Kling Klang (long excerpt) Kraftwerk, 1971

[truvelocity]

This is Kraftwerk 1971??? This is lovely.

[mondx]

Toll!

[ak098ful]

Gratuliere! Ihre video ist wunderbar!

[ak098ful]

El video es exelente.Kling klang , no tiene otra representación que la urbana.El detalle del blanco y negro es también importante. A quien lo halla hecho mis felicitaciones!

[lordoid]

Very good video...Congrats! Fits perfectly.

[666767]

how could thay not do this stuff now

[666767]

this is the best track off krafwerk 

[phil1002010]

Kraftwerk. I love them. They are just as influental as The Beatles

[SZaletel]

Thank you for this. One of my all time favorite places...

[JennRighter]

I yearn for Germany! My grandfather is from Germany, and I've always wanted to go. Saving money for, hopefully, an eventual trip! Born and raised in the States, however...Long live the Zschunkes, my family.

[harp99]

Makes me miss my time in Berlin from 82 to 84 while in the Army. Beautiful city, beautiful people, and this is great companion music to wonderful photography.

[MrAntipattern]

Kraftwerk is the most valuable Band from my Homecountry Northrhine Westfalia in BRD. And they are also the Missing Link between the late 1960ies Underground and so called Krautrock and the late 1970ies Postpunk Underground called New Wave and "Neue Deutsche Welle". I love Bands like Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Ashra, Velvet Underground as well as Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Joy Division, The Sisters of Mercy, Front242, Skinny Puppy and of course KRAFTWERK.

[sakicfan4ever]

great music ,are the last 20 seconds a beginning of another song? i liked it!  thanks,

[sakicfan4ever]

great music ,are the last 20 seconds a beginning of another song? i liked it! thanks,joe

[buba3108]

Images and music composed - very good work

[x666666x]

Dude, this *is* the train. excellent

[pietermarten13]

nice

[kmrtv]

very good video

[klauswarzecha]

Great work! I'm loving it. The relaxed train ride an the more vivid scenery on the TMB (platforms, walking up the escalator) fit nicely to the music. I miss to go on the TMB, altough i can't remember that i ever took the L5 from Sants Estació to La Sagrera and then the L1 to Fabra i Puig ;) Well, next time... :) Thank you very much for the video!

[sitgesflorenci]

@klauswarzecha Oh, do you lived in Barcelona in the past? I'm glad my little clip helped you to refresh some memories... even you never took that traject :) Thank you for sharing your nice comment.

[klauswarzecha]

@sitgesflorenci Unfortunately, i never lived in BCN. But a good friend of mine did and i visited her quite often. Hmm, i think i should fly to BCN again :) All the best wishes from Germany!

[sitgesflorenci]

@klauswarzecha Danke to your nice words. Best wishes in return to you and to Deutschland too :) (sorry for not replying in German but I know only some few words :( )

[MrAntipattern]

@klauswarzecha This Video shows for what YouTube is good for. The Video is amazing. And also not many People know, that Autobahn is not the first but indeed the fourth Long Player from Kraftwerk. The Drummer on the First Kraftwerk Album was Klaus Dinger. In 1999 a colleage of mine was the Webmaster of Klaus Dinger and produced a CD with him and his Band "Die with Dignity" with was released in Japan 1999. In private Sessions my Colleage and I listened to the first three Albums of Kraftwerk.

[arnolsi]

Kraftwerke 2, die erste Platte die ich mir jemals gekauft habe. Seitdem bin ich nie wieder von elektronische Musik losgekommen.

Meine Güte bin ich alt geworden....snief

[sitgesflorenci]

@arnolsi Danke :)

[bocchi2008]

it's a image between future and past

[mondx]

BEAUTIFUL

[dwainedibbly]

beautiful song and great very fitting video. I used to listen to this song when I was younger at night in bed. I couldn't imagine the video to be any other with this song. Bravo.

[nadeharry]

nur geil..... bedeutet...... sehr schön gemacht. nur so da sitzen die welt an einem vorbei ziehen zu lassen. aug für die details zu haben. begleitet von klarer entspannter melodischer musik. dazu noch "mono" klänge. etwas melankolisch.

eben nur geil.... wünsche mir ...egal .....

be blessed

[Bizarronumber4]

Kraftwerk's first 3 albums are as good and innovative as their stuff from Autobahn on. I find their early music as fascinating as I did back in the 70s.

[XXXjuqinctylkjnmswXX]

This is all-around brilliance and the best way to spend 10 minutes of the day.

[wajobu]

The opening bells (missing here) are marvelous...thank you for posting this.

[sitgesflorenci]

Yes, it is! So the end, with that sort of suthamerican/arabian shacking rythym, and Florian's violin. But, I had only ten minutes in Youtube for it.

Thanks for your comment

[TheJoestone]

love those camera shots dude reminds me what film making is all about. great song too of course.

[sitgesflorenci]

Oh, you exaggerate a little bit, friend. But thank you very much for your nice words and for enjoying the clip.

[ChristliebEhregott]

...schön gemacht!

[kmrtv]

@ChristliebEhregott

aufjedenfall, ich schließe mich da an

[sitgesflorenci]

Danke to you both

[TheWhite1961]

Marvellous stuff. Florian and Ralf are kings.

[peterheatley]

What i was trying to say, is that Kraftwerk were so melodic and atmospheric at the time. I am surprised that no film studios commissioned them to write film scores the way Tangerine Dream did.

PS

I like the way you have edited Kling Klang with the above video. It reminds of the way i would go into deep sleeps listening to these tracks and feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.

[sitgesflorenci]

Thank you for your nice words and for giving me the opportunity to reply without making another stupid mistake.

I can't agree more with the soundtrack quality. I don't know if they were commisioned by any film studio. But they are ever a great inspiration for me, even if my videos are made with a cheap camera. Later it's a pleasure to spend time editing them. As you say, this "timeless, timeless..." music makes me feel refreshed and rejuvenated too.

[peterheatley]

Early Kraftwerk is so timeless, timeless, timeless, timeless, timeless...........

[sitgesflorenci]

First of all, sorry! I deleted your nice comment when I wanted reply, by accident! (this is the second time that happenend: I don't know if I'm getting too old or what).

I think they didn't make any soundtrack. There are few drops of Kraftwerk's Radioactivität in some Fasbinder movies, so as in Radio On. Maybe some other films uses bit, but that's all.

Sorry again: If you post your comment again I promiss keep my fingers far away from the keyboard.

[4moreInformation]

molt bon vídeo ! me'l emporto al meu blog amb el teu permís...

[sitgesflorenci]

Tu emporta't tot el que vulguis, que aquí tot és de franc :D

Gràcies!

[intothelife324]

Great tune and video :-)

I didn't know that Kraftwerk's first work is so quiet.

It calms me down...

[sitgesflorenci]

Well, it's true that Kling Klang is very relaxing. But please, go and check "Ruckzuck", "Stratovarius" or "Vom Himmel Hoch" - here in You Tube there are live and LP original versions - from the 1rst Kraftwerk akbum (1970), before this tune here. You'll be surprised if you don't know it: there are moments that it seems a sort of delicious crazy heavy metal band :D

[nadeharry]

nur geil......

[melanzio]

very boring

[sitgesflorenci]

I know: there's no sex, no violence and no happy ending. For all that you have to wait until my next movie, sorry ;)

[melanzio]

was that ironic? may be you don't know the mining of the adjective 'boring', wich is not 'lack of sex or violence' therefore not what i meant...

[sitgesflorenci]

No, I don't know the meaning of that word. It doesn't appear in the dictionnary I have (this reminds me I have to buy a better one. Thank you for for remembering!).

Man (or woman) I was just kidding, please. For me it's great you can find it boring, great, or whatever you feel, that's all. Have a nice day.

[afradwright]

I just love this track so much - it instantly took me back to very happy times. The film (I don't know why) just seems perfect. I guess it may be because you become passenger-like listening to Kling Klang. Fantastic, Thanks so much for posting this!

[sitgesflorenci]

Thank you very much for your comment and for share this feeling :)

[sitgesflorenci]

I wanted to apologize to a gentle Youtube user who made a very nice comment for removing it: I pressed the "remove" control instead the "reply" one. It's the first time I made such a stupid mistake, and I still can't understand how I did it (the rush, maybe). He/she said that Kling Klang is one of his/her favourite tracks and he/she liked the movie. Thank you very much and excuse me for being so clumsy.

[czesjar]

Kraftwerk always pretend that Autobahn is their first lp, and great music they made before then (like this) does not exist.

Even now, 'Kraftwerk 2' and 'Ralf and Florian' do not get an official release, and the tracks are never ever played live.

A real shame to disown such good work.

[sitgesflorenci]

This is absolutely true: those three first lp had some great music (in fact, this one has some strategies they used later in Autobahn, for example). Anyway, they used Ruckzuck from their first lp as the start of most of their concerts until 1976. They played some of that early stuff until then too. But since the Computer World Tour they decided to left all them aside. As you well say, it's a real shame.

Welcome and thank you for the comment.

[sitgesflorenci]

Oh, I forgotten to say that at the end, after all, it's their music and their choice, and they can do what they want with it, of course. Once this said, I have to say that Kraftwerk fans we are maybe the most patient people in the world: we should write some kind of manual about how to wait 12 years for a new album and being still able to defend them in public, without loose the temper. Maybe some of us use some zen technique too, I don't know ;)

[kosmischesynth]

@czesjar don't forget the debut album, Vom Himmel Hoch is a masterwork

[sitgesflorenci]

@kosmischesynth totally agree... and what about Ruckzuck? Pure genious :)

[humislair]

@czesjar true, true

[OVOmirror]

@czesjar

Warum ? Besser war es nie. Dass ist warum.

[EDUCORTINA]

Me ha gustado mucho, me recuerda claro está a mis viajes por esa zona, enhorabuena y gracias

[sitgesflorenci]

Desde luego es una linea usada por muchísima gente. Por "rollo" que sea el clip, estoy convencido que a quien la haya tomado le traerá recuerdos :)

Muchas gracias y bienvenido :)

[scatmanjohn3001]

wow......... the Famous song that they named their Studio after. this is a Honor to hear this song.....

[sitgesflorenci]

You are absolutely right :)

[tigrius]

It was long before Kling Klang studio emerged. I think the studio was named after this marvelous song.

[AmericanPlatinum]

In another post I mentioned Stockhausen and his love for vowel sounds evident in early Kraftwerk..also tape speed manipulation, which you hear in this peice periodically....the whole thing changes key. It sounds as if this was done at mixing and transfer.

[sitgesflorenci]

Thank you very much for your intelligent comment. Stockhausen was one of the first obvious influences in Kraftwerk. Tape speed manipulation was one of the main keys in the second NEU! album (1973) too. Both groups had at the time (apart from being NEU! ex-Kraftwerk members) the same producer: Cony Plank, a true master. Cony Plank worked later a lot with Holger Czukay (ex-Can) who studied with Stockhausen. It's very interesting to follow all those historical links :)

[docterjoy]

What a pretty song! This is what gave Kraftwerk's legendary studio their name.

[docterjoy]

oh lol I just realized this video is where I'm from!

[sitgesflorenci]

Si senyor! Yes :D (Kling Klang) and it is from 1971! No Techno, no Tecnopop even no Punk at that time. It has some traces of what it will be the future Autobahn (1974), in a more relaxed and improvised way, isn't it?

And where you are from, please? Sitges? Gavà? Castelldefels? Bellvitge?... I am curious now.

Bon dia ;)

[docterjoy]

Right now I live in the US but I grew up near Barcelona, in Sarria. =)

[sitgesflorenci]

Oh, thank you for the information (I didn't get it even with four guesses! he he)

Have a good day.

[1986abc]

Wonderful! 5 *****

[sitgesflorenci]

Thank you. You are welcome.