I don't remember if the following was posted already to this list, if so I apologize to everyone. OTOH, I know this is rather old but it is weird enough to be mentioned here, IMO. Alec Empire (from Atari Teenage Riot) Duesseldorf 26-11-1999 http://www.nme.com/news/2457.htm: "We should call Kraftwerk up and tell them to come down here. hahaha but they would be too cool - the self-announced "godfathers of techno"! hahaha. They would be like: Nein,nein - Sat iz not kool! It iz too rockistish. prrrrppr. I mean did anybody hear that shit they did for this Expo-shit. I mean it is shit - yeah they got some money but who fucking cares about that. ... Does it make it clever and good. NOOOO. Hahaha - We should announce in the press that Kraftwerk is coming down here to play with us together - and everybody would be like: wow theze guyz muzt be really kool!!!! And we ring up these friends of mine in Minneapolis who do sculptures and we would put these perfect copies of the fucking lame robots on stage. Hahaha and everybody would be like: theze guyz are zooo really kool!!!! Zey play wiz Kraftwerk!!! Man!!! And the real Kraftwerk guys would be pissed as hell!!! And there would be nothing they could do about it or they have to fucking destroy their elitist image and call the media up to tell the truth - and the truth would make them look so stupid. Hahaha Have you read the book of the fourth guy who was like the slave in Kraftwerk. Who built the fucking drummachine and the other two guys got the copyright on it. ... I mean everything they said was wrong: Autobahn, Radioactivity, Model, It's more fun to compute and so on. This guy ROPE on our label GEIST is going to release a new record in the first months of 2000 - it's called

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IT'S NO FUN TO COMPUTE<< It's a very cool record, man. very cool - I heard it already. Come on , let's go and eat. And then hours later we go on stage, everybody applauses, nobody dances, Hanin vomits all over Trent's monitors, and I'm attacking the fucking Kraftwerkgoths, I mean it's like everybody in the audience is looking like robots suddenly - we got ourselves so much into this Anti-Dusseldorf thing. It's like this high-society city you know." --- Unquoted --- Digital Hardcore Recordings http://www.digitalhardcore.com

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