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12345678 - The Catalogue

Kraftwerk

12345678 - The Catalogue

Career retrospective box set that took six years to compile

ADM rating[?]

9.1

Label
Mute
UK Release date
13/10/2009
  1. 10.0 |   The Quietus

    Kraftwerk's magic still astonishes . After all, they did something phenomenal: reconfiguring the promises and horrors of the 20th century through the prism of the innocent, imperial future.
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  2. 10.0 |   No Ripcord

    Kraftwerk’s dynamic electricity brought modernism to music and opened up new possibilities for artists to explore
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  3. 10.0 |   Eye Weekly

    The Catalogue is one rare instance of a box that deserves pride of place in the living room
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  4. 9.5 |   Pitchfork

    They are a band who, more than any other, catch in music what interaction with machines really feels like-- sometimes glorious, sometimes lonely and frightening, occasionally very funny
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  5. 9.0 |   Clash

    The music endures, as timeless and of its time as ever, and as playful, sexy and strange.
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  6. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    The elegant pop of ‘Europe Endless’; the rhythmic sequencer innovation in ‘Trans-Europe Express’, and the classic synth sound of ‘Metal on Metal’ that influenced everyone from Afrika Bambaataa (and other early hip hop pioneers) to Depeche Mode
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