that footage is so great, <3 frozen German teenagers
― Charles, hatless (sic), Thursday, 27 March 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
If nothing else, the official Kraftwerk YouTube channel has the three early albums represented in their entirety (as well as seemingly everything else in their discography)...
https://www.youtube.com/user/KraftwerktheOfficial
― I'm a dais, I'm a dais (zero of the signified), Thursday, 27 March 2014 06:54 (ten years ago) link
"Official" ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 March 2014 06:57 (ten years ago) link
Ralf shd just burn everything
― instant wrinkle filler (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 March 2014 07:36 (ten years ago) link
Ralf's hair is just epic in that video. Also, what a fantastic HD rip. So cool seeing these vintage videos getting archived at a nice resolution.
― octobeard, Thursday, 27 March 2014 07:39 (ten years ago) link
loooooool KraftwerktheOfficial
― Charles, hatless (sic), Thursday, 27 March 2014 08:12 (ten years ago) link
That clip is abso-fucking-lutely amazing!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 10:54 (ten years ago) link
wtf is that thing Ralf is playing?!?!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 10:55 (ten years ago) link
i'm going to the show tonight and uhh is this like a 3d glasses type thing?
― chive on you crazy diamond (diamonddave85), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it's a 3D thing, saw it at Latitude last year and the sight of an entire crowd dancing with 3D glasses on is... odd to say the least.
Some of the visuals work better than others but Tour De France and Trans Europe Express were genuinely awesome.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
ahh cool
― chive on you crazy diamond (diamonddave85), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
that Rockpalast footage is indeed awesome...
always looking for an excuse to repost this one... Dinger/Rother/Schneider doing some kinda blueprint for 'Hallogallo', date on the clip is different but looks like it might be from the same tv appearance as the 'Kakteen, Wuste, Sonne' clip posted above a long time ago...
http://youtu.be/RqGrXf8zo0k
― alb indys, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdjEqP6mhV4#t=242
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 10 April 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
THASS WHASSUP
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Thursday, 10 April 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-haWSy43Ks
― Carl F.A.Y.B.A.N. (lpz), Saturday, 12 April 2014 05:42 (ten years ago) link
It's a Tubon. The original keytar.
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 13 April 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
Wow.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
What the hell video are they dancing in that room in??
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 April 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuUuBt7nrE
― Moka, Monday, 14 April 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
Close-down of a studio for electronic music in Düsseldorf / Germany...
O_o
― business nerves (doo dah), Thursday, 17 April 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
"Die Geräte sind gebraucht und teilweise längere Zeit nicht benutzt. Aufgrund der Menge der Geräte kann deren Funktion nicht im einzelnen geprüft werden. Daher Verkauf ohne Gewährleistung."
"The devices are used and sometimes not used for a long time. Due to the amount of equipment whose function can not be examined in detail. Therefore, sales without warranty."
― business nerves (doo dah), Thursday, 17 April 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
'Ruckzuck' is all time for me!
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
So Douglas Wolk interviewed Ralf.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/29/kraftwerk-speak-the-german-electropop-act-discuss-autobahn-technology-and-hint-at-new-album.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
A bit of a cliffhanger that
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
as if
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
early concert from winter 1970 in soest with the original formation (ralf, florian & klaus) from the rockpalast archive. tracklist:- stratovarius (improvised, elemental, more an intro than a track)- ruckzuck (where the flute meets the motorik beat)- heavy metal kids (where stockhausen meets prog)- improvisation 1 (kraut rock jam)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF1B4smQL7s
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
I wanna be excited for it but "it's coming" has been their answer since like 2009
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
.. Like the first three albums' boxsets
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
is that supposedly coming? i feel like they never talk about it or reference it at all
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
When the first box finally came out, Mojo talked to Ralf, and he cryptically alluded to the delay on the first lps getting reissued was due to the tapes being in less than optimal condition ("they are very dusty" he said).
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
ooooh. hmm. it just seems odd that they also never play anything from those albums either.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
but I suppose that not many of those songs would fit in very smoothly with their Autobahn-present material
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
was just listening to this, speaking of those missing albums - a very nice radio broadcast from 1974 - http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1815
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
it doesn't seem odd at all that they don't play that stuff - it's totally different than what they're known for. they don't really play gems like "Franz Schubert" or for that matter anything off the second side of Autobahn either.
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
but am i totally making it up that they (well, Ralf at this point) seem to completely avoid ever talking about that era? I feel like that's been a standard talking point in most articles about them over the last several years
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
or for that matter anything off the second side of Autobahn either.
p sure they do at Autobahn shows
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Friday, 2 May 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
The "Ralf and Florian" album would fit in with their current shows, no problem.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 May 2014 09:49 (ten years ago) link
"Ralf"
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 2 May 2014 09:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah.
Funnily enough, I managed to get a copy for very cheap off ebay last year as they'd not 'graded' it (turned out to be mint), and they'd listed it as "Ralph and Floria" (or something like that)
― Mark G, Friday, 2 May 2014 10:06 (ten years ago) link
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-3371536-1327833218.jpeg
― back-up duck (doo dah), Friday, 2 May 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
a very nice radio broadcast from 1974 - http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1815
― tylerw, Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:50 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
had not heard this one -- thank you! great fidelity very mellow & a wonderful 'Kling Klang'.
but am i totally making it up that they (well, Ralf at this point) seem to completely avoid ever talking about that era?
might be uncomfortable for Ralf to talk about that stretch when he wasn't in the band, or how Florian, Michael, Klaus & Conny had gotten half way through recording a second KW album without him. I'm relieved those tapes have been found and transferred because it doesn't look as if we're going to be hearing them within any of the principals' lifetimes
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 May 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
Are there any other really jammy Radio Bremen type shows where they do that crazy "Ruckzuck"?
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 5 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
"Ralf and Florian" is the best. I could listen to that thing all day.
― grandavis, Monday, 5 May 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
xpost 'ruckzuck' was played in concert up till '75. the 74-75 versions are mellower 'Ralf and Florian' spins on it and there's a great one in the set tylerw just posted.
the Soest version just posted last month is on par with the Bremen one, and if you can handle the bongos, there's an Organization version in which Florian appears to be wearing a t-shirt consisting entirely of a picture of his own head - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eB-sl6ZLpo
― Milton Parker, Monday, 5 May 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
New hour long documentary on BBC4 this coming Friday.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
My wife just walked in while I was playing "Hall of Mirrors" and asked if it was Coil. Never made that connection, but I can definitely hear why she might have thought that, at least through the wall of her office.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdjEqP6mhV4&t=71
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
omg
― the lady is a bomb (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
I KNOW
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Sehr gut!
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link