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Urb

This [is] all the Kraftwerk you need, if you didn't need all the Kraftwerk ever made. [Jul/Aug 2005, p.106]

Splendid

Not just for followers, Minimum-Maximum is perfect for the old-school, drawing a new crowd of robot poppers and maybe convert a few disbelievers.

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Pitchfork

As a career overview Minimum-Maximum far surpasses The Mix. This record's "importance" in the Kraftwerk story is up for debate, but there's no question it's a hell of a lot of fun.

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Q Magazine

Cut, copy and paste this definitive record into your world. [Jul 2005, p.115]

Mojo

Magnificent. [Jul 2005, p.100]

ShakingThrough.net

Emphatically validates just how fresh and alive Kraftwerk’s heavily manipulated compositions sound.

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Prefix Magazine

Nearly everything on Minimum-Maximum sounds astoundingly fresh.

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Blender

This is really a missing Greatest Hits in disguise. [Jul 2005, p.118]

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Kraftwerk still sounds great.

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Drowned In Sound

As you’d expect from a band as clockwork tight and renowned for perfectionism as Kraftwerk, the quality of sound and precision of delivery is so spot-on as to be worthy of a studio recording.

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New Musical Express

One of the best live albums that NME has ever heard.

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Uncut

Minimum Maximum is the sound of Kraftwerk shedding all previous skins and staking their claim on the now. [Jul 2005, p.106]

Filter

Attest[s] to the group's pummeling might off vinyl. [#16, p.87]

The Guardian

Sound-wise, the music is reminiscent of the sleek electronic architecture of 1986's Electric Café, while the tracks differ from their previously known versions mainly in featuring cleaner, punchier digital sounds.

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All Music Guide

Visuals are such a crucial aspect of their performances that the set will naturally fall short of making you feel as if you are there.

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Amazon.com

Minimum-Maximum is essentially a greatest-hits album with an audience applauding and occasionally shouting.

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PopMatters

So what's the problem? It's too, uh, perfect.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes

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Christian P gave it a10:
For true KW fans. A fantastic comiplation of favorites, including Autobahn & Robots but "souped-up" with modern bass. A must for all.

Johnny S gave it a9:
This is very fun and catchy music. It is also surprisingly trascendant and beautiful at times. Those without a sense of humour look elsewhere.

Shoo man gave it a1:
Oh god I'm falling asleep just listening to this. Remember that episode of Friends where Ross played all those 'new-age' sounds on his keyboard at Central Perk? It's like that personified.

didi gave it a10:
Simply the best!

pong child gave it a2:
no. certain reviews directly beneath this one are as accurate as they are coherent. this album is not for you, dear reader. it is fun in the same that asbestos and magnets new copper wire are fun. chew on a railway spike instead. its cheaper and more humanizing, and you can get some fresh air. two hours of post-teutonic kruppenstahl clamour. it will make your friends like you even less. has all the passion of a seiko watch. makes cuddly animals suddenly bare their teeth. Overall, a good album. Go......germans!

florenci s gave it a10:
The pass of time only gets to increase the incredible energy, youth, beauty of that timeless music. Kraftwerk aren´t not only the first electronical music masters but real sensible reviewers of our world, so sensibles as a butterfly wing as so powerful as as a thunder. Minimum Maximum is a pure joy, a pure resume of thirty five years of musical genious and a unique way to describe our day to day lifes: deep, frivolous, honest, coherent, incorruptible, ever loyal to their own attittude, never trying to teach or convince nobody about nothing, trusting in the audience´s intelligence, funny, severe, pure. Kraftwerk are still being the teachers about how to be brave fighting for an personal aesthetical idea. Thank you!

Bobby gave it a9:
Still as relevent as ever.

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