Music Montag: Kraftwerk Kover Kollection by DJ Food
by James Glazebrook
Tomorrow Kraftwerk start a week-long retrospective series at MoMA in New York, performing one seminal album each night, backed by 3D visualisation. Now I know they are from Düsseldorf, not Berlin BUT: we can reach them by der Autobahn and everyone everywhere has been influenced by the Men Machines – Berlin’s electronic musicians included.
Proving this point (the second point, not the Autobahn thing) is Ninja Tune’s DJ Food, who for six years running compiled hour-long mixes of cover versions, sample-heavy tracks or songs that obviously owe a debt to the Düsseldorf quartet. Check out Food’s website for more infectious fanboy-ism (including his own artwork for the mixes) or listen via the players below, as he seamlessly blends the Werk of David Byrne, Erasure, Whitney Houston, Jay-Z and Rammstein(!). Kling Klang!
[…] 27th November, or lose yourself in this trippy mix of the early electronica that inspires them. Kraftwerk […]
Definitely some very good stuff in here, notable 43 – 50 minites on Kovers 5, should press up a cd pack for these as the cover art is great fun. Exceptionally wide use of sampling overall the whole “set” creates the air of relaxation and down time that the bank does whilst keeping you captivated in the most basic of musical ideas. the voice overs create a story through out.. nice piece of work.
Nice! Will definitely be giving these lovely looking mixes a listen. Thanks for pointing them out.