Paperjam

We've been meaning to write about this for a while, but DVDborn rather beat us to it - there's a fantastic torrent available of a German TV special featuring Kraftwerk at the peak of their powers in 1981.

I haven't watched it all yet, because my jaw dropped and hit the stop button when I saw them doing a version of "Pocket Calculator". They're absolutely going for it, giving it a hundred and ten percent, with maximum jerky dancing, random audience participation and live, hot Stylophone action.

No laughing at the back please, trust me: a Stylophone through a huge PA system sounds raw and rude. There's plenty of bass, believe me.

At the risk of murdering our bandwidth allocation, here's the (rather murky) clip. You'll potentially need the evil Quicktime to make it work...

Tiga, the electroclash survivor that apparently spent all of 1996 mourning the death of Tupac Shakir, seems to be everywhere right now, remixing everything in sight. Check his remix of LCD's Tribulations for especially guilty hands-in-the-air disco fun.

Now he's had a go at Depeche Mode's rather mardy 1985 single "Shake the Disease" for release on the upcoming 80s remix compilation "Future Retro " and it's a steely, minimal electro affair, well away from the limp and moany original. It's what it should have been in the first place.

Depeche have been having a good time of remixes at the moment, with the Thin White Duke and Bitstream mixes of "A Pain That I'm Used To".

Also on the compilation is a version of Yazoo's "Situation" (apparently in itself a house classic in it's Francois Kevorkian remix from 1982) by Richard X, which I was all excited about in my pathetic way, but it's bollocks, I'm afraid.

And especially for Jim, who has a soft spot for La Moz, a remix of "Suedehead" by Sparks. Good God. I've not heard this yet, I'd be intrigued...