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A picture is worth a thousand words: This picture summarizes my musical tastes better than any words.For those of you who like Kraftwerk, I have uploaded this drawing which was published by the French mag Nova Magazine, in September 2002. I hope Tunenut and all the other Kraftwerk fans will appreciate.
I have looked at this poster many times, because it's nailed on my wall near my bedroom, and I keep finding good inspiration for new music purchases. I found the scan when cleaning up my hard disc, so I figured this would be a cool picture for those who like Kraftwerk. If you would like a higher resolution version, send me an eMail.
This is the kind of music I wish we would get in high resolution multichannel.
Enjoy,
Eric
Follow Ups:
I like perhaps 80% of the music in that chart (I probably own stuff by as many), but I think hi-rez is just overkill for that.why?
Most of that stuff is overprocessed, bad quality electronics and some done on really lo-fi equipment. The later stuff especially has almost no dynamic range and is clipped/distorted/compressed very badly.
Why do we need hi-resolution audiot for that?
Properly compressed multi-channel DD should be more than enough and play back on all gear while still providing any possible artistic benefits of multichannel.
The stuff that really begs for hi-res is the music that has huge dynamic range, lots of ambience cues and natural textures/tonality which we are very good at evaluating as human sound processor. IMHO, of course.
Don't get me wrong though. I'd buy a lot of stuff from that chart on DVD-A/DVD-V/SACD if the price was right :)
Great stuff! Funnily enough I bought 'Tour De France' on 180gm vinyl the other day - so wonderful on vinyl but imagine it on multichannel?!
For my money if the On U label descended on DVDa it'll change my life forever. Let alone Laswell et all............
and of course Material, ESG, etc. I love On-U and I had a lot of their vinyl singles. Surprisingly, David Toop is not on the chart, even though he did lots of work both with the Flying Lizards and in a number of crossover recordings.I think there's probably an opportunity to re-issue a lot of the 1980s stuff like On-U sound, Celluloid Records, Siren Records, etc which are not really getting good CD editions. The ROIR label (which was only available on cassettes, but there were many other cassette labels at the time) probably has some excellent and rare analog material as well.
All the small independent labels should realize now that they can release their back catalog as DVD-Audio titles :)
Best
Eric
if a bit messy...areas to explore certainly on this chart, but also there are some holes. Beach Boys for sure...fun fun fun on the autobahn...and the first electronic rock group ever, United States of America. And certainly Alexander Balanescu should be on here, whose string quartet released a CD of mostly Kraftwerk covers. Depeche Mode, probably the most Krafwerkian of 80s bands. But if you try to make this more complete, it'll turn into a room-size chart. Thanks.
tunenut,I think the chart is very Euro-centric, and many important US artists are missing (USA, Sly & The Family Stone, etc). Some artists which were big on the punk-post-punk scene (like Metal Urbain, Marie et les Garçons, etc) many will not ring a bell in other countries. So in a way it's similar to the famous New Yorker poster, where the world revolves around NY.
I just don't know about Depeche Mode, I think while some of their remixes were on the experimental side (most notably the Enjoy the Silence EP), all in all DM used electronic influences to build very melodic pop, with a strong human interest focus. While I love most of their stuff, and consider them to be one of the greatest pop bands in activity, I am not sure they fit in there.
Anyway, you're right, the Beach Boys were a major influence on them, and that leads to the Flaming Lips :)
Best
Eric
This is definitely going up in my listening room. Thanks!
when either the MPAA or the RIAA police bring a lawsuit against you for downloading copyrighted material and--to boot--distributing it over the web!Glad you live in France--out of reach of the U.S. thought control police.
all the best, townsend
Im printing this and putting it up on my wall. Thanks for the work and saving me the effort :)Theres a few things there I dont know, but also a few things you've missed.
Things I know you've heard but forgot to include
------------------------------------------------Cluster with a "K"
Faust
Terry Riley
Steve Reich
Philip Glass ("In the upper room", "Einstein on the beach")
Joy Division (how could you list New Order instead ?)Should have been on there, if you havn't heard them.. buy them this weekend.
Things that are missing, and I see no links into
------------------------------------------------People Like Us
The Evolution Control Committe
(Check out the entire plunderphonics scene and also outsider music.)
Morton Subotnik
John Coltrane
Eric Dolphy
Mingus
(I know theyre well known names, but its great music)
Dead Kenedys
Pere Ubu
The CleanI guarantee youll like every one of the above.
Daniel.
SnaggS,I didn't do the poster myself, it was published in Nova magazine. I have thought about adding some names, but it's pretty crowded already :)
Terry Riley and Steve Reich are in there, at about 10:00
Philip Glass should definitely be in there, in fact I thought it was.
If you go that route, there's a lot of artists missingRe: Joy Division => I think the Kraftwerk influence is more obvious on New Order, and after all, Joy Division as such published only one album and a few singles, so... that takes you to a whole different avenue.
Obviously many names are missing (Pere Ubu could have been near Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Skidoo, etc), and other German bands like DAF, die Krupps, Einstürzende Neubaten, etc. The "Angst Rock" connection (Chrome etc) is missing, and the entire US "new wave" (Gary Numan, Talking Heads, etc... is missing as well.
I think the chart tries to connect Kraftwerk to the current electronica and dance scene, more than the roots.
Dead Kennedys I like, but I don't really feel they are connected to the same movement (like Black Flag, etc).
*** PS. Id be very interested in what your listening to atm.*** In electronica, I am very mellow at the moment, just some soft stuff like Pole, Swayzak, or even pop (the new Air album) and very cool jazz, but more and more R&B (doing a mega sampler of my 40 or so James Brown albums, and next on my list is Barry White, lol :)
This summer I will do a New Order project, with their 12" maxi-singles.Thanks for the suggestions, I'll definitely check out some of the names you mention.
Cheers
Umm, Blue Monday.
These guys just never let german neu wave die! They are unappologetic for have many songs which sound just last kraftwerk.http://www.welle-e.de/
I don't know those guys, so I'll check them out."Komputer" is another Kraftwerk-inspired band, very well produced (the track "Bill Gates" is fun :)
Cheers
directly a tribute to Kraftwerk, is the band Kraftwelt, but I got one of their CDs and don't think much of it.
and he just happened to like Kraftwerk the most. I didn't realise they were supposed to have some link to Kraftwerk to be on the chart.I just double checked my suggestions, and theyre all no brainers, except the Dolphy, for which you want to be in a free jazz mood, or at least a jazz phase. Some of the albums are more accessible than others.
If you like Electronic, get Morton Subotnik, "Silver Apples for the Moon", it will blow your mind.
2 albums - unknown pleasures and closer. still, substance, etc were the collections, but both of those were the studio albums. and the kraftwerk influence is more noticeable on new order, but ian curtis once brought kraftwerk records into a joy division practice session and told the band "this is the future, this is what we should do." and the influence can be heard in the keyboards, especially 'isolation.'
I forgot the first album, sorry. I didn't know about the Kraftwerk influence on Joy Div, I'll have to check out Isolation on that angle. To me, the real influence started with the New Order single Everything's Gone Green, but I may be wrong.Best
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