Kraftwerk

...job with Kraftwerk's slimmer, yet no less influential body of work. It is a shame that the remastered campaign doesn't include the band's albums prior to 1974's groundbreaking Autobahn, because while they are undoubtedly inferior to...

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...we do actually play our instruments." Early on, their precocious talent was noticed by Kraftwerk producer Maxime Schmitt, and they were signed by EMI for the Virgin France label in October 2006. The release in France of their first album,...

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...TV performance to promote their Ralf und Florian album. On that show, he debuted the band's custom-built electronic percussion pads, and these feature heavily on the Autobahn album. A newly remastered and expanded edition of the album, was...

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...rival to EMI, in the UK. EMI Records picked up the English Columbia roster and signed new acts that would become global successes, such as Kraftwerk, Queen , Olivia Newton-John, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, Sheena Easton and Robbie Williams.

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...1981, which reached #36 in the UK charts. When radio DJs started playing the B-side, EMI re-issued the single in December 1981 - apparently against the band's wishes - with "The Model" as the A-side. It reached #1 in February 1982 and spent a...

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...and on the UK 12" of Pocket Calculator / Numbers. Kraftwerk re-recorded the song for their 1991 greatest hits compilation The Mix, where it was used as an extension of "Pocket Calculator". This segue was again used on their 2004 world tour,...

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...Schmitt - who had previously been manager of the Capitol label at Pathe-Marconi (part of the EMI group, the company that distributed Kraftwerk's music in France) and had been involved with the band since the mid-1970s. It was recorded by the...

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In the late 1970s Kraftwerk released its records on the label Kling Klang Schallplatten, which were licensed to and distributed by EMI Electrola in Germany and licensed to other EMI labels (most of the time) in other parts of the world.

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...by the English band, the Libertines. Their talent was recognised early on by Maxime Schmitt, producer of the German band Kraftwerk, and they were signed by EMI for the Virgin France label in October 2006. In addition to the Libertines, the...

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