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Hi all, I'm having a hard time tracking down a couple of Kraftwerk rarities. I'm looking for the German language Radioaktivität (William Orbit 7" Remix); and the European Tour De France Soundtracks promo disc with some different mixes and song lengths compared to the regular release. If anyone could share, I'd be most grateful.

To contribute, here's that Italian version of Pocket Calculator (Mini Calcolatore) done for Italian tv, but with the crowd noise and show host edited out. There's another version out there that also removes this stuff, but the song skips at those cuts. This edit replaces the removed parts with matching music taken from elsewhere in the track, so there's no skips and it's a smoother listen. I hope this is of interest!

https://www.sendspace.com/file/1244qr

thanks for the track.

here's what discogs says about the promo:

Running times for some tracks vary from retail version, particularly Régéneration, which is 49 seconds longer on this promo release.

Tour De France Étape 3 and La Forme/Régéneration are different mixes from the retail version.

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i didn't have it, but ordered it from france, so it should be here in a week or two.

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Interesting! Never knew that. Thanks for MC link

In fact just ordered myself!!

will be seeing Kraftwerk in austin in a few weeks.

they are playing twice the same night. i will be going to one of the shows, and gave the
ticket for the other to my brother.

saw them in toronto several years ago, and it was amazing.

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I saw them in Las Vegas last year. The show had the best sound of any concert I have ever been to. I don't know if it was due to the particular venue, or Kraftwerk taking super care in their sound design. But the volume was perfect, everything was crystal clear, no distortion. Amazing!

here are the 3 different tracks as 320k MP3.

pm for a link to the WAV's if needed, i haven't uploaded yet,
because i have limited bandwidth:
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04 Kraftwerk - Tour De France Etape 3.mp3
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Link:
http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/dkzCIHWy/file.html

10 Kraftwerk - La Forme.mp3
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Link:
http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/5RStSaRf/file.html

11 Kraftwerk - Regeneration.mp3
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Link:
http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/dWGMEJJg/file.html

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Yaay!! Thanks so much, -1! 320k MP3s are just fine for me, at least. Now that you have the disc, could you check Chrono as well? According to discogs, that song also has different run times between the releases. (3:19 vs. 3:27)

Moribund wrote:Yaay!! Thanks so much, -1! 320k MP3s are just fine for me, at least. Now that you have the disc, could you check Chrono as well? According to discogs, that song also has different run times between the releases. (3:19 vs. 3:27)

ok, will check it out.

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Moribund wrote:Yaay!! Thanks so much, -1! 320k MP3s are just fine for me, at least. Now that you have the disc, could you check Chrono as well? According to discogs, that song also has different run times between the releases. (3:19 vs. 3:27)

they are virtually identical.. there is some small variation in the samples at the very end of the song.
other than that they are 99% the same.

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here's a copy of the chrono from the promo with the slight difference:
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05 Kraftwerk - Chrono.mp3

Link:
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http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/BBiy604J/file.html


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here's the karl bartos 1998 remake of 'tour de france' from the german compilation:
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http://www.discogs.com/Various-Tour-De- ... se/1458684




13 kraftwerk - tour de france 98 (karl bartos).mp3

Link:
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http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/PfHLuZXt/file.html


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Thanks for the additional tracks!

Thanks for TDF!

no problem.

i have the 12345678 promo boxset
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http://www.discogs.com/Kraftwerk-The-Ca ... ase/989658

which is the only way to get full version of 'the telephone call',
which was split up on the catalogue.
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Disc 6 originally released as Electric Cafe with a slightly different tracklisting.
The original 8 minute version of "The Telephone Call" has been replaced with 2 tracks.
The single mix of The Telephone Call and a remix, originally released on 12", titled "House Phone" that appeared on the B side of The Telephone Call

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