Minimum-Maximum

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Minimum-Maximum

Live album by Kraftwerk
Released	June 6, 2005 (UK) June 7, 2005 (US) August 10, 2005 (Japan)
Recorded	2003 - 2004
Genre	Electronic music, Krautrock
Length	120:39 (Int. version) 120:46 (German version)
Label	EMI (Germany, UK, Australasia) Astralwerks (US)] Toshiba-EMI (Japan)
Producer(s)	Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert, Henning Schmitz
All Music Guide link CD Times 5/24/2005 NME link Pitchfork 6/8/2005 The Star (Favourable) link
Kraftwerk chronology
Tour de France Soundtracks (2003)	Minimum-Maximum (2005)	The Catalogue (2007?)

Minimum-Maximum is the first official live album release by Kraftwerk, released on June 6, 2005, almost 35 years after the group gave their first live performance. It features tracks recorded on their world tour during 2004, including concerts in Warsaw, Moscow, Berlin, London, Budapest, Tallinn, Riga, Tokyo and San Francisco.

Like many of their studio albums, Minimum-Maximum was released in two different language versions: the band's native German, and English for the international market. However of the 23 tracks on the album, only the recordings of "The Model", "Radioactivity", "Trans-Europe Express" / "Metal on Metal", "Pocket Calculator" and "The Robots" are actually different between the releases. The album title, an excerpt from the lyrics of the song "Elektro-Kardiogramm" (which only exists in an English-language version), is the same for both German and English versions.

The album was also released as a double live concert DVD with DTS 5.1 sound on December 5, 2005. A special edition box set entitled Notebook, comprising both the DVDs and audio CDs plus a commemorative hardback book of tour photos, was also issued, in both German and English language versions.

The track "Planet of Visions", appearing for the first time on this album, is a reworked version of the earlier single Expo 2000 by Underground Resistance.

The vocoder text "Sellafield 2" at the start of "Radioactivity" / "Radioaktivität" is included for the first time on the CD and DVD set. The intro vocoder text before "The Man-Machine" / "Die Mensch-Mashine" is included only on the DVD release.

Minimum-Maximum was recently nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album.

This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.

1 Track listing: International
- 1.1 Disc one
- 1.2 Disc two
2 Track listing: Germany
- 2.1 Disk one
- 2.2 Disk two
3 Personnel
4 Release details
5 See also

[edit] Track listing: International

[edit] Disc one

"The Man-Machine" (Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa – 7:55
"Planet of Visions" (Fritz Hilpert, Hütter, Florian Schneider) Ljubljana, Krizanke – 4:45
"Tour de France (Étape 1)" (Hilpert, Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 4:22
"Chrono" (Hilpert, Hütter, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 1:29
"Tour de France (Étape 2)" (Hilpert, Hütter, Schmitt, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 4:48
"Vitamin" (Hilpert, Hütter) Moscow, Lushniki – 6:41
"Tour de France" (Bartos, Hütter, Schmitt, Schneider) Paris, Le Grand Rex – 6:18
"Autobahn" (Hütter, Schneider, Emil Schult) Berlin, Tempodrom – 8:51
"The Model" (Bartos, Hütter, Schult) London, Brixton Academy – 3:41
"Neon Lights" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) London, Royal Festival Hall – 5:58

[edit] Disc two

"Radioactivity" (Hütter, Schneider, Schult) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa – 7:41
"Trans-Europe Express" (Hütter, Schult) Budapest, Sportarena – 5:01
"Metal on Metal" (Hütter) Budapest, Sportarena – 4:28
"Numbers" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) San Francisco, The Warfield – 4:27
"Computer World" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider, Schult) Moscow, Lushniki – 2:55
"Home Computer" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa – 5:55
"Pocket Calculator" (Bartos, Hütter, Schult) Moscow, Lushniki – 2:58
"Dentaku" (Bartos, Hütter, Schult) Tokyo, Shibuya Ax – 3:15
"The Robots" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Moscow, Lushniki – 7:23
"Elektro-Kardiogramm" (Hilpert, Hütter) Tallinn, Exhibition Hall – 4:41
"Aéro Dynamik" (Hilpert, Hütter, Schmitt) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 7:14
"Music Non-Stop" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Moscow, Lushniki – 9:51

[edit] Track listing: Germany

[edit] Disk one

"Die Mensch-Machine" (Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa – 7:55
"Planet der Visionen" (Fritz Hilpert, Hütter, Florian Schneider) Ljubljana, Krizanke – 4:45
"Tour de France (Étape 1)" (Hilpert, Hütter, Maxime Schmitt, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 4:22
"Chrono" (Hilpert, Hütter, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 1:29
"Tour de France (Étape 2)" (Hilpert, Hütter, Schmitt, Schneider) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 4:48
"Vitamin" (Hilpert, Hütter) Moscow, Lushniki – 6:41
"Tour de France" (Bartos, Hütter, Schmitt, Schneider) Paris, Le Grand Rex – 6:18
"Autobahn" (Hütter, Schneider, Emil Schult) Berlin Tempodrom – 8:51
"Das Modell" (Bartos, Hütter, Schult) Berlin, Tempodrom – 3:41
"Neonlicht" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) London, Royal Festival Hall – 5:58

[edit] Disk two

"Radioaktivität" (Hütter, Schneider, Schult) Tallinn, Exhibition Hall – 7:41
"Trans-Europa Express" (Hütter, Schult) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 3:21
"Abzug" (Hütter) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 1:40
"Metall auf Metall" (Hütter) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 4:28
"Nummern" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) San Francisco, The Warfield – 4:27
"Computerwelt" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider, Schult) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 2:55
"Heimcomputer" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa – 5:55
"Taschenrechner" (Bartos, Hütter, Schult) Berlin, Tempodrom – 2:58
"Dentaku" (Bartos, Hütter, Schult) Tokyo, Shibuya Ax – 3:15
"Die Roboter" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Berlin, Tempodrom – 7:23
"Elektro-Kardiogramm" (Hilpert, Hütter) Tallinn, Exhibition Hall – 4:41
"Aero Dynamik" (Hilpert, Hütter, Schmitt) Riga, Olimpiska Hall – 7:14
"Music Non-Stop" (Bartos, Hütter, Schneider) Moscow, Lushniki – 9:51

There is an extra track "Abzug" in the German version, and is also on the album "The Mix", and after that is "Metal on Metal". These are all linked as in "The Mix" but for the International version "Abzug" is incorporated into "Trans-Europe Express" to make it longer, thus making the disc one track shorter.

[edit] Personnel

Ralf Hütter: vocals, keyboards, software synthesizers and sequencing.
Florian Schneider: additional vocals, software synthesizers, vocoders and sequencing.
Fritz Hilpert: software synthesizers and sequencing.
Henning Schmitz: software synthesizers and sequencing.

[edit] Release details

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Lyrics
Germany	6 June 2005	EMI-Electrola	CD	3 12046 2	German
	6 June 2005	EMI-Electrola	Vinyl	3 11828 1	German	4 x 12" LPs
EEC except Germany	6 June 2005	EMI	CD	5 60611 2	English
	6 June 2005	EMI	Vinyl	5 60611 1	English	4 x 12" LPs
	24 April 2006	EMI	SACD	3 34996 2	English
United States	7 June 2005	EMI	CD	ASW 60611	English
Japan	10 August 2005	EMI	CD	TOCP-66427	German
	10 August 2005	EMI	CD	TOCP-66425	English
Australasia	18 July 2005	Capitol-EMI	CD	?	English