Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie

Infobox Single
Name = Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie


Artist = Kraftwerk
A-side = Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie 1
B-side = Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie 2 (Edit)
Released = December 1973
Format = 7" vinyl
Recorded = 1973
Genre = Krautrock
Length = 4:08 (A-side), 4:29 (B-side)
Label = Philips 6003 356
Writer = Hütter/Schneider
Producer = Ralf Hütter
Florian Schneider
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = --
This single = "Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie"
(1973)
Next single ="Autobahn"
(1974)

"Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie" is a recording by German band Kraftwerk, released in Germany in 1973.

The tracks released on the A- and B-sides of the single are in reverse order to the re-made versions recorded for the "Autobahn" album some months later: on this single the fast arrangement is part one and the slower arrangement part two. Drum-machine rhythm and guitar – a similar sound to that used in the early part of "Autobahn" – are the main differences of instrumentation to the later album recordings.

The title refers to the astronomer Luboš Kohoutek, who in March 1973 had identified a comet (C/1973 E1, also known as Comet Kohoutek) that was due to pass the Earth later that year.

A longer version of the B-side track "Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie 2" (4:51 compared with the 4:29 edit on the single) was included as part of a various artists compilation, "Super Group Festival", also released on the Philips label, in 1975, as a music club special edition (‘Club Sonderauflage’) sold by mail order.