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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have always enjoyed the album 'Electric Cafe' of which this one is to replaced, with its original title re-instated back to Techno Pop. To me the sound is a bit compressed and loud compared to the original Cd, but the strangest thing is this 'so called extra track', at least on the artwork that is what there appears to be, but not really! For some crazy reason Kraftwerk have replaced the original 'The Telephone Call' with I think the A and B side singles: The Telephone Call/Home Phone - 'Home Phone' is just a different remixed version of the second half of 'The Telephone Call' clever marketing maybe, but IMO the original Telephone Call is great the way it is and these single edits should have been saved for a Singles/Greatest Hits/Rarities type compilation, sound issues aside it is still nice to have the single mixes available at the mo on Cd, so if you already have 'Electric Cafe' keep it or seek out a 2nd hand copy if you don't have it, don't buy this to replace the original 'Electric Cafe' Cd/Album because The Telephone Call is nowhere near as good on 'Techno Pop' as the original album version and is totally different IMO.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
i remember buying the vinyl in 86.it was slated by the press and fans alike.i thought it was the most impressive thing i had heard.from the opening boing boom tschak,to the brilliant electric cafe it has it all.sound is impressive like all the kraftwerk re-releases,sounds ive never heard from the album or previous cd releases are apparent here.however the change of name and inclusion of a benign track(house phone)are sadly a bit of meglomania on hutters part.well worth buying though.still sounds great in todays music enviroment and will never date,or maybe sex object will,lol.as i couldnt stop laughing how dated it did sound.all in all a great album,short and to the point.long live the robots!
6 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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A five year absence,and endless permutations of new material result in the over-worked, but supreme "Electric Cafe" - now retitled as "Techno Pop" ; lacking a major concept, it instead took a thematic swipe at a world where the promise of the Man/Machine/ComputerWorld had become true, and where do you go from there? The reality was fast catching up with Kraftwerk's far advanced ideas, and the dilemma was, when you have spend so long being futuristic, what do you do when the future finally catches up with you? Side one, as was, is a fluid, single song that tackles the nature of music, the industrial world, and the soundtrack to life that is machines. Echoing "Trans Europe Express", keyboards replicated the clank of machine parts and showed the sound and msuic of the rhythm of modern life. "Music Non Stop" was the lead single, a slight but intruiging nursery rhyme that has become a staple of Kraftwerk's live set. Given the last minute change of mind, it is also the first song where the video was completed two years before the song was finalised. Side two is less obvious, taking in the only Bartos-sung Kraftwerk number - the sublime, Model-esque "Telephone Call", and then dealing for side two with the relationship man has with his other humans in the machine age. Superb, and no mid-career lag.
This remaster is an elegant step forward in sonic remastering - however the original album recording of "The Telephone Call" is replaced by the rr-recorded and re-mixed single version and it's b-side "House Phone" for no apparent reason.
The phrase 'Techno Beatles' is seriously errant : whereas The Beatles were inventive, wrote songs, and hopped off to communes, Kraftwerk were far more disciplined - they invented not just a genre, that of 'Techno Pop', but also a unique musical language that exists today - where simple was never stupid, where child-like wonder was not childish, where the strength of the work was reflected in a sonic pristine clarity, where melodies were uncomplicated, variant, and reflected the finest traditions of classic music, that is, interconnecting and interweaving themes and motifs, and where the sound itself was created using unique, home made sounds where the band were musical scientists exploring the hypothesis of sound
This remaster is an elegant step forward in sonic remastering - however the original album recording of "The Telephone Call" is replaced by the rr-recorded and re-mixed single version and it's b-side "House Phone" for no apparent reason.
The phrase 'Techno Beatles' is seriously errant : whereas The Beatles were inventive, wrote songs, and hopped off to communes, Kraftwerk were far more disciplined - they invented not just a genre, that of 'Techno Pop', but also a unique musical language that exists today - where simple was never stupid, where child-like wonder was not childish, where the strength of the work was reflected in a sonic pristine clarity, where melodies were uncomplicated, variant, and reflected the finest traditions of classic music, that is, interconnecting and interweaving themes and motifs, and where the sound itself was created using unique, home made sounds where the band were musical scientists exploring the hypothesis of sound
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