Pretty incredible. This kind of thing simply did not exist before them, nor did most of the percussion instruments they're playing. They needed to invent them to get the sounds they wanted. HUGELY influential, basically all of electronic music flows from them.
Wow! I've never seen that one before. Fantastisch! I'm still reeling from the shock of finding out that Kraftwerk didn't have sequenced drum-machines for Trans Europe Express. All the percussion was done manually with those knitting needle things!
@xwsftassell Kraftwewrk were/are awesome but Giorgio Morodor invented much of electronic music as well. Forget the Donna Summer disco stuff he did, dig in to the other stuff he did, some of it was ground breaking and incredibly psychedelic.
I like these older performances where you can definitely tell it is a live performance, as it is not exactly like the studio version. In the later live touring videos, everything is so well polished that I'm not sure they are actually playing.
Kraftwerk`s music historical achievement is that they have transfered electronic music from sound labs, esoterical & avant-garde circles into pop(ular) culture!
They did not use synths to reproduce traditional songs or classical music (like Kingsley, Carlos) or to pimp up rock songs (like ELO, Yes).
They wanted to create a new and distictive form of electronic pop-music - and this is exactly what they did.
Cest la plus belle chanson que jai entendue de toute ma vie et je nen reviens pas encore depuis que je lai entendue cette été en 2011, je lecoute tellement souvent et je ne me lasse jamais de lentendre,surtout le solo de Ralf Hutter a 6:37cest tellement bon.Ce sont des anges a mon avis. Merci a Kraftwerk.Quand jétais plus jeune javais entendue quelques chansons de vous mais cest en 2011que je vous ai découvert encore plus grace a Youtube et je vous aime beaucoup.xxxx
Now you gotta love Kraftwerk...... & this is the first time I am seeing Kraftwerk on The Midnight Special & I used to watch this show all the time.... I love it..... : )
Kraftwerk and Larry Fast were the greatest influences on modern electronic pop music. they were the only groups that when something new came out I had to have it
Kraftwerk and Larry Fast were the greatest influences on modern electronic pop music. they were the only groups that when something new came out I had to have it
Let us not forget the Beatles' late 60's electronic music ties. Not only was Here Comes The Sun one of the first recorded uses of a Moog, but if you've never heard it, you should look into GH's solo work from that period. Do a search here on youtube for his Electronic Sound album tracks. And how many bands could get a whole generation of pop fans to listen to something like Revolution 9? Not saying the Beatles or Kraftwerk were more or less influential, as those things are totally incalculable.
Yes, they did. They built their own drum pads from scratch in 1973, Do a search here for the video "Tanzmusik", and you will see Wolfgang playing it. And they used drum machines on the Kraftwerk 2 album in 1972.
Old comment, but to reply, I saw them in 1975 in Tulsa, Oklahoma (most of the audience walked out while they were playing an earlier piece, possibly "Kling Klang"), and by my memory this is exactly what it sounded like. They were expert technicians.
No they didn't. Carl Palmer used electronic percussion on the ELP track Toccata in 1973. At that time, I don't think Kraftwerk were using their electronic percussion units yet.
This was and still is massively influential of course, but mainly in terms of the instruments they were using; the song structure, melodies, harmonies, rhythms... none of this was in any way new or radical.
I love reference to 'speed cars' on the autobahn as I remember myself driving my 1969 Volkawagon 'Bug' in New York in 1975 ...listening to Autobahn on my 8-track tape player thinking I was the only person listening to this music....great that these tapes are available on the internet here on Youtube!!!
What most people are failing to realize is that THEY are LOVING what they are creating, and that element holds its own...Nobody is better than anyone else or even comparable in that regard...Just be glad that you can be apart of these fantastic creations by just listening... What have you created?
I can remember 'Autobahn' as their first big hit in '75, I was a pre-teen @ the time; they were truly 'one of a kind' then..though I do think 'Tangerine Dream' was around then, too..
Plus, Kraftwerk sounds better sonically. Their records are warmer and sweeter sounding than The Beatles. Early Beatles records sound like pieces of tin. And let's not forget that Kraftwerk built some of their own freakin' instruments for crying out loud! John Lennon was on his whole stupid hippie "All You Need Is Love" trip, lying naked in bed with Yoko while real social change and radical culture shifting was taking place in Germany and France during the late 60's.
yes, i would say, that i am a kraftwerk-fan for decades. and i am from germany. _but_ my opinion changed a little bit about the influence of kraftwerk of many electro-bands. there are many more influences as strong at the same level as kraftwerk. for example, the music of 'clockwork orange' by wendy carlos or keith emerson - have a look at the excellent documentary 'synth britannia' - you should find it on youtube. of course, for me kraftwerk is still one of the most influential bands.
Man, imagine what the "dazed and confused", spicolli american high school crowd must've thought of these guys when they came on the scene!!!! This is a big departure to listening to Zep, Sabbath, and Foghat!!! L.O.L.
No words really to describe how amazing and influential Kraftwerk have been, I can remember hearing an edit of Autobhan on a kids TV show back in 76 aged about 10 and being blown away! Yes, strangely, I find Florian attractive (!lol) - he seems like a decent bloke too, so sorry to hear he's left Kraftwerk:-(
They may have gone on to greater success and adoraration in the following few years but this period in their career seems to have a more natural,free flowing and fulfilling aspect to it which makes it so much easier to get into and just go with compared to some of their later stuff.
Well, I was an '80s stoner, so that wouild make it different :-D Nevertheless, Lester bangs was impressed enough to write about them. But I don't know if he was impressed in a positive way or a negative one...
@MondoReyTV1 cheers then, their whole image and music rallied against the stoner aesthetic, though that doesn't mean stoners can't get into them. but i don't see many stoners getting into a band wearing suits and ties and playing music that at times sounded like kids' nursery rhymes
Ahh..this is the Kraftwerk I enjoy the most. For as much as I like Kraftwerk, to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of later Kraftwerk like the whole "We are the Robots" thing and what not. I just like the earlier stuff alot more with Autobahn and Radio-Activity ^_^
What a great video, Krafterk are gods of electronic music, I love them. And Ralf, he is soo handsome here. Hope to see them on concert in the near future.
Truly, the most influential electronic band to come along since i have been alive. They are not only great musicians, they formed a new kind of music, and how many of todays bands can really say that. To this day when i hear Kraftwerk they still amaze me. Just an opinion!
I think they are the most influential band of all time. the Beatles fanatics will disagree. my argument is: the Beatles influenced many rock bands, but Kraftwerk have influenced every electro act, as well as the hip hop movement. what they were doing in the 70's was far more innovative than the Beatles a decade earlier. not a stringed instrument in sight!
The Beatles were hardly without influence themselves.Lennon and McCartney had heard lots of rock,blues and other less famous genres, and blended it together to form "their sound".
Beatles may get all the spotligt, but others like the Rolling Stones and The Kinks were equally influental to later music
Kraftwerk really made something completely different.Music for a more civilized world, if I may say so.Sadly our civilization took a turn for the worse..
Africa Bambata (I think that's how you spell it) actually sampled One of Kraftwerks beats and one of Kraftwerks Melodies, and put them together, and he claims that he created Hip-Hop with this... Yeah, right...
hip-hop that we know of today were inspired by kraftwerk. in early 80's all tha break dance movement etc. not to mention ALL the electronic music that we hear today
@Coldacre I had never thought about it, you're completely right, and I love The Beatles. But Kraftwerk has even influenced the what's now known as the "funk carioca", from Brazil. And another point is that they are responsible for lots of innovation in electronic instruments. The're the greatest, indeed.
i so agree.. it's a shame that not many people know about them... brian eno once said that this was the sound of the future.. as great as the beatles are, this is just so much farther ahead
maybe not as big as the beatles, but people do know about kraftwerk...I just heard a local hip hop radio station play two kraftwerk songs on a bass/electro mix! then again I am in Miami, and the bass DJs over here love their kraftwerk....
@Coldacre I think your right to an extent...but both bands influence can be felt in every aspect of music..the beatles were oneof the first bands to incorporate loops and sound editing into their music as well as sound collages (revolution #9) but kraftwerk are brilliant in a completly different way im not sure you can compare the two...they are both so ahead of their time, in some ways kraftwerk even outdid themselves.
I don't see how that makes Kraftwerk more influential. They both influenced different genres of music. The difference is that the way the Beatles made music, writing their own and relying on themselves as much as they can, not to mention virtually creating the "concept album" influenced all subsequent musicians, including Kraftwerk.
@Vebinz The Beatles focused more on left field, obtuse lyrics and clever marketing. Kraftwerk spent more time on creating new sounds, new concepts; building their own instruments and were far more technically proficient in playing them. They didn't create electronic music out of thin air, but they, along with Tangerine Dream brought it out of the lab. Put on The Man Machine and Computer World next to Sgt. Pepper and The White Album and see which ones are the freshest and most relevant.
But how can you credit them for taking electronic music "out of the lab", when Wendy Carlos, Gershon Kingsley, and Jean-Jacques Perrey did that years before?
To me, Kraftwerk accomplishment was in combining synth music with a pop sound, a pop sound that comes from a tradition the Beetles helped create (The Beach Boys are a major influence on them).
Kraftwerk rank among the 5 or 6 most revolutionary musicians. But I don't know if they can quite top the list.
@Coldacre I agree. Beatles follow a trend imported from US and just added some of the british culture and tradition. I would considered Elvis more influential than Beatles. Krafwerk started a new whole thing from the devastated pos-war Germany rejecting what came from america and the beat thing, on a language not even close widespread as english is. It was a fresh blank page start wich generates Electronic, Techno, Cosmic, Industrial, Hip hop, Ambient, and so on.
@Coldacre I agree. Beatles follow a trend imported from US and just added some of the british culture and tradition. I would considered Elvis more influential than Beatles. Krafwerk started a new whole thing from the devastated pos-war Germany rejecting what came from america and the beat thing, on a language not even close widespread as english is. It was a fresh blank page start wich generates Electronic, Techno, Cosmic, Industrial, Hip hop, Ambient, and so on.
@leeward66 Yes they are. BUT, from what I had learned not to long ago, Kraftwerk's latter style during the 70's came from Giorgio Moroder. I thought that it was the opposite until I read an interview from him. Kraftwerk liked his electro Disco style, which really is the origin of what he hear today in House Music (I hate house music) but his style was more on the Electronica style that you hear coming from Kraftwerk during the mid 70's to early 80's.
Y'know, when I think about it, it looks like every piece of music is played live. It's a big difference to most other electronic bands, which use backing tapes. Truly a sign of how good Kraftwerk's musicians are. :)
thanks for the video ! is the kind of video that i want to find of kraftwerk, at the 75s times. The sound of sintetizer are amazing!! Can you tell me the exact place that you found it ? I search in the page thath you talk in the comentary, but i cant find the section where are the videos.
Well, if we had only this video, same thing we could say about the drumming part: it seems asif Wolfgang were doing a lot more than Karl. The truth is that Karl, being himself a great musician, looks underused here. Anyway, he looks so cute, so young, playing the electric percussion, seat on the chair, happy as a kid with his tindrum he he (lovely smile too :D).
I remember watching this very episode. I was only 13 at the time and just really getting into music and this just blew me away. Thanks to the poster of this video.
Thanks for a version of my favorite Kraftwerk song that I've never seen or heard. It was cool seeing them from their early days with those antique synthesizers.
Ha Ha! You're right..i never made the correlation between the name of the song and what i was thinking..I guess kraftwerk got what they were trying to get across in song about a highway..
This is fantastic i never se in my life a performance of kraftwerk in 1975, this is so beautiful thanks a lot rasslsk this is a peace of gold very rare. =) i am crying right now this is track is amazing.Good capure thanks a lot !!!!
I remember listening to this long before 1974 or 5. It could have been as early as late 71 or 72
oldgeezer68 3 days ago
This likely blew away an unsuspecting 1975 American audience.
L3XINGTON 2 weeks ago
konnte mann 1985 mehr aussehen als karl bartos 1975 ...
eskalaparty 1 month ago in playlist KRAFTWERK
Well, popular electronic music, anyway. Terry Riley and Stockhausen were doing some crazy stuff a little before this.
vargaso 1 month ago
Pretty incredible. This kind of thing simply did not exist before them, nor did most of the percussion instruments they're playing. They needed to invent them to get the sounds they wanted. HUGELY influential, basically all of electronic music flows from them.
vargaso 1 month ago
Wow! I've never seen that one before. Fantastisch! I'm still reeling from the shock of finding out that Kraftwerk didn't have sequenced drum-machines for Trans Europe Express. All the percussion was done manually with those knitting needle things!
xwsftassell 1 month ago
@xwsftassell Kraftwewrk were/are awesome but Giorgio Morodor invented much of electronic music as well. Forget the Donna Summer disco stuff he did, dig in to the other stuff he did, some of it was ground breaking and incredibly psychedelic.
TheForkedtoungue 2 weeks ago
I like these older performances where you can definitely tell it is a live performance, as it is not exactly like the studio version. In the later live touring videos, everything is so well polished that I'm not sure they are actually playing.
alexeykh 1 month ago
Perfection!!
EdWood2006 1 month ago
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Kraftwerk`s music historical achievement is that they have transfered electronic music from sound labs, esoterical & avant-garde circles into pop(ular) culture!
They did not use synths to reproduce traditional songs or classical music (like Kingsley, Carlos) or to pimp up rock songs (like ELO, Yes).
They wanted to create a new and distictive form of electronic pop-music - and this is exactly what they did.
vanelektrik 1 month ago
Cest la plus belle chanson que jai entendue de toute ma vie et je nen reviens pas encore depuis que je lai entendue cette été en 2011, je lecoute tellement souvent et je ne me lasse jamais de lentendre,surtout le solo de Ralf Hutter a 6:37cest tellement bon.Ce sont des anges a mon avis. Merci a Kraftwerk.Quand jétais plus jeune javais entendue quelques chansons de vous mais cest en 2011que je vous ai découvert encore plus grace a Youtube et je vous aime beaucoup.xxxx
1973giraffe 2 months ago
Ralf is so cute, ah xD
ZukuRiot 2 months ago
@ZukuRiot Its true but I prefer Karl Bartos.He's the cutest of the band.
1973giraffe 2 months ago
I would sure love to hear how Wolfman Jack introduced this!
axisoffeeble 3 months ago
This is beautiful and I can't stop watching it.
rogersachs9 3 months ago
imagine some middle aged person falling asleep watching carson and then waking up to this lol
newfuckingwave 3 months ago 7
cold, displaced, thin, beautiful.
saganemc2 4 months ago 3
Now you gotta love Kraftwerk...... & this is the first time I am seeing Kraftwerk on The Midnight Special & I used to watch this show all the time.... I love it..... : )
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Kraftwerk and Larry Fast were the greatest influences on modern electronic pop music. they were the only groups that when something new came out I had to have it
bigdavenh 4 months ago
Kraftwerk and Larry Fast were the greatest influences on modern electronic pop music. they were the only groups that when something new came out I had to have it
bigdavenh 4 months ago
To bad there is no Tangerine Dream midnight special. Them and Kraftwerk would be a great pair at Moogfest this year! Thanks
gwdone 4 months ago
wuz here
oysterboy1965 4 months ago
Americans and Russians may have invented the synthesizer, but it was the Germans who made it interesting.
bearmare 4 months ago
@bearmare and the Japanese ;)
sparky4444444444444 4 months ago
Kraftwerk INVENTED some of their musical instruments. How cool is that?!
AIKevorkian 5 months ago 4
@AIKevorkian UBER
sparky4444444444444 4 months ago
With all the serious musical discussion going on would it be really stupid for me to just say that I would totally do young Ralf
swanceva 5 months ago 2
And just to clarify, I do mean "one of the first recorded uses of a Moog... on a pop/rock record."
artrock101 5 months ago
Let us not forget the Beatles' late 60's electronic music ties. Not only was Here Comes The Sun one of the first recorded uses of a Moog, but if you've never heard it, you should look into GH's solo work from that period. Do a search here on youtube for his Electronic Sound album tracks. And how many bands could get a whole generation of pop fans to listen to something like Revolution 9? Not saying the Beatles or Kraftwerk were more or less influential, as those things are totally incalculable.
artrock101 5 months ago
Yes, they did. They built their own drum pads from scratch in 1973, Do a search here for the video "Tanzmusik", and you will see Wolfgang playing it. And they used drum machines on the Kraftwerk 2 album in 1972.
electrokinesis 5 months ago
CLASSIC!!!!!!
64mung 6 months ago
They invented the 1st MPC!
electro808kat 6 months ago
rolf hutter was a cutie
666prep 7 months ago
3:07 i always think ralf and florian r secretly in love with each other just like holmes and watson hahahah! just a joke!
aikexue 7 months ago
They're playing the bassline on the Minimoog.
DeusExMamiya 8 months ago
Something tells me they're doing playback. Can't relate what the minimoog is playing with the song.
Babyblue57 8 months ago
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jackal59 3 months ago
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Old comment, but to reply, I saw them in 1975 in Tulsa, Oklahoma (most of the audience walked out while they were playing an earlier piece, possibly "Kling Klang"), and by my memory this is exactly what it sounded like. They were expert technicians.
jackal59 3 months ago
hey leeward66, the yours isn´t an opinion, is just an objective observation, would be a fool the one who doesn´t get to the same conclusion
nelsonextremo 8 months ago
mesmerizing!
slovoIT 9 months ago
Great stuff these guys were true innovators & pioneers of electronic music...
ogrebattle22763 9 months ago
I cant play Autobahn on my car stereo....too much risk of a speeding ticket.
brothermartin64 9 months ago
I like there song Numbers!!!
sexsavannah43 9 months ago
>:-)-
fxbilderberg 9 months ago
Kudos to producer Burt Sugarman for having the guts to put experimental music on TV way back in 1975. I bet Kraftwerk invented electronic drums too.
zkxv 11 months ago 3
No they didn't. Carl Palmer used electronic percussion on the ELP track Toccata in 1973. At that time, I don't think Kraftwerk were using their electronic percussion units yet.
Kohntarkosz 6 months ago
German engineers at work ! Inventing cars, building the autobahn and creating music of the future! - WOW! First "Just-in-time-production".
Eyyoh77 1 year ago 3
Just gets better and better every time I hear it.
NameCC8687 1 year ago
Oh, I'm amazed.. no words!!!
Kraftwerk is Kraftwerk!
fdeepf 1 year ago
beautiful clip! i love Kraftwerk
Raunchola 1 year ago
This was and still is massively influential of course, but mainly in terms of the instruments they were using; the song structure, melodies, harmonies, rhythms... none of this was in any way new or radical.
aydansavaskan 1 year ago
@aydansavaskan and the same can be said about hte beatles,....oh no! wait!
the beatles used conventional instruments,... makes me wonder why are they called "revolutionary"
bah
thaumasein 1 year ago
@thaumasein that's right. like kraftwerk it would be more true to say they're contribution was evolutionary. Not revolutionary.
aydansavaskan 1 year ago
Future of music, 35 years ago.
DeMachman 1 year ago 10
I've heard OF this video from Midnight Special, but, this is the first time I've SEEN it! Kudos! Nicely done!
ROBOTkw1 1 year ago
Kraftwerk is the BEST nice VIDEO !!!
GEORGbyAMG 1 year ago
that's novelty!
eitanros 1 year ago
I love reference to 'speed cars' on the autobahn as I remember myself driving my 1969 Volkawagon 'Bug' in New York in 1975 ...listening to Autobahn on my 8-track tape player thinking I was the only person listening to this music....great that these tapes are available on the internet here on Youtube!!!
rtvegas 1 year ago
What most people are failing to realize is that THEY are LOVING what they are creating, and that element holds its own...Nobody is better than anyone else or even comparable in that regard...Just be glad that you can be apart of these fantastic creations by just listening... What have you created?
Discfiend69 1 year ago
I can remember 'Autobahn' as their first big hit in '75, I was a pre-teen @ the time; they were truly 'one of a kind' then..though I do think 'Tangerine Dream' was around then, too..
tomk773 1 year ago
Plus, Kraftwerk sounds better sonically. Their records are warmer and sweeter sounding than The Beatles. Early Beatles records sound like pieces of tin. And let's not forget that Kraftwerk built some of their own freakin' instruments for crying out loud! John Lennon was on his whole stupid hippie "All You Need Is Love" trip, lying naked in bed with Yoko while real social change and radical culture shifting was taking place in Germany and France during the late 60's.
electrokinesis 1 year ago
Awesome.It is so lovely.
PSBelectronica 1 year ago
yes, i would say, that i am a kraftwerk-fan for decades. and i am from germany. _but_ my opinion changed a little bit about the influence of kraftwerk of many electro-bands. there are many more influences as strong at the same level as kraftwerk. for example, the music of 'clockwork orange' by wendy carlos or keith emerson - have a look at the excellent documentary 'synth britannia' - you should find it on youtube. of course, for me kraftwerk is still one of the most influential bands.
meoma1966 1 year ago
and they deutschland was brought to its knees/?! 5/5 suber song!
harrow233 1 year ago
Man, imagine what the "dazed and confused", spicolli american high school crowd must've thought of these guys when they came on the scene!!!! This is a big departure to listening to Zep, Sabbath, and Foghat!!! L.O.L.
TheArbiter74 1 year ago
The first song i heard when i was born.
babbuzzi 1 year ago
it is a very nice version of the song !
ALLDALI 1 year ago
great video, thx
Fooloomanzoo 1 year ago
beach boys music the electro autobahn style
teletropolis 1 year ago
wow that was amazing
CThompson151 1 year ago
No words really to describe how amazing and influential Kraftwerk have been, I can remember hearing an edit of Autobhan on a kids TV show back in 76 aged about 10 and being blown away! Yes, strangely, I find Florian attractive (!lol) - he seems like a decent bloke too, so sorry to hear he's left Kraftwerk:-(
Liz66bee 1 year ago
fantastic! never die
takanosuke 1 year ago
"Florian gruesst Christoph" those were the days....
kofferfischii 1 year ago
me too miss Florian
obnebur 1 year ago
mesmerising watching them
biscuitchannel 1 year ago 4
influential doesn't necessarily mean great, though in this case they are
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
１９７５年って私はまだ２歳,,,upありがとうございます！アナログシンセが一番似合う方々ですね。
sasa9550 1 year ago
35years more guaoooooooooo full song¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
bettojames 1 year ago
SÜSSE
showroommeryll 1 year ago
wunderhübsch LOVEVA
morgenschweis 1 year ago
They may have gone on to greater success and adoraration in the following few years but this period in their career seems to have a more natural,free flowing and fulfilling aspect to it which makes it so much easier to get into and just go with compared to some of their later stuff.
chrisk61 1 year ago
Kudos to Midnight Special for airing this considering its primary audience was white stoner's who probably hated it.
MondoReyTV1 1 year ago 2
Maybe stoners would love it.
Efrasnel 1 year ago
Nah,they wouldn't have gotten it back then,this was extremely unusual and advanced for 70's mainstreams audiences.
MondoReyTV1 1 year ago
Well, I was an '80s stoner, so that wouild make it different :-D Nevertheless, Lester bangs was impressed enough to write about them. But I don't know if he was impressed in a positive way or a negative one...
Efrasnel 1 year ago
Hehe,i was an 80's stoner too!
MondoReyTV1 1 year ago
@MondoReyTV1 cheers then, their whole image and music rallied against the stoner aesthetic, though that doesn't mean stoners can't get into them. but i don't see many stoners getting into a band wearing suits and ties and playing music that at times sounded like kids' nursery rhymes
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
@vanelektrik indeed .. electro string quartet
offthelinegt 1 year ago
"What The Beatles Are To Rockmusic, Kraftwerk Are To The Electronic Dance Music." (New York Times 1997)
Klangliebhaber 2 years ago
Eine von meinen Lieblingslieder!!!
BoyArgentina 2 years ago
das ist unglaublich!!!
moloko1707 2 years ago
Ahh..this is the Kraftwerk I enjoy the most. For as much as I like Kraftwerk, to be honest, I'm not a huge fan of later Kraftwerk like the whole "We are the Robots" thing and what not. I just like the earlier stuff alot more with Autobahn and Radio-Activity ^_^
Moon27 2 years ago 3
Klasyka.
MrKRAFTWERKfan 2 years ago
What a great video, Krafterk are gods of electronic music, I love them. And Ralf, he is soo handsome here. Hope to see them on concert in the near future.
hatiffnatka 2 years ago 2
kraftwerk ahora y siempre!!! 5/5
kraftwerk3801 2 years ago
Just great, never saw this one before, thanks :)
303shaunl 2 years ago
What an amazing video. Not too many people have the attention span these days to watch, if it was aired today.
Achtungmiche 2 years ago 11
Ralf and Florian look so cute singing together! Ich liebe dich Kraftwerk ^_^ <33333
spockezri 2 years ago 13
Truly, the most influential electronic band to come along since i have been alive. They are not only great musicians, they formed a new kind of music, and how many of todays bands can really say that. To this day when i hear Kraftwerk they still amaze me. Just an opinion!
leeward66 2 years ago 68
I think they are the most influential band of all time. the Beatles fanatics will disagree. my argument is: the Beatles influenced many rock bands, but Kraftwerk have influenced every electro act, as well as the hip hop movement. what they were doing in the 70's was far more innovative than the Beatles a decade earlier. not a stringed instrument in sight!
Coldacre 2 years ago 51
The Beatles were hardly without influence themselves.Lennon and McCartney had heard lots of rock,blues and other less famous genres, and blended it together to form "their sound".
Beatles may get all the spotligt, but others like the Rolling Stones and The Kinks were equally influental to later music
Kraftwerk really made something completely different.Music for a more civilized world, if I may say so.Sadly our civilization took a turn for the worse..
But time will prove Kraftwerk right
McLarenMercedes 2 years ago 16
@McLarenMercedes
Neither ther Beatles nor Kraftwerk were born in a vacuum.
Kraftwerk didn't create electronic music out of thin air, they were influenced by the electronic wokr being done in the 60's.
Vebinz 7 months ago
Africa Bambata (I think that's how you spell it) actually sampled One of Kraftwerks beats and one of Kraftwerks Melodies, and put them together, and he claims that he created Hip-Hop with this... Yeah, right...
skrikon 2 years ago 6
hip-hop that we know of today were inspired by kraftwerk. in early 80's all tha break dance movement etc. not to mention ALL the electronic music that we hear today
BlazeExperience 2 years ago 8
@Coldacre I had never thought about it, you're completely right, and I love The Beatles. But Kraftwerk has even influenced the what's now known as the "funk carioca", from Brazil. And another point is that they are responsible for lots of innovation in electronic instruments. The're the greatest, indeed.
FABCASTLE 2 years ago
i so agree.. it's a shame that not many people know about them... brian eno once said that this was the sound of the future.. as great as the beatles are, this is just so much farther ahead
EMPower08 2 years ago
maybe not as big as the beatles, but people do know about kraftwerk...I just heard a local hip hop radio station play two kraftwerk songs on a bass/electro mix! then again I am in Miami, and the bass DJs over here love their kraftwerk....
lpoursoi 2 years ago
@Coldacre I think your right to an extent...but both bands influence can be felt in every aspect of music..the beatles were oneof the first bands to incorporate loops and sound editing into their music as well as sound collages (revolution #9) but kraftwerk are brilliant in a completly different way im not sure you can compare the two...they are both so ahead of their time, in some ways kraftwerk even outdid themselves.
BUCKINUP4487 9 months ago
@Coldacre
I don't see how that makes Kraftwerk more influential. They both influenced different genres of music. The difference is that the way the Beatles made music, writing their own and relying on themselves as much as they can, not to mention virtually creating the "concept album" influenced all subsequent musicians, including Kraftwerk.
Vebinz 7 months ago
@Vebinz The Beatles focused more on left field, obtuse lyrics and clever marketing. Kraftwerk spent more time on creating new sounds, new concepts; building their own instruments and were far more technically proficient in playing them. They didn't create electronic music out of thin air, but they, along with Tangerine Dream brought it out of the lab. Put on The Man Machine and Computer World next to Sgt. Pepper and The White Album and see which ones are the freshest and most relevant.
electrokinesis 7 months ago
@electrokinesis
But how can you credit them for taking electronic music "out of the lab", when Wendy Carlos, Gershon Kingsley, and Jean-Jacques Perrey did that years before?
To me, Kraftwerk accomplishment was in combining synth music with a pop sound, a pop sound that comes from a tradition the Beetles helped create (The Beach Boys are a major influence on them).
Kraftwerk rank among the 5 or 6 most revolutionary musicians. But I don't know if they can quite top the list.
My opinion anyhow
Vebinz 7 months ago
@Coldacre I agree. Beatles follow a trend imported from US and just added some of the british culture and tradition. I would considered Elvis more influential than Beatles. Krafwerk started a new whole thing from the devastated pos-war Germany rejecting what came from america and the beat thing, on a language not even close widespread as english is. It was a fresh blank page start wich generates Electronic, Techno, Cosmic, Industrial, Hip hop, Ambient, and so on.
Pedossaurus 4 months ago
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@Coldacre I agree. Beatles follow a trend imported from US and just added some of the british culture and tradition. I would considered Elvis more influential than Beatles. Krafwerk started a new whole thing from the devastated pos-war Germany rejecting what came from america and the beat thing, on a language not even close widespread as english is. It was a fresh blank page start wich generates Electronic, Techno, Cosmic, Industrial, Hip hop, Ambient, and so on.
Pedossaurus 4 months ago
@Coldacre 110% agree. kraftwerk and the velvet underground are the two most innovative/influential groups ever
newfuckingwave 3 months ago
Tons of producers of music, DJ's and other famous artists today admit Kraftwerk has been an influence.
Not to mention they are on of the most sampled artists of all time.
McLarenMercedes 2 years ago 13
@leeward66 Yes they are. BUT, from what I had learned not to long ago, Kraftwerk's latter style during the 70's came from Giorgio Moroder. I thought that it was the opposite until I read an interview from him. Kraftwerk liked his electro Disco style, which really is the origin of what he hear today in House Music (I hate house music) but his style was more on the Electronica style that you hear coming from Kraftwerk during the mid 70's to early 80's.
epics7 1 year ago
@leeward66 i think blur can say that too
hongdekong 11 months ago
Y'know, when I think about it, it looks like every piece of music is played live. It's a big difference to most other electronic bands, which use backing tapes. Truly a sign of how good Kraftwerk's musicians are. :)
Shyyrn 2 years ago 12
it's the beach boy's of germany!
love it!
joneejonee 2 years ago 13
it was the time
666767 2 years ago 6
Florian's playing a whiteface ARP Odyssey-there's a better view of it in the TOTP clip of Autobahn.
daihong68 2 years ago 7
thanks for the video ! is the kind of video that i want to find of kraftwerk, at the 75s times. The sound of sintetizer are amazing!! Can you tell me the exact place that you found it ? I search in the page thath you talk in the comentary, but i cant find the section where are the videos.
metalvolatil 2 years ago 10
i dont think its fair...ralf getts to do all the synth and florian does little
HarryBlach 2 years ago 7
Well, if we had only this video, same thing we could say about the drumming part: it seems asif Wolfgang were doing a lot more than Karl. The truth is that Karl, being himself a great musician, looks underused here. Anyway, he looks so cute, so young, playing the electric percussion, seat on the chair, happy as a kid with his tindrum he he (lovely smile too :D).
This is a wonderful video really :)
florencisalesas 2 years ago 12
this video is awesome
everybodysawesome 2 years ago 2
what is florian using
HarryBlach 2 years ago 3
♫ the phun phun phun of the autobahn♫ XD
fenderacolyte 2 years ago
"Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der autobahn..." darling, it's German.
Orbidog 2 years ago 9
Translation:
"We drive, drive, drive on the Highway"
schusterlehrling 2 years ago 6
Having had the audio of this performance for years it was great to finally see the video!
Keep Werking!
KeepWerking 2 years ago 7
Which type of syntho is used by Florian?
goodsoninc 2 years ago
Florian is playing an Arp Odyssey
Nagelbrett 2 years ago 4
Thanx
goodsoninc 2 years ago 2
I remember watching this very episode. I was only 13 at the time and just really getting into music and this just blew me away. Thanks to the poster of this video.
HortHawg 2 years ago 7
Absolutely mesmerising.
Heckthusula 2 years ago 4
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
HarryPotter87 2 years ago 2
Perfection..........I adore Kraftwerk!!! This has gotta be one of my fave videos on YouTube!
Thanks for uploading this gem!
Pixiedustgirl101171 2 years ago 9
It's beautiful, how did I miss this? The cameraman/editor has captured the spirit of the band at that point in time wonderfully
HarryUpHarry 2 years ago 3
I think I like you.
HarryUpHarry 2 years ago 2
Fantastic video! Amazing!
gabrielevans666 2 years ago 3
fantastic !!!
grooveproject 2 years ago 3
wonderful
gennargiu 2 years ago 3
ooh thanks for thi discobery
nice video
TECHNORAMIK 2 years ago
Thanks for a version of my favorite Kraftwerk song that I've never seen or heard. It was cool seeing them from their early days with those antique synthesizers.
jjj11330 3 years ago
Great video! This band is one of my inspirations to start playing synths. Thanks for posting!
synthpro 3 years ago
Stunning......considering it's over 30 years old...
EUROPHOBIC 3 years ago
Stunning if it is 30 years into the future
HarryUpHarry 2 years ago 5
Song makes me think of fuel efficient cars for some reason..
HalfLifeAMD 3 years ago 2
That's because the song is about riding the highway. "Autobahn" is "Highway" in German.
QAFtuvok101 3 years ago
Ha Ha! You're right..i never made the correlation between the name of the song and what i was thinking..I guess kraftwerk got what they were trying to get across in song about a highway..
HalfLifeAMD 3 years ago
perfection!
china027 3 years ago 3
In-cre-i-ble!!!
modnrocknroll 3 years ago 3
amazing !!!!!!stuff!!!!
the middle section is inspired from the pink floyd
etronnel 3 years ago
Or Pink Floyd was inspired by Kraftwerk.
Who knows ?
QAFtuvok101 3 years ago 2
your right ....or they were just pluged..into the same creation vein.....
take care
etronnel 3 years ago
cest du bon stuff anyways...mon grand ..a quand le retour des bands qui oseront repouser les barrieres???
peut etre ...au quebec ya STEEVE THOMAS qui vas fesser ben vite,,,entre autre,,,...anyways take care...
etronnel 3 years ago
EXcellent vintage video of the BEST MusiK-Meisters in The UNIVERSE!! Rare footage indeed.*DROOL*.
ROBOTkw 3 years ago 4
I think Gary Numan owes a nod to Kraftwerk
RubixVanwalkman 3 years ago 5
More than a nod...
Efrasnel 3 years ago 5
first to use electronic drum pads I think.
Look at them, the thin drum sticks are
connected to wires in back.
DallasLuvster 3 years ago 3
Brilliant. These guys are true pioneers, the music is so unique, it takes you to another world. Today's electronic music isn't half as good.
Check out a band called "Black Mountain", their songs feature synths similar to Kraftwerk's.
TangodownNL 3 years ago 4
I miss florian :(
Bunjamin27 3 years ago 16
Yes we all do
rasslsk 3 years ago
Awesome!
Alexob1 3 years ago 3
Magical stuff.
Hindenzog 3 years ago 2
amazing!
cyma1988 3 years ago 2
my favorite is Florian Schneider! he`s s great musician!
rafalexpx 3 years ago 8
omg Karl! *faints*
docterjoy 3 years ago 12
I know!!!
popochoo 3 years ago 6
he looks so young! squeee!
ooooohpancakes 3 years ago 3
This is fantastic i never se in my life a performance of kraftwerk in 1975, this is so beautiful thanks a lot rasslsk this is a peace of gold very rare. =) i am crying right now this is track is amazing.Good capure thanks a lot !!!!
patabelem 3 years ago 7
Very rare indeed great
soundmanhaven 3 years ago 4
Sounds better like the original. Very Good
sonicfreak91 3 years ago 3
I can't believe someone was able to capture this. Thanks so much for posting. Amazing, 1975!!!
genepool2007 3 years ago 7
Astonishing! If I had known Kraftwerk were on the Midnight Special, I would have tuned in that Saturday night in 1975!
stan30068 3 years ago 2
Good grief this footage is staggering. Thanks for uploading this, it's made my day :)
SteveResin 3 years ago 2
Aaaaye! ;)
ctspf 3 years ago 3