The catalog

The catalog
Compilation album by Kraftwerk
Publication (s)	November 2009
Label (s)	Kling-Klang-Studio EMI Mute Astralwerk
Format (s)	CD sampler, LP sampler
Genre (s)	Electronic music
Title (number)	68
production	Ralf Hütter , Florian Schneider-Esleben , Fritz Hilpert , Henning Schmitz, Conny Plank
chronology Minimum-maximum (2005) The catalog 3-D The Catalog (2017)

Cover of the English version

The catalog is a summary of eight albums by the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk , which were released between 1974 and 2003. The sound of the albums was restored and digitally remastered. They appeared in the formats vinyl record and compact disk. The scrapbook was published in German and in English (The Catalog) in October 2009. In 2012, on the occasion of the 3D retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, a limited special edition of the English version was published in a black box. In addition, a German-language version of the black special edition was published at the end of 2012 on the occasion of the repetition of the retrospective in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen .

Emergence

The plans for an artistically revised compilation of the albums in CD format go back to 2004. The illustrations of the graphically slightly modified albums for the scrapbook were made public on the band's website in the catalogs department at that time. Originally, the title 12345678 was intended as eight albums were put together for a joint release. The release was planned for 2004, 30 years after the album Autobahn , but was repeatedly postponed.

“We've been digitally transferring all of Kraftwerk's original recordings and sound sources from our badly degrading master tapes while our engineers, Fritz and Henning, have been working in parallel to remaster our early albums for re-release. So for the first time, our recordings will be available in crisp, clear Kling Klang sound with all the fold-out covers and images our label at the time either messed up or wouldn't pay for. There will be some alternate mixes of tracks and some unedited versions, but unfortunately we don't have much unreleased material. We never recorded extra songs or twenty different versions of the same song. We would complete a song and then move forward, always keeping very focused on one Kling Klang project at a time. "

“We digitally transmitted all Kraftwerk original recordings and sound sources from our declining master tapes, while our engineers, Fritz and Henning, created remasters of the early albums for a release. So, for the first time, our recordings will be available in a fresh and clear Kling-Klang-Sound and with all the fold-out covers and pictures that our label either screwed up at the time or didn't want to pay for. There are some alternate mixes of tracks and some unedited versions, but unfortunately we don't have a lot of unreleased material. We never recorded extra songs or recorded twenty different versions of the same song. We completed a song and then continued with something new, always focusing on one sound-sound project. "

- Ralf Hütter : Interview with Tim Perlich, Now-Magazine, April 2004

reception

Tom Ewing from Pitchfork Media awarded 9.5 out of ten points. He wrote that Kraftwerk were one of the few bands that captured in their music what interacting with machines really felt like. By telling this story in its own context, The Catalog would do a great service to this remarkable talent.

Andy Kellman from Allmusic rated it 5 out of 5 stars. He describes the compilation as "a crucial and complex series for electronic music".

Included albums

1. Motorway (1974)
   1. Motorway (22:46)
   2. Comet Melody 1 (6:41)
   3. Comet Melody 2 (5:31)
   4. Midnight (3:45)
   5. Morning walk (4:02)
2. Radio Activity (1975)
   1. Geiger counter (1:07)
   2. Radioactivity (6:41)
   3. Radioland (5:51)
   4. Aether Waves (4:39)
   5. Send pause (0:39)
   6. News (1:17)
   7. The Voice of Energy (0:54)
   8. Antenna (3:42)
   9. Radio Stars (3:33)
   10. Uranium (1:27)
   11. Transistor (2:14)
   12. Ohm Sweet Ohm (5:38)
3. Trans Europe Express / Trans Europe Express (1977)
   1. Europe Endless (9:41)
   2. Hall of Mirrors (7:56)
   3. Mannequins (6:15)
   4. Trans Europa Express (6:35)
   5. Metal on metal (2:10)
   6. Trigger (4:53)
   7. Franz Schubert (4:26)
   8. Endless Endless (0:47)
4. The Man Machine / The Man-Machine (1978)
   1. The Robots (6:12)
   2. Spacelab (5:57)
   3. Metropolis (6:00 am)
   4. The Model (3:39)
   5. Neon light (8:55)
   6. The human machine (5:28)
5. Computerworld (1981)
   1. Computer World (5:06)
   2. Calculator (5:04)
   3. Numbers (3:20)
   4. Computer world 2 (3:10)
   5. Computer love (7:15)
   6. Home computer (6:19)
   7. It's More Fun To Compute (4:13)
6. Techno Pop (1986)
   1. Boing Boom Tschak (2:57)
   2. Techno Pop (7:41)
   3. Musique Non Stop (5:44)
   4. The phone call (3:50)
   5. House Phone (4:55)
   6. Sex object (6:51)
   7. Electric Cafe (4:16)
7. The Mix (1991)
   1. The Robots (8:53)
   2. Computer love (6:38)
   3. Calculator (4:33)
   4. Dentaku (3:26)
   5. Motorway (9:28)
   6. Radioactivity (6:53)
   7. Trans Europa Express (3:20)
   8. Deduction (2:18)
   9. Metal on metal (4:58)
   10. Home computer (8:02)
   11. Music Non Stop (6:41)
8. Tour de France (2003)
   1. Prologue (0:31)
   2. Tour De France Étape 1 (4:27)
   3. Tour De France Étape 2 (6:41)
   4. Tour De France Étape 3 (3:56)
   5. Chrono (3:19)
   6. Vitamin (8:09)
   7. Aerodynamics (5:04)
   8. Titanium (3:21)
   9. Electro cardiogram (5:16)
   10. La Forme (8:41)
   11. Regeneration (1:16)
   12. Tour De France (5:12)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release on Musikmarkt.de ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Pascal Bussy: Neon Light - The Kraftwerk Story . Bosworth Edition, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86543-037-6 . , P. 190
3. ↑ The catalog. In: www.kraftwerk.com. Retrieved August 13, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Kraftwerk Interviews. In: www.technopop-archive.com. Retrieved August 13, 2011 . 
5. ↑ www.pitchfork.com: Review of The Catalog by Tom Ewing
6. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Review of The Catalog by Andy Kellman (English)