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RE: [Kraftwerk] Tour de France 2003 lyrics - Final translation
by Marcelo Figueroa 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

Here a Spanish translation, any comments are welcome of course: Radio-tour informaciÃ³n TransmisiÃ³n de televisiÃ³n Reportaje en moto CÃ¡mara, video y foto Los equipos presentados, La largada se anunciÃ³ Las etapas se cumplen Y la carrera se lanzÃ³ Los corredores, cronÃ³metros Para la prueba de la verdad La montaÃ±a/los valles Los grandes pasos, los desfiladeros La llama roja dejada atrÃ¡s Camiseta amarilla para la llegada Radio-tour informaciÃ³n TransmisiÃ³n de televisiÃ³n Marcelo Figueroa PD: credits to my workmate Silvia Sosa. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? InformaciÃ³n de Estados Unidos y AmÃ©rica Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. VisÃtanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com

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"Der Android"
by Klaus Zaepke 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

The WDR radio play "Der Android" by David Gieselmann and Christoph Kalkowski from 2001 gives credit to Florian Schneider and Ralf Huetter for the music and to "Studio elektro-automatisch / Klingklang" for production. Unsurprisingly, the music is simply a compilation from old Kraftwerk albums, but does anyone know if the radio play was *really* co-produced at Klingklang? Thanks, Klaus Zaepke

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This matter is now finally settled...
by Per-Olof Karlsson 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

Well well well, lookie lookie. ;) Cheers, Peo -----Original Message----- From: enquiries(a)emirecordedmusic.co.uk [mailto:enquiries@emirecordedmusic.co.uk] Sent: den 22 juli 2003 17:56 To: Subject: Fw: Help needed -- questionable legality of a CD Dear Per-Olof Karlsson Thank you for your email. To the best of our knowledge the CD you refer to is not a legal release. Best wishes. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: enquiries(a)emirecordedmusic.co.uk Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:47 PM Subject: Help needed -- questionable legality of a CD Dear Sir/Madame, perhaps you can help me finding out the truth about a CD release that's been puzzling me and a couple of friends for quite some time.. I'm talking about a release with Kraftwerk called "Concert Classics", which was released under an American (?) label called Ranch Life, apparently a division of RME Inc. in Franklin, TN, USA. The catalogue number is CRANCH4. The CD states that it's made in England. The insert furthermore states: C 1975, 1998 Kraftwerk and EMI Music Distribution, licensed by Listen Up, Inc., Professional Division. All rights reserved. The question, then, is of course: is this a legal CD, which have been officially licensed by EMI to this company as stated? I somehow strongly doubt that. First of all, there is no mention of Kling Klang, which is Kraftwerk's company as far as I know. Secondly, EMI owns no rights to Kraftwerk material pre-1975 if I'm not mistaken (the Radio-Activity album was the first released on Capitol, back in 1975), and this live CD contains only pre-1975 materials. These two facts alone should prove it a bootleg in my book, but I'd like to be sure. Since this CD is and has been on sale basically everywhere for the past five years it's quite hard to claim it's a bootleg, but at the same time I've never seen or heard any official statements from anybody claiming it IS an official release. Would you be able to confirm or deny its legality? My sincere regards, Per-Olof Karlsson SWEDEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- This e-mail including any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error please advise the sender immediately by return email and then delete it from your system. The unauthorised use, distribution, copying or alteration of this email is strictly forbidden. If you need assistance please contact us on +44 20 7795 7000. This email is from a unit or subsidiary of EMI Group plc. Registered Office: 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5SW Registered in England No 229231.

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Collectors' question
by Klaus Zaepke 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

The German EMI promotion campaign for "Tour de France Soundtracks" mentions TV adverts at MTV and Viva, as well as radio adverts. If anybody has been able to record those, I'd be interested in copies. Trade material is available. (The promo campaign also mentions a "huge foto story (tbc)" for Max magazine, by the way, but there's no such feature in the latest Max issue...) Thanks, Klaus Zaepke

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Evening Standard Kraftwerk article
by Klaus Zaepke 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/entertainment/music/articles/5923796 ?source=Evening Klaus Zaepke

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Re: Question about Karl Bartos
by Mark J Stagg 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

>Does anybody knows the name of two musicians who accompanish Karl >Bartos in his last concerts? Stage left was Dave Anderson (Keyboards/Vocals), stage right was Karsten Binar (Visuals). Also, the front-of-house soundman was Mathias Black, who has worked on Karl's recent recordings. Staggboy

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KW ...
by Jan 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

... goes down in German single charts from #50 to #64. (July 28, Der Musikmarkt)

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O M G !
by mige {iranzo} 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

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Some album info
by Edimes Cagliari 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

Read this from the Kraftwerk Newsgroup! http://groups.google.de/groups?dq= <http://groups.google.de/groups?dq=&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm= 9t4Ua.58200%24Df6.32677%40news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk&prev=/groups%3Fhl %3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dalt.music.kraftwerk> &hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=9t4Ua.58200%24Df6.32677%40news-bina ry.blueyonder.co.uk&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DU TF-8%26group%3Dalt.music.kraftwerk Eddy

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Some album info
by Mark J Stagg 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

Hey... a reviewer friend just played me a quick snippet of each album track down the phone. Hard to make out the full picture of course, but from what I heard, I thought it sounded great! However, it is very definitely a conceptual album, with much of it playing as one continuous piece, so in some ways there were no big surprises I'm afraid. It's much more minimal and open sounding than, say, Version 2 used for the single. There were lots of little melodic motifs though no full blown songs as such, apart from the reworking of the original TDF which did indeed sound like the live version. I'd say the best point of reference for the album as a whole would be the more minimal parts of Versions 1 and 3. In terms of sounds, there was a strong sonic link between all the tracks, adding to a continuity of mood, though I must say that some of the new pieces sounded more interesting and a bit more out there than those single tracks. However, there were NO new tracks with any full lyrics, just the odd vocoder/robovox part intoning the title - I guess this is certainly not a collection of new KW "songs"! I can also confirm that NONE of newer tracks played live (Tribal, Tango etc) are on the CD. Wait for the next album for those! :-) Hard to judge on such a compromised listen, but if I had to pick a standout it would be "Elektro Kardiogramm"... with sinister computer vox intoning the title over a very LFO/Warp beat. Staggboy

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