Tone Float is an obscure LP by German band
Organisation. The album sold few copies on its UK-only release in August 1970, and might have been forgotten forever had two of the band members, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, not gone on to change the face of 20th century music with their next group Kraftwerk. It was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank.
Organisation were one of many radical new rock groups who sprang up in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in a scene which has come to be known as Krautrock (although this was originally a derogatory term coined by the British music press).
Krautrock groups generally pushed rock's format to new boundaries, making great use of improvisation and new electronic/studio techniques as a way of breaking away from the dominant Anglo-American pop music format. The Fluxus art movement and, specifically, a two week non-stop sound-art installation of sine wave oscillators by
La Monte Young (ისე დადებული მაქვს ამ "მამა"კაცის ჩანაწერები ''სხვა მუსიკაში'') in Munich in 1969 were influential.
A video recording by German TV broadcaster WDR exists of the band performing "Ruckzuck," a piece that was recorded by and appeared on Kraftwerk's first album in 1970. The performance took place at the Grugahalle in Essen on April 25th 1970 as part of the Essener Pop und Blues Festival. The group played in front of a blue chroma key screen which keyed in wide shots of the audience watching them perform.
The Tone Float record is by no means a classic of the Krautrock genre, being for the most part rather unfocussed. The track "Milk Rock" perhaps offers the best glimpse of the Kraftwerk to come, with its powerful riffing bass guitar, and Schneider already heavily manipulating his flute using an EMS pitch-to-CV converter to drive other electronics.
Hütter: "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." (Interview in Select magzine, 1991)
Sales were poor and RCA opted to drop the band, which then dissolved. The album has never been officially reissued, although bootleg CDs were distributed in the 1990s, often featuring an audio dub of an early Kraftwerk appearance on the Bremen Beat Club TV show as a bonus track.
Track listing"Tone Float" – 20:46
"Milk Rock" – 5:24
"Silver Forest" – 3:19
"Rhythm Salad" – 4:04
"Noitasinagro" – 7:46
Detail from the back cover of the 1970 RCA Victor official release – note the traffic cone symbol, also a feature on early Kraftwerk albums.
PersonnelRalf Hütter - organ
Florian Schneider - percussion, e-flute, alto flute, bell, triangle, tambourine, electroviolin
Basil Hammoudi - percussion, conga gong, musical box, bangos, vocals
Butch Hauf - percussion, bass, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer
Fred Monicks (Alfred Mönicks) - percussion, drums, bongos, maracas, bell, tambourine
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