Kraftwerk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pzf3j

The Man Machine: The Story of Kraftwerk
Saturday (2010-01-16), 22:00 on BBC Radio 2

Jarvis Cocker presents the story of a group of musicians who've influenced artists and movements as diverse as David Bowie, Coldplay, hip hop and the New Romantics.

The programme features a rare interview with Kraftwerk founding member and the only remaining original, Ralph Hutter. It also examines the part played in the "Krautrock" movement by other German electronic music exponents of the 70s, such as Neu! and Tangerine Dream.

Blimey, since Florian left, Ralf's been all "Hello Everybody!"

I don't like it when people bang on about such-and-such a band's "influence" as though that's the main reason we should celebrate them. IMHO the reason we should celebrate a band like Kraftwerk is because of the records they made, without the historical context.

Plus, I hope they don't let Hütter see the two mistakes they made in his name. Plus, Jarvis Cocker ffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry64e6SVQGs

wow! more kraftneu!

beautifully clear shots of their mixing boards too

Yeah, that is fantastic footage. Thanks for the link geeta!

dope

truly hoping a complete unedited bootleg of this live version of kling klang shows up someday, sans voiceover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK486IAZyjA

yeah that Bremmen Radio bootleg is so great especially given how bad the Neu! 72 live album is. I really wish they had stayed together longer.

that first clip is the clearest Beat Club footage I've ever seen. Now I want to be in a band where I get to sit at a little desk with a cup of tea while I play.

yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? i went searching on that guy's YouTube page to see if he'd posted more clips but the rest of his uploads are horrible German schlager, that's the only Kraftwerk clip he's got

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3_6Rayg4Q

ugh both of those clips are so great.

kraftwerk is guest-editing wallpaper* magazine

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/kraftwerk-gues-edits-new-issue-wallpaper-magazine/

Having loved their stuff from Autobahn onwards, I did go about checking out their first three albums at one point. However, aside from 'Ruckzuck' (the first track on Kraftwerk 1), not much else of it warranted a second listen for me. However, it's all worth listening to at least one just to hear the roots.

A 3-D video installation by Kraftwerk premieres next month at an art museum in Munich. Kraftwerk will be playing three special concerts in 3-D in Munich to accompany the exhibition, which are all sold out:

http://www.lenbachhaus.de/cms/index.php?id=51&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=176&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=cc4d30f42b

KRAFTWERK. 3-D VIDEO-INSTALLATION

15. Oktober - 13. November 2011, Di - So 10 - 22 Uhr

In den letzten vier Jahrzehnten haben die Elektro-Pioniere Kraftwerk Musikgeschichte geschrieben und weltweit Erfolge gefeiert. Bereits seit den Anfängen in den frühen 70er Jahren war Kraftwerk mit den Entwicklungen modernster Technologien verbunden. Die dadurch möglich gewordenen Töne haben dem digitalen Zeitalter nicht nur den bis dato fehlenden Sound verliehen. Kraftwerk gelten darüber hinaus als Pioniere und Urväter sehr verschiedener Musikrichtungen wie Hip-Hop, Electro, House, Techno und Synthie Pop. Seit ihrem Konzertauftritt im Rahmen der Biennale Venedig 2005 nimmt auch die Welt der zeitgenössischen Kunst die multimedialen Darbietungen von Kraftwerk als einzigartige Form künstlerischer Performance wahr. Im Kunstbau des Lenbachhauses wird nun zum ersten Mal die von Kraftwerk programmierte Bild- und Tonwelt als immersives Gesamtkunstwerk außerhalb des Konzertsaals erfahrbar. In einer speziell für den Kunstbau entwickelten mehrkanaligen 3D-Videoinstallation wird der einzigartigen und wirkmächtigen Stellung von Kraftwerk innerhalb der Geschichte der bildenden und darstellenden Künste Rechnung getragen.

Zur Ausstellung im Kunstbau erscheint eine begleitende Publikation im Verlag Schirmer/Mosel: Kraftwerk 3-D. Mit 3-D Brille

Im Vorfeld der Ausstellung finden folgende Konzerte von Kraftwerk in der Alten Kongresshalle in München statt:

12.10., 20 Uhr (ausverkauft)
13.10., 20 Uhr (ausverkauft)
13.10., 24 Uhr (ausverkauft)

In the last four decades, the electric power plant pioneers have written music history and successes celebrated worldwide. Since its beginnings in the early 70's power plant was connected with the developments of modern technology. The tones have become possible by the digital age, given not only the lack of sound to date. Power plant are also pioneers and founding fathers of very different styles of music like hip-hop, electro, house, techno and synth pop. Since her concert performance at the 2005 Venice Biennale, also perceives the world of contemporary art multi-media performances of the work force as a unique form of artistic performance. In the Kunstbau Lenbachhaus is now programmed for the first time the power plant of image and sound world experience as immersive work of art outside the concert hall. In a specially developed for the 3D structure of art multichannel video installation of the more unique and powerful position of power within the history of the visual and performing arts will be taken into account.

The exhibition is an accompanying publication will appear in the structure of art in the Schirmer / Mosel: Power Plant 3-D. With 3-D glasses

Prior to the exhibition will find the following concerts of power plant instead of in the Old Congress Hall in Munich:

picture of Skrillex
http://www.deathinvegasmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kraftwerk.jpg

oh dear:

http://pic.twitter.com/hHLkyyz2

OMG BITCH, KRAFTWERK IS THE BOMB

TIESTO KRAFTWERK

Kraftwerk, New Order, 2manydjs, benga+skream, high contrast, flylo, sbtrkt ... and i bet the crowd will be decent-looking. thanks for the heads up!

TIESTO KRAFTWERK

Google Trans = "Kraftwerk Tribute"

Oh, OK, not really.

and skrillex, let's not forget him

i bet kraftwerk is getting paid unholy sums of money for this gig

hopefully they'll add some us dates beyond this

NO and KW on the same bill - sounds like a winner to me

waht

you guys:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/moma-plans-kraftwerk-retrospective/?src=tp

hnngh

OH MAN

OMG.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1257

5 – Computer World (1981)
Sunday, April 15, 8:30 p.m.

i. must. go.

My wife and I are MOMA members - I've emailed the museum to find out if there'll be tickets held for members. Really want to go to at least one night of this. Wonder which night will be the least attended? I'm betting either The Mix or Tour de France, but honestly, The Mix night is the one I'd most like to attend. I loved that CD when it came out.

bollox... just booked tickets for my first ever US trip to NY in April. Fly home on the 9th April.

Bummed.

the press release says 'The exhibition is made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America'

i'm off to go buy a volkswagen, right now

>just booked tickets for my first ever US trip to NY in April. Fly home on the 9th April.

change your flight dates or hate yourself for the rest of your life

I'm a fan of some of the 90's 'Mix' versions of CW tracks, the 1998 digital version of 'Numbers' is exactly how a new Kraftwerk record should have sounded at that time. Not all of the updates worked, but I enjoyed the way they were reinterpreting the catalog. For the 2004 tour they seemed to regress some of the arrangements to be more faithful to the original versions. It'll be interesting to see how they handle it now that they're doing entire albums.

Might just have to make some of these, but I'm going to miss the first two nights which are the ones I want to see most. Unless word leaks that the 'additional composition' for the first night is a 30 minute long version of 'Elektrisches Roulette' in which case all bets are off

Awesome. And also rubbish, for I can't attend. But awesome.

the 'Trans-Europe' night may actually be the most magical from the NYC perspective - one of the things i remember finding really beautiful about the last time i saw kraftwerk in NYC was how diverse the crowd was up front - black, white, 50 yrs old, 18 yrs old, hip-hop, techno - and how mental the crowd went during 'Trans-Europe Express'

i really wish i'd gotten to see Kraftwerk in Detroit

so exciting - but I'm assuming this show will be toured to some extent

one of the things i remember finding really beautiful about the last time i saw kraftwerk in NYC was how diverse the crowd was up front - black, white, 50 yrs old, 18 yrs old, hip-hop, techno - and how mental the crowd went during 'Trans-Europe Express'

totally... noticed the same thing when I saw them, people from a really wide range of backgrounds/subculture responding to this universal music from slightly different angles. so great.

omg would love to see the whole of Radio-Activity live. pretty lol how they've retconned Techno Pop as having come out after all.

Omg only $25??? Which one(s) should I get? Can anyone tell me how impossible it'll be to get tickets to this thing?

Just how big is the "Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium"?

it's a big rectangular space with extremely high ceilings, not massive. what i'm sort of concerned about is the sound, but i'm sure kraftwerk is making them upgrade. it's on the 2nd floor of MoMA. where marina abramovic did her daily staring performances, if you remember that.

some views

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/563429697/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/563430073/

I hope it's not one of those things where tickets only go to the people who are lucky enough to refresh the sale page and click everything as quickly as possible at noon