Early 80s Kraftwerk was definitely where they peaked and where they were in their prime. Everything was perfect. The machine-sound, the rythms, the instrument arsenal and especially their live performances.

@cc-hl9yo

4 жыл бұрын

in terms of popularity, sure they peaked

@joelsimon8644

2 жыл бұрын

From 1977 to 1983 more precisely.. It was their creative peak

@pankaburek59

2 жыл бұрын

@@joelsimon8644 eletric cafe was ok but it broke band And they stooped using analog stuff

Easily Kraftwerk's best rendition of metropolis. Sounds kinda dark, too. Metropolis was, in my opinion, one of the more brooding/heavier songs Kraftwerk made. It always felt like walking through a jungle of steel, glass, and concrete. This version sounds almost as if you're running, trying to escape. That's the reason why Metropolis is my favorite Kraftwerk song.

_Florian_ ❤ _Rest in peace_

Rest In Peace Florian. Thank you for the music ❤️

@ilpaperonedepresso4645

3 жыл бұрын

@Andreas Kutz No

The best version of METROPOLIS ever!

@Fardeus

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@goredoll

3 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%

This was in Utrecht, december 1981, I was there. Ralf used a mouth tube here (talk box?). The electronic flute was not used in this concert, as far as I remember. This Metropolis is my all time fav live experience. Absolutely stunning, almost 40 years later I still remember.

@robertoferrigato1998

3 жыл бұрын

lucky boy

@rickjansen3823

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertoferrigato1998 I wish there was a video of this concert, It would be so much better than all the silly Katalog and 3D... This stage set was amazing. It was so disappointing to see them with laptops later, and the current live set does not come close either. Just my opinion, of course.

@robertoferrigato1998

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickjansen3823 Totally agree with you, regards

@pankaburek59

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickjansen3823 there's a 1:53 long utrecht pocket calculator video Now let's wish there's a 1 hour video too

@rickjansen3823

2 жыл бұрын

@@pankaburek59 I have seen that video clip too, don't know if they recorded the full concert. There were tv cameras there, of the NL broadcasting VPRO. It would be a lot better than all the videos of "modern" concerts.

I love how the first "Metropolis" is so stretched and distorted that it doesn't sound like a word anymore.

This is by far the best Metropolis version

Definitely the best version of Metropolis i have ever heard. Awesome beat.

@Fardeus

3 жыл бұрын

yes

They were best in the early eighties in music and style. (red-black suits and the equipments) The stage was like an interior of a huge alien ship with extraterrestrials in uniform. The music was also it's like from another world.

@neils8443

3 жыл бұрын

They somehow tapped into a wavelenght from another dimension.. how lucky are we ❤

This and the 3D version of Metropolis really sound like Cyberpunk music and I love it

@Tigershark_3082

Жыл бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree! One of the biggest reasons I even got into making music was because of this song

RIP my beloved Florian.Thanks for the feelings and the memories of my 20 years...

Now this song sounds like it should be in a 10/10 action shooter game. One of the best versions of metropolis I ever heard

This live sound is amazing, it's really _imperative._

Vangelis must have heard that song when He was creating Blade Runner's music

Awesome! Must have been so cool hearing these guys for the first time back n the day ❤

@klaskatt

8 ай бұрын

Yeah it was, I was 12 years of age 1978 when I bought Kraftwerk - The Mensch Machine. For me it was something very hard to explain, some sort of wow, this kind of sounds and music is definitely for me ;). It ended up in the late 80s (1989) with me and my best friend owning one of the greatest collection of Kraftwerk material ( different record pressings , very rare bootlegs , autographs, posters, Kraftwerk books, and super rare recordings, and other memorial stuff.When my friend died, I held on to my share of our collection a few years. Then I sold it to a foreign collector around 1995. Sold it for around 6000 euro. Some of the stuff I sold, I never seen again out on different collectors internet community's. Im very pleased and glad that the collection got in the hands of this Englishman ;).

Oh, and the new rythmic arrangment! Fresh! Close to british synthpop.

This version has a nice rhythm pattern.

Saw Kraftwerk a couple of years ago. Wish I could have seen them. back in the days when they brought their whole studio on tour. It was all tablets and midi keyboards on their podiums. Still cool, but they are about the machinery and man as one.

@j.maxell3030

2 жыл бұрын

El sonido NRG de Giorgio Moroder y sus bases electronicas a EDM que inicia en 1977

I have always admired KRAFTWERK'S Timeless minimalist style look & sound.

THE FATHER OF electronic music!

Love them in that age, love their stage!!

Best version ever

Genios innovadores los padres del techno pop

Tema de 1981 en directo. Han pasado más de cuarenta años y sigue siendo una de mis mayores inspiraciones.

Im grow up in the 80's many new wave sounds is similar to them later i found out they were the pioneer of synthesizer sounds. Nice sounds those sound become similar to remix, trance, dance, hiphop sound nowaday. Many of which created thru software based instruments like midi keyboard, dj mixer controller, drum module machine all of which rooted in synthesizer

It's my impression, or in the 1981 tour the songs got more rhythm?

@Blank_Frank

5 жыл бұрын

During the last few shows of the "Computerwelt Tour", Kraftwerk intentionally sped up the tempo for all the songs in order to complete the show much faster, because they were tired of touring (the tour started in march) and eager to go home. You can thank Wolfgang Flur for that info, since he wrote it down in his awesome autobiograhpy, "I Was A Robot". I do like very much the Munich & Utrecht 1981 shows for these sped up versions. "Metropolis" was added very late in the setlist, sometime during the last leg of the tour, in december 1981. This version is just stunning...

Wow! This machine is so Good! Rest in peace Florian ❤

I saw them in Glasgow on this tour

@lordtherapeutics

Ай бұрын

Saw them at Southampton, aged 14. What memories!

Fantastic version. For info...The lead synth is played by Florian on his electronic flute

@raspberry144mb3

5 жыл бұрын

He must've found a way to route the flute's pitch into the vocoder's synthesis' pitch and keyboard control gates.

@hariputter

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome info. Do You have more details on how it all works? And the voices? Is Florian singing this through the vocoder? And what is Ralf doing?

@klingklangwerk3319

3 жыл бұрын

@@hariputter the E-Flute was designed by Florian and built by Peter Bollig. It had it's own electronics unit behind Florians Keyboard in the 81 stage configuration. He is also using the vocoder through his headset. The electronics are also behind him on the back consoles. Ralf is playing backing or filler chords on a Polymoog and its sound is organ-like. This version was only played live in the dec 81 mini tour in Holland, Austria and Germany. They had also remixed and redis some of the drums and songs for this mini tour and their uniform was red shirt and black tie, again, ONLY for this mini tour. Metropolis was given over to Florian as his solo song you could say. As his role in the 81 tour had bored him and almost led to him leaving the tour. This song was an attempt to show what Florian can do live. It is their best version of Metropolis from any era

@hariputter

3 жыл бұрын

klingklang werk awesome. Thanks for the details bro. Love it. Do you know any other magical examples from Florian on stage? Other songs for example?

@klingklangwerk3319

3 жыл бұрын

@@hariputter yes indeed. In the 81 tour, Florian also did a solo vocoder song which was unreleased. Die mun, die sterne. It segued into Ohm sweet Ohm and Florian plays the e flute on this as well. The only other song that flute is used is on Autobahn. The original working name of the epads were "drusks". Because of the white noise sound. They decided to keep it with electronic percussion. Karl only occasionally played them live; during a small segment of Autobahn and also on the speeded up ending of the live version of Schauffensterpuppen. Karl played a customised Korg base synth with wooden amps. Bass sounds need wooden amps as they give best woofer sounds. They blew these almost every concert and the supply company pulled out of supplying them any more. Some whimsical info

This is fantastic i do nt think i have this particular live version before

THX!!

@silverwheel

4 жыл бұрын

1138!

@MeditantOnYTBreaking

3 жыл бұрын

Did you intend at 1:06, petridis?

Great one

I came here because of Millennial Woes (videos on the Netherlands, March 2017).

eargasm

Wow. Good pratinence!

What is going on with that photo of the dolls kissing each other at 5:13...?

@Blank_Frank

5 жыл бұрын

You have to read Wolfgang Flur's "I Was A Robot" book to understand that picture... ;-)

@pankaburek59

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blank_Frank i really intereseted what happends here I think it's kind of joke

@femme-mirage

Жыл бұрын

@@pankaburek59 it was a joke made by W. F. ;)

I was there, sorry jealous friends!

@NEON80

6 жыл бұрын

for real? (hablas espanol?) man I am a mtf huuuge kraftwerk fan..... I die for 1 concert of them with the original music and band team !

@robvanhouten

6 жыл бұрын

Mack The Producer for real

@nordlys4703

5 жыл бұрын

I Die too....

@sofarsogood8352

4 жыл бұрын

Not jealous, envy but in a good & positive way. You lucky bstrd...

@espresso5512

4 жыл бұрын

You were lucky af damn

Tickte der Wolfi genauso schmutzig wie Ralf 1991, oder watt?

5:13 WTF

@HistoricFinance

8 жыл бұрын

+Reckno64 I don't like it, either. The former band member Wolfgang Flür did that with the Kraftwerk mannequins while the others were not watching, and put the picture inside of his book, "I Was a Robot." From what I've heard, the others did not like the photograph.

@Reckno64

8 жыл бұрын

The Man-Machine Really? That was him? Wow, I'm not surprised the others didn't like it. Did he take the picture secretly if you know?

@HistoricFinance

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, from what I've read, Wolfgang took the picture secretly. That was one kind of "joke" photo Kraftwerk (the other memebers) did not want to have released to the public.

@Reckno64

8 жыл бұрын

The Man-Machine He took more similar photos that were released to the public?

@HistoricFinance

8 жыл бұрын

I don't remember seeing any other photos like that one in the book. Thankfully, in that book I think we were spared from seeing something a bit more graphic, like in this recent picture below, but without her: 2.bp.blogspot.com/-09x2kkbO0es/UiEd9KIxIAI/AAAAAAAALjw/hjfLIxoxzks/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-08-30+at+3.33.51+PM.png

pazzesca

kkkkkkkkkk Ralf is on Imao😂😂😂😂

Their finest moment?

sad depressive song about the life of megacities ((((( greetings from Moscow

Anbe sivam

Chernobyl?

@TM-bg8dn

7 жыл бұрын

Naja,wenn schon mit Atomkraftwerken. ^^

@TM-bg8dn

7 жыл бұрын

Hören net,aber ich schaue oft Dokus von Atomkraftwerken. ^^

@Pedro1745

4 жыл бұрын

Harrisburg... Sellafield... Hiroshima...

This sounds a bit childish to me, and the operatic vocals are misguided. I guess that this version done in the studio, would have been better.

@j.maxell3030

2 жыл бұрын

Spacelab, Metropolis...The Sound NRG & Synthpop of Giorgio Moroder 1977, pionner of EDM.

@pankaburek59

2 жыл бұрын

Hey you are wrong they made that song in studio Because they taked it on all tour

@jamestuff5240

Жыл бұрын

Heavily disagree im afraid. I think this is one of the best live performance improvisations theyve done

@citizencairn5230

Ай бұрын

In my opinion, that's a very immature comment....

Florian ❤ Rest in peace