Metal on Metal (song)

"Metal on Metal" (German: "Metall auf Metall") is an instrumental by Kraftwerk from their 1977 album Trans-Europe Express. This track, combined with "Abzug", the track immediately succeeding it (and considered part of "Metal on Metal" on English pressings), forms an extended coda to "Trans-Europe Express".

"Metal on Metal"
Song by Kraftwerk
from the album Trans-Europe Express
ReleasedMarch 1977
Recorded1976
StudioKling Klang (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Genre
Length2:11
LabelKling Klang
Composer(s)Ralf Hütter
Producer(s)

Sampling controversy

Producer Moses Pelham sampled two seconds of the song and re-used it in the 1997 song "Nur mir" performed by German rapper Sabrina Setlur. Pelham lost in court to Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk for copyright infringement, but was acquitted after an appeal.[1]

In a 2016, The Guardian reported that the court found in favor of Setlur.[2] However, in July 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overturned the appeal, ruling in favour of Kraftwerk.[3]

References
  1. PM. "Kraftwerk förlorade copyright-mål" Dagens Nyheter 21 November 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  2. "Kraftwerk's defeat in sampling lawsuit doesn't set a precedent", The Guardian, 1 June 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  3. "Kraftwerk win 20-year sampling case over Metal On Metal". BBC News. Retrieved 30 July 2019.


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