★★★★★
Amazing 1975 live performances from these kraut-rock originators playing tracks from their Ralf und Florian and Autobahn LPs immediately prior to and during their very first North AmBerican tour. Clear white vinyl in a clear PVC sleeve with blue lettering pressed in a limited edition of 500 copies.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2013-08-06
★★★★★
Rare early Kraftwerk, now for the first time on double vinyl LP. Recorded live at the Gondel Kino (Gondola Cinema) in Bremen, Germany on 25 June 1971 (except for 'Interzone' recorded on the TV program Beat-Club on 22 May 1971), with a rare trio line-up of Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger (soon to be of Neu!)...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Sound: Why in the world would someone write a review on Ultimate Guitar about a band that doesn't have a guitar player and only plays synthesizers? Well, why not? I mean there tabs of their songs on here. Really, Kraftwerk's music has inspired countless band like New Order and Depeche Mode to name a couple. And I believe David Bowie moved to Berlin just to be around this sort of music and was inspired to make "Low" cause of bands like Kraftwerk...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Kraftwerk is a snake eating its own tail. This oft-cited German four-piece (particularly as they relate to electroclash - electrowhat? - and contemporary electronic artists), noted for stark, minimalist synthesizer music, formed in 1969, pre-dating modern techno by a good 20 years though embodying many of the same cold, repetitious and frequently challenging characteristics...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The first time I heard Kraftwerk it was like a scorch of hot metal, a bolt of white light to the mind. I was 16, an indie girl from an industrial town, an unlikely target for machine music made by four men from Düsseldorf. Chris, my best friend and partner-in-crime in small-town escapism, had come round as usual on a damp Friday night, with four cans of Fosters that would go straight to our heads, and some dusty CDs he had bought with his pocket money...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
A live record of four Germans on keyboards doesn't sound particularly enticing any way you dress it up - a double CD as excruciating as last orders being called early. However, Kraftwerk have continued to defy logic for over 30 years, and 'Minimum-Maximum' is as complete and satisfying a live album as you are likely to hear.The 22 tracks lifted from Kraftwerk's 2004 world tour are clear, direct electronic gems...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
One of the most interesting features of this career-spanning, double-disc live album is that it makes these technophilic early pioneers of robo-electro sound more human. Tracks are taken from many different points around the globe on their 2004 tour (retaining the boisterous Berlin version of their hit Autobahn was a bit of deft selecting), and include playfully reworked classics like The Model and Radioactivity sitting comfortably beside the newer Tour de France forays...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
You already know Kraftwerk, of course. That's right, the robot guys. Techno pop and "fahren, fahren, fahren on the autobahn". Even if you've never heard the music, you'll know the image: four implacable, identical robots lined up behind banks of computers. Given that this career retrospective box set has been some six years in development, you could be forgiven for thinking that it might play with that image a little. Maybe show another side of the band with unreleased material...
- www.clashmusic.com
2010-10-12
★★★★★
Kraftwerk are a band trapped in the vast frame of their apparent influence. Aptly for a group so fascinated by travel they enjoy an image as the ultimate electronic pioneers-- "the reason music sounds like it does today," as one BBC documentary put it. Let's take for granted then that it's impossible to imagine modern pop music without Kraftwerk and try a more interesting thought experiment: Let's try to imagine Kraftwerk without modern pop...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
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