Tone Float

Tone Float is the debut and only LP by the German band Organisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (Organisation). Organisation is best remembered for having the two founders of Kraftwerk as members, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, which they did after the album's release and band's disbandment.

Recording and release

The album was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank. Of the album's recording, Hütter would later say:

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.

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

The album has never been officially reissued, although bootleg CDs, LPs and cassettes appeared since 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 study architecture). Rother and Dinger left Kraftwerk shortly afterwards to form Neu!.

In 2021, the album was unofficially rereleased on digital services under the name Tone Float Beat-Club 1971, along with a new album cover by record label Media Champ. This release additionally includes, and correctly names, Rückstoß Gondoliere.

Track listing

Personnel

• Basil Hammoudi – glockenspiel, conga gong, musical box, bongos, percussion, vocals
• Butch Hauf – bass, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer
• 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

Release details

References

External links

• Tone Float at Discogs (list of releases)