Staggman wrote: Most of the CDs available at present suffer from being low-level, undynamic,contain several little errors, and have pretty poor interpretations of the original artwork. They all date from the early days of CD mastering, and suffer badly for it when compared sonically with contemporary releases. I'm not criticising the musical content, of course, just the technical aspects.
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I agree, and it would be great to hear a clean and powerful sounding Trans Europe Express album. It is kind of "polishing the family heirlooms" though. As for the pre-Autobahn albums, in the past KW have referred to them rather disparagingly as "archaeology", and they don't really fit the Kraftwerk stereotype we all know. Listening to these albums with the knowledge of hindsight you can sense what they were going to evolve into -- such as on Wellenlange, with it's controlled use of delay echo -- but at that point (pre-1974) Kraftwerk weren't a unique sounding band and their music wasn't organized around particular thematic ideas (or that dreaded 1970s phrase, "concept album"). This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network.
--- "Marston, Richard" <Richard.Marston@penguin.co.uk> wrote:
As for the pre-Autobahn albums, in the past KW have referred to them rather disparagingly as "archaeology", and they don't really fit the Kraftwerk stereotype we all know. Listening to these albums with the knowledge of hindsight you can sense what they were going to evolve into -- such as on Wellenlange, with it's controlled use of delay echo -- but at that point (pre-1974) Kraftwerk weren't a unique sounding band and their music wasn't organized around particular thematic ideas (or that dreaded 1970s phrase, "concept album").
This might sound a bit humble, but I really wish Kraftwerk liked those early albums as much as I do...If you get to listen to many of their early-mid 70's live shows, the versions of Ruckzuck, Kling Klang, etc, are all breathatkingly beautiful. And I absolutely love Ralf and Florian. I like the early stuff!!!! The sound of the flute made those records! pat __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
agree, Ralf & Florian is my fav KW album with T.E.E. also. but R& F album is the most rich album they have made. It's far better that any other krautrock album of this time, E.G. Tangerine Dream, etc. On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:31:42 -0800 (PST), Pat Slade wrote:
--- "Marston, Richard" <Richard.Marston@penguin.co.uk> wrote:
As for the pre-Autobahn albums, in the past KW have referred to them rather disparagingly as "archaeology", and they don't really fit the Kraftwerk stereotype we all know. Listening to these albums with the knowledge of hindsight you can sense what they were going to evolve into -- such as on Wellenlange, with it's controlled use of delay echo -- but at that point (pre-1974) Kraftwerk weren't a unique sounding band and their music wasn't organized around particular thematic ideas (or that dreaded 1970s phrase, "concept album").
This might sound a bit humble, but I really wish Kraftwerk liked those early albums as much as I do...If you get to listen to many of their early-mid 70's live shows, the versions of Ruckzuck, Kling Klang, etc, are all breathatkingly beautiful. And I absolutely love Ralf and Florian.
I like the early stuff!!!! The sound of the flute made those records!
pat
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