I have to admit Im really happy with the recognition Kraftwerk are getting in the serious music press over the last couple of years. I was working it out in my head the other day that I have followed them for about 23 years which is a very frightening statistic. I Always remembered them from the 'Tour De France' record onwards but I discovered the Computer World album in about late 88, it was so out of context with what I was liseting to at that time. It had frequencies of electronics that no other record of the time had. I mean at that time there was alot of good house and dance records of that time, but the computer World album was to me was such a complete peice of music which all sort of merged into one. Almost like a electronic concept album, actually I think all their albums from Autobahn to Computer World were based around concepts.
What I find fascinating is a band that strives for studio prefection, wouldnt it be great to sort of hear almost all their album in demo form and what about tracks that didnt make it. It would be fascianting to hear. I see on the Internet their is a file called Led Zeppelin -Outakes'. That features alternative tracks and studio mixes, if only one existed for Kraftwerk
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