With the postings that have appeared here in the last two days concerning
Kraftwerk, I am surprised no one has mentioned the news featured in the Nov.
30th issue of Melody Maker... Of course it makes sense that no one who
listens to IDM would ever even THINK of picking up anything of lesser hip
status than Jockey Slut from their local record shops. Here's the skinny:
"Kraftwerk are strongly tipped to release a new LP in the first half
of next year. The seminal Krautrock band have been in the studio in
Dusseldorf working on material over the past few months though their
record label, EMI, says there is no firm release date. The bands last
release was "The Mix", a compilation album of old material remixed by
contemporary producers."
Well, well, well... are Ralf & Florian ready to move it all to the next level?
Funny little things about this news. First of all, they own their own studio,
Kling Klang, and according to statements from the band, are there quite
often there working. So unless they said to EMI, "Ve Haff zum new material
to release, ja", this could be just silly speculation. Secondly, MM got the
info wrong about "The Mix". It was a remix album, but all the remixes were
the bands own! They had digitized all their analogue tapes and remixed it
all themselves. There was a single of "Radioactivity", with remixes by
Francois Kevorkian and William Orbit, but these mixes were not on the album.
Jockey Slut would never have made such a grave error in their reporting!
I hope this is for real, and I hope the boys have been listening to whats
been going on out there... though I think for them to put out a drums & bass
record would be totally wack. Let Photek and Roni Size handle the remixes
this time!!!
Dave Egan
sumac@tiac.net
"echo's alot of fun if you know how to use it use it..." -Yom Tucker
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