Electric Café
Occupation
- Ralf Hütter - vocals, vocoder, keyboards, mixing,
- Florian Schneider - vocoder
- Karl Bartos - Electronic Drums
- Henning Schmitz, Joachim Dehmann - Audio engineering
- Fred Maher, Bill Miranda - dubbing
- François Kevorkian, Ron St. Germian - mix
- Bob Ludwig - Mastering
Electric Café is a music album by the German band Kraftwerk, released in late 1986 and was renamed in 2009 as part of a re-release campaign of Kraftwerk in "Techno Pop ".
History
On the album Kraftwerk has worked for half a decade. With the production was started immediately after the publication of the previous album Computer World. At this time, production was still under the working title Technicolor and had to be changed for copyright reasons in Techno Pop. At this time was the tracklisting of the album as follows:
Preliminary title of the Tour de France was published in 1983 as a single, which was commercially with little success. Shortly after this release Ralf Hütter suffered a serious bicycle accident which interrupted the continuity of the entire project for a long time. The record company EMI, stood at the power plant under contract had, however, already announced the release of the album under the title of Techno Pop. Even the record covers had already been made .
Only in 1985 was the work of Techno Pop will continue. The band was dissatisfied with the result of previous work. It has been argued that the album can not meet the high quality requirements of the band. The album was therefore completely revised and published on 16 December 1986 under the title Electric Café. The song Tour de France was not reflected in the revision and served instead in 2003 as a working basis for the so far last Kraftwerk album Tour de France Soundtracks. Electric Café appeared in three language versions in English, German and Spanish. The Spanish language version only appeared in a limited edition.
The title Musique non-stop and the phone call was released as a single from the album, both of which were not very successful. However, the music video for Musique non-stop, the computer- animated heads of power plant became known shows. This technique was in 1986 still very expensive.
Was published in 2009 Electric Café as part of an overall publication of the work of a power plant sounded out-dated version. The title of the album, however, was changed again to Techno Pop. Also the track listing was changed: the song The telephone call was replaced by a shorter version of the same song and extended to a version called House Phone.
Title List 1986
A-side
B-side
The entire A- side of the album is instrumental maintained - apart from a number of sampled, spoken phrases. The A-side is divided into three songs, the songs with no discernible separation into each other and also cite each other. For example, a melody from Musique Non-Stop in the title is used Techno Pop.
The B- side, however, contains three clearly separated tracks, including the song The phone call, the only song by Kraftwerk at all, in which Karl Bartos took over the vocals. Finished is the album with the title song Electric Café, which contains French text.
Title List 2009
A-side
B-side