https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9R6bqcBPfc
I’ve often shared this video on Facebook and thought I’d give it a whirl here: Kraftwerk in 1970.
If you only know them as the nattily-dressed man-machines or mocap-outfitted dudes apparently checking email in front of outstanding 3D visuals, you really don’t know them.
This concert features an early incarnation; Klaus Dinger (who’d go on to form Neu!) plays drums while Ralf and Florian cut sick in outfits distinctly less aesthetically pleasing than those they’d sport in a few years. The albums from this period (known by the green and red traffic cones on their covers) have never officially been released to CD.
They’re great, though, and I keep hoping the band makes good on hints they’ve dropped about someday remastering them. Any flute madness is good madness.
To continue your early Kraftwerk trip, try these…
Organisation: Tone Float.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMw2sXAkkng
Kraftwerk: Kraftwerk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjSXWgXPeEM
Kraftwerk: Kraftwerk 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9N6eItmh24
Kraftwerk: Ralf und Florian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7-8AoJtaE
Enjoy these often-neglected albums by one of the world’s most important groups. Just after these came Autobahn, a world-changer.
Yeah nah. 