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''Klang Box'' is a special-edition boxed set compilation of music by
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, issued in the UK in May 1997 as a promotional item ahead of Kraftwerk's 24 May appearance at the Tribal Gathering Festival, held at
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, England. ''Klang Box'' contained four 12-inch singles of original recordings compiled from the '' Trans-Europe Express'', ''
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'' albums, including a rare instrumental edit of "Trans-Europe Express". The box was assigned the catalogue number Klang Box 101 and, according to an accompanying EMI press release, "1000 copies of 'Trans Europe Express' (b/w an instrumental version of the track previously unreleased), 'Numbers,' 'Musique Non Stop,' and 'Home Computer' (b/w "It's More Fun to Compute") are being manufactured, and 250 boxes with a Kraftwerk T-shirt will be made to hold the 4 12-inch records."


Contents

# "Trans-Europe Express" / "Trans-Europe Express·Instr·" (Klang DJ 101) # "Numbers" / "Numbers" (Klang DJ 102) # "Musique Non-Stop" / "Musique Non-Stop" (Klang DJ 103) # "Home Computer" / "It's More Fun to Compute" (Klang DJ 104) # Black XL-size T-shirt with a robot motif and the name Kraftwerk (identical to the design on the front lid of the box) {{Kraftwerk Kraftwerk albums 1997 compilation albums EMI Records compilation albums