KRAFTWERK Minimum-Maximum (EMI) RARE 2005 4x LP 1st Pressing German Version MINT

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KRAFTWERK Minimum-Maximum (EMI) RARE 2005 4x LP 1st Pressing German Version MINT

RARE as-new German pressing of Kraftwerk`s four-album live recording set "Minimum-Maximum", released on Kling Klang/EMI Records (June 2005). 

Recorded live in concert on the March-June 2005 World Tour promoting Ralf and Florian`s final co-production "Tour De France Soundtracks", this is the rarer, more difficult-to-find German-language vinyl version.

"As you’d expect from a band as clockwork tight and renowned for perfectionism as Kraftwerk, the quality of sound and precision of delivery is so spot-on as to be worthy of a studio recording. However, Minimum-Maximum does have the taste of a live recording, and not just in the compulsory howls of audience approval before songs (or, more usually, at the point at which the bizarre vocoded intros give way and the audience realise which song they’re about to hear). It’s in the feel of the sound: Kraftwerk, normally so clipped and distant, here feel more expansive, bringing to mind the strange feel dance music often has of being on the one hand cold, alien and untouchable and yet at the same time able to engulf you and get right under your skin. Their live sound makes the hairs stand on end in a different, more primal way than that of their records, making for the spinal cord rather than the frontal lobes and managing to do so without losing an ounce of the band’s cleanliness and rigidity of sound. It could just as easily introduce someone new to the band’s music as it could sit in an established fan’s obsessively comprehensive collection.

So Minimum-Maximum manages to be both an exciting glimpse of the live experience and a clipped, processed and fundamentally Kraftwerk record, in a manner that the band doubtless calculated and put into play with a robotic and surgical precision. Well, I sincerely hope that’s how it happened. After all, this is Kraftwerk we’re talking about: I’d expect nothing less." - Holliy for Drowned in Sound, June 2005.

GRADING:

MINT- BOX with minor sign of handling. Please see the photos for details.

- Small indenture (probably a thumb-print) to the box (at bottom right). 

- Otherwise, the box is perfect.

MINT(-) COVERS

- All four record sleeves are in pristine, unhandled condition.

MINT(-) RECORDS in absolutely as-new condition.

- All four records were played exactly once when copying to hard-disc.

- All records come in MINT condition, polylined inner sleeves.

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NOTE: SHIPPING COSTS ARE $20 TO EUROPE / $30 TO USA AND REST OF THE WORLD