Kraftwerk

Feel quite emotional looking at that pic.

behind the mask of the machine...a man

Lays Kettle Chips + a bottle of white zin

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 7, 2020

which flavour???

wine flavour duh

otm

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In tribute, I am trying to dress up like Kraftwerk circa “The Man-Machine.” Problem is, I forgot how to tie a tie.
Can you help? I never knew.
This is how far she's gotten:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXYhKciUYAEik_G?format=jpg&name=900x900

Thread...

June 8 1998 was one of the most important nights of my life. Kraftwerk played a absolutely breathtaking show at the Palladium (the last tour w synths instead of laptops), after EVERYONE was headed Kontrol Faktory - LA's legendary all industrial club. And when I say everyone...

— Das Bunker (@DASBUNKER) May 6, 2020

Great story. Takes me back to many fantastic nights at Kontrol and Helter Skelter

Michael Rother remembers Florian from school days, early studio play, enduring inspiration etc.:
https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/read-michael-rothers-eulogy-to-florian-schneider-126501/

A piece from the archives i just re-read, the predictably on point
Pushing Ahead Of The Dame, talking about Bowie, Berlin, Kraftwerk etc

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/v-2-schneider/

xp It still occasionally amazes me that Michael Rother played in Kraftwerk, Neu! and Harmonia.

+ I have his first three solo albums ID3 tagged as Rother / Liebezeit / Plank

been going through the 1990 KW bootlegs. last tour with Karl Bartos, though it's Hilpert playing raw live percussion. lots of extremely different versions of the 90's digital retool of 'Numbers', and 'Autobahn' traffic jams are top. probably the last hurrah for them as an actual live band; the only real reason to go through different nights of any given tour after '91 is for fidelity reasons

That Pushing Ahead piece reminded me that you can draw a straight line from "V-2 Schneider" to Einstürzende Neubauten's "Kalte Sterne" (they have the same underlying pulse):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-oXfqqgVE

my little tribute here:
https://critterjams.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/endless-endless/

speaking of Kraftwerk covers, new for Aboriginal / first nations charities, in homage to both Florian and Weatherall - a 15-minute Neon Lights cover (plus 10-minute remix)) by Jono Ma (from Pnau/Jagwar Ma), Jonti (Danimals/live Avalanches), Stella Mogzawa (Warpaint/the XX/Kurt & Courtney), Ewan Pearson (Ewan Pearson) & pals

Ewan Pearson (Ewan Pearson)

thank you for this, I knew the name sounded familiar...

Ah, you’re partial to his arts

Echo..

^ That Neon Lights cover is rather lovely and would have sounded excellent at ALFOSes I'm sure.

new kraftwerk dropped lads:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5FvNOnZtP0dQKZbDQ1uhGy?si=eOOM4BwmQCueKyK6Wm_5HA

What's at the link?

This is really just a playlist of remixes that were previously released. Nothing new about it.

yes

karl bartos solo material is just as good except his rock release!

honestly p stoked the Orbital remix is finally on spotify

I was all "Oh Oh.... oh."

Never mind, I have enough copies of the Vertigo albums...

was thinking it would be funny to do a "Bohemian Rhapsody" style biopic of Jean-Michel Jarre. the only scene I have nailed down is Jarre buying Autobahn and hearing "Kometenmelodie 2" for the first time. his mind instantly rockets through the cosmos, like in the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. you keep seeing him make the faces from the Vince McMahon gif. he wakes up drenched in sweat, comes downstairs and says "Dad...I don't want to take piano lessons anymore"

Would watch!

I had a dream about Kraftwerk last night. they did a show in Madison (?) and the setlist was:

Ruckzuck
Neon Lights
Supper's Ready
Electric Cafe - with 5 cats in wireframe suits. 4 of them ran away, the other one flopped on its belly and everyone said "awww"

then the curtains closed and I grabbed a beer out of a vending machine (?) which came with a shot of Fireball for 27 dollars. I used my wife's credit card.

the curtains lifted and some guy comes out and says "sorry ze robot is broken, we cannot play, Auf Wiedersehen." and everyone stood up and booed and threw pretzels

sorry, had to write this down somewhere

amazing, tyvm

hoping your wife is cool with the beer expenditure, otherwise it's Computerliebe from here on

4 of them ran away, the other one flopped on its belly and everyone said "awww"

I will retrofit this onto the Kraftwerk canon or die trying

Supper's Ready is the key element here

Excellent.