Minimal yet oddly multifacetd Kraftwerk tribute.
Various Artists - 8-Bit Operators: An 8-Bit Tribute to The Music Of Kraftwerk
[3.5/5] This is apparently "an 8-bit tribute to the music of Kraftwerk," and many of the tracks (Oliver Wittchow's "Kristallo" in particular) do, indeed, sound like Kling Klang tunes covered by a GameBoy. Others, though, like David E. Sugar's take on "Radioactivity," include guitars and vocals and are oddly disco-punk. Ultimately, this only serves to hammer home the point that Ralf und Florian were brilliant composers, whose stuff translates into pretty much any idiom. Go dig up a copy of the Balanescu String Quartet's Possessed if you don't believe it. The only track that really doesn't work is Nullsleep's version of "The Model"-Big Black already disassembled that one's gleaming skeleton in 1987, and Nullsleep have neither the metallic hostility of that cover or the creepy obsessiveness of the original. (You want creepy? Role Model's "Showroom Dummies" features a female vocalist who could give Grace Jones nightmares.)
(ASTRALWERKS) Phil Freeman
Official Website: http://www.astralwerks.com
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