Dear Michael/OptiGanG,

I think your rendition of ‘Pocket Calculator’ is really very nice.
But mind that KRAFTWERK actually is everything but keen on renditions or cover versions of their songs.
I had to experience that myself, when I tried to get my rendition of their song ‘The Model’ (‘Das Modell’) released in the U.K., and to have it promoted on British television. When the management of Kraftwerk found out about that, they officially prohibited any broadcast of our rendition (even though they hadn’t yet heard it themselves, at the time), so we ultimately unfortunately had to cease that project.

B.T.W.
If you’re interested to hear – and see – that rendition of ‘The Model’ I suggest you check ‘The Model’ by Veronika Zemanova on YouTube.

Dear Tony,
Thanks a lot.
I personally however do not like to compare Kraftwerk’s original with Veronika’s cover version of ‘The Model’. I always have liked the original a lot, and I had no interest nor intention to find out if it would be possible to create a rendition that even would be better. I merely considered it funny, and quite original to hire a well-known, professional (glamour) model to cover a well-known song about a model, singing about herself, as if she actually might have been the model Kraftwerk was referring to, at the time (but just theoretically, of course, since Veronika was just a few years old, when the original version was released).
Anyway, I like Kraftwerk’s original German, and English version of that song a lot, and I also like the cover version by Veronika a lot.
Unfortunately the management of Kraftwerk didn’t like anyone to cover any Kraftwerk material (except for Coldplay).

“it actually sounds better than Kraftwerk.”

And THIS is why “KRAFTWERK actually is everything but keen on renditions or cover versions of their songs.”