[KRAFTWERK] "Tribal" and "Tango"

[Klaus Zaepke]

aj <ajmal.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> during I've been surfing the net I came across this page
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/aktivitaet/1998.htm
> here it is said that during their tour-1998 Kraftwerk played two new
> songs (called in the article "Tango" and "Tribal"), which hadn't been
> released by the moment the page's creation
> I wonder if anybody here had heared these songs. also, were they ever
> officially released?

This is a bit complicated to answer, as German copyright law 
makes a difference between "veroeffentlichen" and "erscheinen". 
"Veroeffentlichen" means the release of a piece by making it 
available to the public. 
"Erscheinen" means the publication of a piece by bringing multiple 
copies into circulation.
Hence these pieces were officially released in the sense of 
"veroeffentlichen", since they were performed in concert, but they 
weren't officially published on records etc.


"Nicolau Centola" <centola.nicolau at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, they never named this song as Tango. If someone have any 
> official statement for that, please let us know.

In setlists for the June 1998 concerts it was listed as 
"Airwave (Tango)", as far as I remember.

   Klaus Zaepke