The Mix (Kraftwerk album)
Occupation
- Ralf Hütter
- Florian Schneider
- Fritz Hilpert
- Fernando Abrantes
The Mix is a book published in 1991 studio album by the German band Kraftwerk. It consists of a selection of songs that were originally already appeared on previous albums by Kraftwerk and have been re- arranged and recorded. The album was released in a German and an English version.
Genesis
In the late 1980s, it was relatively quiet around the power plant. The last regular studio album Electric Café was released in 1986. Digital technology had found its way into the music production and the DIY computer from power plant did not look more contemporary. The band began therefore to bring their Kling Klang Studio on the date and to digitize their old music. While working on the remix CD Karl Bartos left the group to start the project Elektric Music. For him, Fernando Abrantes joined the band.
The album was recorded in an English and a German version on 11 June 1991 in Cast Hütter - published Abrantes - Schneider - Hilpert. As a producer Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter are given. A credit for " Music Data Mix" Fritz Hilpert has. The fourth band member Fernando Abrantes is shown in the centerfold of the album. The album was tailored to the international dance market and contained remixes known Kraftwerk songs, the English version also contained texts in English. The group itself understood the album as " Kling Klang Studio Live Album " because they saw the studio as an instrument and remixing saw as a kind of a "live " performance.
Title list
It appeared several versions of the album, tailored inter alia as double LP, especially for the DJ market. The track list is therefore based on the CD version. The English titles are given in parentheses.
The songs "Trans Europe Express ", " deduction " and " Metal on Metal" are contiguous, recorded without any break in between, as well as in the 1977 released album "Trans Europe Express" was the case. The song " Radioactivity" has been greatly modified by the impressions of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
A revised version was published on 30 October 2009 as a single CD and 6 November in the box, the catalog, the eight CDs with the band's history included. However, larger differences from the original publication can not be ascertained.
Singles
As a harbinger of the album, a remix version was published by The Robot ( The Mix Version). The English-language publication on June 1, 1991 reached number 20 on the UK Singles Charts and stayed a total of four weeks in the UK Top 40
The second single was released Radioactivity, which placed itself at number 43 on the British charts.
Chart success
The album reached # 27 in the Swiss, Austrian and number 12 in the space 15 in the British charts.
Others
- In the song "Trans Europe Express" the vocals point missing " We run into Dusseldorf City, and meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie ."