Eine, zwei, drei... the Kraftwerk thread

[Blue Velvet]

Appropriate group for a computer forum thread, I thought...

What can I say?
Mega-influential reclusive technoids from Düsseldorf... I love 'em!

Heard Autobahn on radio as a kid, thought -- wow!
(along with Donna Summer/Moroder's I Feel Love)

Fab site:
www.kraftwerk.com

Lucky to see this concert:
The Mix tour, Academy -- Brixton

Fave albums:
Computer World
Trans Europe Express
Man Machine
(Warming to: Tour De France Soundtracks and The Mix)

Rumours are:
New digitally re-mastered (Kling-Klang Remaster) versions of all previous albums released soon. Anybody know more about these?

...Boing Boom Tschak!

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says...yup - been listeing to Kraftwerk since the Autobahn days...missed the Autobahn tour (no $$ at the time) but did catch the Computer World tour in '81 - good show! Supposedly these remasters are still coming (including the first three pre-Autobahn ones) but then again they were originally supposed to be out this past august - as with anything Kraftwerk delays and more delays seems to be the norm...who knows when they will actually come out.....out yeah!

[Blue Velvet]

What surprised me about the show I saw was how light-hearted it was and also spontaneous too.

I thought it might have been completely programmed but they had these little hand-held devices which they held out to the audience and when people touched them, they played these (admittedly, synchronized) notes.

But you had still had a sense of people playing instruments...
There was just a fun air about the whole thing. With a dancy vibe, too!

I wanted to see them again recently in London but all shows sold out :(

[brap]

Gods.

Gods, I tell you! Single-handedly responsible for me being where I am today.
If I hadn't heard Die Mensch-Maschine when I was... 4, or 5 or something... I dread to think. "Uncle Nigel, can you play that red one again please?" :D

Still ranks as my #2 or #3 favourite album, ever. Trans-Europe express is always welcome, though I have to be in a particular frame of mind to deal with Radio-Activity. Their new(est) one is excellent, too; thus proving their eternal dominance of everything electronic despite having to be in their ...what, 40s or 50s? Who else can weather that well, hm?

[Blue Velvet]

Karl Bartos' 'Communication' album.

:(

Songs by the 'drummer'? Hmmm...

[brap]

Karl Bartos' 'Communication' album.

:(

Songs by the 'drummer'? Hmmm...
"I'm the message" (the only track I've heard - I have the CDS) ********* rules! The Orbital remix is a bit of a letdown though. Been meaning to get hold of that album, actually...

[Duff-Man]

Karl Bartos' 'Communication' album.

:(

Songs by the 'drummer'? Hmmm...Duff-Man says...I picked up that CD last year when I was in Switzerland....I think it is much much better than the latest Kraftwerk offering - it's bright and alive...the Kraftwerk seemed so...you know...treading water, nothing new....oh yeah!

[applemacdude]

Haha o tought this thread was going to talk about Rammstein "sonne"...(didnt see "the Kraftwerk thread".......

[vollspacken]

KRAFTWERK, love'em..! :D

I saw them in Cologne this year, excellent show :)

I missed Bartos on a summer festival in August because I was drunk and fell asleep :(

vSpacken