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Minimum-Maximum [Live]

Universal acclaim
Based on 17 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 24 votes
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Album Info
Label: Astralwerks
Release Date: 07 June 2005
Discs: 2 discs
Genre(s): Electronic, Live
Summary
This 2-disc set was recorded during the band's 2004 world tour.
Also By This Artist: Tour de France Soundtracks
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Blender
This is really a missing Greatest Hits in disguise. [Jul 2005, p.118]
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Amazon.com
Minimum-Maximum is essentially a greatest-hits album with an audience applauding and occasionally shouting.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
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.
