New Entry: Public Body Air "Pocket Calculator" (Kraftwerk Cover)

Brighton post punk/alt band Public Body have aired a lockdown cover of Kraftwerk's classic "Pocket Calculator".

Dedicated to Florian Schneider. Stream it below.

(facebook.com/publicbodyband)

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Watch Karl Bartos Shares "Atomium Video"

Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos has unveiled the video for "Atomium", the first single from his forthcoming new album 'Off the record' released worldwide on February 1st.

The song is part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.
Watch the video below.

Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos Announces Second Solo Album 'Off the Record'

Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos has announced that he will release his second solo album "Off the record" on March 18th via Bureau B.

The follow up to his 2003 album 'Communication', features 12 tracks that were taken from song ideas he wrote during Kraftwerk's heyday (he kept a secret acoustic diary and jotted down ideas while on the road).

Bartos is calling these tracks "iron crystal music," which refers to the iron crystal cell-shaped Atomium building that was built for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. This new form of music encompasses a bevy of sounds, specifically "vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch, techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms!".

Here's a first taste from Off The Record, the first track "Atomium":



Check the tracklisting for "Off The Record" below.

01. Atomium
02. Nachtfahrt
03. International Velvet
04. Without A Trace Of Emotion
05. The Binary Code
06. Musica Ex Machina
07. The Tuning Of The World
08. Instant Bayreuth
09. Vox Humana
10. Rhythmus
11. Silence
12. Hausmusik

For more on Karl Bartos visit his official website.

Kraftwerk Release Limited-Edition Box Set at New York's Museum of Modern Art

On April 10th, as part of Kraftwerk's eight-night retrospective New York museum residency this month, the band will release a limited-edition box set of all eight of their albums. 

2,000 copies of the set will be sold on the Museum of Modern Art's website, and at gift shops in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and MoMA/PS1 in Queens. It'll include remastered versions of the set released in 2009 (the massive reissue The Catalogue). It can be purchased at MoMA, as well as from their site. 

Kraftwerk will perform eight of their albums in chronological order in full, one for each night, starting with 1974's Autobahn.