I don't find Trans Am similar to Kraftwerk at all. In Trans Am you have those guitars soloing all the time. In these really elaborate, masturbatory, barroque ways.
And the guitar solo is possibly one of the symptoms of rock and roll decadence that Kraftwerk reacted against.
If you are interested in similar things (VERY similar, I must add) being done now you should look for 'Special Skool' a compilation of releases from the Invicta Hi-Fi label. Particularly Kraftwerkesque is 'He took her to a movie' by a band called Ladytron (formed by the owner of the label and hyped by the NME as the coolest band in the world). Also 'Dusseldorf Airport fur immer' by Funsize Lions, and a bunch of others in that same CD. Just read in their website (http://www.invictahifi.co.uk) that they've done a deal with Emperor Norton to distribute some of their releases in the U.S. At least Ladytron.
I have a question to make. Since at the time I wasn't into this kind of early electro pop, are there any groups contemporary to Kraftwerk doing similar things? Early Saint Etienne is really too sugary for my taste.
Cheers,
Manuel
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:18:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk-like
As an example of early electronic pop-rock (late
60s?), The Silver Apples are worth listening to. Two
guys, from NY: I believe they worked mostly with
oscillators and were guitar-free.
- --- mkg@calle22.com wrote:
> I have a question to make. Since at the time I
> wasn't into this kind of early electro pop, are
> there any groups contemporary to Kraftwerk doing
> similar things?
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:08:27 -0400
From: "m.ace" <ecam@voicenet.com>
Subject: (exotica) Philadelphia note - Big Mess show
Big Mess is performing this Friday and Saturday. Details below.
And there's a pretty nice review of their CD in the latest issue of "Cool &
Strange Music".
m.ace ecam@voicenet.com
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The Big Mess Cabaret Orchestra
"Ein Sommernachttopf"
(A Midsummer Chamberpot)
Friday and Saturday, June 23 and 24, 2000
The Trocadero, 10th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia
Tickets: $10 general admission and $15 for table seating ($20 day of show).
Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Trocadero box office, or by
calling 215-922-6888. This show is intended for grown-ups, so you must be
21 or over!
Info: 215-922-6888.
Experience a sensuous Philadelphia mid-summer night with the Big Mess
Cabaret! Over their first decade, they have transformed the holiday season
into an urban legend, made Halloween scary again, and happily fueled the
fires of both sides of the question, "Should vaudeville really be dead?"
Hosted by the incomparable Carlota Ttendant (Michael Byrne) and orchestra
leader Andy Bresnan, donÆt miss Big Mess' vaudevillian midsummer, featuring
their telling of "Pyramus and Thisbe", the usual bumper crop of off-kilter
musical numbers backed up by their 15-piece orchestra, and, of course, the
off-our-backs-and-onto-yours-striptease-auction, which benefits ActionAIDS.
Also featured will be sensational former Philadelphian Asimina Chremos and
her Big Mess Dancers, Paradox-the mouth of San Francisco, the Pig Iron
Theater, local bands Stinking Lizaveta, Butterfly Joe, She-haw, and Benny
and the Vildachayas, the Big Mess vaudevillians, a little fire breathing, a
few satyrs, a couple of fauns, and, of course, our usual cast of singers,
featuring Grace Flea, Magda Hood, Helen Back, Hedda Herr, Little Mikey, and
the vocal backing of Three Dicks and a Jane. And donÆt miss your chance to
audition to be the next Buon Giorno Twin! (Details to follow.) There will
also be the bands Brothers Suggarillo and Swisher playing during the
intermissions at the Balcony Bar upstairs at the Trocadero.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:53:03 +0200
From: Moritz R <webmaster@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kraftwerk-like
mkg@calle22.com wrote:
> I have a question to make. Since at the time I wasn't into this kind of early electro pop, are there any groups contemporary to Kraftwerk doing similar things?
The most similar one that I know is by nobody less than Giorgio Moroder, who in 1974 did his album "Einzelganger", which reminds me very much of Kraftwerk's Autobahn of the same year. I have mentioned this record so often in this list that I'm in danger of qualifying as a Moroder fan one day, but that would go too far. But I don't think Neu! or Harmonia or any of these bands were so close to this sound in 1974 as Moroder and Kraftwerk are here.
Mo
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