SONDRICK%HASARA11@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (Rick Jansen) (06/13/91)
For those of you who know Kraftwerk live: this is how The Mix sounds.
For those of you who know The Mix: this is how Kraftwerk live sounds.
The Mix is an album with remakes of older Kraftwerk tracks. Remakes,
not remixes: only fragments of the older songs have been used as far
as I can tell. Some track are hardly recognizable even.
My impression is that it is a very 'rough' album, not much polishing
or after-production has been done. The credits don't list anyone who
did the mixing either, as with previous records:
MUSIC DATA MIX . RALF HUTTER . FLORIAN SCHNEIDER . FRITZ HILPERT
KLINGKLANG STUDIO DUSSELDORF . HARDWARE . BLANK . BOLCKE
BOVERO . MARINOSCI . METZNER . OTT PAGENBERG . REHBERG
PHOTO . FROHLING . GRAPHICS . SL DIGITAL . LANDWEHR . LUTKAT
SOFTWARE . JALASS . KLINGKLANG PRODUKT 1991
From the credits one could think Kraftwerk is a trio again, though
in the Robots video clearly 4 different 'faces' can be seen.
Rumour had it that it would be a house-record. I don't think it is,
in general. Only the last track (Music Non Stop) is 'housy'.
Track listing:
1 THE ROBOTS 8:56
2 COMPUTERLOVE 6:35
3 POCKET CALCULATOR 4:32
4 DENTAKU 3:27 (=japanese pocket calculator)
5 AUTOBAHN 9:27
6 RADIOACTIVITY 6:53
7 TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS 3:20
8 ABZUG 2:18
9 METAL ON METAL 4:58
10 HOMECOMPUTER 8:02
11 MUSIC NON STOP 6:38
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Noteworthy are the anti-nuclear lyrics of Radioactivity:
'Tchernobyl - Harrisburg - Sellafield - Hiroschima,
Stop radioactivity,
Chain reaction and mutation,
Contaminated population'
It will depend on your taste wether you like the tracks on The Mix
better than the originals. Personally I find The Robots the best
on this record, in general I prefer the originals though.
The Mix does not really add to what Kraftwerk did in the past,
I'm very happy though they are still active, even going on tour.
The colour artwork of the cover of the cd is pretty bad, the black
and white pictures of the Robots inside are quite ok. A very nice
piece of engineering, those robot arms! I wonder if they will be
used live too...
Rick Jansen
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