1 Numbers 2 Computer World 3 Pocket Calculator 4 The Robots 5 Home Computer

Let's be honest here: nothing - outside of Mozart or Beethoven - has surpassed this for sheer creative genius; and possibly never will.

Florian impersonating the calculator sounds while looking at the camera had me laughing.. RIP Florian

@FireStormDel

Жыл бұрын

In general, seemed like they had fun playing Pocket Calculator, especially with how Florian and Ralf let the up-close audience have a quick turn at playing their instruments. Plus Karl is smiling quite a bit too, but I think it could be because he's seen the camera on stage and either can't keep in character knowing he's going to have his dancing seen by people on TV or because he was just having so much fun.

@Fuchsfein

9 ай бұрын

I read in Karl's book that Florian came up with the idea for Pocket Calculator when he brought a bag of toy instruments to the studio one day. It's the one song where he was clearly having fun in concerts. Seems he had a nice sense of humour. I can think of a couple of videos where Florian was goofing around. His mad scientist smile on BBC's Tomorrow's World in 1975. He gave bunny ears to the moderator at Discoring in 1981. He did silly air guitar poses during Pocket Calculator in New York in 1998. The audience loved it. He slowed down the robovox during Autobahn in Paris 2002 until Fritz next to him started laughing... Florian's Silverstar Club 1988 interview is also entertaining. He demonstrated the TI Language Translator he used in 1981 to do the computer voices on Numbers etc. He was cool and unique. It's inspiring. RIP Florian

@joshwizinsky1979

9 ай бұрын

@@Fuchsfein Kraftwerk just feels weird without him

@Fuchsfein

9 ай бұрын

@@joshwizinsky1979 I feel so too, it's not the same without Florian The sound of the concerts changed too after he left

Anyone who witnessed these shows in person was fucking blessed.

@fredschmitt456

9 ай бұрын

Fucking true!

@vapeurdepisse

5 ай бұрын

I did!!

@slickepinne

Күн бұрын

@@vapeurdepisse where, when?

Electronic Music Legend ! Poland Loves Kraftwerk ;-)

0:20 - Numbers 1:32 - Computer World 2:35 - Pocket Calculator 5:13 - Der Roboter (The Robots) 7:53 - Home Computer

It's time for a good Kraftwerk documentary

@todd_sines

11 ай бұрын

I don't think Ralf would allow it

@kgplay8066

6 ай бұрын

@@todd_sinescan you give more context? Why he wouldn’t allow it?

@Blank_Frank

5 ай бұрын

ARTE (german/french channel) did a pretty good one a few years ago

Music from the future.

Man, The Robots was so epic, it needed both the human-robots and the robot-robots to perform it.

Kraftwerk are the perfect band ❤️🖤

This is one of the best Kraftwerk live videos on KZread, thanks for sharing! Saw them on their most recent Kraftwerk 3D tour, amazing

@TeknoTim2002

4 ай бұрын

Especially impressive considering how early this is in the video recording era, even before MTV.

What a badass way to leave the stage

@spurv

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and New Order took notice.

1982 i was 5 and as a child love kratwerk sound! i remember "space lab" maked me so fear !

Greatest fucking band of all time

Still impressive what they did back in the times.

Went to see them at Glasgow Apollo in the early 80s. The nearest I’ve came to a spiritual experience.

"Musique non-stop!"

Such a shame they abandoned this fantastic setup for laptops and hiding behind consoles that show nothing. When the curtains opened the audience gasped. And rightly so.

@RampinUp46

11 ай бұрын

While I agree with you, it's understandable really; one of the synths they used back in the day (the EMS Synthi-A) runs around $21,000 at a minimum today and most of the stuff they used on this tour isn't cheap either, whereas digital is slightly less of a pain in the ass to deal with in some cases, so it's either pack up a bunch of synths that cost insane amounts of money and hope they don't get broken, stolen, or die onstage, or upgrade with the times out of pragmatism.

@rickjansen3823

11 ай бұрын

I understand too, but I feel that going digital lost us the Kraftwerk I loved. Bartos describes it well in his book.

@rickjansen3823

11 ай бұрын

@@RampinUp46 not that they actually fiddled with the equipment in old Kling Klang while on stage. Only very few times, and in the dark, with little torches. Much of the equipment seemed to be there just for show, like the EMS vocoder 5000. And the big sequencer on the left behind Hütter was only functioning during The Robots.

@Fuchsfein

9 ай бұрын

I feel there were certain rhythmic irregularities in Kraftwerk's concerts that made the music so exciting to me. A big part of this was manually played percussion. In the 70s, in 1981 and from 1990 to 1992 they had live percussion on many tracks and it created an exciting, slightly irregular rhyhtm to the music that was missing in later concerts. The 2nd big change came in 2002. The feel of the music changed drastically when they abandoned hardware synths. Now every note is set in stone with perfect computerised precision, and let's be honest, it is boring. I understand why they do it, it made playing concerts much easier to no longer have to carry their huge Kling Klang Studio around with them. But musically it's a downgrade in many ways. Listening to earlier concerts I find myself hooked to the rhythms in a way that is no longer possible with the laptops.

@sub-jec-tiv

3 ай бұрын

Their 1991 setup was a great compromise. They still had gear onstage but it wasn’t the expensive vintage stuff.

You can hear the funk influence in The Robots

10:27 When you see that's a REAL live ^^

The black community in the US was blastin this back in the 80's.

@_ifstcuvifugig

11 ай бұрын

It's interesting that when people are talking about black music, electro and Detroit techno in the 80's completely fly under the radar.

@adrianwoods7720

11 ай бұрын

@@_ifstcuvifugig Since Kraftwerk influenced Africa Bambatta with the haunting, futuristic apocalyptic rhythms and break dancers in the US danced to Kraftwerk at the time, Kraftwerk was considered to be part of the instrumental hip hop genre like this song - kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYyE0tCgYce3kco.html.

@illegalquantity

10 ай бұрын

I really don't understand why they did that. There were several black musicians who was inspired by the Kraftwerk's music.

@jnnx

9 ай бұрын

Late 70’s was when they discovered “Numbers”, you just 2000, and LATE, SON!

@vapeurdepisse

5 ай бұрын

Kraftwerk inspired the creation of hip hop and house in Detroit

Saw these guys in Sydney 1981, next 2003 at Big Day Out Concert in Sydney, again 2013 Sydney Opera House 3D concert, looking forward to seeing these guys in Brisbane this year, looooooove their music

@FeatherGlow1

9 ай бұрын

They're coming to Brisbane? When? I'd love to see them.

They also dance!

This absolutely amazing!@

Wonderful, thanks!

5:12 M a s t e r p i e c e

@jayanthony2342

9 ай бұрын

Yes

NOW THIS IS HOW ELECTRONIC MUSIC SHOULD EB PERFORMED LIVE

This is fucking amazing

Thanks!

Magnificent!!!

Minimoog, Polymoog, Roland MC-8, Syndrum Quad. Can you identify any more?

@Fuchsfein

9 ай бұрын

I know that Florian played a Prophet 5 in 1981. It can be seen during Numbers at 00:00:46 in the video.

@RodMacQuarrie

9 ай бұрын

@@Fuchsfein Yes, Prophet-5 was used all over the Computer World album.

thanks

GENIUSES !!!

THIS IS FUCKIN' AMAZING. THANKS.

graat technopop is kraftwerk😮😮😮

Super

@polytonic6493

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Los reyes de la electrónica ningun djsito que necesita samplear música de otro los va a superar

Sick

Who actually produced this show? It looks like it was shot on film, so a full restoration is a possibility.

@80ssynthfan48

9 ай бұрын

If it's Austrian TV then maybe it was produced by ORF.

🖤

Looks like they were in a hurry when performing Numbers!

Now we must do the Sprockets dance!

Ich bin so aufgeregt!!! (aber, ich bin Englisch)

4:37 🤣

I like the part where it goes boop

Can anyone identify the keyboard that Karl is using.

@80ssynthfan48

9 ай бұрын

Could be custom made. I don't see any brand-distinctive marks or writing.

Anyone have a translation of what's being said at 5:10?

@barbarossa7231

2 ай бұрын

We call ourselves music workers

"Die Robotor" spielen sie zu langsam. Warum?

2:35

Here is the full special: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXhpzctvpLa_n7w.html

🦾

🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻 🟥🟥🟥🟥 🎹🎹🎹🎹

tnere is no techno unless there iis Kraftwerk.

Too bad the rap community diluted Electronic music, ruined it actually!! This was pure genius!!!

@a_nick_t

Жыл бұрын

Nonsense 🤦🏽‍♂️

@femme-mirage

Жыл бұрын

True!!!

@alfiekershaw2946

Жыл бұрын

i have to disagree mate, rap payed homage to kraftwerk in its early days, and it evolved and morphed as every genre does. admittedly i’m a bigger fan of kraftwerk than i am of rap but things change and that’s cool! kraftwerk were and always will be the godfathers of modern music.

@johnstjohn6658

Жыл бұрын

EDM, Hip-Hop, House, New Wave, Freestyle,... Many genres owe parts of their starts to groups like Kraftwerk, YMO and the like.

@allzverev

11 ай бұрын

@@johnstjohn6658 from that period the track "sharevari" comes to mind. it seems that "the dirt bombes" were inspired by kraftwerk also.

All pre-recorded, the rest is smoke and mirrors, discuss ...

Horrible to hear for me

Que belleza