In search for an old Kraftwerk Reason Refill I´ve lost…
… I came across this intriguing and inspiring site.
Some years ago I had quite a nice Kraftwerk refill that I lost in transfer between laptops 
and searching through the old sources I soon realized that refill was nowhere to be found, but to my great surpirise I came acroos the original author again and actually managed to download some of those refills again and being such a nice person I of course would like to share it with all of you guys 
Take a look at this Kraftwerk/Apple/Widgets/VST multimedia artist and enjoy…
Equipment used by Kraftwerk
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ]
Found this nice site today that shows a pretty detailed list of the equipments used by Kraftwerk on their albums and on their gigs / world tours.
Maybe some inspiration for some of view
Personally I´m quite intrigued by the vocoders used
Here are some of the questions they answer:
Spacesynth
Excellent resource for Spacesynth
Spacesynth, synthdance, spacedance, spacedisco or whatever you want to call it is instrumental upbeat synth music that focuses on melodies instead of rhythm. Driving basslines, catchy synth riffs, sci-fi influences and futuristic track titles and album covers have always been a major part of spacesynth.
Spacesynth originated in the mid 80’s. At that time synthesizers and electronic sounds had become an essential part of popular music and were widely used by such artists as Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Art of Noise. Synthpop hits like Magnetic Fields 2, Pulstar and Magic Fly are well known tracks even today.
Protonic Storm is a synthdance project by Krzysztof Radomski. The creator of Protonic Storm lives in Kowary, Poland. He’s the first synthdance artist from Poland who has released music abroad! Krzysztof has been making music since 1997, mainly synthdance, but sometimes also psychedelic trance and ambient. At first he put some of his tracks to traxinspace.com, then to sites like Spacesynth.de (formerly known as Laserdance.de) and finally MP3.com.
Resources
Epsilon Pages, www.epsilonpages.net
Audio Objekt – Laugh or Cry or perhaps Smart?
It sure is a good laugh
Sorry for those of you who do not understand Swedish, but I have also heard that these guys are getting assitance from Ralf Hutter on their next album
Go for it guys
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPUlR3QraE]
Exciting or horrible with AndOne
Normally these attempts are horrible, LOL
“Bodypop 1 1/2” is the newest release from And One featuring a string of covers. According to singer Steve Naghavi the choice for this EP was made when he noticed that today’s scene youth has no idea of the essential anthems from “our good, old musical heroes”. As a result the band covered classics by Depeche Mode (“Never Let Me Down Again”), Front 242 (“Operating Tracks”), D.A.F (“Der Mussolini”), Nitzer Ebb (“I Give to You”) and The Cure (“Kyoto Song”). The band also added two more live cover versions on top next to a bonus video clip for “Steine sind Steine”. Released on Out Of Line and available from December 14th, 2007 on. Recommended! Tracklist:
Never let me Down Again
Operating Tracks
Der Mussolini
I Give To You
Kyoto Song
The Walk (live)
Fools (live)
CD –Rom Track �Steine Sind Steine” Video
And of course as usual an AndOne video to enjoy – spice up your day
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hhVWXAPjY]
As happy I am about Laibach…
…playing at ElectiXmas as cheezy I think it is to enroll OneTwo. OneTwo, who are close buddies with Erasure, still fall into that category of bands that does not have a unique style and expression, more than perhaps that they have a female singer (which is quite uncommon in the electro community).
Well I will still attend the event and definately so after Laibach came onboard however I will probably have a beer when OneTwo are playing – some kind of ugly mix of Erasure, Enigma and Kraftwerk look-a-like telephone calls – judging from their homepage at Myspace, hehe
Check everything out here:
And yes of course I give you LAIBACHHHHHHHH !!!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zSRcFxZVAA]
Cheers
Kraftwerk => Karl Bartos => Drummer boy
Need help with your percussions, why not be inspired by the masters and get yourself a real electro beat, LOL or perhaps not…
15 DUETS FOR SNARE DRUM
Between the records “TOUR DE FRANCE” (1984) and “ELECTRIC CAFE” (1986) work at the Kling Klang Studio – being a classically-trained percussionist he tied in with his studies at the Robert Schumann institute and started to compose several pieces for percussion instruments. In 1990 the “Fifteen exercises for two snare drums” were released by the renown publisher Zimmermann in Frankfurt, appearing in the series DUO FOR PERCUSSION.
These intermediate duets for snare drum contain fifteen studies, which include the use of frequent dynamic changes, all standard meters, embellishments, and rolls of varying duration.
Karl Bartos: “The purpose of this text is to provide the intermediate student with practical duets which will aid in developing the rhythmic discipline necessary for ensemble playing.”
DATAMASKIN
