Kraftwerk Ruckzuck (live on WDR TV in 1970)

[dayvenkirq]

0:00 - 5:00 !

[dayvenkirq]

Quick question: how does Florian make these fast rhythms? With his tongue?

[PartMiniBus]

I want a time machine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tfgreen23]

RALF?! GLASSES?! LONG HAIR?! BULLSHIT?!

[1973giraffe]

Florian have good lung, Tall musician !

[r3igam]

Really like this song!

One half of the audience is just totally stoned and the other half is clearly thinking "WTF?!!":D

Anyways, I always have a great time when I watch this vid:D

[ctmexperiment]

brandt brauer frick.

[bothlegsbroken666]

sounds like a mix between the doors,pink floyd(sid barett era),jehtro tull and some fucked up electro artist...un-fuckin` believable!!waayy before its time.

[bothlegsbroken666]

@bothlegsbroken666 sorry i meant ahead of its time..lol

[ElianaV1993]

Very good!

[resonance2012]

"wat"

[xxapple88xx]

probably hard to understand from the "now" perspective, but this was actually a "Disco Hit" back in the days. A Dancefloor filler!

[lambie22]

this seems unreal!

[tarantism]

i actually think this some of the most interesting stuff kraftwerk has done. i remember when i first heard this song i was amazed

[STEPASAUR]

The sound of a nation rebuilding itself, shunned by the world and forced to look inside rather than UK or US for inspiration, when you understand the background to it you gain an immense respect for 'krautrock' it must've been wunderbar for the kids to feel like they were hearing a new identity emerging

[themythofcreationism]

cedric bixler took me here. love it

[ohneEisen]

not bad, but compared to later times it´s only krautrock and nothin else...

[moisesmaldonado101]

Nice...

Greetings from México



[Sunjata0]

motorik

[brobdj]

Ruckzuck - considering this was done in 1970.. and played live too! This was so 'avantgarde' those days. The people in the audience don't really know what's going on! :)) Great to find it here and listen to it again. Many thanks for the upload!!

[DWCartwright]

Great insight into the early stages of their development and their fans reaction (mostly cerebral?). Ausgezeichnet!

[TheForkedtoungue]

German crowds are too logical, an American crowd in 1970 would have been jumping around at the brilliant new sound.

[diegomoreno4444]

@TheForkedtoungue ¿are you talking about Silver Apples? almost at same time (1969 both)

[frem900]

fantastic

[frem900]

whowwwwwwww!!!!

[amelie100able]

incroyable...1970!!



[DjaveBikinus]

Love those looks in the crowd of "What's going on!?"

[maurochacal]

Hypnotic

[SuperGillesderais]

Germany , that Great ripped-off Country !

[DeadBelaLugosi]

The guy in the audience who is playing with something in his hand and shakes his head at the beginning is a pioneer in my book.

[quaxk]

bunch of posers in that audience

[TheObimara]

The cool people there are laughing

[theblackqueen87]

hard to believe how they started, isn't it? i wish they would accept their Kraut-past and release it remastered bcause it is as relevant as their post-autobahn output

[kubuntuboy]

Wait, there was a time where TV broadcasted actually good music?

[DeadBelaLugosi]

@kubuntuboy yeah, germany desperetly needed new things to hold on to. they were trying to erase world war 2, so :)

[thephaseshifter]

@kubuntuboy Think this have to do with the country you live in.. Germany had not long ago VIVA 2. With the best electronic underground music, and every week the program: Electronic beats ''slices''. What still release dvds.

[PAULLONDEN]

Sounds like Jethro Tull on steroids.(don't know yet,if that's a good,or a bad thing).Bytheway..thisis indeed a 'Germanflute".(being the original name of that instrument) which,(up until I saw this)had a high 'dated' rating.

[StateofMotion81]

Its truely astonsioning they were making that kind of music in 1970 absolute geniuses & are still doing masterpiece live shows! Respect

[teargarden]

me and my rhythmbox. me and my rhythmbox.

[tpiz01]

Those are some cold ass white boyz. I gotta give it to them. When everybody else was rockin and disco-ing and singing and shit they was on some other level shit. I hope the audience was high cuz thats probably the only way they could've dug that shit back then

[DeadBelaLugosi]

@tpiz01 oh yeah, all the guys/gals who move their head to the music probably got too much acid on their head. otherwise, they are just awesome!

[foxdie1013]

Kind of a shame that early Kraftwerk was basically Neu! but Kraftwerk got all the credit! I love both bands though, by the way...

[DeadBelaLugosi]

this is the greatest kraftwerk (and kraut-rock) recording I have ever watched -in a very long time.

[Diskoboy1974]

This almost sounds like modern Jungle/Breakbeats. It's so wierd to image there was a time before Kraftwerk used drum machines, but heres the evidence! The audience doesn't even seem to realize they're witnessing the birth of modern techno, here.

[0Cailash0]

the audience remember me of the scene from back to the future when marty plays van halen :)

[lizazp92]

i'm like that guy at 00:05

[ZukuRiot]

the audience I like what the hell, and so am I. Still awsome though :D

[sonia198558]

S U P E R ! ! ! ! !

[BeatleMonkeegirl15]

u can clearly hear the techno influence even THEN....its in the rythms :))))

[dzu24]

ein stück musikgeschichte. wuderbar!

[OZRIC1985]

This is real trip out music!

[Soundfetischist]

"Ruckzuck" wird als erstes Techno-Stück aller Zeiten bezeichnet. Auch wenn hierbei in erster Linie akustisches und nicht elektronisches Instrumentarium verwendet wurde.

[1973giraffe]

Est-ce John Lennon a 1:22 ?

[evergreenpotato]

@1973giraffe C'est possible. Lennon n'a pas eu des cheveux longs en 1970.

[1973giraffe]

@evergreenpotato Salut! merci de m'avoir repondu(e)mais je ne trouve pas que John Lennon a les cheveux si long dans ce video de Kraftwerk.J'ai regardee un video de John en 1970 c'est: John Lennon-Instant Karma(TOPT 5-2-1970) il a les cheveux beaucoup plus long.

[MixMoose]

Im Bayrischen Fernsehen hätte es so ein Revoluzzergedudel damals nicht gegeben. Behaupte ich mal :-)

Sieht aus, als kenne ich mich mit dem Schaffen von Kraftwerk in frühen Jahren wenig bis gar nicht aus. Aber ein paar (An)Klänge meine ich zu vernehmen, die ich schon von "Autobahn" her kenne.

[Davaris122]

@MixMoose Wenn du das Album meinst, stimmt das. Da war ihre Krautrock-Phase noch nicht völlig überwunden, trotz des Einsatzes elektronischer Instrumente. Das Monotone haben sie ja sowieso durchgängig beibehalten.

[Ultrabrut1]

Those young Germans are grooving to that pre-Techno techno. I'm digging this so much!

[raff3ls0n]

thanks for posting ..r_r..!

[MrMegaduder]

is this from before when they woz robots?

[Kraftwerkification]

@MrMegaduder Yup!

[nusrat1971]

the guy at 0:04 looks like Klaus Schulze

[mymusicvideosx]

listen you stiff little bastards in the audience, you just wait 4 or 5 years til they release Autobahn - yeah, but you bitches will be listening to Donna Summer and trying to get laid at the disco by then. just go home already.

[kneejerker]

@mymusicvideosx:

But then again, Disco diva Donna Summer (with the vital contributions of Giorgio Moroder) is not as far removed from Kraftwerk as you dismissively think. Listen to "I Feel Love" next to "The Robots." Yes, It's far easier to be cop a snarky and superior attitude towards the past than to really understand it.

[uktransplantedyank]

@kneejerker

Better yet, listen to "I Feel Love" next to "Metropolis" - the connection is quite obvious.



[tpiz01]

@uktransplantedyank I've actually mix those 2 songs together in a dj club mix. Also I feel Love with Spacelab and Moskow Disko by Telex

[mymusicvideosx]

@kneejerker wait, I like Donna Summer - must have been really drunk when I posted that!

[sfoster38]

give this audience some ecstasy 

[DrMerkwuerdichliebe]

Florian looks like Andreas Baader here 8 )

[steelwizard]

@DrMerkwuerdichliebe

hehe ;)

[fumeres]

line up please.

[NewWaver80014]

@fumeres

Florian Schneider-Esleben - flute

Ralf Hütter - synthesizer

Klaus Dinger - drums

Michael Rother (guitar) appears to be absent.

[fumeres]

@NewWaver80014 thank you

[KRYLONADDICT822]

what if crowd response was like this nowadays, like at a rammstein concert haha :P

[zogalicious]

they were doing repetitive sequenzer music before it even existed! they had to play it manually! and the audience is like huh? whah? why? because they didnt know yet that you were supposed to dance to it, not look at it.

[BigSalFarese]

this is about as good as it gets

[1533Montaigne]

ähem, leute, es wurde schon einige zeit vor 1970 wesentlich einfallsreichere musik gemacht. dass ein publikum wie dieses hier bei einer solchen sendung nicht gerade die avantgarde bildete ist klar. ihr outfit ist für die damalige zeit eher gepflegt konservativ. aber musik wurde generell damals eher konzentriert verarbeitet und nicht wie heute meist nur noch nebenbei konsumiert.

[beccalex]

They look like stoned germans

[ALXXMaXX]

@beccalex Well....

[coparush]

FAR OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheTrirkle]

wow. perfect.

[jermymiller]

Mann sieht die leute wussten damals noch nicht viel damit anfangen. :-))

[jhillst]

Zing zippa-zop a zop zop a doo-dee wop

Zing zippa-zop a zop zop a doo-dee wop

You gotta love that flute riff.

[wercus]

Amazing footage

[wercus]

Amazing

[pbuotte]

way early techno!!

[rogerstill71]

Even my 86 year old aunt likes Kraftwerk!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@rogerstill71:....she still dances to Kraftwerk ?

[shadowspork]

Krautrock at its finest. It's amazing how Kraftwerk evolved in 40 years.

[Erisc]

If Che and his girl have enjoyed, who on Earth could dislike this?

[sexiemusik]

1:56 Che Guevara ?

[MegaLink34]

Dios! Jhon Lennon 1:23 y el "Che" Guevara!!! 1:54

[MaryMungoAndMidge1]

@MegaLink34 I also spotted John Denver and Art Garfunkel at 1:27 and 1:31!

[MegaLink34]

@MaryMungoAndMidge1 Fuck yeah! LOL

[sexiemusik]

@MegaLink34 vos desis ke son ellos¿ a mi me parecio

[gothic666star]

"....a ustedes les parecera un poco extraño, pero a sus hijos les encatara...."

[coconutshards]

so freakin badass. brings a tear to my eye...

[robotechian23rd]

love kraftwerks later stuff but have been diggin this more krauty based stuff recently reminds me of neu and can

[Maximillion666]

@robotechian23rd Guitarist Michael Rother and drummer Klaus Dinger were in Kraftwerk for awhile in those early days before they went on to form Neu!

[nacekozo]

The audience just don't have a clue what is going on...

[Kraftwerkification]

Naturally. Do you know how new this was back then? Very much. :-)

[nacekozo]

@Kraftwerkification : indeed - 50 years ahead of their time, even maybe today :) This is my favourite track of all.

[crocotone]

@nacekozo yes this is one of their best. I was dancing to this tune like many others in that time.. i guess it was in the german top ten for a while. unvbelieveable!

[ResidentMich]

@Kraftwerkification How 'scared' would you be if you were the crowd. Not realising that this was going to change the whole course of music to what we have now. Unfortunately if it had stopped in the mid 90's that might not have been too bad, the banal crap we get these days is not fit to stand on the same music shelves as this.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@nacekozo:....and lots of them look very stoned ! LOL

[lizbowie]

wow... what a change!

[nolanb21]

Ruckzuck on speed!