From Greg Clow Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 05:11
From Greg Clow Sent Thu, Jun 3rd 1999, 05:11
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, laerm wrote: > > I was listening to NPR tonight and on one of their interludes they were > > playing some kind of string quartet piece that sounded very familiar. I > > later realized that the melody was the same as one one of the tracks off > > of Kraftwerk's 'The Mix' - "The Robots" I believe. Anyone know what > > this was? > > wasn't this the brodsky quartet? or was it bang on a can? Balenascu Quartet (I probably spelt that wrong, but it's something like that). Released an album on Mute about 5 years back with string quartet versions of several Kraftwerk tunes along with another couple of covers (one of Talking Heads, I think) and a couple of originals. Quite good stuff - I should dig it out and listen it it again, it's been a while. Greg