3-D

"Kraftwerk continue to revisit their beloved canon of '70s and '80s classics, digitally tweaking and polishing and enhancing. This latest reboot features live versions of the band's 8LP official catalogue, including the first visual record of their current 3D stage show on Blu-Ray and DVD.The full immersive home-viewing experience requires a 3D Blu-Ray player and 3D TV, a Betamax-style failed technology that even the big electronics firms have recently abandoned. Fortunately, the Blu-Ray also works in standard 2D players, which offer a fuzzy approximation of the stereoscopic visual effects. The standard edition features a 77-minute greatest hits set filmed at various locations around the globe. Typically for Kraftwerk, the audio mix is pristine, spacious and compatible with the latest Dolby Atmos 5.1 technology. In layman's terms, this means these exactingly assembled electronic sound paintings sound pin-point precise even on my ancient laptop computer, and positivelycinematicthrough a regular DVD and TV speakers. Sonically, this is the cutting-edge frontier".

"3-D The Catalogue contains recordings of the shows performed in major contemporary art galleries during the band's extended tour of 2012 to 2016. The mixing is pristine, the performances note perfect, the dynamics dramatic. And if you select the quadruple Blu-ray set (with accompanying deluxe art book, with concept work and detail from the shows' visuals) and have a decent home viewing setup, the package makes absolute sense ... In a sense, it's just like any box set. If you're a hyper-fan (and God knows Kraftwerk have plenty of those), you'll want it and will enjoy absorbing every minute. If you're not, you won't. But actually, the very nature of Kraftwerk makes it more complicated than that. The way they've always reassessed and reworked their legacy, most notably on 1991's The Mix album, makes it interesting to see which of their tracks stand up best to new sonic treatments. And that their place within the electronic music continuum only seems to become more solidifiedwitheach new generation makes new ways of hearing their tracks welcome. Sometimes impressions of the future don't date-they mature".

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