Kraftwerk - TV DOCU 2001 part 2/3 ( in english )

[MoonBarrett]

They all lived in a flat together for 10 years?! That is the greatest thing ever!

[jimmy3284]

6:21 Tom Waits???

[dotervacalabrams]

@jimmy3284 Yes. Actually Anton Corbijn is a famous photographer who took many pictures of lot of artists.

His work is fantastic.

[WarRogers]

I remember trying to buy a Kraftwerk album back in the day from a Harmony House store and had to special order it. They had no idea what it was. Love these guys still today.

[mpresev]

you put a Hitler mustache and baaammmmm. He would look like you know.. because he was the haircut..  Right? all kidding aside but just an observation.

[dublion7]

Original Kraftwerk are my SuperHeros! I remember buying the album Computer World on vinyl when it first was released. My world has not been the same since! Believe it or not, most people did not even know what a computer was at that time!

[showroommeryll]

In deed they never really was a team. On the man machine jacket they wear a red skirt but there is a hierarchy in the frame. In a TV documentary of the eightees Ralph explain taht they share with outsider in a certain limit, cos he says that they can't access their intellectual work. Kraftwerk made good work, the 4 ones, but like a scientific laboratory had a hierarchy. Even if they needed each other to dvlp^such a thing. When Karl and Wolfgang left, it was already finished.

[iorran100]

what song 7:25 ?

[Nagelbrett]

It`s the song "Home Computer" (Heimcomputer) from the album "Computer World" (Computerwelt)

[einenrauchen]

I had never seen them dancing like that on 5:38!

[TheMinesofNarshe]

@einenrauchen Reminded me of Gilbert & George

[BrokenBassBin]

"In that time i had a nice face, today i have more in my brain" :)

[Wehategod]

Great Doc Feeling the Model trains Germany is famous for its Model trains!!!!

[heatherbeth99]

I was listening to this (actually this and Man-Machine) in high school...another student heard it (on the bus) and said it was garbage.....3 months later he was talking about hearing them in a disco....he loved them....so far behind....

[djbethell]

Ha ha, that reminds me of a guy at school who bullied me for the music I liked. I was a big Soft Cell fan at the time, then 6 months later they suddenly got to number 1 with Tainted Love and he had them written all over his books and bag. But I had the last laugh; he spelled them Soft Sell!

[pplectro]

Kraftwerk: the best!!!!!!!!!!

[wotsganninon]

play more kraftwerk on the german radio stations please.....just got cheesy stuff last time i visited.....be proud of this class group. they are loved in the U.K. Dont have to bring my CDs do i ?

[thebigbadone2k]

7:20 his face looks like "why did I left Kraftwerk..I still like them".

[MissKorsakoff]

time is goin to fast;/

[SentinelSphere]

strange band...great though :)

[tubechango]

3:25

[manmachine87]

some would say the birth of hip hop

[tubechango]

yeah your totally right

[STEEZ4U]

not really but Africa Bambaataa got in trouble early on for using pieces from Kraftwerk's music. most definately pioneers in electronic music though. they made great, interesting albums....

[sucramnipp]

hip-hop was started/founded/formed in 1974. trans-europe came out in like 77 or 76, right? break dancing, scratching, graffiti and rapping (the 4 elements that make up hip-hop) had already started (even before radioactivity). so how would this be considered the birth of hip-hop? an early, MAJOR influence...sure, of course, no question. but hip-hop was already birthed before trans-europe came out. fact. the birth of hip-hop came out of jamaican/carribean culture

[manmachine87]

fair enough, my point was that hip hop or rap music as we know it today would not exist were it not for these funky Germans. without Bambaataa there is no hip hop explosion and without Kraftwerk there is no Planet Rock.

[docbreaknik]

from my point of view [english/38 years old/what i know about music] without these fellows there would have been no ELECTRO [bam,e lover,hashim]. sure enough electro also takes its ideals from other places[george clinton,jazz fussion,j.b]but again..[4 me]the very essence of electro is based around P ROCK ...AND BLAH BLAH BLAH. lol ;-)

[hendrixonlsd]

well there was ELECTRO RAP... and DMC, SOULSONIC FORCE, Mann parish got alot of there sound ideas from people Like Kraftwerk. hiphop really became "HIPHOP" in early 80s due to the Samples of Funk, soul, classical, and ur right Graffiti and B-boys were apart of that.

[sucramnipp]

no, hip-hop became hip-hop in the 70's. its a fact. NO ONE is denying kraftwerks influence. but hip-hop existed in the mid-70s. hip-hop songs were recorded in the late 70's. people were sampling funk & disco BEFORE kraftwerk in the 70's. djing, breaking, graf and rapping were documented through-out the mid & late 70's, and people were using the term "hip-hop" in the 70s. kraftwerk influenced a lot of artists. lets leave it at that. there's A LOT more to "hip-hop" than some kraftwerk samples.

[hendrixonlsd]

Indeed.

[docbreaknik]

spot on mate.... but surely you'd consider the electro strain of hip hop [which i feel has been lost in the culure of hiphop]is born of kraftwerk ?...[let me know mate :-)... i love to 'chat' music ;-)]

[sucramnipp]

sure, but electro rap is still a sub genre of the entire culture that is known as hip hop. kraftwerk didnt (directly) influence graffiti, djing/scratching, the way people dress in hip-hop culture, slang, etc.

oh yeah, btw, electro hip hop is still very much alive, check out: cadence weapon, antipop consortium (and their solo stuff as well; beans, high priest, airborn audio, etc), thavius beck, subtitle/giovanni marks, k-the-i???, labwaste (a group consisting of thavius beck & subtitle)

[Zeitgeist74]

I love the song, Europa Endloss!

[showroommeryll]

Wolfgang is very expressiv and dramatic what he says seems to be written... very sensitiv... cinematographic.

[elefou]

"...und in the end.."

Wolfie is so cool ;D

[crazymorph86]

Such a good documentary, real good stuff

[GruithuisenCityMan]

Thanks ! Very interesting !