On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Oystein Moe wrote:
But when the Sun god has the impertinence to utter:
I should have mentioned that I was relating second-hand information. The last time there was a large discussion of Komputer on this list, someone mentioned reading an interview with them in which they explicitly denied having been influenced by Kraftwerk. I had no reason to doubt, but perhaps I should have read the article myself. Thanks for providing new light on the matter. Can you verify that the members of Komputer were previously known as Fortran 5? This is another rumor I've heard. I highly enjoyed Fortran 5's album "Blues".
The World of Tomorrow is Highly Recommended. If you recognize a riff here and a chord change there, know that they want you to.
I have it. I consider all the tracks passable, and two or three of them are pretty good. I'm the last one to imply that a music ripoff is a bad thing; I greatly enjoy sampled and remixed music; it's the next best thing to the original, and sometimes even better. My beef with Komputer was that they had ripped off Kraftwerk and apparently denied any influence, thus commiting plagiarism - the bad kind of ripoff. -- /* Soleil */