45. Kraftwerk- Mimimum Maximum


It was a strange year for this renowned reclusive force in electronic music- seeing original members Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider reviving the band, including Fritz Hilper and Henning Schmitz for the tour, playing festivals and many individual gigs, bringing their robot revolutionary theory to a new level- four men behind desks with laptops, quietly clicking a mouse and so unleashing some of the most divine music upon the adoring masses. Mimimum Maximum, the document from that amazing tour doesn't bring any new material but a hi-tec regurging of their greatest hits. Interesting is the hybridisation of The Robots and Radioactivity, which in recent past had been readapted to technolike tunes, courtesy of their 1991 remix-compilation The Mix, but reemerge here with parts of their original sound integrated to their more modern transformation. As live-albums go perhaps not the most necessary of releases and this entry is indeed a shameless admission of nostalgia but also an unashamed admission of how good this music still sounds after 30 plus years, when Autobahn was released.