KRAFTWERK – BIRMINGHAM & BRISTOL 1991 DIGI2CD

After the recently offered (and very well sold) Depeche Mode- and Cure ‘bootlegs’, Germany’s biggest label for ‘unauthorized’ CDs strikes again… It looks like this time they are a bit more careful though, and wrote ‘Top music U.K.’ as label on the back.

Kraftwerk should be the most boring live band ever – four, oldish, unanimated German men standing in a row behind their black, faceless synth workstations – yet in reality, they deliver some of the most exciting live multimedia experiences to be had. They are one of the most interesting artists in the history of popular music. In the early 1970s they invented a whole new genre of music which was completely forward looking – there was no impersonating their idols and no expectations about how this music should sound. With instrumentation which consisted purely of synthesisers, they pioneered the “sequenced” synthesiser allowing for mechanically precise rhythms. This double disc set contains two legendary concerts from Birminham and Bristol, recorded in 1991 for broadcast.

TRACKS CD1 ‘Birmingham’: 01 Intro 02 Numbers 03 Computer World 04 It's more Fun to Compute / Home Computer 05 Computer Love 06 The Model 07 Tour de France 08 Autobahn 09 Radioactivity 10 Trans-Europe Express 11 Pocket Calculator

TRACKS CD2 ‘Bristol’: 01 The Robots 02 Musique Non-Stop 03 Numbers/Computer World 04 Metropolis 05 The Model 06 Computer Love 07 Pocket Calculator 08 Radioactivity 09 Neon Lights 10 Hall of Mirrors 11 Showroom Dummies Running Time: 122:00 min.