We’ve been posting a lot lately - here’s a quick digest of the top posts from the last week, in case you missed them:

How To Make A Crappy Electronic Music Video For $0.00
Posted on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 in Music Videos - Comments: (11)
All right you Freaxxx. If you’ve been waiting to make an electronic [...]

Die Mensch Maschine got rebuffed by a court in Germany, which told electronica pioneers Kraftwerk that Moses Pelham did not violate their copyrights by using an unauthorized sample of one of their songs, Metal on Metal, in one of his productions.
The ruling overturns an earlier decision against Pelham.
Judges in Berlin said the two second extract did not infringe copyright, [...]

This is a demo of Radioactivox, the first new Optigan disk in 34 years.
Here’s the official info:
Radioactivox is in the style of a familiar German synthesizer band from the seventies. We used the much sought after Optigan/Orchestron choir sound for the keys- a sound made famous by said band. We used the original source material [...]

Lots of great comments this week:
The “most offensive gear ad ever” continues to generate contoversy, with mattavene weighing in with this comment: “I am offended by this perverted publicity, the perverted inclination of associating something attractive with Decadance, or, seen from the other way, making the idea of Decadance look beautiful.”
We recently wondered why Minneapolis [...]

Here’s a little morsel of goodness you’ll want to know about if you’re a Kraftwerk freak.
MVD Video, the good people that brought you Beer, Bikes, Boobs & Polish death metal have announced a new Kraftwerk DVD, Kraftwerk & the Electronic Revolution.
The video is a career retrospective that features rare performances and photographs, obscure footage, exclusive [...]

Spoken Wor(l)d’: In Celebration of Human Speech is the debut album of Peruvian electronic music artist Phileas.
Phileas describes it as an electronic music celebration of human diversity through speech and language.
Phileas spent three years wandering the globe collecting voice samples in more than 30 languages.
Phileas has been experimenting with human speech for 10 years, since [...]

Above, Duran Duran covers Kraftwerk’s Showroom Dummies during their Red Carpet Massacre show on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre in New York City on November 6, 2007.
Below, Kraftwerk performing Showroom Dummies live at Coachella 2008.

Duran Duran may win this round.
But Señor Coconut , below, may get the prize for “most original cover”. Are you ready for some [...]

A lot of people commented on the recent post Minneapolis Hates Kraftwerk, which featured an excerpt from the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s review of Kraftwerk’s 100-minute show at the Myth nightclub.
The Star Tribune said that the show had “all the flair of a power-point presentation at a mortgage-foreclosure seminar”, and that “the identically clad-in-black musicmakers [...]

Here are some of the posts that have been generating some interesting discussion this week.
If you haven’t weighed in on them yet, check out what others are saying and then add your two cents worth!

Minneapolis Hates Kraftwerk - the Minneapolis Star Tribune says that Kraftwerk’s show there was a snoozer - “With all the flair [...]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a review of the influential German group Kraftwerk’s 100-minute show at the Myth nightclub. The performance was a warm-up for a headlining gig at Coachella next week.
It’s not clear if the show was terrible or if the review doesn’t like their music - but it seems that they hate Kraftwerk:
With [...]