Holger Czukay put an all-nighter show at Liquid Room a few years ago and it was quite nice. If only there were not so many people smoking there... (sorry Alin)

Hawkwind puts all that stuff to shame!

That's nothing. I've been listening to the extended remix of 4'33" since last night.

1. works even better with TEE on the chuo honsen as at some undefinable point you take a sweet, eternal, diagonal line of transcendence from the chris-b-esque concrete nightmare into the ricefields.

that's more late Kraftwerk, no?

Kraftwerk I is good for grooving to locally-produced PBS children's television.

The thing you have to remember about TEE is that the futuristic train (which looks a lot like the shinkansen) was introduced in 1957, when Kraftwerk's core members would have been about 10 years old. They then immortalized it in music when they were men approaching 30, perfectly evoking, 20 years later, the excitement of a 10 year-old.

You betcha

Now this is what i call civilized dialectics: thesis anthitesis synthesis

Great: we all agree about Germany.

Whoohoo! I merit an "esque" now!

Momus: thats sounds very truthy, lets agree to believe it.

the carsten nicolai and ryuichi sakamoto ぐっすりクリニク last Sunday at cc lemon hall.

80bucks well spent

Na dann,
Ruckzuck weg vom Computer,
an die Kopfhörer,
und von Deutschland träumen.

denk ich an Deutschland in der nacht
bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht...

gets a whole new meaning here.

thank you from düsseldorf.

Ten-year-olds excited about going to meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie?

Oh come on, they sound totally dead-pan bored about that. The exitement -- all the dramatic tension -- is in the chorus, the chant of "Trans Europ Express"!

..gibberdy goo..
gets a whole new meaning here.

I'll say!

Carola, please send me all of your country's records.
James Last, first.
Then the old Neu--if you Can.
Already got all the MPS on MP3.

Carola - can you get me some early Kluster from your garage? I'll take aiffs over wavs if possible.

come on and get it...
(up in them guts)

The excitement is in the machines, man.

If you guys aren't familiar with Xhol Caravan you should check em out, maybe too jazzy for a lot of folks but, I dunno, something about the recording quality and the horn section reminds me of old Motown records, which is an odd but rewarding mix with the more Can-like psych/prog elements.
One thing I dig about Kraftwerk is how guys like Juan Atkins and Afrika Bambaataa mutated this kind of heady and sterile music into early electro, which became the beat of choice for breakdancing, something very human. That ersatz 10-yr old enthusiasm eventually translated into something real 10-yr olds could get hyped about!

Its barely beleivable how few germans have actually heard(even the self styled alternative ones)this amazing music, excepting kraftwerk of course. As a Berlin based public player of music(dj-aaagh)who often gives Cann Faust, Neu and many others a spin, is amazing how often mostly germans approach me and enquire as to the makers of this music and after i tell them(if i tell them)they then proceed to ask me "pray tell from where and whence doth this music cometh", followed by shock and awe that it was homegrown.

Saul: My old German roommate stole my copy of Tago Mago.