From C Twomey Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 19:09
From C Twomey Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 19:09
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'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). CT >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. >