Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck

[zootius]

Suck it and see :)

[robertgreen35]

i have still got this on record - awesome album

[MacHennerSeN]

<<33333

[Esox351]

the beginners

[fatdaddynick]

Black people claim to have invented techno. I think not. Kraftwerk invented it! And they sure as hell are not black.

[ShinobuHarvester]

NOSTALGIA APPLE

[mrx87329]

amazing

[JamesGraysStudio]

This is the band jim morrison should have joined.

[1RadNomad]

Back to the future with Kraftwerk! Every journey with Kraftwerk is a timewarp miracle to somewhere fabulous. Brilliant!

[jecbandyk]

i fucking adore the end <3<3<3<3<3

[AroundTheWaymon]

That mother fucker can play the flute!

[Fr3ddy7]

Just insane one of the first of this culture and still in time...less songs! (Thumps Up)

[DeadBelaLugosi]

(I need to do this) thumbs up if you watch this in 2011 -and years to come! :D

[spyguybuy]

love that drum n bass stuff at the end

[ogrebattle22763]

Love this song such a classic & so far ahead of it's time.... These guys are the true pioneers of electronic music & don't let anybody tell you different....

[Apus100]

Fantastischer bombastischer Supersound!!!

[painterpayne]

Kraftwerk is so exciting!

[TheKraut59]

One of Best Kraftwerk Ever +Vom Himmel Hoch Timeless

[flywithseaguls]

simly for eternity -nothing more

[painterpayne]

In my humble opinion, this version of Ruckzuck with the keyboard substituted for the guitar happens to be the superior one. For some reason it comes off more rock and roll and avante guarde without the electric guitar than with it!

[sharonraizada]

features on vertigo comp "suck it and see" side 2 along with aphrodites child 4 horsemen top bit of vinyl

[synthastia]

OMG Newton's Apple!!

[MaxxFordham]

@synthastia

Yeah, this is their theme music version that I remember better than any of the other ones.

[synthastia]

@MaxxFordham my mind is still blown, Kraftwerk is always popping up in the most odd places.

[MaxxFordham]

@synthastia

Huh, interesting. Well, as far as this song's use on Newton's Apple goes, it's my understanding that this is the one used in about the middle era of the show.

[TheDruthen]

Apparently Kraftwerk was the best krautrock band.

[vonanfangan]

astrein

[cw99900a]

Newton's Apple....

[mrceleb2006]

@cw99900a That's where I first heard this piece of music.

[sevie480]

the chord at 3:27 makes me wanna think the autobahn melody is gonna happen.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

Just think about it: if they recorded this song 10 years later (in 1980), it could've sounded like Styx's "Too Much Time On My Hands."

[SoundkraftBand]

You can really hear where a lot of ideas for the later albums come from in this song! This is my favorite early Kraftwerk song!

[patojake]

Their earlier work featuring Karl Hungus is some of their strongest material.

[eight6sevenfive3oh9]

@patojake I busted out laughing. You're awesome.

[asguitarstereo]

GREAT Kraftwerk.......bye*****

[salesianoification]

good  very rock elettttttttttttttttttttttronic music i like

[mu2freighter]

Saw these guys in 1981 or so at the Ritz in NYC, brought the whole KlingKlang studio with 'em in trailer trucks...Florian Schneider passing around his pocket calculator hooked to the machines with a thick cable so the audience could tap a few keys was a sight, especially Florian's face...he was so digging people having fun...

[JoolsTwo]

@mu2freighter

I was at their concert in Brighton UK same year, and been hooked ever since, hard to believe that was 30 years ago!

[ALXXMaXX]

@mu2freighter Florian's epic, bro. Pocket Calculator seemed to be the only song he really liked. People usually see him as the "stoic one" even for Kraftwerk, but when you get to know him you can see his strange, almost Andy Kaufman-type sense of humor. Also this song is making me type faster. :P

[alprazolammy]

beep beep boop beep...beep boop boop.

[alprazolammy]

makes me wanna do tha bird! uh oh wait...i'm doin it, i'm fuckin doin it!

[alprazolammy]

this song is fuckin winning!!!!

[AroundTheWaymon]

Newtons Apple is brought to you by............

[grayziehobbes]

@AroundTheWaymon Fond memories brought me here. Ira rocks!

[drogheda1966]

...ooohh, this is so delicious after all this time...

[giraya5]

DRUM"N"BASS BEFORE THE DRUM"N"BASS!!!.EXCELLER 8

[klauskramme]

was für ein geniales Stück!!!!!!!!!! 1970!

[lucamoviemaker]

Incredible the fact that this has 41 years old.

[gottoeekanji]

ななななんだこれ

完璧やん

なんで封印するかな〜

むき出しのセンス

高い音楽性

異常だな

[TheSwagbuckshottie]

fuck yea!!! newtons apple

[marcfedak]

Thanks 2glenside for posting this. This is just as ground breaking as some of their mid 70s robotic synthesizer music.

[cactusjacker]

this song is super amazing. I too remember it from Newton's Apple, I looked it up to hear it because it stuck in my head for 20 years, but I NEVER KNEW it was KRAFWERK! Crazy. Great show but the song was the most memorable part...

[LittleGigiK]

Impressive

[dubs19842009]

Yep. Better known as the theme to Newton's Apple.

[falcoperegrinus82]

Newton's Apple theme!?

[MrHolgerCzukay]

Like this song!So cool!

my Favourute one of Kraftwerk

[BlackPrl72]

Great!

[TheDeepBlueWater]

My god, this was 1970!

[Amoonlitknight]

@TheDeepBlueWater Seriously its hard to believe

[keltyk]

Kraftwerk should be proud of this and rework it in future- For something off their first lp- and which even predates it that on the Toneflote album they made as 'Organisation'- it was remarkably ahead of its time- the rhythmic segments seem like dance music from around year 2000

[DeepGarageHead]

@keltyk No rework. Leave it alone. It is the beginning. Leave its integrity alone.

[keltyk]

@DeepGarageHead - It'll always exist in this form on unofficial releases- They did perform it live in early 70s- with different treatments- By same precedent- if they play it again- it'll be changed so as fit how tightly controlled their performances are now- Also consider this isn't the original here- but adaption of earlier tune by 'Organisation'-

[dagonFFF]

Nice song, a friend of me used it in a little movie while another friend is doing 'the hamster'! :D

[robynsegg]

4 people are fools...

[kathmann]

WHEN DOES NEWTON"S APPLE SHOW START?

[EN22U]

@kathmann  I know right?? LOL!!! Hope these dudes got paid....

[wonkydude1]

Why does Kraftwerk hate this album so much? This is my favorite song by them by far!

[Davis752]

@wonkydude1 Did they ever say that they hate it? I don't know much about Kraftwerk, but what you say sounds really weird.

[wonkydude1]

@Davis752

They refuse to have it officially re-issued, and haven't played anything off of this album live since 1975. They said in interviews that they're not too fond of their first 3 albums.

[Davis752]

@wonkydude1 So the men that are believed to be gods of Krautrock do not like Krautrock at all? Whan an irony...

[TrottaVonSipolje]

@Davis752 They are distancing from their early work and call it "Stone Age".

Fact is, Ralf and Florian are not aversed to success and money. With this kind of music they didn´t reach any of it and so it is not so important for them.

[Ugslap]

great! i didn't knew that they made this good music before Autobahn. The Flute thing is awsome!

[kyucka]

tja , have to be able to be able to know what is creative

[saabfreund22]

maximum awesome

[tobysensei]

Pure magic.

[GabbaStabba]

kraftwerk just simply RULES! :)

[LSMFTbitch]

Just one word "TALENT", must take so much breath to play the flute that way so long

[IrishRetroGamer]

Kraftwerk were random from the very beginning. Love it.

[vincentjacque]

This was the very first time I heared bass flute (tubon ?) as a rythmic instrument. It only plays one note, but divides the 4/4 bar...

[megakoch2704]

KRAFTWERK!!! yeah!!! die Begründer der elektronischen Popmusik. Einzigartig und unvergessen.

[xpander2k]

Kraftwerk OWNS.

[BlueManIan]

AWESOME!

[ajgree6]

The best Kraftwerk is on I and II. Autobahn is a close third.

[zyancalikola]

It sounds like an early version of some of the stuff by Mouse on Mars. Very visionary, very cool.

[Lan35]

ive loved this since i first heard it in 1988 on the exceller 8 compilation

[gainweighttoday]

this was THe beginning of a beautiful friendship

[xraycortina]

The long version (guitar, drums & flute) is on here somewhere, in two parts. Worth a listen as well.

[ziennc]

an proto-hype-hippie-acid Autobahn XD

[jsuess029]

We're in the year 2010 and this is still incredibly ahead of its time.

[SpeedMjam]

@jsuess029 Same in 2011!

[gwynoth]

wonderfull peace of music

[Jays492797]

This introduced me to Kraftwerk. Wow. It set me up for my teenage years.

[JoseTwitterFan]

The song that introduced us to two things, Kraftwerk & Newton's Apple!

[baf4redrum]

07:35 of course we ENJOYED! thank you bunches for posting!

[shadowcat998]

hola

[yog1960]

me thinks i can here the begins of AUTOBAHN germanating!!! must be thrity years since i last played this, i also think Fad Gadget my have borrowed some of their ideas

[DreamersRise]

Hallo Trotta,

you are a hero. I did the same with La Düsseldorf and their song Silver Cloud. Since that time my mates thought that I was grazy.

[zanders]

Newton's Apple!

Anyone?

[MzJaxin]

@zanders Yes!! :D That's the only way I ever knew this song.

[7OLGA7]

This rhythm reminds me of Jethro Tull a bit.) Good track, not worse than "popular" tracks of this band.

[kludd28]

I've never heard the complete version of this song. I like the "studio" sound of it: real drums, lots of phasing, and a very careful recording of the flute. Good stuff, thanks for posting.

Oh yeah, I found it because I went looking for the Newton's Apple theme too, this is much better!

[nodejealniniogritar]

MAGNIFICO!

[sigbangschmidt]

Listen to kraftwerk and constucting a kraftwerk is the same!

[ir10031981]

this was the original theme to Newton's Apple (1983), But for some reason youtube has a remix version of the music in the Newton's Apple video clips. Bastards!

[IntoTheFace]

Awesome trance in its very early stage, I love it!

[krudelta]

ruckzuck...fantastic!!!

[zymaymyn]

Hard to believe this was made in 1970, when I first heard this I thought it would be made in 1977 at the very, very earliest. Way ahead of its time.

[6364gg2]

This is so awesome!!!

[BluDevil93]

This is Kraftwerk? Nice!

Sounds so different from their other stuff, yet it's so cool :)

[AlexRage81]

best song of kraftwerk....

[tumubu]

sono felice di aver trovato qs materiale,ascolto e risento i can....

[trixwivstix]

First heard this song when I was 4 yrs old my mom used to play this from a sampler album called "suck it and see" I used to imagine I was on a space train trcelling through space. it was NYE 2010 that I discovered it was Kraftwerk. I have sourced th "Suck it and see" album on vynil since and it has some awesome tracks on it from "Upcoming albums" From various artists.

[idjoemama]

very interesting...i like it alot

[Ixtulu]

In the early 70ies I listened to Kraftwerk the first time. The Germans had a lot of amazing rockbands, Kraftwerk was one of it. The German bands from the 70ies like Tangerin Dream, As Ra Tempel or Klaus Schulze made nearby the same psychedelic sound. The German Rock of the 70ies was also known as Krautrock. Kraftwerk became a popular band, their sound was actually unique in the 70ies.

[lerxt42]

oh yes..Kraftwerk and the dream...fantastic!

[MrAaronLadner]

I remember this Funky Song from Newton's Apple.

[DeepGarageHead]

Newton's motherfuckin'APPLE. Takes me back!

[NathanMosaic]

Great song...kind of surprised that a rapper hasn't sampled it yet (then again it would take a talent like Lupe or Skillz to pull it off).

This joint always gets me in the mood for some good ol' fashioned Public Television. Where have you gone Newton's Apple/3-2-1 Contact/Square One? The nation's youth needs you!

[DeepGarageHead]

@NathanMosaic Seriously! Don't forget Alive from Off Center too! That is as real as it gets.

[xsellsbrod]

THIS is KRAFTWERK... not the later stuff, like the Model.

pardon me, i am grown up with this kind of KRAFTWERK

[hootsmon]

I agree..This , "Ralf and Florian" and "Autobahn" along with early Tangerine Dream "Atem,Phaedra and Rubicon" is warm minimalism like Indian music..Love it

[TRANZEURO]

Like many have already commented I also first heard this track as the theme song to the television show Newton's Apple so when I first bought this album about 13 years ago I was surprised to know that it was Kraftwerk that I'd been hearing all along. Kraftwerk's music has been used for so many things.Afrika Bambaata sampled them.A sped up version of Electric Cafe was used for the Sprockets skit on SNL. Coldplay used the music from Computer Love for one of their songs and of course this.

[MrSkitterbrain]

It wasn't overplayed like AUTOBAHN , thankyou!  Also was theme music for Newtons Apple.

[FABCASTLE]

There are signs of Trans Europe Express in Florian's flute already. Greeeeeeaaaat stuff. They had been always genials and revolucionary!!!!

[vequirewind]

still my favourite

[Hexachloraphine]

trotta, 1986 same thing happened to me also, it was played in assembly, everyone thought i was weeiird after that, i was only 8

[tec066]

Obrigado pelo vídeo.

[orbrozing]

@Trotta! Ha, Same thing happened to me with Autobahn in 7th Grade music class. Teacher stopped it at around eight minutes. I was The Nerd after that.

[TrottaVonSipolje]

1980:

Once a year, my music teacher, for whom Tchaikovski was the most modern musician he knew, asked us to play 2 examples of what he called "popular music". My friend brought Visage´s "Fade to Grey" and I became courageous and played "Ruckzuck", the whole 7:50. After this my teacher and my mates thought of me as a complete idiot. Sweet youth, where have you gone...

[rudibie]

@TrottaVonSipolje

I know this song from early german TV. Some kind of politics were discussed. Not interrested but the music was the theme from ruckzuck. I've forgotten the name of the program. I live near the German border so i could see the german Tv like later Rock palast and beatclub

[TrottaVonSipolje]

It was "Kennzeichen D".. on innergerman issues.East-West, Communism. Interesting, but I was too young for it. I always wondered, why they choose such an avantgarde song as theme for their serious political broadcast. German TV was so progessive back then.Incredible today.

You mentioned the shows...yes...another was "Musikladen" with fantastic own specials, e.g. Roxy Music, the band at its best.

Often I stayed up too long, only to see one song.

Old Times..No money, no internet..

[rudibie]

@TrottaVonSipolje

Danke schön Trotta. Stimmt. Damals war ich oft in Berlin. Kalter krieg. Bild! Rote Armee, Kreuzberg usw. Schau dir mal Rory galagher und Johnnie Winter von damals an. Dass publicum ist so erstaunt von den neuen music aus England und Amerika aber da kamm Kraftwerk!!!!!

[crocotone]

@rudibie Rory Gallagher und Johnny Winter waren top, aber Kraftwerk eben auch. Das ist das Schöne an der Musik, es gibt gut, mit Liebe, Gemachte und einfach nur schlecht Gemachte, Nichtssagende.

[stan30068]

@TrottaVonSipolje You had insight, your teachers and mates were the idiots.

[xraycortina]

@stan30068 i agree with you there...although popular doesn't automatically mean artistically creative where music is concerned

[kotep777]

@TrottaVonSipolje

amazin

[TThom2]

@TrottaVonSipolje better be a lonely idiot with the better taste than part of the wrong bunch, company, society...

[robynsegg]

@TrottaVonSipolje: I don't think you were an idiot. They were idiots for not understanding and for just plain not getting it. To me, you're awesome!

[BBQFanNo1]

@TrottaVonSipolje I wonder what those ignorant people in 1980 think now that Trance Music is not much more advanced than Kraftwerk,Jean Michel Jarre,Vangelis,and many others who already created music that did not even exist mainstream until the 1980's,1990's,and even 2000's from 1969 to 1977. Do those ignorant people think the God just created a plain black and white universe of colourless music? They are fools if they in their stubborn pride think so.

[LortheBlair]

@TrottaVonSipolje You sound freaking awesome.

[drogheda1966]

@TrottaVonSipolje We need patience for those who don't appreciate...

[tomstickland]

They really were rather good.

[karoloandria]

early kraftwerk is underrated

[Dernsten]

It's quite interesting how Kraftwerk's style has evolved: they started with some very simple sound elements and began to put those together in a brand new way, bit by bit. This track, for instance, is rather far from Electric Café but when you hear the material that they did between 1970 and 1986, you can easily believe it's the same band. However, the style is so different that it's sometimes difficult to compare their albums to one another.

[MrAaronLadner]

I remember hearing this song on "Newton's Apple".

[rammes1000]

This is Cult .Good in the beginning year,s ,and it,s still Good.I remember Kraftwerk when I was Fourteen years jong,not old,haha.The sound of the flute remebers me of the first Zombie movies.

[comingofagedvd]

So you know Ruckzuck means To jerk-twitch

[lerxt42]

i thought it meant right now?

[alwerks1]

Yes in deed. I love it! I have a tattoo of the Kraftwerk1 Artwork album on my right arm. I will die with Kraftwerk! YAAAAA!

[namaste91]

Wooow!You're slack dude. This track is one of the reasons,why i want to learn transverse flute..B-)

[danthedonHBB]

sounds very different to the electronic analogue stuff kraftwerk r remembered for

[MrAaronLadner]

I remember this Song from Newton's Apple.

[PatagonianWarrior]

incredible... this stuff was created 1969, way before it's time.

[PalePrudence]

The Newton's Apple people must have been hella cool

[Phatnuts22]

I thought the same thing, Pale.

[p0llenp0ny]

Can just imagine them burning one and digging Kraftwerk and thinking "Hey! We should use this as a theme song." ;-)

[kampfgruppeost]

ALLE ACHTUNG!!!

[ludovika007]

It's very similar to hungarian (transsilvanian) folk music. Like hurdy gurdy and "tilinkó".

[EvaIuationCopy]

totally awesome

[suitandtieguy]

Kraftwerk are a bunch of dicks for not letting me buy this on CD.

[ratanakul]

you can!

From, "Sounds of the universe" Kraftwerk 1 & 2 double cd with original artwork.

£22.99 in stock!

[zeitL0s]

ui, ich glaub das wird nun eins meiner liebsten kraftwerk-stücke!!!! !wow!

lerne gerade eben erst die ganz, ganz alten werke von den grossmeistern kennen!

mein lieber herr gesangsverein!!!!!

das war echt noch musik!

rahmenlos und zeitlos!!!

[LagWulf]

@comradevynil: YOu're right, but: Kraftwerk is so much better than Elvis, Bushido and Sido. ;-)

[vaultboy123]

Holy crap, it's Newton's Apple.

[strathsail]

my favourite of KRAFTWERK - the synthi and the flute !...Great !!....I would like to copi it...in further time... ;-)

[comradevinyl]

If I wanted trouble with my mother, I only had to turn on this track really loud and she would be storming in my room, shouting "Turn off this catastrophy"!

The same thing her dad told her when she listened to Elvis in the 50s.... Today I have to to deal with my son listening to Sido and Bushido.... It will go on forever, each generation has their sound.

[JohnFordDanceTroupe]

This song makes me cream.

Kraftwerk was great before techno and they're still great during techno.

[alleyghost]

Very crafty.

[Artemetra]

Heh, Newton's Apple. Never got permission to use it, so it seems.

[Jnelson09Returns]

It was an educational show, so it didn't need permission. Or so it seemed.

[MuzikJunkyAES]

Let's hope that the band comes around and rereleases its old material officially! Peace.

[JohnFordDanceTroupe]

They're planning on it, but they're too slow.

It took them a good twenty years to make Tour De France Soundtracks. Or at least to plan it.

[inreanre]

2. October 2009:

Kraftwerk will release their whole opus in an eight album boxset called "12345678 Der Katalog" on EMI.

It is an official band edition and technically remastered, including photos, drawnings and computeranimations from their archives.

But, as there are more than 8 albums, I don´t know, whether their oldest stuff is included, cause they always distanced from it.

[siggyhead]

It's the Newton's Apple theme <33333

[soundoflight]

Oh thank you man for posting I just discover it!! I love the first half so much

[gecuadros]

OMG, it's the theme from Newton's Apple!!!!!! Hell yes!

[albear972]

Hell yeahs I remember that from the 1980's watching that show!~

[NYCPulpHero]

the 80s were so much better. I miss being a kid. things were easier back then

[ytleo71]

AAAAAHHH! So there's where drum'n'bass/jungle oringinated!