Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a live cover of Kraftwerk’s The Model (Das Model), via starshipfive.
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Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a live cover of Kraftwerk’s The Model (Das Model), via starshipfive.
Technical details below. Continue reading
Here’s the official music video for the new Karl Bartos (ex-Kraftwerk) single, Atomium.
Atomium comes from Bartos’ new album, Off The Record. Continue reading

Scottish synthesist Andy Hagerty made this video for his cover of the Kraftwerk classic, Neon Lights.
“Robots, Daleks, Knightrider, and a Ghost from PacMan,” notes Hagerty. “What is there not to like about this video?”
Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos shared this sneak preview of Atomium, from his upcoming album, Off The Record.
Based on the press info for Atomium, Bartos is not straying too far from classic Kraftwerk themes or sounds:
No other edifice in Europe symbolizes the rise and fall of atomic power quite as dramatically as the Atomium. This gigantic model of an iron crystal, erected for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels, finds its musical voice on the first single lifted from the new Karl Bartos album.
But what does iron crystal music sound like? The Ex-Kraftwerk member combines variable metrics and intelligent rhythmicity with calculated noise and the elegant weightlessness of his melodies – neoclassicism meets avant-garde electronica.
Here’s the audio preview of Atomium:
Here’s the official blurb on Bartos’ new album:
OFF THE RECORD – THE ALBUM
For Off the Record, Karl Bartos has opened up his music archive for the very first time. He rediscovered and analysed hundreds of tapes, piles of sheet music, and years of digital media. Inspired by his acoustic diary and adding his experience as a composer and producer, he has created twelve brand new songs ? written and performed with masterly skill.
It took him two years to accomplish this original Bartos album: iron crystal music, vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch, techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms! Rhythms of brutal minimalistic impact as found on the much-sampled Numbers recorded three decades ago and described by Mike Banks of Underground Resistance as “the secret code of electronic funk.”
Off The Record is scheduled for a March 2013 release. Atomium will be the first singel. Bartos is also planning a 2013 concert tour. See his site for more info.
Kraftwerk has announced that they will be performing a series of concerts in Düsseldorf this January, featuring one album per performance.
The concert series, entitled 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, will take place at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum. The group will perform the series twice, January 11 – 13, and Jan 16-20.

Sound designer Luftrum has released this sneak preview of Luftrum 9 – a soundbank for u-He Diva:
Here’s what he has to say about Luftrum 9:
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