Tone Float
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| name = Tone Float
| type = studio
| artist = Organisation
| cover = Tone Float RCA-SF8111.jpg
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| released = June 1970
| recorded = Germany
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| length = 41:19
| label = RCA
| producer = Conny Plank & Organisation
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{{Album ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|author=Klaus Kehrle|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tone-float-r46071|title=Tone Float - Organisation|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=2 September 2012}}
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Tone Float is the only album by the German band Organisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (Organisation). Organisation included as members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, who went on to found Kraftwerk.
Recording and release
The album was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank, who later said:
{{quote|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.Interview in Select magazine, 1991Pascal Bussy: "Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music", SAF Publishing Ltd., Reprinted 1993, 1997, 1999: pp. 26}}
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 titled Vor dem blauen Bock, which is in fact the instrumental 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 having left the group for some months to study architecture. Rother and Dinger left Kraftwerk shortly afterwards to form Neu!.
The album was unofficially rereleased in 2021 by record label Media Champ on digital services under the name Tone Float Beat-Club 1971, along with a new album cover. This release includes, and correctly names, Rückstoß Gondoliere.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| all_writing = Schneider-Esleben, Hauf and MonicksOrganisation: Tone Float (RCA Victory, 1970)
| title1 = Tone Float
| length1 = 20:46
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{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title2 = Milk Rock
| length2 = 5:24
| title3 = Silver Forest
| length3 = 3:19
| title4 = Rhythm Salad
| length4 = 4:04
| title5 = Noitasinagro
| length5 = 7:46
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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{{cite AV media notes
| title = Tone Float
| work = Organisation
| year = 1970
| type = LP
| publisher = RCA-Victor
| id = SF 8111
| location = Great Britain
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Release details
References
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External links
- {{Discogs master|26806}}
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Category:Organisation (band) albums