October 2002 - Kraftwerk - mailman.xmission.com

Re: especially to arthur & electram ...
by Oh Jay 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

would u guys PLEASE be so nice & put your PRIVATE conversation , where it actually belongs : to PRIVATE messages & MOST_DEFINITELY_NOT to this group !!! ... & PLEASE be also so nice & EDIT_YOUR_REPLIES , because the almost endless amout of quoted material from previous messages is rather annoyin' for ALL the poor daily digest readers !!! *sigh* :-o thanx a lot for your kind consideration in the future !!! however ... many greetinx , a slightly annoyed oh jay *~\^/~*

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Re: each album counts as much as the last one ... ;-)
by Oh Jay 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

From: Petter Duvander <petter.duvander(a)home.se> > "Electric Cafe" doesn't count either. may i ask u WHY_??? *jus'_curious* only because u don't like it ... maybe ??? :-o > the last one was "Computer World". if u mean "the last one that was completely recorded & mixed usin' mainly analog equipment" , then u're certainly right , but otherwise it's jus' BOGUS , sorry !!! > beat that. 21 years and counting. ;) well ... u better start countin' again , petter !!! *hehehe* ;-))) however ... many greetinx , oh jay , who's jus' finished readin' HUNDREDS of messages in daily digest format , since kw performed in g(h)ent !!! *phew* ;-o *~\^/~*

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Paris shows further observations
by Toby Frith 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

"I mean, their playing 90% the same songs of the 1981 tour - and still all their concerts are sold out. People who go to a Kraftwerk-concert know what they will see - no new songs, but 'new designed' old songs - plus a new stage since 2002 - and still people go crazy. The 1997 Linze concert was the best concert I ever visited. It was simply magic. It's like a favourite film you have - you watch it again and again, know every scene, every sentence. That's what Kraftwerk makes so different, so timeless, so unique." (new to the list btw) Essentially that's what I felt after seeing both shows last Thursday. To be honest I don't really care whether they play any new material. It was great to hear them paying homage to Detroit with the UR mix of Expo 2000 - (Henning(?)_ looked like he was really enjoying that track), although I do think that the reworking of Airwaves leaves a little bit to be desired amongst other contemporary material being released today. Kraftwerk have moved into a different area of musical appreciation, in that their music will, as always, sound timeless. Given the surroundings of the concert on Thursday, it was much more like a classical music concert and this feeling can only have been enforced by the sheer crispness of the sound. Man Machine and Tour de France sound so perfect together, the first a warning to the Nietzschean ideal of ubermensch, and then Tour de France, epitomising the ultimate synthesis of man and machine together. And then we get Autobahn....irony and humour have never been put so beautifully in contemporary music.

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RE: [Kraftwerk] Pan Sonic
by Christophe Socquet 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

> Are there, by the way, other belgian subscribers to this list ? Yep, present ! "Dit e-mailbericht en alle documenten die ermee verzonden worden, zijn vertrouwelijk en uitsluitend voor gebruik door de persoon of de onderneming waaraan ze geadresseerd zijn. Indien deze e-mail verkeerdelijk bij u terechtkomt, gelieve de afzender te verwittigen en deze bestanden van uw computer te verwijderen. Ce message e-mail ainsi que tous les fichiers transmis sont confidentiels et uniquement destinés à l'usage de la personne ou de l'entité à qui ils sont adressés. Si vous avez reçu ce message e-mail par erreur, veuillez en informer l'expéditeur et le supprimer de tout ordinateur."

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Japanese Concert Tickets
by rhodri kasperbauer 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

Can someone please post the address/contact number for getting tickets for Kraftwerk playing in Japan in December. Many thanks, Kasperbauer __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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R-O-B-A-T-O (OT)
by Dante de Conti Neto 01 Oct '02

01 Oct '02

Guys, I started the R-O-B-A-T-O Project: a Brazilian´s band of electronic music. Samples can be found in http://r-o-b-a-t-o.technopop.com.br Who will have interest please send email for robato(a)technopop.com.br Greetings from Brazil, Dante. http://kraftwerk.technopop.com.br

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