[KRAFTWERK] KW 1 and 2

[Toby Frith]

I guess Matt referred to the Organisation LP. 
 
It'll be great to hear that trilogy remastered, especially the song "KlingKlang" which for me, is something of a lost masterpiece. 
 

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From: kraftwerk-bounces at activerecord.com [mailto:kraftwerk-bounces at activerecord.com]On Behalf Of Dirk Matten
Sent: 07 November 2007 10:25
To: kraftwerk at activerecord.com
Subject: Re: [KRAFTWERK] KW 1 and 2



Mr. Hütter promised that the 3(!) pre Autobahn albums will be released as remastered cd's after the Catalogue. 



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Gesendet: 07.11.07 10:59:18
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Hey,
 
LRC said:
 
I see if you lived in the US you'd be one of 
those folks preaching against birth control and 
advocating pre-marital abstenence/post-marital 
monogamy. Yes, probably the ideal, but HIGHLY unrealistic.
 
I live in South Africa and I'm one of those people. Music is hardly in the same league as
morals and murder. Just to let you know :-)

Glenn said:
 
Maybe, bying second hand original Philips/Vertigo LPs from that time ? ;-)
Or refrain from buying at all? Nobody as a "right" own/have/listen to all 
their music.

Nice thinking - please tell me where one would get them in South Africa, or other countries
for that matter. If you look at the likes of EIL, if you got an original - in comparison that
works out at a lot of money down here in Africa for example. Especially as prices have shot
up drastically in recent years. Call it GBP 20 for an LP - that is a few days worth of work in 
South Africa, or a month's work in Zimbabwe. Oh, not to forget the huge postage costs, and
anything over GBP10 value we also pay additional VAT (so 17.5% in the UK and then 
another 14% over and above) as customs duties. Also, places like here in Africa, they are 
still in the stage of getting rid of all their LPs and LP players, so the equipment is very hard 
to get, just to play them - let alone connect them to a PC and convert them. I have a few 
LPs of Kraftwerk that I got when I was in Holland and England, but no LP player. Also, as 
LPs are worthless here, they are not worth selling either (though when I go back to Europe, 
I will make a killing!). I actually reckon that I'm among the only people in Southern Africa 
who actually have Kraftwerk LPs, and then definitely the rarer ones at that...
 
Then here's a grey area - I have Exceller 8 and Elektro Kinetik. I didn't have the LP player
or means to convert, but I did get a chance to listen to them. I used my bootlegs, then
edited the songs to sound EXACTLY like the LP's edits. Now, am I a bad boy because I 
used CD bootlegs, or am I in the clear because I own the original LPs? And even if it were
bad, who could prove that I didn't just do a straight conversion?
 
I think Kraftwerk should just act like Neu! did in that although they didn't want to release
their stuff officially, they did anyway because of all the bootlegs. If KW were to release the
first 4 pre-Autobahn albums officially, nobody in their right mind would ever buy the bootleg
release. If you have GBP 15 to spend on an old KW album, do you buy the official one or 
the bootleg one? Hard choice... :-) I mean, even here in backward Africa, I can go to the 
nearest CD importer and get the Neu! albums officially, whereas before I had to rely on the
bootlegs I got some 9 years ago in Europe.
 
Cheers all,
Matt


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