Kraftwerk – Aerodynamik + La Forme (Remixed By Hot Chip)

Everyone hates on these, but I thought they were cool chill songs.
Oh yeah, I played it at 33 1/3.

I first heard La Forme remix when Sahsa opened a set with it live on radio1, really loved it and was a great opener. At the time didn't know who or what it was and was very surprised to find out it was Kraftwerk and Hot Chip. This came out 4 years ago but i still think its a stong progressive house record (a genre that seems to be updated so quickly that four year old records are left in the dust). Kraftwerk fans here seem to not have any love for the style. Though Im sure most Kraftwerk fans wouldn't have considered it in that context and rather compared it to the classic orginal records. I think this one is for DJing and building around, and its a great building block of sound.

Every thing im writing relates to La Forme as I don't find the Aerodynamik mix so memorable, all about the b-side for me here.

The remixes here might have some appeal to someone with a very limited knowledge concerning the historical evolution of electronic music in general. Anyone raised on Kraftwerk will more than likely find these remixes offensive and sacrilegious in nature. They sound nothing like Kraftwerk, nor Hot Chip for that matter. Perhaps the old adage "if it isn't broken, then don't fix it" best sums up this deplorable mishap.

If anything, the very concept of this recording is theoretically intriguing... but in reality is nothing more than a foolish parade of fantasy; I'm left disappointed.

My god! i think one of the worst thing i ever heard in the last years. It's quite difficult explain what "Kraftwerk" means for me and thousand of electronic music disciples, but certainly i think it's a hard experience trying to make a good remix of their works. Everytime i heard these remixes i was really upset about it, with a rare exception of some DJ Rolando's or Francois Kevorkian's works due to the respect i've got about these artists. Tracks may be remixed to give something more to the club or radio audience, but i think that Kraftwerk's sounds doesn't really need something more to be good for dancefloor or anything else, their music was a perfect influence for all techno detroit's pioneers in mid eightees such as "Cybotron" and should be the right influence now in these days to search a new sound looking forward without re-working or re-editing what is already perfect. I respect other opinions, but this is not my kind of stuff!