The Mix

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And look, I’m not gonna rip this album a new one or anything since it is still the same old good Kraftwerk songs but done in a far more boring and drawn out way, but I just don’t give a shit about this.

It has entirely re-arranged and re-recorded versions of a selection of songs which had originally appeared on Kraftwerk's albums Autobahn (1974) to Electric Café (1986).It was released on 11 June 1991 by Kling Klang and EMI in Europe and by Elektra Records in North America. I was pleased to find that, although the extended remixes smack more of the early 90s period (with all the acid synth bass and drum machine blip-blops one might expect) in which they were created rather than the 70s era which people tend to remember them for, the tunes I remembered still survived fairly intact and the CD fulfilled its purpose of making me want to hear more, if in the music's original form next time. During this period, the band was converting the Kling Klang studio to digital, transferring its sound library from 24-track analogue tape to disc, which factored into the album's creation. While that does sound like a side-project on paper, Kraftwerk very much treated this album like a mainline event, making the promo sound like it was a completely new original album and touring it like every other project as well. Because of licensing restrictions imposed by Warner Music Group, this version has only been made available in the US and Canada as a part of The Catalogue box set.

citation needed] The versions of songs on The Mix subsequently became staples of the band's live set. The prolonged production period for the album led band members Wolfgang Flür and, later, Bartos to leave the group, before its release. Probably the weirdest entry into their discography, and that includes their more unfocused early material, The Mix has Kraftwerk beef up some of their old classics with new arrangements and more pumping rhythms. The level difference stays like this for the rest of side 1 and repeats on side 2 during the "Dentaku" section of "Taschenrechner".Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term.

Most of the songs featured on their set list from this point to the present time have been heavily rearranged in a similar fashion to what appears on the album. Accept the 90s twist for what it is and settle in for an hour or so of synthesizer heaven next time you're stuck on the M1 - or, indeed, the autobahn. It also acts as a strong sampler of Kraftwerk’s music, akin to a “greatest hits” compilation, but with much more effort in its creation. Synth Pop was popular in the 80's and while Kraftwerk followed that trend then (that they originally helped inspire), in 1991, Dance music was more popular and here they follow that trend instead.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Inspired by the publicity for the band's recent concerts in London, I decided it was time to take a chance, so I went for 'The Mix' as the nearest there is to a sampler.

The only one I liked even a little bit was ‘Computer Love’ and even then, that was more of just a ‘wow this song is good’ instead of a ‘wow they really recreated this track with such nuanced changes that I can definitively say I’d relisten to this version’. Fernando Abrantes is shown as fourth member in one the booklet photographs while being actually recruited for touring. Computer Love: Much like The Robots, the most noticeable addition here is a new synth riff in the accompaniment that adds to the danceability of the track.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The Mix was created entirely digitally, albeit during a period when the technology had yet to reach its maturity, and thus featured a sound which many listeners tend to find somewhat "sterile" compared to the analogue electronics employed on most of Kraftwerk's previous recordings of these songs. a revised history of the band, throbbingly danceable and one of the best party records of the past decade .