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October 06, 2009

Back to Kling Klang: New Kraftwerk Album in 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.”