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Kraftwerk U.S tour Dates

2008-03-15T02:48:40Z

Apr 19 2008 8:00P
@ MYTH Minneapolis, Minnesota
Apr 20 2008 8:00P
@ THE EAGLES BALLROOM MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin
Apr 23 2008 8:00P
@ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM DENVER, Colorado
Apr 26 2008 10:00P
@ COACHELLA FESTIVAL INDIO COACHELLA, California

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fave Kraftwerk song und U ?

2007-12-11T09:51:52Z

I'd have to say my favorite Song is Man machine
it's also the title of that LP/CD and is so
pristine, electronic, ordered and perfect -
like one of those minimalist German sculptures.
I love the Vo-Coder/voice synthesis , it was
at least a 16 channel/band unit customized
with patch points similar to the Moog 16
channel job of the day as far as I know.

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Karl Bartos

2007-12-10T14:18:58Z

...I didn't see this covered here, but I was wondering how much influence/input he had in the bands sound. From what I have been reading in the last year, it seems his percussive/rhythmic input is what 'made' Kraftwerk from T.E.E. to E.C. I personally can hear the gaping absence of his influence in T.D.F., they are just not the same methinks...

-C

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Fernando Abrantes

2007-12-10T14:09:21Z

anyone know why he was in the Kraftwerk lineup for so brief a period?

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Computer Love Melody Used in Coldplay's New "Talk"

2007-11-27T19:03:23Z

I was listening to X and Y and all of a sudden heard this very familiar melody. I couldn't believe it.

But it's true: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/entertainment/11695461.htm

shhh: http://s3.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/9c47678b74249da5/

r

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Own a piece of Kraftwerk history!!!

2006-06-28T14:49:37Z

Lots of people say things like 'RARE legendary' in eBay auctions for DX7s and Casio VL-Tones, but eBay item #300001522431 doesn't go for hype, just saying "prototype VOCODER of german 70´s Electronic Pioneers". What's on offer is Ralf & Florian's vocoder, built to order by a local electronics company, and later used on the intro to 'Autobahn'. No bids so far at $3,800, with ten days to go...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=+300001522431

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Come Join my Harmonia group (which features Micheal Rother from Kraftwerk)

2006-01-27T23:23:03Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/harmonia.

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Senor Coconut

2005-12-28T17:18:25Z

A German guy who lives in Chile doing Latin versions of Kraftwerk songs? Yes, it's true...and highly recommended.

Used copies are cheap & sound samples available. You will die laughing:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004HYJA/qid=1079640683/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7475315-4801623?v=glance&s=music

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Radioactivity Video (1975)

2005-11-22T23:24:21Z

i found this wonderful vintaged video at:

http://www.youtube.com/?v=ODRHs6GJoY4

:)

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Kraftwerk Themes

2005-08-01T07:34:02Z

I was thinking of all the different themes Kraftwerk's music has touched on and started thinking let's come up with future themes for them.

how about a song about E-MAIL; whatabout a song about PLANES; maybe a song about COMPUTER TEMPLATES; or maybe even a song about ALCOHOL. We can be futuristic and even retroistic. any more topics. your input is kindly appreciated in the name of AUTOBAHN.

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First live album from Kraftwerk

2005-06-23T16:31:08Z

A little more than one month ago, we told you about the first live release ever from Kraftwerk, "Minimum Maximum". The double CD version is now set for a June 6 (7 according to the Astralwerks web site) release (through EMI and Astralwerks). Some sources say this double album will come in two very similar versions: regular and German. Both offers 22 Kraftwerk songs recorded in the UK, Poland, Japan, USA, Russia, Poland and other countries.

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LA Kraftwerk Concert Review

2005-06-07T19:53:14Z

Fucking AWSOME!

The venue was the Greek Theater..outdoors..still, acoustics were okay. I hate the stacked parking though.

They opened with Mensch Maschine and went into what sounded like Expo 2000, but it morphed into Tour De France.

This was followed by the "classic" Tour De France..after that, as best I can remember:

Neonlicht (kind of weak graphics, but good performance)
Autobahn
Das Model
Vitamin
Trans Europe Express
Numbers
Computer World
Pocket Calculator
Home Computer
Die Roboter (performed by robots of course, setting up for the costume change)
Areo Dynamic
Musique Non-Stop

For me, the highlight of the night was Numbers/Computer World..energetic, and amazing projections of numbers...good free form exploration on the counting voice. Areo Dynamik was also interesting in a visual sense.

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Senor Coconut

2005-06-01T10:34:48Z

Salsa covers of Kraftwork! Has anyone heard this? It's actually pretty darned good.

http://mp3.com/albums/435787/summary.html

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I've been building synthesizers

2005-05-24T03:58:49Z

heya' everybody - I've been busy building analog synthesizer
modules and finding a proper rig/rack mount home. So-yeah,
I'm back and appriciate the fervor and effort of photo's and gabber
posted in my absence. Thank you all. : )

My favorite modules thus far is a Blacet Labratories analog delay
with voltage control of almost every parameter. Kraftwerk continues
to be a constant inspiration for my visual art and electronic composing.
I control the Blacet Time Machine delay/echo module with a very
VINTAGE Korg sequencer - it sounds awsome , I'll post a link to a sample
of stuff someday.

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their gear

2005-05-24T03:46:00Z

so, does anyone know what gear kraftwerk might have used for most of their early years?

i've never actually researched it and they never really mention their studio equipment in interviews, etc...

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OUGHT-FIVE TOUR!

2005-04-21T09:34:06Z

30, 31 MAY; D.C. @ 9.30 CLUB
1 JUN; NY CITY @ HAMMERSTEIN
3 JUN; DETROIT @ STATE THEATRE
4 JUN CHICAGO @ RIVIERA
6 JUN L.A. @ GREEK THEATRE

If you don't belive me...well don't say I didn't warn you. You know where to look.

My question to you peeps are who will go to the first D.C. show!?!??!!??!111?question

Last year's Seattle show was exploding in my ear with low Hz. Miami didn't have as good sound, but they had started jamming so hard in the South America that they brought it to Miami for the last '04 US show! Goodness, did they ever throw down. Now I am looking forward to D.C. Will someone(s) go with me and share expenses?

Man, do I miss those pocket calculators and Robotronik. They were fresh for '98! ;)

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WERK-IT

2005-01-26T10:09:27Z

WERK-IT REEL GEWD!!!!!!!!

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Kraftwerk inspred tracks

2004-12-31T03:05:54Z

Let's start a list of modern tracks with a heavy Kraftwerk influence.

Here's one to start: "Future Movement", by The Visitors.

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tix for sale for Nov 19/ miami

2004-11-16T23:51:48Z

sniff, sniff. i am not going to kraftwerk now, but i have a total of 6 tix avail, 4 of which are pit tickets. i've currently got 2 orchestra tix on sale now on ebay. if you're interested, have questions, email me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16122&item=2282243008&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

/weep

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Miami

2004-09-18T08:07:20Z

Ass-clowns,

All of you are so hardcore into Kraftwerk, I'm sure you all know about them going to play Miami in November right? Like, amazing for them to come back in the same year. They like to tease us so bad, afterall. Tickets are already on sale.

Who's going?

Seattle was so wholesomely good, I've already prayed to the Ticketbastard gods. Maybe Shaq will be there. I hope I don't have a seat behind that fool...

Oh yeah...seats. That shit isn't GA!!!! I couldn't imagine having to stand in a fucking row for Kraftwerk, let alone sit. I'll find out what that's like, soon enough. Oh, the pain.

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Music Release for the Tribe

2004-07-30T12:29:53Z

Music Release

Hi all!

Music Release

show to the tribe your latest tracks...post them here music-release.tribe.net/ , so that all the tribe can know whats new in the Indie World

If you are an artist, or artist manager, and want to promote a song or album, please just put in the header the name of the song and genre. And inside the post is up to you!

-You can put a link to your mp3, wma etc...
-or just the link for streaming

-or only the link for the artist page

followed by a brief description!

Wish you all the best music!

Metricks

http://music-release.tribe.net/

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More new pix

2004-07-23T16:50:24Z

Hi,

I just joined this tribe. I have posted two pictures from the SF show taken by my friend with her phone. Great!! As good as '98.

jv

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New Pix in album!

2004-07-23T02:01:32Z

I added a few pix from this years Coachella. I thaought the album could use some more pix of one of the worlds greatest bands. Enjoy!

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OUT~FUCKING~STANDING !!!!!

2004-05-01T00:17:45Z

I would have written a review of the show last Saturday night (April 24th) in Montreal @ Metropolis ... but it was SO OUT~fucking~STANDING, that as a writer myself, I just couldn't find the right words to describe it ... all I can say is ...... WWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!

Everything from the sound quality to the visuals ... INCREDIBLE !!! I was FLOORED and it takes ALOT to impress me ...
I've seen a TON of old~timer bands try to make a come-back in the "right" direction but NEVER like THIS ~!~!~!~!~!~
They did some new tracks and new versions of their tracks that were FUCKING PHENOMINAL !!! as well as their all~time classics ... talk about magic memories !!! tracks I'd totally forgotten about ... WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~

I read this review the day of the show before going and I couldn't have said it better ... ENJOY !!!

~~~~~~~

Toronto show Review April 23rd 2004 -

Thirty years ago, Kraftwerk began teaching the world how to make electronic pop music. Since then, virtually every musician who has used synthesizers, turntables, vocoders, drum machines, keyboards or computers owes them at least a thank-you. Now, the inscrutable, witty and brilliant German quartet is back to teach everyone how to put on a show.

And thank heaven for that. The biggest problem with live electronic music is that there's almost nothing more boring than watching a guy on stage staring at a laptop, though few electronic musicians seem to care. The Kraftwerk geniuses blew that image away, however, as soon as they emerged from behind a curtain to the tune of The Man Machine.

First of all, there were four guys on stage, dressed identically in black suits and red shirts and staring at four identical laptops placed precisely in a line. Their mostly bald heads were lit dramatically to contrast with the brightly coloured projection on the screen behind them.

As they generously played nearly all their hits for the appreciative crowd -- with characteristic deadpan blankness and little movement apart from the odd leg swinging to the beat -- the projections changed. Sometimes they were blocks of intense colour, or just the shadows of the four man-machines at their stations. Sometimes there were mesmerizing views of oscillating waves or snappy animated graphics, as in Pocket Calculator and Computer World.

Other backdrops reflected the songs' subjects more literally, like vintage footage from the famous cycling race to accompany the 1983 single Tour De France as well as last year's revisitation, Tour De France Soundtracks, or shots of '50s models for The Model, highway footage for Autobahn, trains for Trans Europe Express and gorgeously cascading capsules for Vitamin. But whether they were retro or futuristic, they were often witty and always dazzling.

When the curtain opened for the encore, there were four robots positioned in the band members' places, with metal stilts holding them up, disturbingly real-looking heads and arms that moved up and down. Naturally, that was for The Robots, one of the band's most enduring songs.

But that wasn't all -- the next encore presented them in crazy suits criss-crossed with day-glo green stripes that played dizzyingly against the undulating green stripes on the screen behind them. After Elektro Kardiogram and their newest single, Aero Dynamik, the members left the stage one by one as the final tune, the appropriately titled Music Non Stop, was fading out. It was a fitting end to a spectacular show.

~~~~~~~~

DO NOT MISS THIS GIG !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Kraftwerk After Party - Seattle

2004-04-26T23:36:50Z

(no, they won't be there, though, one could hope)

Featuring über-inspired Electro sets by DJs:
Nordic Soul
Kris Moon
Jerry Abstract

FREE ADMISSION - with your Kraftwerk ticket stub
$5 without

9:30-ish until close
@ The Mirabeau Room (old Sorry Charlie's)
529 Queen Anne Ave N. x-street Mercer.
Lower QA.

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who's got their Kraftwerk tix!

2004-04-23T16:08:31Z

I got mine! really looking forward to it!

anybody dressing up?

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yeehaw..!

2004-03-11T19:53:27Z

just got my ticket to see KRAHFTVERK on april 28th! general admission/small venue too! its good to live in san francisco.

I think I am going to explode..!

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to wet your appetite until the show

2004-03-07T19:30:15Z

http://playlouder.com/news/+werkofart/

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hints kraftwerk tour april 2004

2004-03-05T00:55:15Z

san francisco , seattle

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Seattle meetings

2004-02-29T05:42:20Z

Those who are going to the Seattle show, would you like to meet the night before and/or the night of the show (after) to party?
Are there people traveling to see this show? It would be fun to meet other fans en route.

Is anybody going to do anything??

Let's talk.

Say something.

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Kraftwerk at Coachella.

2004-02-17T21:30:59Z

Kraftwerk will be Playing Coachella on Sat May 1st in Indio, CA

www.coachella.com

Wooo!

Any other dates on their schedule?

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Subotnick

2004-01-19T18:39:45Z

I see a mention or two of this composer , I love his work and do think that if Kraftwerk members did'nt sit around having a listen to this stuff , it may have been Stockhausen and others -prob. both and more, where else would they get ideas for such abstract , pristine, electronic sounds. "Touch" and Silver apples on the Moon" are great, "The Wild Bull" too.

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