Tour de France soundtracks
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August 4, 2003 |
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| Label (s) | Kling Klang , EMI , Astralwerk | |||
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CD, LP |
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12 |
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running time |
53:57 |
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Tour de France Soundtracks is the last Kraftwerk album to date from 2003. The soundtracked version published in 2009 as part of the Der Katalog project now bears only the title Tour de France , omitting the previous soundtrack .
Tour de France Soundtracks is the last Kraftwerk album with founding member Florian Schneider , who left the group in 2009.
admission
As early as 1983 (for the 80th birthday of the Tour de France bike race) Kraftwerk released a single called Tour de France (which was re-released in 1999). Kraftwerk founder Ralf Hütter and former member Karl Bartos are enthusiastic cyclists themselves. This single already anticipated the cover of the later album, which differed only in details from the single cover.
A new recording of the 1983 single Tour de France completes the Tour de France Soundtracks album , which was recorded for the 100th anniversary of the Tour de France . The publication date at the beginning of August 2003 was ultimately after the end of the 2003 tour , the last stage of which was on July 27th. At the time of publication, Tour de France Soundtracks was Kraftwerk's first album with new material in almost 17 years - the previous album Electric Café (aka Techno Pop ) was released in December 1986, while The Mix (1991) only included reinterpretations of old Kraftwerk pieces.
In contrast to many other Kraftwerk albums, Tour de France did not appear in different language versions. The lyrics of the album are written in German, English and French and come from Ralf Hütter and Maxime Schmitt. Schmitt was previously manager for Capitol Records at Pathé-Marconi (part of EMI and responsible for the distribution of Kraftwerk albums in France) and has been part of the group since the mid- 1970s .
The album was recorded in the Kling-Klang-Studio , which was still in Düsseldorf at the time , and the group consisted of Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and Henning Schmitz. Tour de France Soundtracks was the last Kraftwerk album with contributions from Schneider, who left the band in 2009.
The album is Kraftwerk's first and so far only number 1 album in Germany .
reception
Tour de France soundtracks received solid, if not outstanding, reviews. Allmusic gave the album four out of five, Pitchfork Media seven out of ten and Rolling Stone three out of five.
Track list
- Prologue - 0:31 ( Hütter , Schneider , Hilpert )
- Tour de France Étape 1 - 4:27 (Hütter, Schneider, Hilpert, Schmitt)
- Tour de France Étape 2 - 6:41 (Hütter, Schneider, Hilpert, Schmitt)
- Tour de France Étape 3 - 3:56 (Hütter, Schneider, Hilpert, Schmitt)
- Chrono - 3:19 (Hütter, Schneider, Hilpert, Schmitt)
- Vitamin - 8:09 (Hütter, Hilpert)
- Aéro Dynamic - 5:04 (Hütter, Schneider, Hilpert, Schmitt)
- Titanium - 3:21 (Hütter, Schneider, Hilpert, Schmitt)
- Electro cardiogram - 5:16 (Hütter, Hilpert)
- La Forme - 8:41 (Hütter, Schmitt)
- Regeneration - 1:16 (Hütter, Schmitt)
- Tour de France - 5:12 (Hütter, Schneider, Schmitt, Bartos )