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[Kraftwerk] Karl Bartos in MOJO magazine + Kraftwerk in "The MOJO Hall of Fame"
by Der Automat 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

What you are about to read is posted by courtesy of Gina [thank you very much]: In the back pages of tenth anniversary issue of MOJO magazine, there is this piece which I assume is a regular feature about ex-members of famous bands: HELLO, GOODBYE Originally a classical percussionist, he later became a robot worker in one of the most influential groups of all time. This month... 80. Karl Bartos and Kraftwerk HELLO SPRING 1977 I was 22, and studying music in the Conservatorium in Dusseldorf, and my professor got a call saying that Kraftwerk needed a classically-trained drummer. I knew them because they had an underground reputation for doing strange and arty stuff, so I went with my vibraphone to the Kling Klang studio. It was all white with rough stone walls, a couple of synthesizers, some neon lights, a Farfisa organ and electronic drum heads, built by hand. So I played some pop music, and I was hired. I was used to playing Stockhausen, and was into pop music too, so it was a perfect mixture of both worlds. Ralf and Florian were like artists, strange artists. Usually you have white paper and black notes but they had black paper and white notes. It was fantastic! They also had UV lights and kept turning up the paper to shine the UV light on it. It was so intense, really psychedelic. I dug it very much. Later on they had whisky colas and I had an ordinary cola. Shortly after we had a gig in Cologne at a radio station. The next gig was Paris and the next was New York, Broadway! I ended up in a 10-month tour of America. And then I was back at the opera. Ralf would pick me up in his grey Volkswagen when the opera ended and we'd work into the small hours. My goal had been to become a professor, but I ended up playing electronic music for 15 years. GOODBYE AUGUST 1991 Our productivity decreased so much during the '80s. When we did /Electric Cafe/, we spent three months producing it in Times Square, a nice place to be but in the end every day was alike. We were working, yes, but how much work can you do when you're meeting at 8 o'clock at night and then watching old television programmes and trying to think about a new concept? Then we spent five years working on this mix record [1991's /The Mix/]. To me, this was distorting the past. They had a rigid attitude not to change things, and I felt annoyed that everything was going down the hill and shit. You can buy and sell machinery, but if you lose people's minds and loyalty then you're fucked. But it wasn't like being in Marshmellow Overcoat or something - Kraftwerk were /the/ German band. So it took me two years, maybe longer, to come up with this decision. In August 1991, I gave them the key to the studio and said, I can't do it any more. I think they were surprised. I went home in my car and talked to my girlfriend and, for the first time, thought about a career. Really sad. It takes me by surprise to see they have a new record out called /Tour De France/ - I wrote this track 20 years ago. My new album, /Communication/, is out at the same time; when people compare these records, I think the music will do the job. Interview by Ian Harrison Also in MOJO magazine this month is "THE MOJO HALL OF FAME" #50. KRAFTWERK World changing moment: Kraftwerk play Autobahn on BBC TV's Tomorrow's World, September 25, 1975. IT WAS a strange sight - three men playing electronic pianos, while a fourth hit metal plates with what appeared to be knitting needles. And yet, out of these contraptions came a melody. weird, but beautiful. Kraftwerk were not the first artists to use synthesizers - they had been colouring chart hits for at least five years, but the Dusseldorf alchemists were the first to create a joyful meeting of pre-war nostalgia with ultra-futurism. Autobahn celebrated German engineering, while inventing the `80s. Bowie was impressed. Future members of Cabaret Voltaire and The Human League saved up for synthesizers. And later, DJs in Detroit would rediscover their robotic charm. http://www.mojo4music.com/html/mojo_new_issue.shtml http://www.mojo4music.com/ http://www.mojomag.com/ http://www.mojomagazine.co.uk/ DER AUTOMAT

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Two more Tour de France Soundtracks reviews
by Der Automat 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS80305141541&sql=Anr5h8qpzbt n4 http://www.releasemagazine.net/orkraftwerktdfs.htm DER AUTOMAT

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Billboard Chart Positions
by Der Automat 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS80305141541&sql=TPon5tk6rxl krj Elektric Music Year Single Chart Highest Position 1993 Crosstalk Hot Dance Music/Club Play No. 36 1994 Lifestyle Hot Dance Music/Club Play No. 45 http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS80305141541&sql=TPdm8zefwkh gfj Kraftwerk Year Album Chart Highest Position 1975 Autobahn Pop AlbumsNo. 5 1975 Ralf And Florian Pop Albums No. 160 1976 Radio-Activity Pop Albums No. 140 1977 Trans-Europe Express Pop Albums No. 119 1978 The Man-Machine Pop Albums No. 130 1981 Computer-World Pop Albums No. 72 1981 Computer-World Black Albums No. 32 1987 Electric Cafe The Billboard 200 No. 158 2003 Tour De France Soundtracks Top Electronic Albums No. 3 Year Single Chart Highest Position 1975 Autobahn Pop Singles No. 25 1978 The Man-Machine (LP All Cuts) Club Play Singles No. 39 1978 Trans-Europe Express Pop Singles No. 67 1981 Pocket Calculator/Numbers/Computer World/Computer Love Club Play Singles No. 13 1982 Numbers Black Singles No. 22 1987 Musique Non Stop Hot Dance Music/Club Play No. 1 1987 The Telephone Call (Remix) Hot Dance Music/Club Play No. 1 1987 Musique Non Stop Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales No. 6 1987 The Telephone Call (Remix) Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales No. 18 1991 Robotronik Hot Dance Music/Club Play No. 42 1991 Robotronik Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales No. 42 2003 Tour De France 2003 Hot Dance Singles Sales No. 13 DER AUTOMAT

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The Mix
by Der Automat 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

A Spanish film titled "The Mix" was recently (17th October) premiered. The movie is about djs and clubs. http://www.portalmix.com/themix DER AUTOMAT

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Re: KW List: In re your post "KW in Bollywood"
by MuzikJunky 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

abcdvitamin, who can't post to the list for some reason, forwarded the link to the film "Koi... Mil Gaya" to me--here it is: http://www.koimilgayathefilm.com/ Peace.

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new and old list
by ncentola 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Guys, why don´t just move to the new list? The traffic here is getting down and probably it will colapse very soon. I know, everyone has a special reason to keep it. I´m on the list since 95 and made some nice virtual friends and few at the real world here. I went to Tribal Gathering to cover it for a brazilian magazine just because the list helped me to get the press pass. And many other reasons. I remember this list was my first connection with Internet in 1995. I have no connection, and a friend, who worked at IBM Brazil, print all the digests and send by post mail to me. So I get a dialed connection and start to post. I have some prints at home yet. BUT, IMHO there´s no future for this list. OK, someone could keep the archive, but it doesn´t matter if Lazlo or Dave own the list. They are not interested in keep it alive, so it´s time to move. Let´s leave our personal reasons here and start a new travel, in a much more well moderated list. What do you think? peace Nicolau www.kraftworld.hpg.com.br > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 05:11:10 -0600 (MDT) > From: Soleil Lapierre > Subject: Re: SV: SV: Activerecord / Xmission (was: Re: [KRAFTWERK] > double, triple and more messages) > To: "Music, non-stop." > Message-ID: > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 johan.andersson(a)allers.aller.se wrote: > > > If I remember correctly, someone sometime mentioned that it was a guy > > called "Dave datta" who originally started this list, but I'm not > > shure... > > That name definitely rings a bell. I know Lazlo Nibble AKA Ernie Longmeyer > has been the list owner for as long as I've been on it, but I don't know > the prehistory. > > -- > /* Soleil */ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:38:13 +0200 > From: johan.andersson(a)allers.aller.se > Subject: SV: Activerecord / Xmission (was: Re: [KRAFTWERK] double, > triple and more messages) > To: kraftwerk(a)mailman.xmission.com > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hmmm, I found his name in the first Archived Digest of this list, it's from January 1993 ! (David Datta) > > Anyone who was on this list in 93 who's still lurking around here? > > Anyone who has the adress to the seachable version of the archive?, I I know there was one around a few years ago... > > Regards / Johan >

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Another reason
by ncentola 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Ok, just one more reason: I get this kind of message (see below) FOUR TIMES!!! Is it really necessary??? peace Nicolau > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:54:31 +0200 > From: "Der Automat" > Subject: [Kraftwerk] RE: Blue and black > To: "Kraftwerk.hu" , "Kraftwerk Mail List" > , "kraftwerkfanclub" > , "kraftwerkfans" > , "kraftwerkradioaktivitat" > , "ElectricCafe" > , "Kraftwerkpastpresent" > > Message-ID: <024401c39407$d5cefd20$d661a3d4@y5m9j9> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > In 1982 PolyGram label proposed the candidature of the second single by > the > > band Azul y Negro, "Me estoy volviendo loco", to the public open > competition > > of TVE (Spanish state television) for the theme tune of the Vuelta > ciclista > > a España (The Spanish cycling race equivalent to Tour de France) > summaries. > > Since then everybody unwittingly identifies the "Vuelta ciclista" with the > > Azul y Negro sound. The following year Kraftwerk were commissioned by the > > organizers to record a theme tune for the Tour de France. Some Spanish > > magazines said that the German band had copied the idea of Azul y Negro. > At > > least it is possible Kraftwerk did listen to the song and, in a way or > > another, it inspired them to make Tour de France; for example, breathings > > sounds are pretty similar in both tracks. Anyway, who knows?... > > In 1983 Azul y Negro's "No tengo tiempo (Con los dedos de una mano)" was > chosen again. Both > > singles were produced by musician and musical radio commentator Julian > Ruiz, > > a long-time Kraftwerk admirer. > > > Azul y Negro's official website http://www.azulynegro.com states that > PolyGram (Azul y Negro's label) sent a video on 'La Vuelta Ciclista a > España', with this tune ("Me estoy volviendo loco") as soundtrack, to > Kraftwerk and they got fascinated by the song. > > DER AUTOMAT > >

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YosepH man-machine
by Der Automat 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

The following is what New Musical Express has said about Luke Vibert's new album YosepH: "A joyful ode to the bubble and squelch.. A lucid smudging of primitive Chicago house with glistening Detroit electronics... Man and machine in perfect harmony" 8/10 (NME). -- unquoted. -- DER AUTOMAT

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KW in Bollywood
by MuzikJunky 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Has anyone here seen the film "Koi... Mil Gaya" (I Found Someone), which was released a few months ago? Besides it being the first Hindi-language sci-fi film (with 6 songs), the melody that the main character uses to send a message from Earth is a slight variation of "Trans-Europe Express"! I heard it, and at first I was like, "Why does this sound familiar?" then I realized what it was, and a shiver went down my spine. Weird, ain't it? Peace.

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Kw at Spanish TV station LaOtra
by Der Automat 19 Oct '03

19 Oct '03

To whom it may concern: Spanish TV programme 'Nos queda la musica' (We still have the music) will broadcast on Wednesday 22nd (1, 3, and 5 am, CET) the video of Showroom dummies by Señor Coconut y su conjunto. Besides, TV programme 'Central de sonidos' (Sound power station) will broadcast on Monday 20th (1, 3, and 5 am, CET) Kraftwerk's Tour de France video. LaOtra can be watching through Telemadrid Satellite channel. http://www.laotra.es jfernandezc(a)laotra.es lflores(a)telemadrid.es DER AUTOMAT

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