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Exceller 8
Compilation album by Kraftwerk
Released	October 1975
Recorded	1970—1974
Genre	Electronic music, Krautrock
Length	37:28
Label	Vertigo (PolyGram)
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Kraftwerk chronology
Autobahn (1974)	Exceller 8 (1975)	Radio-Activity (1975)

Exceller 8 is the title of a 1975 compilation album of music by Kraftwerk. It was released in the UK on the Vertigo label in order to captialize on both the summer chart success of the single "Autobahn" and the imminent release of the next Kraftwerk album Radio-Activity — by this time Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider had set up their own publishing company, Kling Klang Verlag.

The album is a sampler of material from the first four Kraftwerk albums – Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk 2, Ralf und Florian, Autobahn – and includes some versions of tracks that had been edited down for release on singles, such as "Autobahn", as well as simple excerpts from longer album tracks, such as "Kling-Klang". Only the pair of tracks from the Ralf und Florian album, "Tongebirge"' and "Kristallo", are entirely free of cuts.

Track selection was by Alan Cowderoy (later an A&R manager at Stiff Records) and sound engineering is credited to Steve Brown, though it is unclear if they created the edited versions of the two tracks released as singles. The brutally edited-down three minute version of "Autobahn" (from an original length of 22:30) had been a top twenty hit in the UK and had received considerable airplay in the US since it's release. "Comet melody 2" failed to chart.

The album was issued on vinyl and cassette and deleted in 1980.

1. "Ruckzuck" (minus the opening flute-echo intro) – 7:30
2. "Autobahn" (heavily-edited version previously released as a UK single in May 1975) – 3:06
3. "Tongebirge" – 2:50
4. "Kristallo" – 6:18
5. "Comet Melody 2" (version released as a single in August 1975 with middle section edited out) – 2:49
6. "Kling-Klang" (excerpt beginning at 1:38 into the original track) – 9:20
7. "Vom Himmel Hoch" (the opening and closing sections with a cross-fade link) – 4:00
8. "Stratovarius" (excerpt of the final section)– 1:35