Some of the best early work of German Krautfathers Can came from assorted soundtrack music they did; this track, the previously-unreleased "The Million Game" (MP3) was the theme to a 1971 TV show called Das Millionenspiel. It apparently existed in segments, puzzled together Frankenstein-like for the compilation Kraut! Bloody Rageous, which has been popping up on CD over the years piecing together some of the lesser known moments of the German 60s/70's underground (many of these tracks appeared on 90's LPs in a series called Prae-Kraut Pandemonium). If you're missing the better-known Can from your collection, hop to it, Mute has been issuing great sounding remasters of their entire catalogue in the last two years with a new batch just hitting now of some of the later period discs. I bought a lot of these on CD back when Restless was issuing them in the 1980's and the sound of the new batch is a hundred times better.
Secondly, here's an excerpt from a 1971 Bremen radio concert from Kraftwerk, "Heavy Metal Kids" (MP3) is a side of the band their present-day fans don't hear much, full on guitar and drums raging along.
Looking for a suitable cover art for Kraftwerk's "Heavy Metal Kids" for my iTunes database, I discovered an album called "Bond, Beat & Bass: The Elektronika James Bond Themes" http://doiop.com/Elektronika_Bond
Any chance you might feature elektronika MP3s alone that James Bond theme? Ple-e-ease.
Thanx!
Taro, in Tokyo at news.3yen.com
Posted by: Taro, in Tokyo | July 21, 2006 at 09:47 PM
hi,
any chance to listen to more of the kraftwerk bremen concert? as you say it's hard to come by really seldom different stuff, than we all know about today.
but thanks sofar
Posted by: hartmuto | July 24, 2006 at 11:22 AM
Brian. more Bremen 1971 please...or maybe a link where to obtain this gem!
Posted by: will | July 24, 2006 at 10:18 PM
here's more info on the kraftwerk:
http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities06/ARkwbremen.html
Posted by: helmut | July 26, 2006 at 10:33 PM