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Tone Float is an LP by the German band Organisation. The album sold few copies on its UK-only release in August 1970, and is remembered because two of the band members, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, later went on to form the group Kraftwerk. It was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank.
- ‘The studio was in the middle of an oil refinery. When we came out of the door we could hear the sound of those big flames burning off the fumes – all kinds of industrial noises.’
- — Ralf Hütter [1]
Sales were poor and RCA opted to drop the band, which then dissolved.
The album has never been officially reissued, although bootleg CDs and LPs appeared in the 1990s. These often included a bonus audio track, erroneously titled "Vor dem blauen Bock", which in fact is a song named "Rückstoss Gondoliere", from a 22 May 1971 performance by Kraftwerk on the Bremen Beat-Club TV show.
This song features the short lived line-up of Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger (Ralf Hütter had left the group during this period to pursue studies in architecture).
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Tone Float" – 20:46
[edit] Side two
- "Milk Rock" – 5:24
- "Silver Forest" – 3:19
- "Rhythm Salad" – 4:04
- "Noitasinagro" – 7:46
All compositions by Schneider-Esleben, Hauf and Mönicks.
Detail from the back cover of the 1970 RCA Victor official release – note the traffic cone symbol, also a feature on early Kraftwerk albums.
[edit] Credits
- Ralf Hütter – Hammond-organ.
- Florian Schneider-Esleben – Electric flute, alto flute, bell, triangle, tambourine, electro-violin, percussion.
- Basil Hammoudi – Glockenspiel, conga gong, musical box, bangos, percussion, voice.
- Butch Hauf – Bass-guitar, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer, percussion.
- Alfred Mönicks (credited as "Fred Monicks") – Drums, bongos, maracas, cowbell, tambourine, percussion.
- Konrad "Conny" Plank – Sound-engineering.
[edit] Release details
| Country |
Date |
Label |
Format |
Catalog |
| United Kingdom |
August 1970 |
RCA Victor |
Vinyl |
SF 8111 |
[edit] References
- ^ Interview in Select magazine, 1991
