the lyrics are just the icing on the cake

favourite act I've ever seen live. There was just something incomprehensibly magic about the show!

The last album pretty much sucks balls though, so it was good they toured before that.

i wonder if there is much difference between the live albums & their studio albums

The amount of reverb.

ah!

It was magic seeing them when they played at the BDO.

The live Minimum-Maximum cd makes for a really good greatest hits package.

Best driving music in the world. I remember reading about an interview with Ralf Hutter. Ralf picked up the interviewer in his Mercedes wearing all black including some pretty nifty leather driving gloves. Questions like "where are we going?" asked by the interviewer, were only met with silence. As they drove out of Koln they approached a big sign pointing to the local power plant (Kraftwerk). At the sight of the sign Ralf shouted "KRAAAFTWEEERK!!". End of interview.

hahahaha awesome.

it makes for good SQL programming music, oddly enough.

All three re-mastered NEU! albums are being made available this month. Yeah!
NEU! 75 is genius.

how does one pronounce neu?

"Noi"?

Das ist korrekt, ROC.

The Neu! cds were reissued a while ago.

I want to go 'Autobahn dancing' country krautrock style

Faust - Faust tapes, is alzo gud German rekord.

i'm going to get my hands on a copy of this

and stay up late to watch this

are not

[Kraftwerk and Neu doing Truckstop Gondolero on German TV - 1971] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdem4XtCyUI&search=kraftwerk)

[Kraftwerk and Neu doing Truckstop Gondolero on German TV - 1971] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdem4XtCyUI&search=kraftwerk)

hmm

try that again.
kraftwerk neu

so has anyone seen the box for sale anywhere in melbourne? if so for how much?

get it from amazon. it's way cheaper that way. I did. and I must say, I love how it sounds.
but more than anything you remember what a great album band they were. most of the hang together so beautifully. it's been my soundtrack for the last couple weeks. Brilliant.

I bought Man Machine vinyl yesterday, a picture disc re-release. Can't stop listening to it, beautiful record from start to finish.

Which record to people generally rate as their best?

i think, i read, most people rate Computer World best.

personally- actually, now that i do think about it, my preferences changes like the wind. right now, Trans Europe Express. Europe Endless...

my favourite is Computer World, with Trans Europe Express and The Man Machine both very closely behind.

I saw the box set in Red Eye, it was pretty expensive (somewhere close to $200 I think).

Very hard to pick the best Kraftwerk album as Trans Europe Express, Man Machine and Computer World are all equally awesome.

I'm quite keen on Autobahn.

Radioactivity is awesome.

Electric Cafe is not that shit. i mean, it's the one i listen to least, granted. Sex Object is so cringe worthy. what was my point again?

Electric Cafe is not that shit. i mean, it's the one i listen to least, granted. Sex Object is so cringe worthy. what was my point again?

hahahaha yes it is but Telephone Call is excellent

c'arn, someone buy me a flight and some tickets?

Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

April 10–17, 2012

The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor

Over eight consecutive nights, MoMA presents a chronological exploration of the sonic and visual experiments of Kraftwerk with a live presentation of their complete repertoire in the Museum's Marron Atrium. Each evening consists of a live performance and 3-D visualization of one of Kraftwerk's studio albums—Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003)—in the order of their release. Kraftwerk will follow each evening’s album performance with additional compositions from their catalog, all adapted specifically for this exhibition. This reinterpretation showcases Kraftwerk’s historical contributions to and contemporary influence on global sound and image culture. Read more

Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider began the Kraftwerk project in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1970, setting up the pioneering Kling Klang studio, where all of Kraftwerk's albums were conceived and composed. By the mid-1970s the group had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electro ''sound paintings'' and their musical experimentation with tapes and synthesizers. Their compositions, which feature distant melodies, multilingual vocals, robotic rhythms, and custom-made vocoders and computer-speech technology, almost single-handedly created the soundtrack for our digital future. Kraftwerk anticipated the impact of technology on art and everyday life, creating sounds and visuals that capture the human condition in the age of mobility and telecommunication. Their innovative looping techniques and computerized rhythms, which had a major influence on the early development of hip-hop and electronic dance music, remain among the most commonly sampled sounds across a wide range of music genres. Furthermore, the use of robotics and other technical innovations in their live performances illustrates Kraftwerk’s belief in the respective contributions of both people and machines in creating art.

In recent years, starting with their performance at the Venice Biennale in 2005, Kraftwerk has been invited into the visual arts context, festivals, and museums, most recently performing at Lenbachhaus Kunstbau in Munich. In contrast to all former presentations, where Kraftwerk videos, visuals, or the “robots” were presented in a museum context but performances were staged as concerts, MoMA is realizing a groundbreaking new display: the first synthetic retrospective to present, simultaneously and in one location, Kraftwerk's complex layers of music, sound, videos, sets, and performance as a total work of art.

A presentation of Kraftwerk’s historical audio and visual material is on view at MoMA PS1, April 10–May 14, 2012.

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Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Performance Schedule

Tuesday, April 10, 8:30 p.m.
1 – Autobahn (1974)
Wednesday, April 11, 8:30 p.m.
2 – Radio-Activity (1975)
Thursday, April 12, 8:30 p.m.
3 – Trans Europe Express (1977)
Friday, April 13, 10:00 p.m.
4 – The Man-Machine (1978)
Saturday April 14, 8:30 p.m.
5 – Computer World (1981)
Sunday, April 15, 8:30 p.m.
6 – Techno Pop (1986)
Monday, April 16, 8:30 p.m.
7 – The Mix (1991)
Tuesday, April 17, 10:00 p.m.
8 – Tour de France (2003)

Tickets are $25.00 and will go on sale to the public on Wednesday, February 22, at 12:00 p.m., only at MoMAKraftwerkTickets.showclix.com. (You must paste the URL into your browser.) There is a two-ticket limit per person for the entire series. Tickets will be distributed exclusively via will call, and photo ID is required. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance.

awesome. but i still look at it desperately as hint of new activity = new record someday soon. i want new material!

they have not written any music in literally 3 decades* (<3 at Techno Pop being in that list above btw), there is exactly 0 chance of ''new material'' ever coming out.

*I'm rounding up from 29 years, so

also megalol at ''complete repertoire'' including The Mix but not the first 3 albums

when was TDFS written?

yeah, I had Tour de france soundtrack in mind and was thinking, if that was possible, what else could be in store? fingers crossed.

I love TDFS.

OG TDF was 1983, Technolectric Pop Cafe was written 1982. Everything's been expanding on or reworking themes and compositions since then.

(ie their only period of *song*writing was when Karl and Wolfgang were in the band - I can't hear enough live recordings from the early lineups, but they're totally jam-based then; and after Ralf's accident he seems to a) have no longer accepted Flur or Bartos' input, and b) become obsessive about reworking the same things with new sound over and over -- or returning to his jamming roots, but wholly electronically.)

The Model is on Classic Rock radio right now. I wasn't expecting that!

I hear The Model in shopping centre music.