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Señor Coconut in Brazil
by ncentola 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hi guys Señor Coconut wil play in Brazil (Sao Paulo) at SESC Pompeia, august 20th. I got my tickets yesterday. See details (in portuguese) http://www.sescsp.com.br/sesc/revistas/sesc/frame_artigo.cfm?&artigo_id=237… It´s a Latin Festival, with music, dance, literature, video, movies and latin culture in general. Anyone have any information about tracklist of recent SC gigs? Maybe some KW tunes, uh? peace Nicolau www.kraftworld.hpg.com.br

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Tour de France Sountracks in France & some comments...
by Der Automat 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Filtre4Pole wrote: > [*btw* humour again again: "les étapes sont brûlées" french-joke...] Would you mind explaining it, please? As far as we (non-speaking French) are able to understand. Thanks a lot in advance. > Bonnette (this last one sometimes also called Restefond -rarely climbed on > the TdF- *afaik* is the highest asphalted road pass in Europe - over 2800 m) There is a higher asphalted road pass in Sierra Nevada (Granada, Spain). It is at Pico Veleta, 3392 meters. From here in a clear day, Mulhacen peak (the highest summit in Iberian Peninsula, 3479 m.) it can be seen. DER AUTOMAT

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Tour de France Sountracks in France & some comments...
by Filtre4Pole 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

- The album seems to be well distributed in France: I didn't even have to go to my favorite local records shop to buy TdF_S. I easily found it last week in a current hypermarket(!) at a "cheap" (well, hum!) price € 17.99 (I mean "cheap", because in many records stores could be a few € more - though I've not checked yet, 'cause weather too *hot* pfff!! :-P ) The album edition is the same like the one distributed in Germany (catalog number 5917102). But of course I don't know if any (slight) difference exists from the other (uk...) edition (catalog number 5917082) (who knows??) - The booklet *fyi* In the credits section we can read the names: Patrice Clerc (=director of ASO / "Amaury Sport Organisation" the TdF organizer) Jean-Marie Leblanc (=Tour de France director) Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (=former rider 2-times winner of the famous "Paris-Roubaix" classic race, a decade ago. Now he drives on the TdF race a director's car for the guests: guess who were the guys from Germany in that car on the road from Sallanches to L'Alpe-d'Huez ;-) *hehe* and this might explain why the profile of this 8th stage has been included in the booklet...) "Equipe Kling Klang" "Equipe technik" "Equipe graphik" "Equipe tour" "Equipe de France"(-->*btw* that's a current name for our famous national football team :-D !!): Kraftwerk still have a *fine* sense of humour ;-) ....if you have not yet understood, just replace *Equipe* by *TEAM* Humour in the same way: the "Aéro Dynamik" lyrics are written like a kind of *euro* franco-german mix: of course, in French all makes sense (no matter the spelling)... :-) [*btw* humour again again: "les étapes sont brûlées" french-joke...] About the cols/climbs list: Alps: Madeleine, Croix de Fer, Galibier, Alpe-d'huez, Iseran, Izoard, and Bonnette (this last one sometimes also called Restefond -rarely climbed on the TdF- *afaik* is the highest asphalted road pass in Europe - over 2800 m) Pyrenees: Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet, Luz Ardiden, Hautacam, Aubisque. And the Mont Ventoux is a kind of *big* stand-alone montain, south of France, in other words the "Bald Giant of Provence"... - The music I've listened to it twice... The "étapes" of the album have (happily) got some improvements (compared to the single "versions"): 'adjusted' sequences, better structure, better mix... and the Chrono track contains some good advanced patterns. Preferences: "Vitamin" and "Elektro Kardiogramm" (wow! the heartbeat like groove) and maybe "La Forme"... General opinion: - <absolute mode> DISAPPOINTMENT *of course* *IF* compared to old K'masterpieces like "Computer World", "The Man Machine"... etc. all from the golden age of electronic music era... *nostalgic sigh* - <relative mode> great ENJOYMENT *IF* compared to all the crap and LQ unsignificant so-called music currently produced nowadays (including techno and some other electro-pioneers' actual music... *grrrr*) Great man+machine concept, good titles and lyrics, humour, nice cd sleeve and booklet... And happily, Kraftwerk typically continue to shape their *own* sound <applause> therefore all their hesitations and (slight) lack of inspiration (melodies...) should be forgiven. :-) Yes, don't worry folks, Kraftwerk is still *Maillot Jaune / Gelbe Trikot / Yellow Jersey* (ahead for a while, even if the gap is closer...) ;-) Well, maybe, perhaps, _ /o o\ Filtre4Pole \ ~ / I I - -

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Das Klang
by Tomasz Kirmuc 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Kraftwerkish, isn't it? ;-) http://www.bham.ac.uk/music/ea-studios/Sounds/extra/DasKlang.mp3

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Karl complains lack of approach in pop music
by Jan 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

"Kulturzeit" on 3sat TV shows a report from Popkomm at Cologne. A statement of Karl Bartos about today's pop music can be seen there. Re-runned: Aug 16, 2.05 MESZ (VPS 0001; 16082003) (Showview 58.867.072) and Aug 16, 9.05 MESZ (VPS 0905; 16082003) (Showview 51.697.852). Jan

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Kraftwerk in "Dagens Nyheter"
by henrik.olsson＠equant.com 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Interview with Ralf Hütter in "Dagens Nyheter" today : http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=170724&previousRenderType=6 //Henrik

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ALBUM Top 10 in Sweden and Denmark!
by Edimes Cagliari 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

The Album entered in Sweden at Pos. 7 and in denmark at Pos. 9 ! Eddy

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LFO
by Oystein Moe 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Der Automat had dug this up; >From http://www.warprecords.com/artists/biog.php?artist=lfo LFO Biography 2003 By Bill Brewster: [talking about LFO] (...) and just for good measure working with a bunch of Germans who just so happened to be ex-members of Kraftwerk. (...) I always wondered why they were taken out of "Information" from the Elektric Music album?! There were reports that they were working together, and either Select or Q magazine mentioned LFO in the album review (IIRC, "...and LFO's energy oozes all over Information..." or words to that effect), and they did a summer tour together in Sweden (with SPOCK, a nice billing altogether!), but IMO, you can't much hear that LFO has worked on that track, and there is no credit to them. Contract problems or Grand Falling Out? I guess we'll never know... Oystein _________________________________________________________________ Last ned nye MSN Messenger 6.0 gratis http://www.msn.no/computing/messenger - Den korteste veien mellom deg og dine venner

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chart position in Japan
by Hiroshi MURATA 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

>From some rock/pops sales charts - TdFS (EU pressing) now can be found at Tower Records (pos. 3) & HMV (pos.4). http://www.hmv.co.jp/chart/chart.asp?category=1&genre=200 http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CSfRanking.jsp?PERIOD= WEEK_TOTAL&DISP_NO=002101001000

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another one
by Jan 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Neue Zuercher Zeitung 14. Aug. 2003 (not online): Spannungsabfall -- Kraftlose Rueckkehr von Kraftwerk by Markus Ganz excerpts: "... 'Tour de France' aus dem Jahr 1983, der zum Ausklang des neuen Albums nochmals verwendet wird. Das toent verdaechtig nach einem Mangel an Ideen, was die Musik leider bestaetigt. ... Von einer ... einst wegweisenden Band haette man schon ein bisschen Innovation erwarten duerfen." "Ralf Huetter erklaerte im 'Spiegel', dass der Radsport wie die Musik von Kraftwerk mit Konzentration und Geschwindigkeit zu tun habe -- und mit der Sehnsucht, an Grenzen zu stossen. In kreativer Hinsicht ist dies offensichtlich geschehen. Das Thema 'Tour de France' mag den Musikern persoenlich liegen und war kommerziell sicherlich clever gewaehlt. Aber inhaltlich hat Kraftwerk nichts Neues mehr zu den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mensch und Maschine zu sagen. Dabei waere dieses Thema heute brisanter denn je ..." Jan

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