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Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
Supersempfft
Roboterwerke
Label: CBS
Catalog Number: CBS 83712
Released: 1979
One of the great early electronic albums, Roboterwerke is a concept album and the debut release by electronic music pioneers Supersempfft – three school friends Franz Aumüller, Franz Knüttel, and Dieter Kolb from the central German region of Thuringia. The trio is joined crucially by Roboterwerke, the drum machine Knüttel built after realizing how poor his drumming was. The machine was also sold and used by Tangerine Dream. Kolb provides the vocals on the album, Knüttel the electronics, and Aumüller the concept of “Supersempfft,” a space-faring frog apparently based on Kolb (and whose mysterious name might be a tongue-in-cheek reference to electro-schlager one hit-wonder Carl Sempfft). Aumüller would also develop Supersempfft’s intergalactic adventures over the songs, album cover, and the comic book that came with the album. Read an interview with Aumüller on Dream Chimney.
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Disco / Krautrock / Space Rock
Tracklist:
A1 Roboterwerke
A2 We Found It Out
A3a Fantasia
A3b Pipedreams On A Lilypad
A4 Let’s Beam Him Up
A5 I’m Gonna Make You Big
B1 Be A Man You Frog
B2 Supersempfft
B3 Out Of Time
B4 The Best Thing Is To Get High
Credits:
Design [Story + Album Design] – Franz Aumüller
Drum Machine [All Drums + Percussion] – Roboterwerke (2)
Engineer – Michael Bestmann, Mike Ungefähr*
Engineer [Mixing Engineer] – Fred Schreier
Engineer, Engineer [Mixing Engineer] – Claus Burkard, Tammy Grohé
Lacquer Cut By – SST (8)
Producer – Frithjof Krepp
Programmed By – Franz H. Knüttel
Synthesizer [All Synthesizers], Vocals [Voices], Arranged By, Producer, Engineer – Dieter Kolb
Written-By – D. Kolb* (tracks: A1, A2, A3b to A5, B1 to B4), Aumüller* (tracks: A2, A3b to A5, B2 to B4), Jof* (tracks: A1, A2, A3b to A5, B1 to B4), John Dowland (tracks: A3a)
