{"id":119,"date":"2003-07-28T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/kraftwerks_tour_de_france_2003\/"},"modified":"2003-07-28T19:33:43","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T23:33:43","slug":"kraftwerks_tour_de_france_2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/kraftwerks_tour_de_france_2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraftwerk&#8217;s Tour De France 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astralwerks.com\/kraftwerk\/default.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/cd_covers\/kraftwerk.gif?w=750\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraftwerk.com\/\">Kraftwerk<\/a> has come back with a new album, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000A4G4N\/tradermike-20\"><i>Tour De France Soundtracks<\/i><\/a>.  They&#8217;re including a 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary version of the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00000JXIX\/tradermike-20\"><i>Tour De France<\/i><\/a> (remember that scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00009OWJQ\/tradermike-20\"><i>Breakin&#8217;<\/i><\/a>  when <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Chambers,%20Michael%20(I)\">Boogaloo Shrimp<\/a> was poppin&#8217; with that broom?)  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astralwerks.com\/kraftwerk\/default.html\">check out the song and video here<\/a>.  I still prefer the original though.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I just went out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraftwerk.com\/\">Kraftwerk.com<\/a> and now I&#8217;m having flashbacks.  There are some interesting &#8216;toys&#8217; on their site, like pages that allow you to recreate the German number counting of their song <i>Numbers<\/i>, that let you manipulate the song <i>Boing Boom Tschak<\/i>, and even a <i>Pocket Calculator<\/i>, etc.  Now I have to go break out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000002H7C\/tradermike-20\">Kraftwerk greatest hits CD<\/a> (which for some strange reason doesn&#8217;t include <i>Tour De France<\/i>!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kraftwerk has come back with a new album, Tour De France Soundtracks. They&#8217;re including a 20th anniversary version of the classic Tour De France (remember that scene from Breakin&#8217; when Boogaloo Shrimp was poppin&#8217; with that broom?) You can check out the song and video here. I still prefer the original though. OK, I just&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/kraftwerks_tour_de_france_2003\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kraftwerk&#8217;s Tour De France 2003<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":321,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/diggin_in_the_crates_1983\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":0},"title":"Diggin&#8217; in the Crates: 1983","date":"May 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A little musical flashback to 1983 (give or take a few months). This was a great year musically, with some early hip-hop, electronica from the likes of Art of Noise and Kraftwerk, Prince's '1999' was out, as well as some great R&B. 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