Album
Kraftwerk 2
1972 · Electronic
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Kraftwerk 2 is a Rock album by Kraftwerk, originally released in 1972. On Gatefold: 57 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.
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Kraftwerk 2 is the second studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released in January 1972. Kraftwerk 2 was entirely written and performed by founding Kraftwerk members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in late 1971, with the sessions produced by the influential Konrad "Conny" Plank. Hütter later said of the album's recording: "Nobody wanted to play with us because we did all kinds of strange things ... feedbacks and overtones and sounds and rhythm. No drummer wanted to work with us because we had these electronic gadget." Perhaps the least characteristic album of their output, it features no synthesizer, the instrumentation being largely electric guitar, bass guitar, flute and violin. The electronics on display generally belong to the realm of 1960s tape-based music more usually produced in academia, with heavy use of tape echo (for example the massed looping flute layers of "Strom"), and reverse and altered speed tape effect. Overall, the sound has a rather muted, twilit, dusky feel, similar in feel to "Megaherz" on Kraftwerk's debut album, as Hütter and Schneider explored the possibilities for electronic and auto-mechanical enhancement of their music. The lengthy, almost side-long "Klingklang" which opens the album is notable for its use of a preset organ beatbox to provide the percussion track. It starts with a clangourous Stockhausen-like metallic percussion montage and gives rise to the unmistakable Kraftwerk sound. Later, the song title also became the name of the band's own self-built studio, in Düsseldorf. "Atem" is a recording of breathing, while "Harmonika" features a tape-manipulated mouth organ. The cover design, credited to Ralf and Florian, further hints at a deliberate association with conceptual art, being a repeat of the first album's pop art design – except this time fluorescent green replaces the red and the number '2' is added. It was eventually released in the UK, combined with the first Kraftwerk album as a double LP package, by the Vertigo label in March 1973, more than a year after its German release in January 1972. .
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Performers
- Andreas HohmannDRUMS
- Florian SchneiderFLUTE , VIOLIN , GUITAR , TECHNICIAN , BELLS FLUTE , VIOLIN , GUITAR , ELECTRONICS , BELLS FLUTE , VIOLIN, GUITAR, EFFECTS , BELLS
- Klaus DingerDRUMS
- Ralf HütterORGAN , ELECTRIC PIANO , BASS, DRUM MACHINE , BELLS , HARMONICA ORGAN , ELECTRIC PIANO , BASS, ELECTRONIC DRUMS , BELLS , ACCORDION ORGAN , ELECTRIC PIANO , BASS, ELECTRONIC DRUMS , BELLS , HARMONICA
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