Kraftwerk

just sign it and smile

It appears, from my ticket confirmation I rec'd yesterday
that there's be some nice merch on sale @ these shows.
Must remember to bring some extra $.

highly recommended: the "nippon numbers" bootleg. well-recorded document from the Computerworld tour with a surprisingly fast version of "It's More Fun to Compute"

Kraftwerk POX

Heavy Metal Kids 7:53 K4 (live june 12, 1971)
K1 15:38 K4 (live june 12, 1971)
K2 (Ruckzuck) 19:20 K4 (live june 12, 1971)
Ruckstoss-Gondoliere 11:18 Kraftwerk !/2
Autobahn 21:54 Concert Classics (19750520 Denver, Ebbets' Fields)
Mitternacht (Rdioactiv/Showroom) 12:04 19750917 - Live At The Dome, Brighton, Uk
Faust intro - Kometenmelodie 1 & 2 11:39 19760228 - Machine: l´Olympia, Paris
It's more fun to compute 8:02 19810907 - Virtu ex Machina (Live in Tokyo)
Numbers 5:25 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF
Airwaves / New Song 11:19 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF

― Milton Parker, Monday, March 17, 2008 9:48 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

trying to figure out which two I'd bump for:

The voice of energy / Uranium / Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne - 3:51 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
Pocket Calculator - 9:12 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London

― Milton Parker, Friday, December 19, 2008 7:39 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

& the car-breakdown in the 42 minute long version of Autobahn from Leverkusen 1974 is them at their weirdest

did I say "YSI?" after that three years ago?

Easier to find online now than ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNjwJLDic3o

Or the Amsterdam 76 'Europe Endless' when it was a less syncopated techno stomper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjKWN1Vzgao

Or the 75 version of 'Midnight' which still sounds like 'Kristallo' but turns into an early version of 'Showroom Dummies'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSeTZ5JymSM

The last 10 minutes of the Leverkusen gig are a completely unreleased piece which sounds like a collapsing Irish jig, it is hilarious and wonderful

I meant to post this version of 'midnight'! Leverkusen again. I like that Leverkusen gig, parts almost sound like Conny is still in the band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovWbn3f6U4

1998 tour was much better than the 2004 tour they put on the DVD

The digital pitchfeedback version of Numbers, much better than the recent live versions where they've reverted to samples from the 81 studio recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-61JCxSLQ4

One of their 3 new songs, I can see why they didn't put them out but live, they sounded great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbDHK_6Z9Q

About 6:10 into this one it became clear how much basic channel they'd been taking in, Would have been a much better thing to put out instead of expo2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxpWCO6EqCU

mp, it's just so easy to buy a ticket to NYC

wow, looks like I got a lot of searching to do. I did quite like the 1975 "Concert Classics" (!?) album, which had something called "Klingklang" which sounded a lot more like the land they use on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood when they go into Make-Believe land, it's really goood

still listening to "Nippon Numbers", I just remembered that Ralf kind of starts rapping two-thirds through Autobahn, all the places you can go "Auf Leon auf Madrid auf der Autobahn"...then to "Auf Hongkong auf Tokyo auf der Aero-plane", ha!!

oof that 42-minute Autobahn is Autobahn-tastic! thx for posting.

http://thequietus.com/articles/08460-kraftwerk-jls

(from right to left)
Aston = Ralf
Marvin = Florian
JB = Wolfgang
Oritsé = Karl

Aston has that worried look that Ralf sometimes has, while Marvin seems more confident. Oritsé looks the youngest, so he's Karl, which leaves JB as Wolfgang.

already? jeez. from Pithfork:

As part of Kraftwerk's eight-night retrospective New York museum residency this month, the band will release a limited-edition box set of all eight of their albums. 2,000 copies of the set will be sold on the Museum of Modern Art's website, and at gift shops in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and MoMA/PS1 in Queens. It'll include remastered versions of the set released in 2009 (the massive reissue The Catalogue).

are they already dated sounding or something?

I love Kraftwerk but this stuff doesn't surprise me. They're in this for the $$ now it seems - much like any other self-respecting band looking to milk their back catalogue with a "reunion tour".

Pitchfork's phrasing is kinda unclear - it's a limited edition, 2000 copies, numbered edition of the Catalogue box in a black sleeve (original was white). I'm a MOMA member, so I bought one - $175 after taxes and shipping.

yeah this really doesn't look like anything other than the 2009 version

Can't believe that a band 3/4 comprised of decades-long non-creative employees of Kling Klang Corp are now "in it for the money" *shakes head sadly*

Appalled that the ruthless director of Kling Klang is doing such grossly mercantile things as: diligently learning and rehearsing multiple arrangements of dozens of songs, to be performed once each, for a hugely remunerative audience of approx 10000 payers over a week

The MoMA set is going up now in the museum

My guess is tha number is far far less than 10,000. I would the number is prolly around 3500.

**guess the number is***

Looks small:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7m5lyld

i'd think if they wanted more money they'd just do more shows, these guys sell out everywhere

don't really think they need more money exactly, do think that they and their fans are obsessive audiophiles

The exhibitions at PS1 and not MoMA, right? I think I'll be up to see it next week

Set List:
"We Are the Robots"
"Autobahn"
"Kometenmelodie 1 & 2"
"Mitternacht" / "Morgenspaziergang"
"Radioactivity"
"Trans-Europe Express"
"The Model"
"Man-Machine"
"Numbers" / "Computer World"
"Computer Love" (The Mix version)
"Home Computer" (The Mix version)
"Tour de France" / "Aerodynamik"
"Expo 2000"
"Boing Boom Tschak" / "Techno Pop" / "Musique Non-Stop"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/music/kraftwerk-retrospective-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-review.html
http://www.spin.com/articles/kraftwerk-invade-moma-residency-byte-museum

Kraftwerk revisited the “Autobahn” album rather than reproducing its exact timbres and proportions. It held on to its instrumental passages and the generally somber melodic lines of the album’s other tracks but played them from a changed perspective — for instance, trading the album’s upbeat hints of 1950s and ’60s rock for something more steady-state. The most transformed track was “Morgenspaziergang” (“Morning Walk”), which in 1974 juxtaposed synthesized burbles and tweets — oscillator birdsong — with its tune played on a wooden flute. Now the tune came from a keyboard, true to the latter-day Kraftwerk.

I really, really hope someone is recording these

my ex is going tonight; i am not the plus one
:/

Got my copy of the box in today's mail. #0052 of 2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN44hS1_AmU

Whoops this one is much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2V8bng6Zs

I'm so curious as to what they'll do to Radio-Activity tonight... It's such a strange and singular record in their catalog. I still cannot believe I'm going!

autobahn & radioactivity were the two I was most interested in going to precisely because they're the ones likely to sound the most different

seriously you guys, if any of you get a lead on even the most sawed-off room recording, drop me a line

Awesome couple of videos, but the first one demonstrates what it would be like to have a burst eardrum at a Kraftwerk gig.

milt, if you get one, hook up your old pal Xerox

so, my gf won tickets and I'm going to TEE... :-D

Apparently VW hung onto 25% of the tickets, wtf

Hung onto? That's sponsorship. MoMa and Kraftwerk and VW must have agreed on that, so your wtf should be aimed at all parties.

Went last night. Very well done by the MOMA. Ticket pick up was easy, the room wasn't crowded in the least (could have fit at least 100 more folks in there, if they wanted.) Radio-Activity pasrt of the shwo was the highlight (naturally) and they followed it up with a nice lengthy version of Autobahn where, I think, they mixed things up a bit from the original. Trans Europe Express was a standout as well.

Even though it was a great event I can't help thinking that there will probably be an SNL skit making fun of these shows. The teutonic seriousness in which they were presented could easily be seen as comic by some.

sorta been done

http://www.popscreen.com/assets/thumbs/v/original/5661102ngO_o.jpg

Yeah but if any of the SNL writers were there they have some new material to work with.

The teutonic seriousness in which they were presented could easily be seen as comic by some.

yeah but Kraftwerk have always had a sly comic element to them. "The Robots" is really funny especially when the robots themselves appear onstage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5P7RsC9TI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K2bdJb_ewY

Fred Armisen was there last night, so maybe!

One original member. This is like Wings performing the works of the Beatles, with Linda and Denny Laine squeezed into John and George's old Beatles suits.