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Wow, Kraftwerk to perform all albums in a row.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭GoldenTickets


    I was surprised to see The Mix in there but any of these gigs would be awesome. I'd love to be at the Tour de France show.

    Radioactivity would be something else too, and hearing some of the deeper album cuts done live would be weird, Sex Object springs to mind! Those lucky New Yorkers.

    Edit: Tickets are $25! F**king hell that's a steal!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,112 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    I was surprised to see The Mix in there but any of these gigs would be awesome. I'd love to be at the Tour de France show.

    Radioactivity would be something else too, and hearing some of the deeper album cuts done live would be weird, Sex Object springs to mind! Those lucky New Yorkers.

    Edit: Tickets are $25! F**king hell that's a steal!

    I know, thats 20 euros! Imagine hearing the whole of Trans Europe Express live for 20 lids in IMMA over here, wouldn't bother with The Mix myself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭GoldenTickets


    I know, thats 20 euros! Imagine hearing the whole of Trans Europe Express live for 20 lids in IMMA over here

    It would be amazing, and an instant contender for best gig ever.

    I like the way they've put a limit of two tickets per person for the whole event. So you can only attend a maximum of 2 shows (assuming people follow the rules). Everything about this event is being handled incredibly fairly. It's a credit to the organizers.
    wouldn't bother with The Mix myself.

    Obviously every one of these shows will sell out, but I would imagine The Mix will be the last one across the finish line alright.*



    *I don't want to knock The Mix too much, it's still pretty decent, but let's face it, it's not going to be in anyones top two!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,112 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    It would be amazing, and an instant contender for best gig ever.

    I like the way they've put a limit of two tickets per person for the whole event. So you can only attend a maximum of 2 shows (assuming people follow the rules). Everything about this event is being handled incredibly fairly. It's a credit to the organizers.



    Obviously every one of these shows will sell out, but I would imagine The Mix will be the last one across the finish line alright.*



    *I don't want to knock The Mix too much, it's still pretty decent, but let's face it, it's not going to be in anyones top two!


    Also since the versions of all their stuff that they perform nowadays are the "Mix" type versions (ie more bpm and different synth sounds) how would it work, does this mean that for the original albums they will perform the slower/original mixes, because that would be great but I don't see it happening.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭Jim_Kiy


    Never got into them much except for the model the german version is class..
    Techno would you post a few more of their best videos.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭kevmol88





    Also well worth a watch if ever repeated
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nplrw


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    I've always liked Kraftwerk but always had an inkling that maybe they wouldn't translate well to a live gig.

    Saw them in Kilmainham a few years back and was happily proved very very wrong!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭GoldenTickets


    Also since the versions of all their stuff that they perform nowadays are the "Mix" type versions (ie more bpm and different synth sounds) how would it work, does this mean that for the original albums they will perform the slower/original mixes, because that would be great but I don't see it happening.

    That's a good question. When I first read the link you posted I assumed (I'm not sure why) that the songs would be played as they appeared on the original albums. That way the night when they play The Mix would showcase how the songs evolved over time. If all the albums are played in the newer style (more bpm etc.) then that would make The Mix gig pretty much irrelevant in the scheme of things as it would just be like a compilation show of the other nights.

    This quote from the link you posted above suggests that it might actually be the ideal scenario of a mix of both styles:

    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.

    Either way, I really wish I could go to one of these gigs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,112 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Jim_Kiy wrote: »
    Never got into them much except for the model the german version is class..
    Techno would you post a few more of their best videos.

    I like pretty much all their stuff but most don't have videos (early to late 70s was their best stuff so not many vids were made back then) so will include a few vids and recommend you check out these albums as their best (in order of my preference) :

    Trans Europe Express
    Computer World
    Man Machine
    Radioactivity
    Technopop






    Creaky video but this live version of Computer Love from 1981 sounds amazing:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,112 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    That's a good question. When I first read the link you posted I assumed (I'm not sure why) that the songs would be played as they appeared on the original albums. That way the night when they play The Mix would showcase how the songs evolved over time. If all the albums are played in the newer style (more bpm etc.) then that would make The Mix gig pretty much irrelevant in the scheme of things as it would just be like a compilation show of the other nights.

    This quote from the link you posted above suggests that it might actually be the ideal scenario of a mix of both styles:

    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.

    Either way, I really wish I could go to one of these gigs.

    Seen as they don't have Moogs and ARPs or any analogue synths anymore I think that might be another reason that they couldn't really perform them as they were but who knows? All I hope is that the gigs are recorded/streamed, because in the last 20 years or so they have never performed the majority of their albums tracks at all.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭GoldenTickets


    Seen as they don't have Moogs and ARPs or any analogue synths anymore I think that might be another reason that they couldn't really perform them as they were but who knows?

    This point, which I somehow overlooked (d'oh), is more than a little plausible. I read an article about them selling a bunch of their gear a few years ago and promptly forgot all about it. It's a real shame.
    All I hope is that the gigs are recorded/streamed, because in the last 20 years or so they have never performed the majority of their albums tracks at all.

    Absolutely. Great stuff has been overlooked in their live set lists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    Cheers for the Youtoob clip Kevmol88,hadnt seen that,im only a casual fan(more into Can and some of the other Krautrock guys)but i absolutely love "The Man Machine",that would be amazing live id say,$25 dollars a ticket???? Jesus fair play to them,they could have charged several times that easily,hope theres a dvd on the way


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭Jim_Kiy


    Cheers Techno -Neon Lights and Trans siberian I have heard ..guess I was looking for gems but as you say videos do not exist..might just bit the bullet and download man-machine for starters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    Do it! its great,some of their stuff sounds very dated tbh but that one still holds up very well imo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭cranks


    I've always liked Kraftwerk but always had an inkling that maybe they wouldn't translate well to a live gig.

    Saw them in Kilmainham a few years back and was happily proved very very wrong!

    Check it out


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