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Expo 2000 (song)

"Expo 2000"
Expo 2000 Kraftwerk.jpg
Single by Kraftwerk
Released December 1999 (original)
November 2000 (remix)
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Recorded 1999–2000
Genre
Length 3:35 (Radio Mix)
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Kraftwerk singles chronology
"Radioactivity"
(1991)
"Expo 2000"
(1997)
"Tour de France 2003"
(2003)

"Expo 2000" is a song by Kraftwerk. It was originally an a cappella jingle commissioned for the Hannover Expo 2000 world's fair in Germany, which was subsequently developed into longer pieces with music and additional lyrics.

The Expo 2000 single was released on CD and twelve-inch vinyl in December 1999 by EMI in Germany and in January 2000 elsewhere in Europe. It reached #27 in the UK singles chart in March 2000.

It was the group's first commercial recording of new, original music since the release of the 1986 album Electric Café.

In November 2000, a collection of remixes was released, titled Expo Remix, featuring contributions from various producers, including long-term collaborator François Kevorkian, Orbital, and members of the Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance.

Both releases were combined and issued on one CD by Astralwerks Records in the US and Canada in October 2001.

The original Expo theme was a typically Kraftwerk vocoder-voice singing the phrase "Expo 2000" in six languages: German, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese. In total, the piece lasted thirty seconds. This "Expo-Jingle" was only available for download from the Expo 2000 website for a limited period and on the limited edition official Expo 2000 souvenir CD.


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