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").
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