From Will Samuels Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 19:26
From Will Samuels Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 19:26
--C Twomey <xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Hey, let's not denigrate Ralf & Florian, who set the > ground work for all the music you like when Kirk > Degiorgio could only reach the white keys of his > Rhodes. I don't know your mentioning Kirk Degiorgio. I agree that Kraftwerk has always been great. The set the standard for quality electronic music. But their newer songs really sounded a little too...well Juno Reactor-ish. Just because they were a pioneer and have released some great stuff doesn't mean you can compete musically after several waves of evolution in techno/electronica. > I'd refer you to any of the boots of the latest > Kraftwerk tours - The Return Of The Man-Machine is > an excellent one - to re-experience the subtle new > tunes (and the extension of "Airwaves"), which in > the Kraftwerk style mix accessible and avant garde > elements (the computer-y sequence in the 2nd one, > which is as poly-rhythmic as any underground tech- > house stuff). The vocoder melody in the breakdown of > 1st new one in the set (the Latin-y one between > "Radioactivity" and "Trans Europe") has a particular > strange beauty, like the best of the European avant > garde (old school that is). I would love to get it just to re-experience the show I saw, but it wouldn't be for the new tracks. I have a bootleg called Dentaku World and i can't remember the name of the other one. Well one cd is from '91 in Switzerland, the other was from '81 in Tokyo, both are decent quality. I would like to find some more recent boots as you mentioned. Any idea of a good place to find them? > >From: Will Samuels <x_xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > >> The new material they played live last summer >> wasn't that great. It sounded a little like dated >> Juno Reactor type of stuff. And it lacked the charm >> of their earlier releases. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com