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My first purchased CD as a teenager, back in 1991, when music actually cost a lot of money: Kraftwerk - The Mix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mix_(Kraftwe
by tpmx 7y ago
My first purchased CD as a teenager, back in 1991, when music actually cost a lot of money: Kraftwerk - The Mix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mix_(Kraftwerk_album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mix_(Kraftwerk_album)
There is so much genius on this particular album. Critics weren't happy, but to me it was just perfection.
- parenthesis 7y agoI also bought that album on CD as a teenager. It had a massive impact on me in terms of opening my mind to possibilities of musical structure in `popular' music other than song form (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, etc.). Of course there is jazz form (head, solos on same form, head) and disco 12" form (the song, the dubbed out section, the reprise). And Kraftwerk's structures have a lot in common with the latter. But there is an incredible perfection and tightness (despite the extended durations) of form on all the tracks on that album.
- tpmx 7y ago> But there is an incredible perfection and tightness (despite the extended durations) of form on all the tracks on that album. Exactly. I think the reviewers just didn't get the whole concept.. just redoing old tracks, in a better way. It's kind of the software way of life (v1, v2, etc - you keep iterating, by default). It's also similar to how Mike Oldfield keeps working on variations of Tubular bells, and they do keep getting more and more interesting.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoStraight out of the German classical tradition, updated with industrial minimalism.
- astrostl 7y agoSoundtrack to my life. Probably listened hundreds of times!