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08/10/2009 
  
Kraftwerk New Album For 2010... 
With a boxed set of its primary catalog on the 
way, Kraftwerk is eyeballing 2010 for the release 
of its first new album since 2003's "Tour De France 
Soundtracks."

Co-founder Ralf Hutter tells Billboard.com that with 
the group's 2009 live shows -- including some featuring 
3-D background graphics and several with Radiohead -- the 
pioneering German electronic outfit has returned to its 
Kling Klang multi-media facility in Dusseldorf. "There'
s still time to go," Hutter reports, "but in the winter 
it's pretty gray here, so it's a good situation to go 
into the studio." As to what the album -- Kraftwerk's 
first without co-founder Florian Schneider, who left 
the group last November -- will sound like, Hutter 
says "it's still very early. It's still in its 
embryonic stage."

Hutter says he expects Kraftwerk to tour again once 
the album is completed and released.

Until that time, fans will be able to tuck into "The 
Catalogue," an eight-disc boxed set due out Nov. 17 
that commemorates the 35th anniversary of Kraftwerk's 
breakthrough hit "Autobahn" and contains all the 
albums it released between 1974-2003. Each of the titles 
has been remastered and come in "mini-vinyl" wallet 
card packaging, with large-format booklets that replicate 
the artwork of the original releases. Additionally, 
1986's "Electric Cafe" has been returned to its 
originally intended title, "Techno Pop."

Five of the titles, meanwhile -- "Autobahn," "Radio-Activity," 
"Trans Europe Express," "The Man Machine" and "Tour De 
France Soundtracks" -- have just been released as individual 
CDs. The other three albums are not currently licensed for 
separate release in the U.S.
 
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