...Micki and most of my trusteds already know that I'm all over "*Kraftwerk's body of electronica*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/36263 ...I like to check them when I'm writing pieces or kicking it around the house, like right now...I don't know how those guys found all of that e-funkiness inside their oscillators but maybe I don't really need to...right now I'm kicking back with a little The Man Machine (Mensch Machine, in their native Germany) and everything's in the right place (!!!)...I'm specifically vibing on the cut "Spacelab" but there's other hot tracks on here to like "The Model", for instance...if you've ever seen the film The Big Lebowski, you'll see that the fictional German Electronica band (Nagelbett) used their look from this LP's cover...it's hard to believe that they dropped this back in 1978, which feels like eons before I'd heard of Devo's "Whip It" or Stereolab (who copped the beginning of this tune for a cut on , I wanna say, Instant O in the Universe but it could be on Cobra and Phases Group...this joint is a sweet reminder that the electronica that the rock bands we trip out over now utilize (and early hip hop) came from a good place...if you start the mp3 player and then, 20 seconds later, click on this MBSS light display from YouTube (which is silent) you"ll get a spectacular little show...
mktackabery says
i'll have to do this back at home tonight Crash because i can't do the mp3s at work, but how cool . . . always good to be reminded of the geniuses of our time. thanks.
CrashPryor says
...yeah, do that...when the idea of cross-pollinating visuals with this sound entered my mind, I stumbled across those MBSS feeds and put 1 + 1 together...if you start the video right at :20 seconds they mesh quite nicely...enjoy...
CrashPryor says
@ kat: cool, glad you dug it as much as I did putting it together
@scotfree: BONUS! anything I can do to help you guys STICK IT TO THE MAN...
@dale: hells yeah...like, space out (finger snaps all around)
@kate: now, to get something to synch with Dark Side of the Moon...
@CooP: always loved those bongos on the TV show's theme song...
mickimicki says
Nice.... the only problem is, this so reminds me of the original 70s vinyl album of Kraftwerk's Computerwelt I bought a while ago (for more than 30 bucks)... it was the last album I played the morning I took off for LA... it was still on the decks when some evildoers broke into my flat and stole them....
...ANOTHER EPISODE OF MOURNING....
OK. Cool song, cool vid! Consoling that my people of anal technocrats and potential mass murderers also brings forth musical visionaries, once in a while ;-)
Oh shit. I'm in negativeland... never mind me...
CrashPryor says
and don't forget, Micki, one of you guys came up with the "*hair perm*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Nessler ...think of a happy place!
@Mmccormick: yeah, criminal...it's good to go back and find stuff like these guys waiting for you...
Cody B says
I always find it fun and funny that 2 Live Crew and the whole Miami Bass music sound came from Kraftwerk. Also funny is how early hip hop DJ's really championed them. Even though we all share so much information these days it seems like back in the day people were more accepting to different sounds and cross-pollinating(mash ups notwithstanding). I'm sure that's just me..Thank you for this,Chris.
fistula spume says
Love that album and especially that track. I picked it up on vinyl for $5 brand new 5 years ago. I think they reissued their catalog on vinyl for cheap at some point. Can't forget an obvious influence which is Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock". Excellent use of "Trans-Europe Express". Love your mix of a light show with a track. Totally fit.
leftoverking says
i read and article in tape op magazine with henry from kraftwerk a while a go. i think they are putting out some new music, and some remixes soon. good stuff as allways crash.
juepucta says
Here's another source for tha 71 boot (with part of what would becoe Neu): http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities06/ARkwbremen.html
And the poster above me is right, it is a great concert. Stoner-motorik or something.
-G.
...Micki and most of my trusteds already know that I'm all over "*Kraftwerk's body of electronica*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/36263 ...I like to check them when I'm writing pieces or kicking it around the house, like right now...I don't know how those guys found all of that e-funkiness inside their oscillators but maybe I don't really need to...right now I'm kicking back with a little The Man Machine (Mensch Machine, in their native Germany) and everything's in the right place (!!!)...I'm specifically vibing on the cut "Spacelab" but there's other hot tracks on here to like "The Model", for instance...if you've ever seen the film The Big Lebowski, you'll see that the fictional German Electronica band (Nagelbett) used their look from this LP's cover...it's hard to believe that they dropped this back in 1978, which feels like eons before I'd heard of Devo's "Whip It" or Stereolab (who copped the beginning of this tune for a cut on , I wanna say, Instant O in the Universe but it could be on Cobra and Phases Group...this joint is a sweet reminder that the electronica that the rock bands we trip out over now utilize (and early hip hop) came from a good place...if you start the mp3 player and then, 20 seconds later, click on this MBSS light display from YouTube (which is silent) you"ll get a spectacular little show...
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