From nd Sent Mon, Mar 30th 1998, 04:13
Hi! A question: I've come across three records of imprecise origin. Three vinyl lps that seem to be Kraftwerk stuff but I'd like to check with you lot before I buy. The guy at the shop gave them to me saying "I didn't even dare putting them on the shelves", but after I listened to them he asked me whether I thought it was Kraftwerk or not. The three lps come each in a white sleeve, no cover, and white labels with nought written on them. The writing on the vinyl (a short one) is deleted. Titles and tracklisting (plus some pictures from Kfw "proper" lp covers) come on a white A4 sheet stuck to the sleeve. It goes: 1) Kraftwerk=20 Edition 1997 A1 Tour de France A2 Die Mensch-Maschine A3 Musique Non Stop B1 Electric caf=E9 B2 Nummern B3 Der Telefonanruf B4 Trans-europe Express Serial no. on a sticker on the sleeve: Kraftwerk LP EUR COD 591 2) Kraftwerk Edition 1997 II A1 Heimcomputer A2 Die Roboter A3 Techno Pop B1 Ruckzuck B2 Sex Objekt B3 Die Stimme der Energie Serial no. same as above 3) Kraftwerk Edition 3 A1 It's more fun to compute A2 Kristallo A3 Autobahn A4 Hall of Mirrors B1 Radioaktivitaet (sorry, I have no "umlaut" :-) B2 Uranium B3 Das Model Serial no. on sticker on sleeve: DIVERSE/LP EUR EDITI... (sticker ends here) Now the interesting bit: it all sounds very *GOOD*, mixed in an autechrian kind of way plus very heavy 808 bass drums. Distortion is generalized on some tracks. First thing I thought was: it's the Tribal Gathering gig, or something like that. There is some hiss on a few tracks, but no trace of applause or= anything. But then, it could have been someone remixing Kraftwerk in a *very* clever= way. The remix technique seems to be: get some samples from the original tracks, chop them up nicely and add some sparse and loud drum machine loop plus some distorted sound. That's why I thought it could be someone else, just sampling the records and having a "1997" go at them. Whoever it is, they have done a great job. So the question is always the same: what IS this stuff? A bootleg of their 1997 exhibition? "Secret tapes"? Some clever unknown remixer at work? etc.= etc. The guy said he got them from the UK. I found very nice limited editions and promos in that shop. This time though, he is asking for quite a lot of dosh, so I want to know more about the stuff before I eventually buy it. It's good stuff. And they're nice and heavy slabs of vinyl too. But I want to know more (and the guy didn't seem too happy about this). Let me know nd np: Joey Beltram - Aonox <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xx> =20 Table Homepage <http://www.tinet.ch/table>=20 music etc. =20