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Tour De France Soundtracks
Released: 2003 12 tracks
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...I've been listening to a lot of Kraftwerk lately while working at home and I'm loving every minute of it...formed in the late 60s, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter got together while attending music classes in Dusseldorf and formed their band which means "power station" in German...these cats started dropping electronic bombs way back in the 70s and had a tangential hand at forming the early hip-hop shite that Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force would start pumping... MORE
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Those of you who have written about your love for the bio-chemistry experiment known as the Tour De France might be interested to see a photo tour of the Trek bike factory. It's a fascinating tour of how high-tech bikes get made, with a lot of photos of Lance Armstrong's Tour bikes, plus that of Greg Le Monde. If this photo turns you on, you know where to click. PS: Just joking on the 'bio-chemistry' bit. The Tour has a long and noble history of tilting the odds in... MORE
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I don't think I've told anyone I like writing fan fiction. Let alone I haven't really written enough!! This time, it's a Kraftwerk fan fiction, aptly titled 'Trans-Europe Express'. Inspirations include the song with 'Metal on Metal', the band itself, wartime Eastern Europe, and the band's music. The main good guys, 8 in all, are a fairly eclectic lot but, I think they'll be alright... Trans-Europe Express - The Story I'm pretty psyched about the story. And for th... MORE
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...I've been checking a little Kraftwerk this morning while doing my thing and came across a cut that really gets the typing juices flowing: "Tour de France"...I'd mentioned in a Championship Mog entitled Hip Hop’s Brothers from Another Mother that the Duo from Düsseldorf had inspired Greg Broussard's Hip Hop classic "Egyptian Lover" and many other artists in the genre back in the 80s when collectives over in NYC had begun to dabble in the electronic milieu around that t... MORE
