Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum (2004)

Today's Full Live Performance, a whopping two hours of Kraftwerk Live, recorded and filmed on their Minimum Maximum Tour in 2004. The Lords of Übercool and Synthesis look pretty abstract throughout.

Minimum-Maximum is the first official live album release by Kraftwerk, released in June 2005, almost 35 years after the group gave their first live performance. It features two CDs and tracks recorded on their world tour during 2004, including concerts in Warsaw, Moscow, Berlin, London, Budapest, Tallinn, Riga, Tokyo and San Francisco.


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Like many of their studio albums, Minimum-Maximum was released in two different language versions: the band's native German, and English for the international market. However, of the 23 tracks on the album, only the recordings of "The Model", "Radioactivity", "Trans-Europe Express" / "Metal on Metal", "Computer World", "Pocket Calculator" and "The Robots" are actually different between the releases. The album title, an excerpt from the lyrics of the song "Elektro-Kardiogramm" (which only exists in an English-language version), is the same for both German and English versions.

In an interview for Mojo Magazine, Ralf Hütter regretted the fact that they could not include recordings from their 2004 concert in Santiago de Chile:

"We have great recordings from Santiago, Chile, but couldn't incorporate them into Minimum-Maximum because we'd already mixed the album," says Ralf. "The Chileans were the only audience in the world who clap in time, in perfect synchronisation."

The album was also released as a double live concert DVD with DTS 5.1 sound on 5 December 2005.

The track "Planet of Visions", is a reworked version of the song "Expo 2000", based on a 2001 remix by Underground Resistance.

The vocoder text "Sellafield 2" at the start of "Radioactivity" / "Radioaktivität" is included for the first time on the CD and DVD set. The intro vocoder text before "The Man-Machine" / "Die Mensch-Maschine" is included only on the DVD release.

Minimum-Maximum was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2006.

Tracklisting:
01. The Man-Machine (Karl Bartos, Florian Schneider, Ralf Hütter) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa
02. Planet of Visions (Fritz Hilpert, Hütter,Florian Schneider) Ljubljana, Križanke
03. Tour de France (Étape 1) (Hilpert, Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall
04. Chrono (Hilpert, Hütter, Schneider, Schmitt) Riga, Olimpiska Hall
05. Tour de France (Étape 2) (Hilpert, Hütter, Schmitt, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall
06. Vitamin (Hilpert, Hütter) Moscow, Lushniki
07. Tour de France (Bartos, Hütter, Schmitt, Schneider) Paris, Le Grand Rex
08. Autobahn (Hütter, Schneider, Emil Schult) Berlin, Tempodrom
09. The Model (Bartos, Hütter, Schult) London, Brixton Academy
10. Neon Lights (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) London, Royal Festival Hall
11. Radioactivity (Hütter, Schneider, Schult) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa
12. Trans Europe Express (Hütter, Schult) Budapest, Sportarena
13. Metal on Metal (Hütter) Budapest, Sportarena
14. Numbers (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) San Francisco, The Warfield
15. Computer World (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Moscow, Lushniki
16. Home Computer (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa
17. Pocket Calculator (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Moscow, Lushniki
18. Dentaku (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Tokyo, Shibuya Ax
19. The Robots (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Moscow, Lushniki
20. Elektro Kardiogramm (Hilpert, Hütter) Tallinn, Exhibition Hall
21. Aéro Dynamik (Hilpert, Hütter, Schneider, Schmitt) Riga, Olimpiska Hall
22. Music Non Stop (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Moscow, Lushniki

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