Love the fact that they have on stage control of the visuals, mix, that is unique.

GOT THE PRIVILEGE OF SEEING THEM LIVE...THANK YOU " GODFATHERS OF TECHNO "

Nice to see it from that angle! It's a live performance, in a different way than, for instance, an acoustic jazz trio. You can apply many different sounds, pre-recorded vocals, loops and samples to the same keyboard and use it as a controller to trigger and play as you wish. Ralf plays a lot live, but obviously much of Kraftwerks music is programmed and sequenced in advance. They do variations with filters and other parameters and keep the tracks fresh. It's not just pressing play as some probably think.. :-)

This has been a $1,000,000 question me and my mates have wondered for years. I've seen Kraftwerk in full line up and now with Sir Hutter and his new three musicians. It serves to confirm, they were and still are 'masters' of the electronic sound, and the work going into each show with 1,000's of samples is just class. Thanks so much for this upload. No myths - Just real people at work

@jakubkurek4312

5 жыл бұрын

New musicians? Fritz is in Kraftwerk since the late 80s :D

@johnhenningfield4360

15 күн бұрын

The new musicians were the recording engineers for them since the Electric Cafe LP, and when Wolfgang and Karl left they got the job as members

thanks a lot for uploading this! it proves to those people who mock and arguing that Kraftwerk don't do anything at all. They actually a real music engineer and also programmer! not easy at all! 👍👍👍

@espresso5512

8 жыл бұрын

***** Oh yeah? Which venue? :D yeah I really love their setup, those cool instruments that really not easy to be played. I need a video of them showing what they do onstage

@ItsNotaTuhmah

8 жыл бұрын

They want the attendants to focus on the music, not on them. Can't be more obvious with the current 3D tour.

@espresso5512

8 жыл бұрын

ItsNotaTuhmah that's why Kraftwerk songs contain few lyrics only. Just like Autobahn that only has 3 verses but can be played until 40 mins!

Incredible... Try to compare one same show in 70´s with this show. Think about technology evolution. Uau! Thanks for sharing with us! Greetings from Brasil. Gilberto Mendes,

The best eletronic music musicians in the entire world ! Rio de Janeiro - BRAZIL

Thanks for a view of their set up. What a collection of gear they use.

the best thing about Kraftwerk is that they didn't stopped technically and mentally in the early 80s and they're still developing their gigs

@jakubkurek4312

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Kraftwerk was always about progression.

Thank you Sir Hutter and your 3 musicians for keeping the KRAFTWERK legacy going!!! R.I.P. Florian Schneider 🙏🌹I saw KRAFTWERK in 1983 The Computer World tour…I remember it like it was yesterday!!! I know in life things change and people change, but it is still damn BRILLIANT!! I am seeing KRAFTWERK June 6 2022 in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 I cannot wait!! Pure Gold📀📀 Luv LA ♥️🎵🥇

This is great. Can’t wait for the MTV Unplugged version.

@WillyBilliams

3 жыл бұрын

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They are actually playing live to a large degree. More than you can say for DeadMau5.

Fascinating to see how far their consoles have come since the Minimum-Maximum tour, although I have to say that face on they still look like four accountants hotdesking in front of a Sony Megatron!

@templarseries

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

Great live performance! Also always wanted to see theirs tech

@F-Andre

9 жыл бұрын

so you never see it :(

I always like this tune! Ever since the first time I heard it back then in 77!! They were way ahead of their times this song would be perfect even by today's standards, I feel like I'm watching Tron the movie! Simply awesome!

14 year olds everywhere with an ipad and Maschine will now imagine they are like Kraftwerk. In truth, they were a creative force from about 1974 -1986 and thereafter have been happy to regurgitate the old stuff ad infinitum. (Tour de France Soundtracks aside.)

The best artists of digital music!

@PassCookie

6 жыл бұрын

42 EXAbyte i don't like the albums where they used digital equipment. I like the originals (for example trans europa express from 1977) more, because i think analogue vocoders sounds better.

@lucasc5622

4 жыл бұрын

its not the equipment that made it sounds weird, is was pressure from the record label to make something that would be popular, not something that would be good

Increíble, aún viéndolo y escuchándolo. Es increíble. Que single más guapo.

I loved seeing their actual tech you never see from the floor. I love how cool this gear is, NASA could use this tech. Kraftwerk are legends

This is great. I saw them last night and really wish they had a camera from above. Would have been funny too if they mocked up something and it showed them playing spotify or checking email and facebook.

TY TY TY FOR THIS RECORDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh....The pure old school and the beginning of electronic in freestyle music.

Bloody hell! Who made those keyboards, NASA?!

@azuro1978

5 жыл бұрын

German Engineering :-))

@deedee75able

3 жыл бұрын

@@azuro1978 damn....should we be worried? Lol

This time next year Kraftwerk will be getting ready to celebrate their 50 year anniversary....(1970 - 2020) ....😮absolutely superb....need I say anymore...?

@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, we just lost Florian Schneider. He was 73 years old.

Willy Billiams..: que bien esta tomado el video ...como se nota el trabajo de cada uno de ellos..es espectacular verlos es la primera ves que los veo desde otro angulo ..felicitaciones por grabarlo pausadamente y claro ...saludos Osky,.-

Even with a bit of BTS (behind-the-scenes) view, there is still so much mystery and intrigue about what goes into their performances!

Why is it wrong to use modern technology for their music. Everything evolves. That they are making music since the 1970s doesn't mean they have to use the old gear.

@templarseries

4 жыл бұрын

Any idea what they ARE using?!

@maartenj.vermeulen900

3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever been to their 3D concert at all and see what they use?

@kraftwerklover69

2 жыл бұрын

@@templarseries it's 99% custom made probably

@Mrbimmer11

8 ай бұрын

​@@templarseriesI WOULD SAY THATS A ANALOG SYNTH

I love their clothes I would wear them to a nightclub party or concert

E pensar que em 1976 eles deram um baita show no mesmo local! Vide aquela versão de "Europe Endless" que eles tocaram!

Thank you WIlly!

Amazing musicians love to see them live incredible

the song that led me to rollerskate. timeless kraftwerk!

I was at this concert!😍😍😍

I love that metlic sound in the background imitated a locomotive :)

Classic tune and inspired Africa Bambatta hip hop classic planet rock

I've always wanted to see who does what. Now that I've seen this, I still don't know what 2 of them are doing. haha!

@Gyrbae

7 жыл бұрын

Ralf: Vocals, live melodies and live vocoder. Fritz: Percussion and sequence manipulation. Henning: Bass and sequence manipulation. Falk: Live video and Falking around the internet.

@P2gyorg

7 жыл бұрын

Actually Henning does the bass lines, while Fritz does the percussion. Correct apart from that 😄

@Gyrbae

7 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, you are correct, fixed.

@dirtycee6887

6 жыл бұрын

Answering emails, checking sports scores, facebook and downloading songs from Spotify....😅😃🤣😂😁😂😂😆

@krollpeter

5 жыл бұрын

@@dirtycee6887 You forgot Tinder, they contact all their female girlfriends.

Maestros de la electronica. Ke tal temazo,me gusta

Yes we'd jam to this at the clubs playground. Bk yard get togethers.amazing

Amazing!!! Kraftwerk Forever!!

IDC IDC The Best Line Dance Song Ever🙌🏾👏🏾

OMG look at their synths!

@Mrbimmer11

8 ай бұрын

THEY ARE ANOLOG SYNTHS CONECTED TO A DIGITAL SOURCE

what a epic tune..timeless

At least it finally shows what they are doing. All of the head-on videos showing them live make it seem like they might not be doing anything and just making movements to pre-sequenced music.

it's more fun to compute

Top song remembered in the 5th grade, while on safety patrol. amazing

This is amazing!

Amazing and inspiring

This is awesome

Brilliant MUSIC amazing

Excellent!!!!!!!!

Yesterday in #Hamburg at #CCH ...a great show!!!!! Every time again!!!!

@timschulz9563

8 жыл бұрын

20 oder 24 Uhr?

@thomassohl2160

8 жыл бұрын

+Tim Schulz ....wir waren um 20:00 dabei..aber das Video ist leider nicht von mir.

@timschulz9563

8 жыл бұрын

+Thomas Söhl Ich fragte nur, weil ich auch beim 20 Uhr Konzert war.

@thomassohl2160

8 жыл бұрын

+Tim Schulz ...ich fand die alten Männer noch richtig cool drauf

numbers 1981. top song by everyone in elementary school.

Electronic Legends.

They look like they just stepped off the set of Tron legacy. This was the music that Afrika Bambaataa sampled for Planet Rock. Apparently, Kraftwerk wanted more royalty money for the use of Trans Europe Express.

Hört und lernt von den Besten!

I still love this jam i use to Break off this I feel like I'm a computer

0:17 Is that Gmail?

@nicoolive7613

4 жыл бұрын

I believe so, he doesn't work on the music part, only in the video part so he doesn't need do a lot of things like the others, just keep the eye on the video perfomance while doing something else.

So the setup is a keyboard, internet screen and what looks like a Korg pad of some sort. Interesting!

legendary

7/1/2021..its time for the Perculater

Some believe this takes away from the mystique..i love the shiny consoles but ill still be on the front row come my next kw show..

Very nice and rare to have top-down view to see what they are doing. They seem to want to conceal that with their podium-like setup, I guess for conceptual reasons. Wholesome to see them improvising and "jamming" together, even fucking up some... goes completely against the idea of them as precise and humorless control freaks. Thanks

for some reason, I thought they were using the actually vintage they used in the original recordings. It's still cool tho.

@MrTartlet

9 жыл бұрын

I think for Kraftwerk the usage of computer synthesis not only helps to streamline their performances but also helps them keep their "artificial/minimalistic" look up to date. Besides, in a live performance use of computer synthesis will do just fine, as most of the existing sound delivery methods won't be able to project subtle nuances in sound present in real vintage equipment. In a studio situation it might matter. Plus, who would want to haul an Orchestron to every performance?

@ItsNotaTuhmah

8 жыл бұрын

They spents years digitalizing their analog equipment, so the 'sound' itself it's more or less the same. They are just doing what they have done all their life: advancing with the technology.

@Arctic_Falcon

6 жыл бұрын

What you see on the stage is what is being used. There are clearly multiple tablets (I see two Sony Tap 20 or 21s; and two iPads -- not sure what Ralf's using but it looks too large to be an iPad, likely a Surface Pro or Tap 11) powering midi controllers. They started using this setup a few years ago. From 2002 up until a few years ago they used Sony VAIO laptops with midi controllers. They've worked with Sony for decades. Haven't seen anything that resembles an analog device since the 1998 tour.

@top-ten.music_and_more

6 жыл бұрын

They always used technology and especially new technology. First Sequencer used in Trans Europe Express. First Sequencer that was able to do the drum tracks and synchronize that with the sequencer in 1981 (called Triggersumme).

Nice!

it sounds like from other universe

@crogthekritter

8 жыл бұрын

***** OR AM I????

@andreaandrea3019

7 жыл бұрын

Depeche Mode 10 years before

capos!

Hell unleashes from 4:10

Hey, they can check facebook while playin'! How cool! jk :)

Very good

I like, like, like, like...

Europe should be united.🇪🇺

I’m going to see us in PARIS after saw Rammstein 15 days before, Deutschland music 👍

Well, here's the gear list that i have spotted: QuNeo MIDI controller (on the right side, controllin video stuff), Ipads (which apps? TouchOSC? Lemur? etc), Maschine 1. How about the Ipad apps? anyone?

@guyfawkes9951

8 жыл бұрын

+Rogério Crispim My guess is they are using custom written software/triggering apps.

@ItsNotaTuhmah

8 жыл бұрын

I'm sure Ralf said in interviews that they worked on a custom software designed for their needs. They also took the gargantuan job of digitalizing all their old equipment into sound banks, thus they use the 'same' sounds of old in new technology.

@guyfawkes9951

8 жыл бұрын

I have a tough time imagining Kraftwerk going onto the App store and downloading a few apps! I've got my tickets to see them in San Diego in September. I saw them in Vegas a couple of years ago. Was as close to a religious experience as I ever figure on having.

@Arctic_Falcon

6 жыл бұрын

In this video there are two Sony VAIO Tap 20 or 21's, two iPads, what appears to be three custom touchscreens (for the visuals), and Ralf appears to be using a tablet too large to be an iPad -- likely a Surface Pro or a VAIO Tap 11.

@RafaelOliveira-go1iw

Жыл бұрын

@@Arctic_Falcon do you know what app from iPad Falk is using? (The video tech)

I don't recognize any of these guys! Did all original members get replaced?

@frank_mm

8 жыл бұрын

+Chip Schmidt There's only 1 of the original members in this show, on the left side, Ralf.

@RafaelOliveira-go1iw

Жыл бұрын

Henning and Fritz are with Half since late 90s Falk (the video tech far right) it’s since 2012

5/28/2021 may GOD's peace be unto you

Cold blooded

why all this staff isn't connected? Is it wireless?

@henrids

8 жыл бұрын

+Мария Брускова cables inside the podiums I'd suppose

Ва!) У меня такая же клавиатура как и у Kraftwrek)

🕺👌👍👊😀

Guys are answering their emails

what is falk using on his iPad? Like jesus i'm wondering too much

@ItsNotaTuhmah

8 жыл бұрын

Custom made software.

@edvinbergfalk7416

8 жыл бұрын

+ItsNotaTuhmah actually i think i've figured out. I think he is using lemur...

@petterk3962

8 жыл бұрын

They're using iPads and what I belive is TouchOSC

@Arctic_Falcon

6 жыл бұрын

In this video there are two Sony VAIO Tap 20 or 21's, two iPads, what appears to be three custom touchscreens (for the visuals), and Ralf appears to be using a tablet too large to be an iPad -- likely a Surface Pro or a VAIO Tap 11.

@edvinbergfalk7416

6 жыл бұрын

Pete Moss i am well aware of what they use, but your response does not answer my question. I was wondering what falk was doing, not using

So only one of them is actually playing keyboards? What are the other two doing?

@cinemalulli

Жыл бұрын

The others filter bass and other melody lines, switch effects on and off, and change the pitch of sounds.

ei ole sõnu mida lugu

Godfathers of EDM !!!

Why so much dislikes?

@WillyBilliams

9 жыл бұрын

The dislikes have been orchestrated by a gentleman from Germany who will remain nameless

@driesanalog4187

9 жыл бұрын

i think one of the dislikes is from their lawyer...;-) thanks for the video anyway.

@worldofsynthesizers

9 жыл бұрын

Willy Billiams Haters gonna hate. Always. Very good job, Sir! Thank you!

@arnaldotabosa1680

8 жыл бұрын

Poor people !!!

@sixstanger00

8 жыл бұрын

+Sun Ray Funny story... After their album, "Trans Europe Express," critics responded negatively by saying, "they sound like robots." Kraftwerk released another album the following year, titled "The Man Machine," which opened with the song, "The Robots." That album went on to be their 2nd best selling album of all time. Haters never learn.

Shit after 40 years those boys still doing the dam thing can't say that about the rest ??????????

@Mrbimmer11

8 ай бұрын

AND STILL BEATS ALL MODERN MUSIC COMBINE

Airwolf

:)

It's all machine music. Is human input still required?

Kraftwerk

When I first saw these close-up videos I was thrilled... but now I think they reveal way too much of what they are doing and in particularly what they are not doing on stage - and the magic kind of disappears... I am disillusioned... Still a huge fan though and I will see them in Utrecht.

@ItsNotaTuhmah

8 жыл бұрын

They're basically playing everything, but in digital. It's also pretty obvious that the songs are not exactly like the studio versions, they actually change stuff and improvise a bit on each song. It's still played live.

@seanmoore9878

4 жыл бұрын

Awe hush

im a litle bit disapointed cause their livegear is worth then mine :(

Guao brothers god bless you, that talemto gave it to you, Jesus Christ and I dance like a robot. My account is the angel robot I am from venezuela veamlo, thanks

Syntesis time for to change

And than there are people like garrix who press the play button

There's one dude singing..the rest are playing GTA. 🤣🤣🤣

ДА ПРИКОЛИСТЫ СКОНСТРУИРОВАЛИ СЕБЕ ИГРУШКИ И ПРУТСЯ ВОБШЕ ПЕСНЯ ХИТ МОЖНО СКАЗАТЬ ГИМН ЭЛЕКТРОННОЙ МУЗЫКИ

Planet Rock sampled this.

@seanmoore9878

4 жыл бұрын

No they didnt

@hotelmario5203

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanmoore9878 yes they did

I am kind of disappointed regarding the amount of iPads and the lack of vintage gear in there.. this somehow just busted a myth for me.

@DanielDavissynthman

9 жыл бұрын

Remember - Kraftwerk were NEVER about being vintage. They were ALWAYS about being cutting edge. Only their fans are slavishly into vintage gear.

@BassappsDeutschland

9 жыл бұрын

>Maschine mk1 >cutting edge I understand your comment, but I expected an extreme to either side

@Pikkiomania

9 жыл бұрын

BassApps BassApps

@BassappsDeutschland

9 жыл бұрын

Pikkiomania Pikkiomania

@jarrodschroeder9052

9 жыл бұрын

Dude, can you do that? , I think not! Krafwerk started a phenomenon! They are pioneers in this dance music revolution! I'm disappointed in you for saying something so stupid , you obviously do not know anything about anything! You are so lame! Go stroke your "thing" n cry in your corner! Until you have anything nice to say about kraftwerk,,, then when you do , then put an incisful comment on here, OK douchebag? !!!

Ils utilisent un Qbaze fabriqué pour eux ! moi je reste sur REASON !