 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Tone Float" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Tone Float | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | June 1970 |
| Recorded | Germany |
| Genre | |
| Length | 41:19 |
| Label | RCA |
| Producer | Conny Plank &Organisation |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Tone Float is the only album by the German bandOrganisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (Organisation). Organisation included as membersRalf Hütter andFlorian Schneider-Esleben, who went on to foundKraftwerk.
The album was produced byKonrad "Conny" Plank, who later said:
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.[2][3]
Sales were poor and RCA dropped the band, which dissolved following the departure of Hütter and Schneider-Esleben to form Kraftwerk.
The album has never been officially reissued, although bootleg CDs, LPs and cassettes have appeared since the 1990s. These often include a bonus track, erroneously titledVor dem blauen Bock, which is in fact the instrumentalRückstoß Gondoliere, from a 22 May 1971 performance by Kraftwerk on the BremenBeat-Club TV show. This song features the short-lived line-up of Florian Schneider,Michael Rother andKlaus Dinger, Ralf Hütter having left the group for some months to study architecture. Rother and Dinger left Kraftwerk shortly afterwards to formNeu!.
The album was unofficially rereleased in 2021 by record label Media Champ ondigital services under the nameTone Float Beat-Club 1971, along with a new album cover. This release includes, and correctly names,Rückstoß Gondoliere.
All tracks are written by Schneider-Esleben, Hauf and Monicks[4].
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Tone Float" | 20:46 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 2. | "Milk Rock" | 5:24 |
| 3. | "Silver Forest" | 3:19 |
| 4. | "Rhythm Salad" | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Noitasinagro" | 7:46 |
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | June 1970 | RCA Victor | Vinyl | SF 8111[6] |
| Studio albums |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live albums |
| ||||
| Compilations |
| ||||
| Box sets |
| ||||
| Singles | |||||
| Videography | |||||
| Related |
| ||||
