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| "Pocket Calculator" | ||||||||||
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| I'm the operator with my pocket calculator! | ||||||||||
| Single by Kraftwerk | ||||||||||
| from the album Computer World | ||||||||||
| B-side | "Dentaku" | |||||||||
| Released | May 1981 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||||||||
| Studio | Kling Klang Studio | |||||||||
| Genre | Synthpop | |||||||||
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"Pocket Calculator"[1] (German version: "Taschenrechner") is a song by the German electronic band Kraftwerk. It was released in May 1981 on the studio album Computer World and as a single at the same year. The single has a B-side entitled "Dentaku" which is the Japanese version of the single. The track is about the influence of pocket calculators.
The track has been sampled in Contact. a single from Pizzicato Five.[2]
German version
The song was also recorded and released in a German version under the title Taschenrechner both as a single in edited form and on the German version of the album of the same name.
Japanese version
The song was recorded and also released in Japanese under the title Dentaku (Kanji:電卓) both as a single in edited form.
Live version
The track has been often featured in Kraftwerk's live sets. The suite is recorded at the Luzhniki Olympic Complex in Moscow on 2004. It is included on the group's live album Minimum-Maximum.
Track listing
7" vinyl
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Pocket Calculator" | 4:27 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Dentaku" | 4:32 |
12" vinyl
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Pocket Calculator" | 4:55 |
| 2. | "Numbers" | 3:00 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Dentaku" | 5:00 |
References
- ^ Taysom, Joe (27 June 2020). "Remembering when Kraftwerk released their own pocket calculator synthesizer". Far Out Magazine.
- ^ Considine, J.D. (27 May 1999). "Japan's Pizzicato Five overlays samples with originality". The Baltimore Sun.
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