Tone Float:Organisation

Tone Float is an LP by the German band Organisation. Organisation was a pre-Kraftwerk band, having only produced and released one album, Tone Float. After the release, members of the group went on to form Kraftwerk.



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[hide]  *1 Background  ==Background[ edit] == The album sold few copies on its UK-only release in August 1969, and is remembered because two of the band members, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, later went on to form the group Kraftwerk. It was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank.
 * 2 Track listing
 * 2.1 Side one
 * 2.2 Side two
 * 3 Personnel
 * 4 Release details
 * 5 References


 * ‘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.’
 * — Ralf Hütter [2]

Sales were poor and RCA opted to drop the band, which then dissolved following the departure of Hutter and Schneider-Esleben to Kraftwerk.

The album has never been officially reissued, although bootleg CDs and LPs appeared in the 1990s. These often included a bonus audio-track, erroneously titled "Vor dem blauen Bock", which in fact is an instrumental track named "Rückstoss Gondoliere", from a 22 May 1971 performance by Kraftwerk on the Bremen Beat-Club TV show.

This song features the short-lived line-up of Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger (Ralf Hütter had left the group during this period to pursue studies in architecture). Rother and Dinger later on formed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neu! Neu!]. ==Track listing[ edit] == All compositions written by Hauf/Monicks/Schneider-Esleben. ===Side one<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Side two<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Detail from the back cover of the 1969 RCA Victor official release – note the traffic cone symbol, also a feature on early Kraftwerk albums.==Personnel<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Release details<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]
 * 1) "Tone Float" – 20:46
 * 1) "Milk Rock" – 5:24
 * 2) "Silver Forest" – 3:19
 * 3) "Rhythm Salad" – 4:04
 * 4) "Noitasinagro" – 7:46
 * Basil Hammoudi – glockenspiel, conga gong, musical box, bongos, percussion, vocals
 * Butch Hauf – bass, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer, percussion
 * Ralf Hütter – Hammond organ, organ
 * Alfred "Fred" Mönicks – drums, bongos, maracas, cowbell, tambourine
 * Florian Schneider-Esleben – electric flute, alto flute, bell, triangle, tambourine, electro-violin, percussion
 * Additional personnel
 * Konrad "Conny" Plank – sound engineering<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-notes_3-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]