[sdiy] Freak at Home

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:59:15PM +0200, jhaible wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm not a Kraftwerk fan, no.
> 
> I was always leaning more on the mystical / "cosmical" / organic
> side of electronic music than on the technical side. (stange for
> someone who also builds machines ...)

Not to harp on a subject thats definatly a matter of taste and opinion, but
have you listened to the really early Kraftwerk?  Like Ralf&Florien or
Kraftwerk2?   While what originally drew me to Kraftwerk was the robotic
precision of Computer World and the simplistic melodies of Man Machine,
what has kept me a fan has been the earlier stuff.  If you havent listened
to it, check out Pre-Flur Kraftwerk.  Dont get me wrong, I like Wolfgang's
contributions too, but when he came on board they definatly had started to
break away from the Tangerine Dream-esk sounds that they had been known
for previously.

Later on in the email thread someone mentioned how the new Kraftwerk Stage
show was just laptops and nothing new.  Sadly, I have to agree.  There are
3 different "biographies" of Kraftwerk out now and one thing you pick up from
all of them is the intense drive to mechanize everything, right down to the
end goal of Robots touring so the band didnt have to go on stage.  

Sad for a group ( well, two people ) that has pushed so many frontiers and
influenced so many people.

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