Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31	1	2	3	4

Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks (2003)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 2 May 2024 16:42:37

Tour de France Soundtracks is the tenth studio album by the German electronic group Kraftwerk, released in August 2003. It was re-released in October 2009 under the title Tour de France. The album was recorded for the 100th anniversary of the first Tour de France bicycle race, although it missed its intended release date for the actual tour.

Among electronic artists (as well as virtually the entire record industry), only Kraftwerk could construct a viable album by making only minimal adjustments to a sound they made definitive more than 30 years earlier. Tour de France Soundtracks, the group's first record in more than 15 years, is quintessentially Kraftwerk but still fits in well with contemporary dance trends like the experimental microhouse scene (highly influenced by the group's ultra-minimalism). The story of Tour de France Soundtracks actually begins 20 years earlier, in 1983, when Kraftwerk released the "Tour de France" single. Recorded in tribute to one of the sporting world's most grueling events, the track was a hi-res piece of dance-pop that made lyrical reference to various biking landmarks (like the infamous mountaintop finish at Tourmalet) and an assortment of sonic references as well (including a bike chain in free spin and the belabored breathing of a bicyclist – in rhythm, of course). Techno-Pop, the album Kraftwerk scheduled to accompany "Tour de France," was postponed and later canceled (ironically, after a serious biking accident by Ralf Hutter, one of the group's resident biking maniacs). The track resurfaced two decades later, just in time for the centenary anniversary of the race, though Kraftwerk still missed the deadline – only the rejuvenated single was available during the race. It has little in common with the original, but the new "Tour de France" is impressive nonetheless, boasting the kinetic power of a 100-strong peloton, a guttural Teutonic vocoder of the type beloved by fans, and a recurring tag so sublime Jan Ullrich could hum it through each of the Tour's 20 stages without fear of annoyance. Except for a closing reprise of the original "Tour de France," the rest of the album isn't as focused on biking; Hutter and Schneider construct sublime beatpieces with conceptual lines close to biking topics ("Aero Dynamik," "Titanium," "Chrono," "Vitamin"), but never confront the listener with yet another track dropping bike terms like peloton or a l'enfer du nord. "Chrono" is the track closest to the Kraftwerk ideal, with its future-shock synth and percussion precision, while "Vitamin" is the farthest away (a downbeat track that still could only have escaped from the Kling Klang studio). Tour de France Soundtracks is a successful record on anyone's terms; it's one that fans won't need to cringe from, and one that newcomers will be able to enjoy for what it is.

Review by John Bush, Allmusic.com

Kraftwerk at Allmusic
Kraftwerk Website
Kraftwerk at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Prologue (0:31)
02. Tour De France Etape 1 (4:27)
03. Tour De France Etape 2 (6:41)
04. Tour De France Etape 3 (3:56)
05. Chrono (3:19)
06. Vitamin (8:09)
07. Aero Dynamik (5:04)
08. Titanium (3:21)
09. Elektro Kardiogramm (5:16)
10. La Forme (8:41)
11. Regeneration (1:16)
12. Tour De France (5:10)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

Отчёт EAC об извлечении, выполненном 28. декабря 2010, 14:59

Kraftwerk / Tour de France Soundtracks

Дисковод: ATAPI DVD A DH16AAS Adapter: 2 ID: 0

Режим чтения : Достоверность
Использование точного потока : Да
Отключение кэша аудио : Да
Использование указателей C2 : Нет

Коррекция смещения при чтении : 6
Способность читать области Lead-in и Lead-out : Нет
Заполнение пропущенных сэмплов тишиной : Да
Удаление блоков с тишиной в начале и конце : Нет
При вычислениях CRC использовались нулевые сэмплы : Да
Интерфейс : Встроенный Win32-интерфейс для Win NT/2000

Выходной формат : Пользовательский кодировщик
Выбранный битрейт : 768 kBit/s
Качество : Высокий
Добавление ID3-тэга : Нет
Утилита сжатия : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Дополнительные параметры : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d

TOC извлечённого CD

Трек | Старт | Длительность | Начальный сектор | Конечный сектор
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 0:31.26 | 0 | 2350
2 | 0:31.26 | 4:27.24 | 2351 | 22399
3 | 4:58.50 | 6:41.07 | 22400 | 52481
4 | 11:39.57 | 3:56.48 | 52482 | 70229
5 | 15:36.30 | 3:19.58 | 70230 | 85212
6 | 18:56.13 | 8:09.53 | 85213 | 121940
7 | 27:05.66 | 5:04.52 | 121941 | 144792
8 | 32:10.43 | 3:21.18 | 144793 | 159885
9 | 35:31.61 | 5:16.20 | 159886 | 183605
10 | 40:48.06 | 8:41.53 | 183606 | 222733
11 | 49:29.59 | 1:16.36 | 222734 | 228469
12 | 50:46.20 | 5:10.46 | 228470 | 251765

Характеристики диапазона извлечения и сообщения об ошибках

Выбранный диапазон

Имя файла C:\Users\user\Desktop\Kraftwerk -2003- Tour De France Soundtracks\Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks.wav

Пиковый уровень 99.8 %
Качество диапазона 99.9 %
CRC теста AD5D7278
CRC копии AD5D7278
Копирование… OK

Ошибок не произошло

AccurateRip: сводка

Трек 1 нет в базе данных
Трек 2 нет в базе данных
Трек 3 нет в базе данных
Трек 4 нет в базе данных
Трек 5 нет в базе данных
Трек 6 нет в базе данных
Трек 7 нет в базе данных
Трек 8 нет в базе данных
Трек 9 нет в базе данных
Трек 10 нет в базе данных
Трек 11 нет в базе данных
Трек 12 нет в базе данных

Ни одного трека нет в базе AccurateRip

Конец отчёта

DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2014-03-15 16:32:19

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Kraftwerk / Tour de France Soundtracks
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR13 -0.31 dB -18.98 dB 0:31 01-Prologue
DR12 -0.31 dB -13.62 dB 4:27 02-Tour De France Etape 1
DR9 -0.31 dB -10.47 dB 6:41 03-Tour De France Etape 2
DR10 -0.31 dB -11.93 dB 3:57 04-Tour De France Etape 3
DR10 -0.31 dB -11.12 dB 3:20 05-Chrono
DR9 -0.03 dB -10.43 dB 8:10 06-Vitamin
DR8 -0.11 dB -8.67 dB 5:05 07-Aero Dynamik
DR8 -0.11 dB -9.66 dB 3:21 08-Titanium
DR8 -0.30 dB -9.30 dB 5:16 09-Elektro Kardiogramm
DR11 -0.02 dB -13.64 dB 8:42 10-La Forme
DR14 -0.31 dB -19.23 dB 1:16 11-Regeneration
DR9 -0.14 dB -11.70 dB 5:11 12-Tour De France
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 739 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

All thanks to original releaser

More interesting music in My Blog

2000s Electronic Electronica Kraftwerk Lossless CD-Rip + Scans FLAC MP3