Tone Float

Tone Float
Studio album by Organisation
Released	August 1969
Recorded	Germany
Genre	Krautrock avant-garde musique concréte
Length	41:19
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Conny Plank & Organisation

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Allmusic	[1]

Tone Float is the first and only LP by the German band Organisation. Organisation was a predecessor to Kraftwerk, which was formed by two members of the band, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, after the album's release.

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.^[2][3]

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

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

Track listing

All tracks written by Organisation.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tone Float"	20:46

Side two
No.	Title	Length
2.	"Milk Rock"	5:24
3.	"Silver Forest"	3:19
4.	"Rhythm Salad"	4:04
5.	"Noitasinagro"	7:46

Detail from the back cover of the 1969 RCA Victor official release – note the traffic cone symbol, also a feature on early Kraftwerk albums.

Personnel

• Basil Hammoudi – glockenspiel, conga gong, musical box, bongos, percussion, vocals
• Butch Hauf – bass, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer, percussion
• 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^[4]

Release details

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom	August 1969	RCA Victor	Vinyl	SF 8111

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References

1. Klaus Kehrle. "Tone Float - Organisation". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
2. Interview in Select magazine, 1991
3. Pascal Bussy: "Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music", SAF Publishing Ltd., Reprinted 1993, 1997, 1999: pp. 26
4. Tone Float (LP). Organisation. Great Britain: RCA-Victor. 1972. SF 8111.
5. "Organisation – Tone Float". discogs.com. Retrieved 2 September 2012.