wow, that is the highest quality transfer I have ever seen of the 1981 TV live special. if anyone comes across the rest of that in the same HD quality, please post back here, you can finally even see the shape of the switches & all their gear clearly
― Milton Parker, Friday, 1 April 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
not HD, in fact terrible quality, but someone heard my prayer and filmed Florian chatting about synthesisers for 10 minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBs0lx0ghgo
― Sehr Kornisch (Branwell with an N), Monday, 4 April 2016 08:56 (eight years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/home/dangerou/dangerousminds.net/html/content/uploads/images/made/chrootcontent/uploads/images/MTQwMjM4MzE0OTA4MTY1MzUy_465_302_int.jpghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/davidsanborn/sets/72157660043445738/
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Friday, 22 July 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
good tim jonze interview with ralf here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/15/kraftwerk-ralf-hutter-music-about-intensity-the-rest-is-just-noise
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 09:32 (seven years ago) link
We meet on the eve of the general election, and so, to break the ice, I tell him how, ever since the leaders debates in 2010, pictures of UK politicians stood sombrely at lecterns have come to be labelled by online wits as the “worst Kraftwerk gig ever”. Curious, Hütter looks at a picture on my phone of a besuited Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron, and nods in agreement: “Because there’s only three of them,” he says. “One missing.”
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 09:33 (seven years ago) link
looooool
― frogbs, Friday, 16 June 2017 13:12 (seven years ago) link
oh my god no that cannot be real
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 16 June 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
kraftwerk's deadpan humour is one of my favourite things about them
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2017 13:19 (seven years ago) link
i loled hard when i read that part of the interview this morning... glad to find someone posted it here.
― new noise, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
I liked this part too
Did it surprise Hütter when black audiences in New York and Detroit took it to their hearts and used it as a building block for hip-hop and techno?“Yes and no,” he says. “Because I have white and black keys on my piano.”
“Yes and no,” he says. “Because I have white and black keys on my piano.”
― frogbs, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
to say i am buzzed to the max re tomorrow would be an understatement ...
― mark e, Friday, 16 June 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Has Ralf been listening to 'Ebony and Ivory'? :D
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 19 June 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
By the way, one thing I noticed in the CD box set is: Every track has very specific credits for words, music, every individual. Not seen that before..
― Mark G, Monday, 19 June 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
finally caved and bought the new CD boxset. it's quite good, the versions on discs 1-6 are more different than the originals (and The Mix) than I expected. kinda cool to see them rearranging the tracks and grouping the similar stuff together, i.e. the "Franz Schubert/Europe Endless" medley. I do think some of the magic is lost but they still sound great. new versions of "Airwaves" and "Antenna" are excellent. plus they turn "Telephone Call" into a real jam and just forego the vocals entirely. I'm on Disc 7 (the 3-D headphone version of "The Mix") and it's giving me a headache. Haven't heard the Tour de France disc yet, can't imagine it's much different though. still, worth the 40 bucks.
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
they turn "Telephone Call" into a real jam and just forego the vocals entirely
Anything to do with the fact that Karl Bartos sang it originally? And Ralf didn't like his vocal either - too emotional.
― Tonight I Cut My Temple Teeth (Tom D.), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
yeah that's probably exactly the reason.
funny to hear a 70 year-old Hutter sing "Sex Object". what a strange tune that is.
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09g0m2q
HCMF40 (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - Radio 3)
The programme features music from the arch-experimentalist ensemble zeitkratzer and their tribute to the iconic German band Kraftwerk, with live performances of numbers from their critically acclaimed albums "Kraftwerk" and "Kraftwerk 2".
(disclaimer, i haven't listened to this yet)
― koogs, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 09:25 (six years ago) link
lol
https://www.facebook.com/slonkdoinks/photos/a.168057427228648.1073741829.167602750607449/176822806352110/?type=3&theater
― frogbs, Friday, 25 May 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIbSkw4yvec
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 24 August 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
they turn "Telephone Call" into a real jam
The "3-D" version of Music Non Stop rules. That track is so much about the control of the digital effects that it's ripe for these software updates. They do a thing towards the end where the bass rises an octave and it's going through a phaser and some nice delay and then they drop the sub bass back in followed by the rising synth choirs. It's such an obvious tech house move but done with class and a wink.
― never knowingly otm (Noel Emits), Friday, 20 December 2019 11:32 (four years ago) link
I barely ever listen to Electric Café but when I saw them live "Music Non Stop" was probably the highlight of the whole performance
― frogbs, Friday, 20 December 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
Same (on the Minimum Maximum tour)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 20 December 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
I don't think I've seen this anywhere else... Really nice recording from Ottawa 1975. The dude has kindly included a FLAC download in the comments, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIT3naKlyWI&
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
Sweet.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
Brilliant, thanks for the heads up.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
Just gone up on D1me too, saying it's a different date and venue -
The Garden Auditorium (The Gardens) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada May 7th, 1975
Notes on the show:
An incredible find that only just recently came to light after sitting for some 45 years. This comes courtesy of J.T. who got it from Saul Smaizys. If that name sounds familiar, he interviewed Ralf & Florian in April of 1975 on WXRT radio in Chicago for an article he would later write from that interview. In talking with those in the Kraftwerk community, we have deduced that this show is from Vancouver. Should further details come to light, I will update. Of particular interest is the very WEIRD intro to Kometenmelodie I. Ralf & Karl have a slight improv jam on vibes & the Vako Orchestron's "Vocal Choir." Sadly this tape suffers from lots of hiss and what sounds like radio bleed-through from another station
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
Thanks! Listening now!
― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 30 April 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
this is great. fidelity not quite as high as the Denver / Concert Classics boot but good enough and it might be a better performance -- and, this one is the complete show. probably my favorite 'Kling Klang' straight out
fun to hear them introduce 'Ruckzuck' with 'this is a song about trains' and then afterwards say 'that was the Trans Canada Express'. the jam in the middle hasn't quite turned into 'Metal On Metal' yet but it's definitely now about trains! on the late 1975 shows they'd replaced the flute entirely with Orchestron and Minimoog, and the 'Ruckzuck' flute opening played on the Orchestron string patch literally becomes the eventual studio version of T.E.E. good examples of that on Croydon & Brighton, if you never get bored of 70's KW boots
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
i'm having a hard time being enthusiastic about kraftwerk after hearing green gartside tell a story in an interview in which he recounts one of them saying that they hate reggae.
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
That turns you off from their music? Unless they explicitly said something racist, having strong opinions about music is hardly a crime.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
to me that detail is funny
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
It's a subtle distinction, did they actually say 'hate'? What was it Moz said, that Reggae was 'vile'?
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
look i just said i don't want to listen to kraftwerk lately because of that. but you're right gerald mcboing-boing having opinions about music isn't a crime, thanks for pointing that out.
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
wonder what Kraftwerk made of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ntXAqn4B4
― soref, Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
i think it's weird that two people are feeling the need to defend kraftwerk from racism right off the bat tbh, not liking reggae obviously doesn't mean someone's racist. i mean it's humanizing, kraftwerk are obviously amazing but they're also just people. still, not liking reggae kind of sucks.
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
green says one of them said "we hate reggae"
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
directly to him
idk it's just kind of stuck in my head but w/e. i'll always love kraftwerk and don't think the impressiveness of their project has to have anything to do with liking reggae or not.
― i am a horse girl (map), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
I just read an admittedly pretty gossipy book about the Dusseldorf music scene and Kraftwerk come in for a fair amount of stick in that!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
Wolfgang Flur getting kicked up the arse, more than once, by some punks was quite amusing though. He could see the funny side.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
Kraftwerk probably one of the few bands that made it out of the 70s and 80s without trying a single reggae tune
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
is there a "failed reggae diversions" thread?
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Geir left us with this, which probably counts:
White boy does reggae music
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Except it's not just white guys who can't do reggae. Also this:
A reggae song by a person or band that has no business playing a reggae song
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
oh dear @ that first one
the second one, yes, that's what I mean
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
I was just interested to know if they actually used the word 'hate', is all.
People often tend to use it instead of simply 'dislike', the former obviously being much more robust.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
Hall Of Mirrors would work quite well as a reggae song, thinking about it
― all things must pasteurize (Matt #2), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
this vancouver show rules ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
Somebody should do an album of reggae Kraftwerk covers just to piss off Ralf.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
Not reggae obvs, but this album used to entertain me for hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGnFF5w5sro
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 30 April 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link