I wouldn't call them genius--certainly not of the same kind of quality of beethoven or thom yorke. Rather, I would just call them extremely important to music.
Four Gentlemen from Dussledorf, Germany, who after forming a folk group in the late sixties took it upon themselves to re-invent and become an electronic outfit in the min 1970s...Creating many of the instruments they played they made a template of electronic sound which was then in the early 80s carved into a jigsaw and spread around the world...I was lucky enough to be a B-Boy @ this time and indeed at the age four zero still love electronic music - Adam Beyer - Cari Leckebusch etc....
This song makes me want to start poppin like I use to in the roller rink when they played this song. I would take of my skakes and go over in the corner me and other breakdancers and do our thing as a crowd would form around us to watch.
You are, from this moment on, enlightened, and with this wisdom and understanding, enabling you to clarify the perception of electronic music, you shall spread this music with the truth : There is no other before Kraftwerk.
well the earliest electronic instruments and compositions were around in the early 1900s but Kraftwerk was really the first to make pure electronic music using modern instruments, they pretty much invented the entrire techno genre.
hey this video was taken in 1981? this is amazing! i remember this group they were so revolutionary. It looks like they have laptops on their keyboards. I wish i saw this live. The most amazing track ever recorded! Genius!!
It sounds especially this version. It's literally givin me goose bumbs cause its sounds ten times better and it make in me feel the same as when I was breakdancing back in the day.
computer world possably my favorite kw track of all time,if i remember right,it was a theme tune for an old BBC2 computer progam in the 80s,anyone help me. ps i know im sad lol
I always figured this was a simple counting song. 1-2-3-4. The number of notes per bar. Maybe it's a reference to the "number stations" that broadcast across the globe. Either way, it's a fine, fine tune.
That gig in the 013 was fucking brilliant! I'm so happy I've seen them live (they were the absolute nr. 1 on my wishlist for the bands I had to see in my life)
You should have heard the arguments I got into over Numbers in the 80s. My superstitious SIL insisted that the vocoded polylinguistic counting was some kind of secret backward-masked demonic message.
Heh. I used to listen to this on vinyl when I was six (1981!) and I *loved* the way that bit felt via headphones. Ruined me for regular pop music, that's for sure.
I can see how Numbers would appeal to a 6-y.o. It would be on vinyl for sure! I lost a lot of stuff to a fire in 1992, but one of the few things I still have from 1981 is a Radio-Electronics magazine with an article announcing that within a year or two, we could buy music in the new CDMD (Compact Digital Music Disc) format. We didn't know yet that we could just call them CDs.
ONE uno SoLo 1
HenryTroy715LXIX 5 months ago
Excellent
OWNradar 8 months ago
How can someone be so this good at electronic music? Geez...
gastice 10 months ago
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Boring! Motörhead rules the world!
Wollenschrank 1 year ago
un deaux trtrtrtrtouis quququqatre
2001Randomkid 1 year ago
GREAT!!! Thank you for posting.
progpunker 1 year ago
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analogvonlord 1 year ago
ja wind technique
poseidon1full 2 years ago
cool!!!
larsmacalister 2 years ago
Geniuses in music? Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky...Kraftwerk
psiconauta21 2 years ago 12
I wouldn't call them genius--certainly not of the same kind of quality of beethoven or thom yorke. Rather, I would just call them extremely important to music.
Sudhish86 1 year ago
Uno, Duo, Tres, Quatro. This should have been the song in the Starwars cantina scene!
darthmal 2 years ago 2
numbers makes you wanna hop up and dance this groove is still on fire kraftwerk was the shizzzzznit!!!!!!!!
mrslapthat 2 years ago 2
uno dos tres cuatro
juanperezextreme 2 years ago
I thought the lyrics for "Computer World" said "Business, numbers, money, meatloaf." Meatloaf?
gpietsch 2 years ago 2
Ena Dio Tria Tecsera,Ta Stixia Tis Fiseos,4 Thin Fezi Tis Gys,Meta Apo Ton IIio,4 y kabaliares Tu Apokalipsi p.d.x, Eine Ola Numerica??
alesandropolis 2 years ago
great audio quality! very good in deed.
hug
rcanento 2 years ago
Four Gentlemen from Dussledorf, Germany, who after forming a folk group in the late sixties took it upon themselves to re-invent and become an electronic outfit in the min 1970s...Creating many of the instruments they played they made a template of electronic sound which was then in the early 80s carved into a jigsaw and spread around the world...I was lucky enough to be a B-Boy @ this time and indeed at the age four zero still love electronic music - Adam Beyer - Cari Leckebusch etc....
ludwigvonsteampole1 2 years ago 3
My dad was stationed in Germany at the time and we use to break downtown Frankfurt...man this brings back memories!
Leyenda1 2 years ago
This song makes me want to start poppin like I use to in the roller rink when they played this song. I would take of my skakes and go over in the corner me and other breakdancers and do our thing as a crowd would form around us to watch.
endurance38 2 years ago
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhow!
AndreLuizSCattaPreta 2 years ago
Das Ist Der Hammer
mystischDJ1 2 years ago
Brilliant!
Joy77 2 years ago
Behold viewer.
For this is the actual electronic music cradle.
You are, from this moment on, enlightened, and with this wisdom and understanding, enabling you to clarify the perception of electronic music, you shall spread this music with the truth : There is no other before Kraftwerk.
JesperHastrup 2 years ago
well the earliest electronic instruments and compositions were around in the early 1900s but Kraftwerk was really the first to make pure electronic music using modern instruments, they pretty much invented the entrire techno genre.
DerPoltergeist13 2 years ago
I'd sell everything I own just to have one of these guys spit on me... Well the 2 guys on the end anyway, bc they're original members
Iselsie 3 years ago
This makes me really want a wall made of green fluctuating numbers.
NightShark62 3 years ago 2
Teach me san shi? :S
CrazyBobos 3 years ago
Sorry to say... but without the visual support of Karl and Wolfgang, Kraftwerk end up looking kinda like a bunch of old coots. X)
They should have kept those two. They still look pretty fresh.
TechnoEstate 3 years ago
so this is where Orbital came from
LoftNuthouse 3 years ago
This sounds like the version that's on the Minimum Maximum live CD.
Lachlant1984 3 years ago
hey this video was taken in 1981? this is amazing! i remember this group they were so revolutionary. It looks like they have laptops on their keyboards. I wish i saw this live. The most amazing track ever recorded! Genius!!
giannie13 3 years ago
No, it was taken in 2005.
TechnoEstate 3 years ago
excelente lo mejor!!
InspectorFerret 3 years ago
Pure genius.
kirkvonbismarck 3 years ago 6
fathers of techno
brotpitt 3 years ago
It would appear that Florian had some back problems near the begining.
chadMalderman 4 years ago
Loved this track-bought the album and still have it.Have loved Kraftwerk since I heard Autobahn as a young kid
theboogiebabe 4 years ago
Eons ahead of there time. Brings back my breakdancing days!
xlyfgrd 4 years ago
Godsdamn. You and I must be ancients amongst hairless sacs.
darthathro 3 years ago
legends
mikkifly 4 years ago 3
mas kisieran muxos djs de ahora hacer la musica q hace kraftwer!!!
Xikasinnik 4 years ago
Odin... dva... tri...
kloratis 4 years ago
Man I like this cut when I was lil, and still like it...Blaze
analher 4 years ago
It sounds especially this version. It's literally givin me goose bumbs cause its sounds ten times better and it make in me feel the same as when I was breakdancing back in the day.
endurance38 2 years ago
I feel you....aka Blaze
analher 2 years ago
here is the numbers
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tubechango 4 years ago
computer world possably my favorite kw track of all time,if i remember right,it was a theme tune for an old BBC2 computer progam in the 80s,anyone help me. ps i know im sad lol
scousersmate 4 years ago
Old dudes rocking out looks odd but they were the true innovators, the geniuses who influenced music for DECADES!!!
RubyTwilite 4 years ago
The GONE WITH THE WIND of BREAK Dancing jams.
Bry101 4 years ago
I would give my balls to have seen this live
thanx for posting
KidPlaya 4 years ago
mrtwitz, Don't you know that they left the band?!
Wolfgang in 1987 and Karl in 1991.
Wolfgang left because of the slow progress of the band, and Karl left because he was uncredited on The Mix album, and he was kinda mad about it...
GuNMaN951 4 years ago
Where are Karl & Wolfgang. The two cats in the middle , I'm not familiar with.
mrtwitz 4 years ago
I always figured this was a simple counting song. 1-2-3-4. The number of notes per bar. Maybe it's a reference to the "number stations" that broadcast across the globe. Either way, it's a fine, fine tune.
zappi23 4 years ago
What's with Florian limping on stage? Looks like he's the hunchback.
brucethebear 5 years ago
That gig in the 013 was fucking brilliant! I'm so happy I've seen them live (they were the absolute nr. 1 on my wishlist for the bands I had to see in my life)
ardianworld 5 years ago
why does he put his hand up to the side of his mouth for?
RyanGerard 5 years ago
because he speaks through a microphone
soUnderground 5 years ago
You should have heard the arguments I got into over Numbers in the 80s. My superstitious SIL insisted that the vocoded polylinguistic counting was some kind of secret backward-masked demonic message.
Downstryke 5 years ago
Heh. I used to listen to this on vinyl when I was six (1981!) and I *loved* the way that bit felt via headphones. Ruined me for regular pop music, that's for sure.
jayrowe 5 years ago
I can see how Numbers would appeal to a 6-y.o. It would be on vinyl for sure! I lost a lot of stuff to a fire in 1992, but one of the few things I still have from 1981 is a Radio-Electronics magazine with an article announcing that within a year or two, we could buy music in the new CDMD (Compact Digital Music Disc) format. We didn't know yet that we could just call them CDs.
Downstryke 5 years ago
Florian as usually with happy entrance :)
ChrisPL123 5 years ago
That's funny, I thought he had stage fright
Mesmerelda 5 years ago
Which is he?
CrazyBobos 3 years ago