Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk

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Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk (1970)
XLD Rip | Flac (Tracks-4) Cue, Log, m3u, md5, st5, ffp | complete Artwork 300 dpi | 228 MB
Bootleg | Krautrock | 1970 | Germanofon | 941001
'Kraftwerk' is the first album by Kraftwerk. It was released in Germany in 1970, and produced by Konrad Conny Plank.

Hütter and Schneider used two drummers during the recording of the album; Andreas Hohmann and Klaus Dinger. Their playing provides the music with a rock edge. This proves to be quite distinct from Hütter and Schneider's previous band Organisation, or the following pair of Kraftwerk albums, Kraftwerk 2 and Ralf und Florian which were both recorded entirely as a duo by Hütter and Schneider. According to later interviews with Dinger, he plays on side two (Vom Himmel Hoch), while Hohmann plays on side one (Ruckzuck, Stratovarius), which was completed before Dinger joined the sessions.

The other instrumentation features Hütter on Hammond organ and a modified electric organ called a tubon (made by Swedish factory Joh Mustad AB), whilst Schneider supplied manipulated flute. The song Ruckzuck is driven by a powerful multi-dubbed flute riff, along with electric violin and guitar; these instruments often connected to further electronics via an Electronic Music Studios pitch-to-voltage converter.

The album tracks are all instrumentals, of which, Ruckzuck and Stratovarius are closest to a rock music approach in style. Ruckzuck has a tightly arranged opening section that includes a dramatic change of tempo, before an extended and largely percussive middle section, with an even faster reprise of the opening theme to end the piece. Following an extended drone opening played on keyboards, Stratovarius develops a scary organ intro as a looser succession of mainly guitar and drum based jams that build and break down.
Megaherz, a duet played by Hütter and Schneider, begins as a deep, rippling bass tone that steadily expands with electronic treatments to a discordant climax. Following this, there is a meditative middle section played with flute and keyboards, after which the piece closes with a series of wave-like crescendos of increasing intensity. Vom Himmel Hoch begins with distant-sounding drones that develop into Doppler effect sweeps as the keyboards begin to mimic the sound of falling bombs. Eventually, a very coarse rock groove emerges (triggered by the first beats of Dinger's drums), that quickens in tempo and, after a brief sonic interruption, reaches an explosive finale.

A colour video recording from WDR exists of a concert performance of Ruckzuck by Hütter and Schneider's previous band, Organisation, as well as another black and white recording of it being played by the Hütter/Schneider/Dinger line-up of Kraftwerk.

The cover design, credited to Ralf Hütter, is a curious nod to the influence of Andy Warhol and the then contemporary Pop Art movement, featuring a fluorescent-coloured traffic cone drawn in a Warhol-esque manner. The image on the inside of the gatefold sleeve is of a powerplant electricity substation (appropriately, as 'kraftwerk' means power station in German), photographed by Düsseldorf conceptualist artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their photographic Typologies series that celebrated the industrial and urban environment – and by extension, the society that built it – by showing multiple variations of ordinarily mundane building types. The smaller photos of the musicians were taken at the Essen Grugahalle Pop Blues Festival on May 2, 1970 when Hütter Schneider-Esleben were performing in proto-Kraftwerk band Organisation.


Guitarist Michael Rother joined the band after this album, and remarkably, around the same time Hütter actually left the band for a few months in 1971. The 3-piece Kraftwerk line up of Schneider, Dinger and Rother made a TV appearance on Radio Bremen TV show Beat-Club. After this, Dinger and Rother left to form revered band Neu!, with Hütter rejoining Schneider to continue Kraftwerk, both parties recording under the mentoring of Conny Plank.

No material from this album has been performed in the band's live set since the Autobahn tour of 1975, and to date, the album has not been officially reissued on compact disc. The band are seemingly reluctant to consider it a part of their canon – Schneider in later interviews referred to the first three Kraftwerk albums as archaeology.
However, pirated CD and vinyl pressings of the album have been widely available since the mid-1990s on the Germanofon and Crown labels.

Ruckzuck was used as the theme song for the defunct PBS show Newton's Apple in the United States. It was used without permission. Later episodes of the show feature an unknown cover version of the song.


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Tracklisting

1 Ruckzuck – 7:47
2 Stratovarius – 12:10
3 Megaherz – 9:30
4 Vom Himmel Hoch – 10:12


Credits

Ralf Hütter – organ, tubon; cover design
Florian Schneider-Esleben – flute, violin, percussion
Andreas Hohmann – drums on Ruckzuck and Stratovarius
Klaus Dinger – drums on Von Himmel Hoch
Konrad Conny Plank – sound engineer production
Klaus Löhmer – assistant sound engineer



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Kraftwerk / Kraftwerk

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