Like you say, I do think it's a shame that they've whitewashed the early years out of their 'history'.
Remember hearing the Organisation album Tone Float and loving it. It is a totally different beast to those later 'Teutonic/minimalist' albums, but I've never thought it was something they should have been embarrassed about. Ditto Kraftwerk 1 and 2.
Maybe they didn't wish to sully their history/mythology by highlighting the characters and reputations of the other two members who went on to form/ be involved with Neu!/Harmonia/La Düsseldorf.
You've probably heard/got this, but it's another little artifact from that early time that I enjoy.
Kraftwerk, Live Bremen Radio 1971 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTP-Clo62Dg
Mind you, I've never warmed to Electric Cafe. If anything, that's the one I'd erase from the archive ;)
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