I have Minimum Maxmium (I think that is what it is called) CD I play it a lot.
Yeah! That's the one. I have the DVD version and I also used to have the CDs (there were two, right?) but I gave the CD version to a friend whom I know to be a fellow Kraftwerk fan.
I'll have to dig out the DVD version and play it on the PC.
I have that live DVD they released a few years back ... I thought it was kinda funny how they just stand there doing nearly nothing at all ... I imagined that they were just playing co-op Doom.
Kraftwerk have always regarded themselves as "music engineers" rather than traditional musicians and in "The Robots" this is illustrated most clearly I think since there's no human on stage at all.
I was lucky to see one of their Minimum Maximum shows live and it was an absolutely stunning performance. Just like other electronic acts that I've seen (Orbital, Underworld) Kraftwerk do not perform their music live. The music and videos are pre-programmed but they improvise on that with mixing and applying effects on stage.
I remember listening to a BBC radio programme about Kraftwerk and im not sure which one of the band it is but one of them really hated the sound of there telephone ringing. So he removed the bell/ringer thing and if anyone wanted to phone him they had to do it bang on the hour as he'd pick it up once an hour, if there wasn't anyone talking on the other end hed hang up.
I remember listening to a BBC radio programme about Kraftwerk and im not sure which one of the band it is but one of them really hated the sound of there telephone ringing. So he removed the bell/ringer thing and if anyone wanted to phone him they had to do it bang on the hour as he'd pick it up once an hour, if there wasn't anyone talking on the other end hed hang up.
I suppose you would have to be weird to come up with the sounds they did.
Why did he not just replace the ringer with a light.
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Yeah! That's the one. I have the DVD version and I also used to have the CDs (there were two, right?) but I gave the CD version to a friend whom I know to be a fellow Kraftwerk fan.
I'll have to dig out the DVD version and play it on the PC.
I was lucky to see one of their Minimum Maximum shows live and it was an absolutely stunning performance. Just like other electronic acts that I've seen (Orbital, Underworld) Kraftwerk do not perform their music live. The music and videos are pre-programmed but they improvise on that with mixing and applying effects on stage.
I suppose you would have to be weird to come up with the sounds they did.
Why did he not just replace the ringer with a light.