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This section lists music that has been written in tribute to Kraftwerk.
Tributes are different from covers and remixes in that they need not be Kraftwerk songs or even sound anything like them. Many covers and remixes are also tributes even without saying so, and those ones are listed in the covers and remixes section. This section is for works explicitly dedicated to Kraftwerk.
ARTIST: Basskraft (Robert Bartko and Ivan Kopas)
ALBUM: Basskraft: A Bass Tribute to Kraftwerk
DATE: 1998
This album contains bass-enhanced, resampled and re-vocoded versions
of Trans-Europe Express, Autobahn,
It's More Fun to Compute, Music Non-Stop,
Pocket Calculator, Computer World, Numbers,
Home Computer, Tour de France, The Robots and
Computer Love, plus three remixed medley tracks.
ARTIST: David Bowie
TRACK: V2-Schneider
This was Bowie's way of returning Kraftwerk's wave from
the Trans-Europe Express.
ARTIST: The Elevator Drops
ALBUM: People Mover
The tenth track on this album is titled The March of the Kraftwerk
Replicants. No word on whether there is any connection to
Kraftwerk other than the title.
THANKS TO: Simon Godrich.
ARTIST: Kraft
ALBUM: Werk
ALBUM: Computer
No idea if this is actually a tribute album, or even if it's in any
way related to Kraftwerk. This seemed like the best place to list it.
ARTIST: Kraftwelt
ALBUM: Deranged in Space (1996)
ALBUM: Electric Dimension (1996)
ALBUM: Retroish (1998)
These three albums feature electronic music, but do not sound much
like Kraftwerk and contain no Kraftwerk mixes or samples. However,
all three albums are dedicated to Ralf and Florian. Kraftwelt could be
said to be a Kraftwerk tribute group.
ARTIST: Skanfrom
TRACK: Phon Sweet Phon
It's not clear whether this track is intended to reference Kraftwerk
in any way, but it seems strongly based on Geiger Counter,
Radioactivity and Ohm Sweet Ohm.
THANKS TO: Erik JÄlevik.
ARTIST: Severo Lombardoni
ALBUM: Boing Boom Tschak: A Tribute to Kraftwerk
DATE: 1994
This album includes several Kraftwerk covers and a few remix
tracks.
THANKS TO: Squibb Squirrel.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: All In a Day's Werk
This is a multi-artist tribute LP. Although I own a copy, I don't have
it handy in order to get the track list.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Cracking the Code: Tribute to Kraftwerk
This is a multi-artist tribute compilation containing the following
remixes and covers of Kraftwerk tracks:
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Enter the Mix: A Nonstop Techno Tribute to Depeche Mode and
Kraftwerk
This album is a tribute to both groups. It contains alternating
covers/remixed of DM and KW tracks. All the Kraftwerk ones are found
on the Trancewerk Express compilations (below) though.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Krafty Moves
This 2CD tribute set contains 28 Kraftwerk covers by artists including
Erdball, Data Bank A, Apoptygma Berzerk, Leather Strip, Fiction 8,
and Imminent Starvation.
THANKS TO: Squibb Squirrel.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Musique Non Stop
DATE: 1998
This Japanese release (EMI/Toshiba) contains Japanese covers and
translations of Kraftwerk songs.
THANKS TO: Squibb Squirrel.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Somos Robos
Produced by the electronic magazine Urbanaque, and available only by
download from the linked website.
THANKS TO: Nicolau Centola.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: The Radioactive Tribute to Kraftwerk
DATE: 2002
LABEL: New Mantra / Wagram
This album contains mainly renderings of Kraftwerk songs by Japanese
musicians, but also includes a few Senor Coconut versions. The
track list is:
THANKS TO: Aitam Bar-Sagi.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Technicolour: A Techno Tribute to Kraftwerk
DATE: 2000
Contains the following cover tracks:
THANKS TO: Squibb Squirrel.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Trancewerk Express vol. I: A Tribute to Kraftwerk
DATE: 1995
This is a multi-artist tribute compilation. It contains the following
remixes and covers:
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Trancewerk Express vol. II: A Tribute to Kraftwerk
DATE 1997
This is a multi-artist tribute compilation. It contains the following
remixes and covers, as well as two original tracks.
ARTIST: various
ALBUM: Trans-Slovenia Express
DATE: 1994 (Mute Records)
A cover compilation by Laibach. Includes the following tracks:
THANKS TO: Squibb Squirrel.
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