Kraftwerk – The Mix

Hmmm. The used cd copy I bought in 2010 for $4 at a second hand record store sounds flawless still and no issues with Die Riboter.

Bought one new yesterday and it also has a problem with "Die Roboter". The needle jumps back close to the end of the track so that it kind of "loops". Giving the tone arm a very slight push forwards made it continue playing and the rest of the track played fine. Apart from this flaw the records sounds incredibly good.

Just tried buying two different copies and I have the same issue on both copies during Robots. These LPs are not exactly inexpensive.

Some inexpressive mix for my taste, for these cases i prefer to keep with the originals. The exception are the mix for "Trans Europa Express/Abzug/Metall Auf Metall" (C side of vinyl). Looks like an "hard ambient" version, i would said.

this is a remix album however the remixes are in typical german KRAFTWERK manner

RADIOACTIVITY and AUTOBAHN have changed radically. Radioactive in a good way but autobahn is the attempt to sound modern and cool but they fail totally.

this was my first KRAFTWERK CD as a pupil i bought it in 1997 and it introduced me to their stuff

While the previous work is unique and timeless, The Mix sounds more like typical early 90s club music. But it is still a very entertaining listening and better than a simple best-of compilation. As you can expect, production and sound quality are on the highest levels.

This is the only good album Craftwork did. Prove me wrong. Protip; you can't.

Kraftwerks classic releases are timeless classics. This attempt to modernize these songs sounds absolutely dated these days. Cheesy house pianos? But there is still enough cool stuff on it to justify having it. I totally love the vocoder Barbershop part in Autobahn for example.

While the results here are indeed mixed, it is a fine review of the group's past work given the new meaning with a long-lasting touch of Kraftwerk's geek-ish naivety. However, from here to eternity, the group never really recovered from their prime as they continue to fracture and self-exploit (by the time of this album's release both from their key-period, Bartos and Flür were gone, the appearance of a certain Fritz Hilpert as a double robot only added to the confusion (a short-term member Fernando Abrantes also left shortly after appearing in the newly updated video of "The Robots" plus some early PR photos). And it would have been better if "The Mix" really was Kraftwerk's last ever album - it does sound more like a farewell than a fresh new start as the 90s kicked in. In the then-era of Rave explosion and future shocks, Kraftwerk were intelligent enough to stay aside, taking deserved credit but only discreetly flirting with the fashions of the day (as evident in "Computer Love" and "Pocket Calculator"/"Dentaku").

The elements remain intact although they are at times a bit too trivial - "Home Computer" may be the ideal example; some of its parts reveal the killer tune it might have become if only the keyboard parts weren't played as cheap, while "Music Non Stop" and the "TEE" trio of tracks provide only the very basic update doodle that don't necessarily update the originals. Still, where it might have fallen into the trap of being pure formality of recycling, "The Mix" is delivered in typical Kraftwerkian fashion, a concept album that (re)worked.

Hm, perhaps not among Kraftwerk's signature work, but 'The Mix' is still worth checking out, I believe.
I do agree with other reviewers that some tracks have been butchered, but other ones are quite good. My favorites from this one are "Computer Love," "Pocket Calculator," and "Radioactivity."