Label:	ASTRALWERKS
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	ASW 38768CD

"A US-only remix edition of the Kraftwerk single Expo 2000. Universally known as the Godfathers of electronic music, Kraftwerk's incredible ability to blend electronics, emotion and soul have placed them apart from nearly everyone in the genre. Expo 2000 again takes metronomic rhythms and melds them seamlessly with lush, layered melodies. Kraftwerk's 1981 vision of a computer-centered world community (Computer World) have now come to fruition and their ongoing interest in exploring Man and Machine picks up right where it left off. In addition to Kraftwerk's own Kling Klang mixes are re-mixes by Orbital, Francois K, DJ Rolando and Underground Resistance." Contains 9 out of the 10 tracks found on the European EMI releases ("Expo 2000" and "Expo Remix" EPs).

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Aérodynamik
Label:	ASTRALWERKS
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ASW 48204CD

"In keeping with the French theme of the Tour De France concept, Parisian dance luminaries Alex Gopher, Etienne de Crecy and Francois K (who remixed the original 'Tour De France' single in 1983) were commissioned to remix brand new versions with a house edge, while Kraftwerk have rewired the song themselves to great effect. The Gopher/de Crecy mix transforms the track into an acid-flavored tech-house jam, while Francois K's version adds some superb, butt-shaking, deep house flavor to the original composition, making Aérodynamik Kraftwerk's most dancefloor friendly single package to date."

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Minimum - Maximum
Label:	ASTRALWERKS
Format:	4LP
Price:	$47.00
Catalog #:	ASW 60611LP

"Astralwerks released Kraftwerk's first ever official live recordings, a 2CD set entitled Minimum-Maximum, a milestone event in the band's illustrious career and one which has galvanized Kraftwerk fans, both young and old. Recorded with the band's customary attention to detail and sonic perfectionism, this collection is now available as a 4LP deluxe boxset featuring all of the band's classic compositions and effectively serving as a vinyl 'best-of,' culled from the band's 2004 world tour."

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Trans-Europe Express
Label:	CAPITOL
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SN 16301LP

Classic album from 1977, the sixth Kraftwerk album, originally issued by Kling Klang. This is the English-language, U.S.-cover art version. One of the inspired electronically-based pop records of all time. Performed by the quartet of Hütter, Schneider, Flür & Karl Bartos, this is the quintessential Kraftwerk sound recording experience. Tracklist: Side One: A1. Europe Endless; A2. The Hall Of Mirrors; A3. Showroom Dummies. Side Two: B1. Trans-Europe Express; B2. Metal On Metal; B3. Franz Schubert; B4. Endless Endless.

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Radio-Activity
Label:	CAPITOL
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SN 16380LP

LP version of their 5th album from 1975. The centerpiece inbetween Autobahn and Trans Europa Express -- a trilogy of masterworks that found Kraftwerk at their artistic pinnacle, in the midst of rearranging the musical universe. The sweeping synth melodies are in full futuristic force, surrounded by weird bleepage and a static pulse -- this is a mesmerizing album in every way. Tracklisting: Side 1: A1. Geiger Counter; A2. Radioactivity; A3. Radioland; A4. Airwaves; A5. Intermission; A6. News; Side 2: B1. The Voice of Energy; B2. Antenna; B3. Radio Stars; B4. Uranium; B5. Transistor; B6. Ohm Sweet Ohm.

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Ralf and Florian
Label:	GERMANOFON (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	GERMAN 941023

Available again, new packaging includes replica insert of the rare poster 'comic book' from the original German album pressing -- a big improvement! "Kraftwerk's third album Ralf and Florian was released in November 1973 and its title is almost synonymous with a nickname for the duo. The front cover was taken by Florian's then-girlfriend Barbara Niemöller. The LP is a continuation of the ideas on the first two LPs, but the music has a much cleaner sound dominated by electric piano and soft electronic percussion. The first track 'Elektrisches Roulette' (Electric Roulette) is a rhythmically repetitive piece and I think that you can trace the later Kraftwerk sound in this song. The track features electronics, violin, electric piano and drums. It is very much a pop song and maybe the best track on the album. Next comes 'Tongebirge' (A Mountain Range Of Tones) and it has closer resemblance to earlier LPs. It has Florian's typical flute arpeggios treated to a heavy dose of echo. 'Kristallo' is also the name of a hotel close to the studio and the song featured clear, repetitive keyboard arpeggios showing Ralf further developing the automation feel to his playing. The track ends like a catalog of various recording tricks including backward tapes. 'Heimatklänge' (The Sounds Of Homeland) demonstrates the duo's increasing grasp of dynamics. 'Tanzmusik' (Dance Music) is a strange song with very simple wooden and metallic noises. The rhythm box is naturally present and actual hand claps appear towards the end of the song. The final track 'Ananas Symphonie' features some slide guitar, but most important is the emergence of a primitive vocoder through which the words 'Ananas Symphonie' are discernable."

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	The Catalogue
Label:	KLING KLANG/EMI (GERMANY)
Format:	8CD BOX
Price:	$160.00
Catalog #:	KLANGBOX 002CD

"From David Bowie to Daft Punk, Depeche Mode to Radiohead, Dr. Dre to LCD Soundsystem, and even to the likes of the Sex Pistols, The Cars, Nine Inch Nails and almost everyone in between, the influence of Kraftwerk is remarkable. Electro Pioneers, living legends and globally revered masters of electronic sound, Kraftwerk now celebrate the 35th anniversary of their landmark 1974 hit Autobahn by releasing newly remastered editions of their 8 classic albums in a deluxe box set. The first ever complete remastering of Kraftwerk's 8 classic studio albums, covering all their releases on the Capitol, Warner Brothers and Astralwerks labels: Autobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine, Computer World, Techno Pop, The Mix, Tour De France. 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. The 12" x 12" x 1 1/2" box features all 8 albums, exclusively created just for this box set in mini-LP style album packaging complete with inner sleeves. Restored and newly expanded artwork is presented in the form of 8 large format 12 to 20 page booklets, housed inside a rigid board slipcase portfolio."

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Autobahn
Label:	KLING KLANG/EMI (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 303LP

Deluxe 2009 remaster, originally released 1974. "Kraftwerk have digitally remastered their Kling Klang masters with the latest studio technology -- these magnificent recordings sound like nothing else in the history of music. Limited edition, European-pressed, heavyweight vinyl LPs featuring large format booklets. An epic ode to the joys of highway travel, Autobahn wraps a mesmerizing beat around a sampled collage of car horns, engine noise, whirring tires and radio crackle so infectious that US pop press at the time declared that Kraftwerk's music does for driving what the Beach Boys had done for surfing! The impact of this album is so strong that Spin magazine included it in their list of the 15 most influential albums not recorded by 'The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis or the Rolling Stones.'" The deluxe packaging on these Kraftwerk reissues -- beautiful printed inner sleeves with alternate covers, immaculate large booklets of breathtaking photographs -- all of it will bring tears to your eyes.

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Radio-Activity
Label:	KLING KLANG/EMI (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 304LP

Deluxe 2009 remaster, originally released 1975. "An innovative, all-electronic communication concept album that surfs sine waves and scans the stratosphere for stray radio signals while broadcasting majestic music for a modern world where factories and power stations are the new cathedrals. At the time, Trouser Press magazine noted that the album marked an important step in Kraftwerk's artistic progress, converting the band into 'ultramodern sonic engineers.'"

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Trans Europe Express
Label:	KLING KLANG/EMI (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 305LP

Dexlue 2009 remaster, originally released 1977. "On Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk celebrates a romantic, retro future of shimmering elegance and glistening decadence where travel and technology merge across infinite sonic vistas. This milestone in avant-pop modernism later became a crucial influence on the early pioneers of hip-hop & sampling, electro and industrial music. 'With Trans Europe Express, they set out to reinvent a different legend: that of Europa itself, in the process they changed pop music forever.' -- Rolling Stone"

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	The Man Machine
Label:	KLING KLANG/EMI (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 306LP

2009 remaster, originally released 1978. "A bold new look, sound and concept as Kraftwerk fully realize their clever use of melody and technology over supple procesed rhythms predating the rise of European techno and trance. Man Machine is so stunningly ahead of its time that 'The model' became a surprise UK #1 chart-topper three years after the album's initial release. 'The album has 'classic' stamped all over it... in time it would acquire the same ageless quality as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper or The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds...' -- Pascal Bussy, Kraftwerk: Man Machine And Music"

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Tour De France
Label:	KLING KLANG/EMI (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 310LP

Deluxe 2009 remaster, originally released 2003; double LP. "The centenary of the Tour De France marks the conceptual starting line for Kraftwerk's first album in over a decade. From the chunky cyber-funk of 'Vitamin' to the restless metallic shimmers of Aero Dynamik,' this is emphatically the sound of 21st century techno visionaries. 'Displays more intellectual rigor, subtle discipline and attention to detail than many of their younger contemporaries can ever dream of attaining.' -- The Wire

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Expo Remix
Label:	KLING KLANG/EMI (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	EMI 8896122

Remixes of the acclaimed 1999 comeback single, "Expo 2000". Tracklisting: 1. Orbital Mix 2. Francois K & Rob Rives Mix 3. DJ Rolando Mix 4. Underground Resistance Mix 5. UR Infiltrated Mix 6. UR Thought 3 Mix. The Orbital mix is a functional track, but the most glossed over mix here. Kevorkian's mix is deep and electro-influenced. But having 4 UR remixes on a Kraftwerk single is what really puts this into the stratosphere. Adding "Jaguar" style splashes and a riveting new vocal line ("They Soul Electric: Detroit...They Soul Electric: Germany"), DJ Rolando's mix is flat out stunning and might take on "Jaguar"-like proportions itself in 2001. Thanks to Florian and Ralf for all the excitement.

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution
Label:	SEXY INTELLECTUAL
Format:	DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SI 541DVD

Unauthorized bio DVD, sorry. "As innovative as they are influential, Kraftwerk's contribution to the development of electronic music since their formation in 1970 remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Coldplay, Siouxsie to Radiohead, this bizarre collective have also proven partly responsible for entire genres to develop -- electronica, techno and synth-pop to name but three. This DVD reviews the career and music of Kraftwerk, from their inception in the late 1960s (as pre-Kraftwerk ensemble Organization), through their most celebrated period in the mid 1970s, and culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s with the popularity of synth-pop and techno. The film further explores how Kraftwerk both fitted in and pulled away from the electronic wing of what is often lazily referred to as 'Krautrock.' Sparing time also for many of the groups' contemporaries from the same field, and tracing the unfolding of electronics in German contemporary music generally, this program presents a fascinating story previously untold on film. It features rarely seen live and performance footage of Kraftwerk and of other electronic and 'Krautrock' bands -- much from private collections, rare photographs of Kraftwerk and others, exclusive and extensive interviews with ex-Kraftwerk members and other German ambient and electronic musicians, contributions and enlightenment from German academics, writers and journalists, live and studio recordings of many of Kraftwerk's pivotal tracks, plus live and studio recordings of many other bands from the 'Krautrock' movement. Bonus materials: Special feature 'The Dusseldorf Scene vs. The Hamburg Scene,' extended interviews, full contributor biographies." Main feature running time: 180 mins.; NTSC format, All Regions; Screen Format 4:3; Stereo Sound Mix.

Artist:	KRAFTWERK
Title:	Tone Float/Megaherz
Label:	SLOW TO SPEAK
Format:	12"
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	PC 1222EP

"After a short hiatus Slow To Speak returns with a spectacularly eclectic high-quality 12" reissue featuring a chronicle of the esteemed lineage known as Kraftwerk. The group is most recognized for their pioneering of the electronic dance sound emanating from the seemingly boundless parameter's of European synthetic aural experimentation, exploiting the insistent use of controlled & concentrated repetition & harsh melodic rigidness to produce an indisputably new form of funk -- at once owing it's lineage to American black music, and yet strangely alien & singularly unique. But long before their commercial success, founding members & core composers Ralf Hütter & Florian Schneider were humbly at work far from the public eye, busying themselves with the humble task of reinventing modern music as we know it. Of course, they were certainly not alone, as the new wave of post-hippie German experimentalists had, by the end of the 1960s, formed their own underground of anti-composition, disregarding conventionally rigid arrangement in favor of free improvisation & determinately uncharted, expansive liberated sound. As The Organization, Hütter & Schneider produced the mind-bending 20 minute instrumental 'Tone Float,' a controlled chaos of organic instrumentation & sparsely employed melody that stood miles away from the bastard child of post-industrial technological alienation that their later, colder & far-more singular music took on. The aggressiveness of this masterpiece hints at a musical vision far too universal to be tied down by the constraints of cyclical repetition or electronic composition -- a philosophy of the uncharted, unrecognized & completely unencumbered, where the music was both a means & an end to the visceral multitude & psychic multiplicity, leaving the tired realm of the present with all it's endless routines & notions of lineage in the dust. Indeed, 'Megaherz,' taken from their first self-titled full-length as Kraftwerk, takes this refusal to be bound by the historical, material stringencies of cultural or artistic progression further, employing the harsh, factory-like sounds of wage-labor & immediately demolishing it with the heavy weight of delicate, dream-like walls of synthetic melody, once again denying both the physical & social weights of existential dread & subsuming them with the literally boundless possibilities of free sound. 'The Hall of Mirrors,' taken from Trans-Europe Express, reflects the group's later sound, where their preference of free-composition was slowly replaced by the careful & ironic exercise of social reflection -- and yet, their project remained the same, as always: lifting aesthetic expression beyond the ties of the present, pushing it into unexplored realms of experimentation & sound with the conscious insistence on creating something truly autonomous from the boredom of everyday existence." Silkscreened lettering on jacket.

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