KRAFTWERK: 1974 UK VERTIGO 2LP - 1st SPACESHIP PRESS - CLEAN COPY - EX+
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Mar 23, 2018
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KRAFTWERK: 1974 UK VERTIGO 2LP - 1st SPACESHIP PRESS - CLEAN COPY - EX+
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UK VERTIGO (6641 077) FIRST "SPACESHIP" PRESSING OF KRAFTWERK'S FIRST TWO LPs; KRAFTWERK 1 (1970) & KRAFTWERK 2 (1972)
GREAT COPY - BARELY PLAYED AND DELIVERING CLEAN SOUND THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST DARK HUE SPACESHIP LABELS WITH "MADE IN ENGLAND" TEXT
MATRICES: 6499268 1Y//1 ∇ 420 13 15 / 6499268 2Y//2 420 05 11 12 (record one) and 6499269 1Y//3 420 05 11 / 6499269 2Y//3 420 05 11 (record two)
THE TWO RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL OUTER LAMINATED GATEFOLD (no printers credits)
COMPLETE WITH THE TWO ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVES
KRAFTWERK 1 (1970): What might have been simply seen as an agreeable enough debut album has since become something of a notorious legend because Kraftwerk, or more accurately the core Hütter/Schneider duo at the heart of the band, simply refuses to acknowledge its existence any more. What's clearly missing from Kraftwerk is the predominance of clipped keyboard melodies that later versions of the band would make their own. Instead, Kraftwerk is an exploratory art rock album with psych roots first and foremost, with Conny Plank's brilliant co-production and engineering skills as important as the band performances. Still, Hütter and Schneider play organ and "electric percussion" -- Hütter's work on the former can especially be appreciated with the extended opening drone moan of the all-over-the-place "Stratovarius," combined with Schneider's eerie violin work. But it's a different kind of combination and exploration, with the key pop sugar (and vocal work) of later years absent in favour of sudden jump cuts of musique concrète noise and circular jamming as prone to sprawl as it is to tight focus.
KRAFTWERK 2 (1972): Stripped down to the Hütter/Schneider duo for this release, and again working with Conrad Plank as coproducer and engineer (this album alone demonstrates his ability to create performances combining technological precision and warmth), Kraftwerk here start exploring the possibilities of keyboards and electronic percussion in detail. Given that the band's drummers were gone, such a shift was already in the wind, but it's the enthusiastic grappling with drum machines and their possibilities that makes Kraftwerk 2 noteworthy. The nearly side-long effort "KlingKlang," which would later give the name to the band's studio and which predicts later lengthy efforts like "Autobahn," shows how the duo is still working toward its future styles. Steady beats are sometimes sped up and slowed down; more freeform performances on flute, violin, and keyboard remain present (rather than honing in on a core melody); and again, no vocals yet grace the recordings. On the second side, the more rock-oriented origins of the group still cling on, mostly without any percussion whatsoever: the distorted solo guitar start of "Strom," the guitar/bass duets of "Spule 4" (queasy) and "Wellenlänge" (quite beautiful and very indicative of many '90s space rock efforts). Ultimately as with Kraftwerk 1, Kraftwerk 2 isn't the "classic" sound of the band, but it's astonishingly worthy on its own, well worth seeking out.
Side 1:
Ruckzuck (7:47)
Stratovarius (12:10)
Side 2:
Megaherz (9:30)
Vom Himmel Hoch (10:12)
Side 3:
Klingklang (17:36 )
Atem (2:57)
Side 4:
Strom (3:52)
Spule 4 (5:20)
Wellenlänge (9:40)
Harmonika (3:17)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
A clean, unmarked set of labels with just a few light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+/NEAR MINT
All four surfaces surfaces shine like new with nothing but a few harmless hairline marks on Record One
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+
Clean sound - as clean as this pressing gets with its many quiet/practically silent moments. A few ticks noted - nothing really - great copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Crisp, sharp edges and spine where all text is clear and bold. The laminated outer surfaces have a deep gloss with just some light ring and the inner surfaces are clean and unmarked
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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