K R A F T WE R K

Announce new streaming & download titles available from July 3 on Parlophone Records

Dolby Atmos® mix of 3-D The Catalogue/Der Katalog streaming on Tidal & Amazon HD

Original German versions of 5 studio albums available to stream & download worldwide for the very first time

3-D The Catalogue + 3-D Der Katalog

Dolby Atmos / HD surround mix - released on Amazon HD & Tidal

3-D The Catalogue + 3-D Der Katalog

2017 stereo digital release - all language versions now available worldwide

Original Studio Albums

German language versions now available digitally in all territories worldwide

Having already created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century, Kraftwerk have announced a range of ‘first time on digital’ releases being made available to the world from July 3. They include the stunning Dolby Atmos/HD Surround mix of the Grammy Award-winning 2017 audio/video documentary 3-D The Catalogue which will now be available to stream for the first time through Amazon HD and Tidal. Simultaneously, the stereo version of 3-D Der Katalog (the German-language edition of 3-D The Catalogue) will be made available worldwide.

In addition to the two 3-D The Catalogue releases, the original German language versions of 5 Kraftwerk studio albums will also be available to stream and download worldwide. This is the first time they have been made available globally, as they were only previously accessible in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The albums are Trans Europa Express, Die Mensch-Maschine, Computerwelt, Techno Pop and The Mix. Autobahn, Radio-Activity/Radio-Activität and Tour De France all have just one recording each available worldwide.

Hearing the albums in Kraftwerk’s native tongue brings a further dimension to these exceptional recordings, the vocabulary providing a different flow to their English counterparts. For some Kraftwerk fans, the German version of the Computer World/Computerwelt album is the definitive recording, the same can arguably be applied to iconic tracks such as ‘Showroom Dummies’, ‘Trans Europe Express’, ‘The Model’, ‘The Robots’ and ‘The Man-Machine’. Now everyone in the world can make their own judgement and join the debate, the joy of it all is simply that they are out there and available to stream and download.

Kraftwerk Digital Titles Available July 3: 3-D The Catalogue + 3-D Der Katalog

Kraftwerk’s 3D document presented in Dolby Atmos / HD surround mix - released on Amazon HD and Tidal

3-D The Catalogue + 3-D Der Katalog

2017 stereo digital release - both language editions now available worldwide

Original Studio Albums

German language versions now available digitally in all territories worldwide (Audio for Autobahn/Radio-Activity/Tour De France is identical)

Autobahn
Radio-Activity / Radio-Activität
Trans Europe Express / Trans Europa Express The Man-Machine / Die Mensch-Maschine Computer World / Computerwelt
Techno Pop
The Mix
Tour De France

KRAFTWERK

The multi-media project Kraftwerk was started in Düsseldorf, Germany 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums.

Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century. AUTOBAHN 1974, RADIOACTIVITY 1975, TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS 1977, THE MAN-MACHINE 1978, COMPUTER WORLD 1981, TECHNO POP 1986, THE MIX 1991, TOUR DE FRANCE 2003. 

Their compositions, using innovative techniques, electronic sounds and synthetic voices combined with computerised rhythms, had a major musical influence on Electro, Hip Hop, Techno and Synth-Pop. In 2014, Kraftwerk founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider were honoured with the "Lifetime Achievement" Grammy Award.

In recent years and under the direction of Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk has presented their immersive 3-D The Catalogue 12345678 live show through festivals and art museums, which began with a performance at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Their first retrospective was held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2012, followed by a further presentation at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen in Düsseldorf in January 2013. Since then, the group have taken The Catalogue 12345678 show through Tate Modern Turbine Hall (London), Akasaka Blitz (Tokyo), Opera House (Sydney), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), Neue National Galerie (Berlin) and Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao).

In 2018, Kraftwerk won the Grammy for “Best Dance/Electronic Album” for "3-D The Catalogue 12345678", a complete 3D Audio and Video retrospective of their albums.

In July 2018, working with the European Space Agency, Kraftwerk hosted a live satellite link-up with German astronaut Alexander Gerst on board the International Space Station, where he joined Kraftwerk from space in a performance of ‘Spacelab’ from their legendary 1978 album ‘The Man-Machine’.

For their hi-tech live performances, Kraftwerk – Ralf Hütter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert, Falk Grieffenhagen – illustrate their belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine.

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