From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 20:45
From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 20:45
I'm with Will. No one can deny the importance and quality of Kraftwerk's recorded material. And yes, electronic music since them owes them a huge debt. But even Juan Atkins says they're a little bit behind the times re: their *new* music performed lately (though he was extremely happy they toured and that those who knew them from their recordings could hear them live, while those who missed out on Kraftwerk (i.e don't know their electronic music history) could experience them and get some education to the past. You can check out Atkins' comments and opinions on Kraftwerk and plenty of other stuff in the interview with him on In The Mix show 578 on http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition Thanks. Andrew :) C Twomey 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'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. > >