A review of the Turin concert along with an interview with Ralf appeared in yesterday's "La Stampa" newspaper: http://www.lastampa.it/search/albicerca/ng_articolo.asp?IDarticolo=978242&se zione=Spettacoli For those of you who don't understand Italian, a loose translation of the most interesting parts: "Ralf Hütter is unusually communicative....." <We were aware that Europe was an only community since we published T.E.E.> "What changed in Kraftwerk? " <During 1998, we realized we had reached a limit. We still had analogue instruments that were bulky and expensive to carry around. Now we have four laptop computers that don't need tuning and give us a good flexibility> "Setlist is always the same" <We chose these tracks because they best represent us today. Concerts are all different anyway, we have room for improvisation, tracks are remixed live each night> "Do the audience and the venue matter?" <When we play at a festival our sound is more aggressive, in a small club it becomes more intimate, it's a matter of vibrations and with our current instruments we can follow freely and quickly the reaction of the audience.> "Unreleased tracks?" <No. "Planet of Vision" is a reworking of "Expo 2000", with a new mix and contributions from fellow musicians from Detroit. It's very far from the original> "You are planning to re-release your catalogue" <We remastered the original tapes and included all the artwork we wanted to have on our albums when they were first published. From September on, our 8 albums will be published in CD and vinyl, and later in Super Audio CD, in both English and German versions. There will not be unreleased tracks, we used the same approach as we were restoring a movie. Maybe there will be a live album, we're also thinking about a limited edition box with a picture book> "Do Kraftwerk have a political vision of the world?" <Believing in the progress of man and machine is in itself a political vision. To testify that this is a viable option we played in 1992 for Greenpeace" "What is the most utterly German tract of Hütter and Schneider?" <A work ethic - that is not only German, but Mitteleuropean - based on order and commitment, the same ethic that gave success to Volkswagen. And a certain black humour, that unfortunately not everyone is able to grasp.>. Peace, Luca