simply beautiful.

Holy crap, that is amazing.

Do you guys have anything else that sounds like these guys?

I love it, please post more groups with a similar sound, thanks.

I have owned this disc since the year it came out. There is simply nothing that rises to this level- The Kraftwerk covers are indeed fantastic. However, the Balanescu composed track 'No Time Before Time' will bring tears to your eyes (if you will let them come), it is so beautiful!...Headphones on , eyes closed, volume up- if this track doesn't touch you you aren't alive. Thanks for reminding me of music that reminds me why I love music so much...

on the less beautiful side, Rammstein did a cover called "das model" which holds its own as well. so this got me thinking: who can come up with the most obscure cover of this tune?

I downloaded this track, thinking that it was pretty cool to have an orchestrated version of some kraftwerk songs. But the more I listen to these two covers the more I'm convinced these are better than the originals. This is some seriously killer music. Curse the impending holiday season and my innability to buy things for myself before x-mas. Santa, I want this cd.

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Kraftwerk Covers and Tributes

COVERS & CLONES

*''KARL & WOLFGANG: former members solo projects

*''YAMO "Time Pie"
*''1997, Cleopatra records

*''Wolfgang Flür has released his first solo album "Time Pie" by YAMO.
Its musical style has definitely evoluated to modern music, which is
less "electronic" and minimalist and more melodic ambient techno with
complex rythms. The compositions are very interesting and beautiful.
This successful debut album shows the real talent of Wolfgang
Flür.

rating: *****

*''ELEKTRIC MUSIC "Esperanto"

Karl Bartos has released a solo album "Esperanto" in 1993, in
collaboration with Andy McCluskey from OMD and with Emil Schult. The
project was signed "ELEKTRIC MUSIC". To my personal opinion this album
lacks of originality, it just sounds like Kraftwerk mixed by OMD.

rating: **

*''TRANCEWERK EXPRESS "vol I & II"

*''This a tribute to Kraftwerk from some rather unknown techno
musicians. The original songs are turned to classic techno with simple
rythms, many acid TB-303 sounds and also vocoded voices. Interesting
interpretations, some of these covers are even very good but in my
opinion the whole potential wasn't expored.

rating: ***

*''BALANESCU QUARTET "Possessed"
official home page

*''This string quartet performs five of Kraftwerk songs in very
interesting way and still close to original tunes. Imagine violins make
the sounds of cars on "Autobahn"...

rating: ****

*''TERRE THAEMLITZ "Die Roboter Rubato"

This album features only piano interpretations of Kraftwerk songs. In
fact it's more a new "avant-garde" music album inspired by Kraftwerk
rather than simple covers of their songs. Sounds strange and completely
different from the original, but still some interpretations are
amazing!

rating: ***

*''MUSIQUE NON STOP - A Tribute to Kraftwerk
1998 TOSHIBA / EMI (TOCT 10455)

*''A rather funny japanese tribute. Some songs sound totally different
and really surprising. Good ideas inside, but the production is quite
poor and that's a bit disappointing. Click for a preview...

rating: **

*''TRANS SLOVENIA EXPRESS

*''A tribute compilation by Slovenian artists, leaded by Laibach. There
seem to be completely different interpretations of the original songs.
I haven't heard it personally, so no rating here.

*''KRAFTY MOVE
*''ENERGY REKORDS (ERCD111)

*''As far as I know this is a 2CD tribute to Kraftwerk by various
electronic artists such as Apoptygma Berzerk. Must be interesting
although I've heard people say it was a bit disappointing.

*''OMD "Sugar Tax"

*''Features a cover of "Neon Lights". Cool version in a very OMD style.
However for me it's the only good song of that album.

*''CLONES

*''DOPPLEREFFEKT "Gesamtkunstwerk"
*''1999, DeeJay Gigolo Records

*''This fake german band comes from Detroit. It plays with the image of
Kraftwerk making a parody of an other kind than "Komputer" does, with
some humor and direct references to KW. Here "The Model" becomes a
pornostar, a showroom dummy (mannequin) becomes a Sex-Object and phones
are cellular. The music itself sounds very Werky, really cool
listening. I made available a sample song Plastiphila in mp3.

rating: *****

*''KRAFTWELT "Electric Dimension"
*''1996, Cleopatra/Hypnotic Records

*''A band from Danemark who's name clearly claims a devotion to Ralf &
Florian. Their album "Electric Dimension", though inspired by
Kraftwerk, is a very personal work, with nice and achieved
compositions. The style is electronic of course, but pretty ambient
with light percussions and really cool sounds. Could be compared to
Orbital, FSOL or the recent Yamo album.

rating: ****

*''KOMPUTER "World of Tomorrow"
*''1997, Mute Records [more infos]

*''This english band is a pure musical clone of Kraftwerk. Every song
from their album is similar to any of well known Kraftwerk songs. It
could be called a parody, but the songs itself are quite well produced
and have a good feeling. I think it's an interesting stuff for any
Kraftwerk fan, yet they cannot be really compared with "masters".

rating: ***

*''SPACELAB
more infos
*''
*''This band from Sweden seems to have produced some songs directly
inspired by Kraftwerk. Also the band's name is a title of a Kraftwerk
song. Unfortunately I haven't heard to their stuff so no rating
here.

*''Copyright © 1997-1998 by Timour Jgenti

ARTIST: Balanescu Quartet
ALBUM: Possessed
DATE: 1992
This CD contains renditions of The Robots, The Model, Autobahn,
Computer Love and Pocket Calculator done with classical instruments.
They sound surprisingly good. Luca Dassi informs me that they performed
The Model live and that there is a video for their rendition of this
song.

*''ARTIST: Big Black
According to a Scott Woods article in Eye magazine (Toronto), this
artist once covered The Model.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: The Cardigans
ALBUM: For What it's Worth
Contains a cover of Das Model.
THANKS TO: Mark J Stagg.

*''ARTIST: Lloyd Cole
Apparently did a live cover of Pocket Calculator at a concert in New
York once. It was later included in a boxed set of live and bootleg
stuff that Lloyd collected.
THANKS TO: Arnaud de Bonald.

*''ARTIST: Dance Robots
Have done a cover of The Model.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: Data Bank
ALBUM: Nuclear Winter (v/a compilation, Subtronic Records)
DATE: 1995
This group performed a cover of Radioactivity that ended up on this
nuclear protest album.
THANKS TO: Der Automat.

*''ARTIST: Daybehavior

*''ALBUM: Hello!
Contains a cover of Tour de France.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: Derivando
ALBUM: Duemila e oltre
DATE: March 5, 1999 (Milano 2000 label)
This Italian group has a cover of Computer Love on this compilation.

*''ARTIST: DJ Dero
TRACK: La Modelo
This track is a cover of The Model.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: The Divine Comedy
ALBUM: National Express
DATE: 1999
This album contains a cover of Radioactivity.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: DMX Krew
Have covered Showroom Dummies.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: Eläkeläiset
TRACK: Poro
This track is apparently a short ska version of The Robots sung in
Finnish.
THANKS TO: Squibb Squirrel.

*''ARTIST: Empire State Human
ALBUM: Alpha & Omega
LABEL: Ninthwave Records
This album contains a cover of Hall of Mirrors said to be a bit more
cheerful than the Kraftwerk version.
THANKS TO: Der Automat.

*''5ARTIST: Das Erste Wiener Gemueseorchester (First Viennese Vegetable
Orchestra)
ALBUM: Automato (Automate)
Includes a cover of Radio Activity played on prepared vegetables.
THANKS TO: Jan R.

*''ARTIST: Fink

*''ALBUM: Mondscheiner
This album contains a cover of Autobahn.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: Galaxy Sound Orchestra
ALBUM: Synthesizer Hits, vol. 1
DATE: 1991
This album contains renditions of a number of electronic songs by
various artists, all rendered with rather blah, ordinary-sounding synth
patches. Sort of like elevator muzak. The Kraftwerk songs covered are
Autobahn and The Model.

*''ARTIST: Garden Eden
Has done several different remixes of The Model.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: Generator
TRACK: Das Model
Cover of The Model.
THANKS TO: Coorchack.

*''ARTIST: God
ALBUM: 2001 Live Concert (double VCD)
Disk 1 track refers in some way to Tour de France.
THANKS TO: Georges van Kriekinge.

*''ARTIST: Dirk Ivans
ALBUM: Extended Play (MCD)
Contains a cover of Hall of Mirrors.
THANKS TO: Robert Kolk.

*''ARTIST: Kevin Kane
ALBUM: Timmy Loved Judas Priest
This limited edition (500 copies) album contains a smooth cover of Neon
Lights.
THANKS TO: Georges van Kriekinge.

*''ARTIST: Komputer
TRACK: Oh Synthesizer
This track serves as evidence for those who say Komputer rip off
Kraftwerk. Although it doesn't use any samples and has different lyrics
and slightly different rhythm and melody, it sounds exactly like
Kraftwerk's Neon Lights. The instruments sounds are not identical to
Kraftwerk's, but have obviously been deliberately tuned to be sound
similar. Although this song is nice to listen to, it is impossible not
to notice its huge similarity to Neon Lights. Several other Komputer
tracks (notably We Are Komputer and Komputer Krash) also sound very
much like Kraftwerk. This fact combined with rumors that Komputer
refuse to acknowledge any Kraftwerk influence have given them a very
bad image with many Kraftwerk fans. However, there is reason to believe
that Komputer's apparent refusal to acknowledge their Kraftwerk
influence was actually a tongue-in-cheek joke; given how obvious it is,
they were having a little fun with the interviewer and audience by
pretending to deny it.

*''ARTIST: "Kraftwerk"

*''ALBUM: Tribal Gathering
This album is a commercially released bootleg of Kraftwerk's
performance at Tribal Gathering '97. In addition to the genuine live
Kraftwerk tracks, it contains remixes titled Tour de France (Tribal
Remix), Electric Cafe (Mix-It Remix), Das Model (Razormaid Remix) and
Re-Werked (Music Factory Remix).

*''ARTIST: Kröger

*''This German band covered Das Model on an album that came out some
time in 1990 on the Hansa label.
THANKS TO: Erik Jälevik.

*''ARTIST: Koto
ALBUM: Koto Plays Synthesizer World Hits
DATE: 1990
The first track on this album is a cover of Trans Europe Express.
THANKS TO: Joshua Kassel.

*''ARTIST: Laether Strip
ALBUM: Self-Inflicted
DATE: 1997
This album contains a cover of Showroom Dummies.
THANKS TO: David from Spain.

*''ARTIST: Los Ninos Del Brasil
TRACK: The Model