VA - 8-Bit Operators, The Music Of Kraftwerk [2007]

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VA - 8-Bit Operators, The Music Of Kraftwerk [2007]

8-Bit Operators,The Music of Kraftwerk was released in 2007 by the group 8-Bit Operators on Kraftwerk's US label Astralwerks and EMI Records worldwide. It features cover versions of Kraftwerk songs by several prominent chiptune artists. 

In March 2007, the CD release reached as high as number 1 on the CMJ RPM (North American college Electronic) charts.

Inspiration for the project as quoted by Jeremy Kolosine (credited as Executive Producer of the release, and noted founder of the early 80's electronic group Futurisk and chipmusic band Receptors.) "Well the first thing that comes to my mind when I saw a gameboy show was Kraftwerk's Computer World Tour from 1981, where four of them played various handheld devices during the song 'Pocket Calculator'. Plus it came up in a print from a Glomag quote, and an 8 Bit Weapon April Fool's joke that backfired."

This Kraftwerk covers compilation was somewhat unusual in the fact that Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter selected the final track line-up.

In a subsequent interview, when asked about the 8-Bit Operators release, Ralf Hütter responded: "It is mind stimulating, the minimum/maximum coming from sound levels and thoughts and ideas. Like Autobahn and Trans-Europe Express are very basic and elementary ideas, but they offer a pattern or concept for improvisation." (Wikipedia)

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Track list

01 Bacalao - The Robots (Die Roboter) 3:29

02 Glomag - Pocket Calculator 3:54

03 Covox - Computer Love 3:40

04 Role Model - Showroom Dummies 3:59

05 Nullsleep - The Model 3:57

06 David E. Sugar - Radioactivity 4:12

07 Oliver Wittchow - Kristallo 4:22

08 Spacelab - 8 Bit Weapon 4:54

09 Firestarter - Computer World (Computerwelt) 4:26

10 Neotericz - Electric Café 4:03

11 Receptors - Trans Europe Express 4:02

12 Herbert Weixelbaum - Tanzmusik 3:58

13 Bubblyfish - It's More Fun To Compute 3:52

14 Bit Shifter - Antenna 3:48

15 Gwem & Counter Reset - The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) 4:06

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