Artist: DIE KRUPPS
Album: VOLLE KRAFT VORAUS RE-RELEASE (2CD DIGI)

Year: 1982/ 2008
Media type: CD

Vintage electro? Not really - because this remixed re-issue (think of Iggy Pop revisiting the mixing desk for "Raw Power") of one of the pioneering works of DIE KRUPPS does not sound at all like the whimsy 80s it was created in. And although it stands in the tradition of its hometownґs electronic heritage (Dьsseldorf brought you Kraftwerk, Neu!, DAF) DIE KRUPPS "Volle Kraft Voraus" already anticipates notions made much later in Vancouver, Chicago, Detroit or Brussels.

Nowadays considered to be a fore-boding classic that crosses electro-punk and synthie-pop its original appeal was somewhat lost due to a shoddy mix when originally released. Now the records put straight. This DIE KRUPPS remixed 2008 update provides the full attack of industrial floor classics such as "Goldfinger", "Volle Kraft Voraus" or "Tod & Teufel".

TRACKLIST CD1:

VOLLE KRAFT VORAUS - remixed original album

01) volle kraft voraus 4:27
02) goldfinger 6:02
03) fur einen augenblick 4:22
04) tod & teufel 2:47
05) das ende der traume 3:41
06) neue helden 3:15
07) wahre arbeit wahrer lohn 5:27
08) ... denn du lebst nur einmal 3:33
09) zwei herzen ein rhythmus 3:59
10) larm macht spass 3:50

Bonus track:

11) goldfinger / first version 3:33


TRACKLIST CD2:

VOLLE KRAFT VORAUS - original album

01) volle kraft voraus 4:27
02) goldfinger 6:02
03) fur einen augenblick 4:22
04) tod & teufel 2:47
05) das ende der traume 3:41
06) neue helden 3:15
07) wahre arbeit wahrer lohn 5:27
08) ... denn du lebst nur einmal 3:33
09) zwei herzen ein rhythmus 3:59
10) larm macht spass 3:50

Bonus track:

11) wahre arbeit wahrer lohn - original 12" version A side 5:32
12) lohn / arbeit - original 12" version B side 11:20