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2 DISC SET,PROMO DIGIPACK FROM HOLLAND
Kraftwerk's vision of a keyboard-driven world of clicking metronomic rhythms and digitized sound bites may have been the stuff of avant fantasy in the 1970s (the decade that saw the band's first groundbreaking albums), but it is commonplace reality in the 2000s. This is true not only in popular contemporary music (nearly all branches of hip hop and electronica bear Kraftwerk's influence), but in the computer-dominated society in which we live. In this way, time has finally caught up to Kraftwerk.
This sense of arrival marks the 2004 live album MINIMUM-MAXIMUM. The two-disc set captures Kraftwerk in action (well, as much action as you get from four men stoically manning laptops), and acts as a career retrospective. Aside from the cheers from the audience, there isn't much "live energy" here (Kraftwerk might just as easily have played a pre-recorded DAT of the performance), but the music sounds as crisp, fully realized, and dazzling as ever.
Track listing
DISC 1:
1. Man-Machine, The
2. Planet of Visions
3. Tour de France Etape 1
4. Chrono
5. Tour de France Etape 2
6. Vitamin - (German)
7. Tour de France - (French)
8. Autobahn - (German)
9. Model, The - (German)
10. Neon Lights - (German)
DISC 2:
1. Radioactivity - (German)
2. Trans Europe Express - (German)
3. Metal on Metal
4. Numbers
5. Computer World
6. Home Computer
7. Pocket Calculator
8. Dentaku - (Japanese)
9. Robots, The
10. Elektro Kardiogramm
11. Aero Dynamik - (German)
12. Music Non Stop
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