Kraftwerk Pocket Calculator on Bee Gees Rhythm Machine

[mr2000aaa]

Awsome. Could you give me what notes you play, 'cause I play the mix version.

[oldschoolhunter]

I see these weird gadgets at my flea market all the time and never thought that there was a market for those old keybords from casio and alike, WISH ME LUCK I HOPES TO GET NEGRO RICH!

[RaygunShaun]

aw hey look it's youtube in 2007

remember youtube in 2007 you guys

[bosskybossk]

I have one for sale on Ebay item # 320771262656

[MarioWars]

What are the notes? :o

[knox7320]

For all the Bee Gees music lovers out there! Check out the Bee Gees Rhythm Machine Synthesizer on eBay, item # : 190537630635

[ZhuchenkoM]

hahahh!!!! COOL!!!!

[aeg12p]

kraftwerk in utrecht FTW! Holland <3333

[digdugjp]

you have nice gadget. nice sound!

[Trainsirenguy]

Old youtube <3

[insignificus]

I too had to get my hands on one of these after watching your video! It's such a great toy/instrument - lots of fun and the sound and the rhythms are pretty good. I got mine on Ebay by chance, it doesn't have the blue strip with the numbers like yours though, but never mind.

Thanks for the video from a huge Kraftwerk fan :-)

[DarkAndMartyr]

the bit at the end!!

[irrh]

I bought one of these after originally finding your video. paid way too much for it, but I don't care. love it!

[TomasDadiOfficial]

where  can i buy one

[foxsux6000]

it is surreal: because we are all thinking we are playing it.

[lighttree2012]

I have a left nut, wana trade

[t40onbass]

Back in 1984 I worked at a seafood restaurant and had a bad boss named Romeo who used to stay there after hours and have sex w/the waitresses in the booths. My roomate at the time had one of these things and I composed this ridiculous tune on it called "I Hate Romeo".

[jimmy3284]

@t40onbass ahaha, great story!

[feritsbum]

your talent is wasted mate

[irockdude64]

amdeoperatahonmepokacalulatah

[MicrobladeMusic]

Ive got one of these.. in good condition. its really neat. I like the the pitch shifting. might sell it though if anyone is interested message me.

[BiscuitTheFirst]

@MicrobladeMusic How much?

[rossg14]

NICE!!!

[optimusprime1968]

¿Do u hear voices?. Anything like that... DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB.... We are the robots... you're on the stick

[raindogred]

Damn those BeeGees are cutting edge. Just looked on Zzounds and could not find the BG rythym machine listed!! I read somewhere that Barry Gibb actually did the R & D on the prototype??? I want one real bad....

[JonMcElectro]

Cool. Never saw one of those before.

[Keijz74]

Nicely VL-1-ish :op#

[TheModCon]

Is this baby monophonic?

[quaxk]

hail kraftwerk and the mini keyboard, hail youtube for harboring crazy geeks like the guy who made this video! :)

[thenos4rat2]

Never knew they did it on that! Just a square wave really isnt it.

[djrixmix]

@thenos4rat2 They sure as hell didnt use a BeeGees Synth!!!

[Pluh88]

I just sold the one I found at a thrift store on ebay for 200.00

[TrainmasterCurt]

Wow, that keyboard reminds me of the Casio VL-Tone used in Rational Youth's Cite Phosphore video!

[cohibabobby]

i had one of these a few years back. sold it for £200

[microkorger]

incredible! rockin dude!

[GuyinCa]

Well done!

[sachmo499]

kooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooool!!!

[Metamusik]

I can just picture Ralf & Florian giggling over this thing during late night sessions in Kling Klang. Sequencing, Drum-machines, Synthpop, Toy-instruments, Electro, Beats, Vocoders, Computers... is there any area in electronic music these guys didn't explore a couple of decades before the rest of us?

[DarkKvlt666]

Can you do this on a normal keyboard, if so, What are the keys for it

[valehathar]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aqquinodj]

you rocks!

[26highstreet]

sounds like the sound you get from electronic birthday card..lol

[w0rmaster]

I've been waiting for one of these to pop up on eBay for so long.

[Pluh88]

I have one I found it at a yard sale for 3$

[TheModCon]

Lucky :P

[hondaprelude9296]

LUCKY BASTARD I BUY IT FOR 5$ FROM YOU

[FABCASTLE]

HAHAHAHAH Just loveeeeeee weird people!!!

[IBEBRW86]

HA! That's fuckin' awesome!! ***** 5 stars bud, that is funny, but awesome haha

[golfoo33gti]

Ok for ebay now !!

[Opqosite]

i need one of these right now.

[candymintz]

are these rare? anyone know what it's worth?

[zurtur]

I HAVE AN SPECIMEN of this littel keyboard TO SELL.

HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY FOR IT ?

[19stretch72]

must be hard to play for people with sausage fingers i bet!!

[8462995]

It's really the exact thing used in the live on Kraftwerk so awesome :D

[kakaze]

heh, cool stuff.

I thought they made all their own instruments and that

[PiperTheGreatX]

i think they made some of them, like the drums, etc.

[Mugicha808]

It's surreal to watch a video on youtube of a guy watching a video on youtube. Kraftwerk forever.

[mrbrockpeters]

@Mugicha808 I know eh? I just caught on to that!! To understand recursion you need to know recursion ;)

[dodecafono]

@Mugicha808 INCEPTION!

[zurtur]

you win !

[TheVision2100]

looser

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

The tiny keys would explain all the slipped notes - but they sound great anyway.

[metropolis1927]

haha i have one of these bee gees keyboards, but i cant tell what notes your hitting

[cograilfan]

F,G,D,D,C,F,G,C,C,B

[Houstronic]

Dude I love Kraftwerk!

[DungeonStudio]

NO WAY! Is that what Ralf is using on stage as well - painted black? You got the riff and tone down really good, and is really eerie the similarities!

Do the Gibb Bros get a cut of that action? LOL

[TheRealSamDole]

Yes, it was the exact same machine, obviously with the Bee Gees logo removed because well...they're not the Bee Gees.

[DungeonStudio]

You wouldn't happen to know the other devices the guys are playing for this song? I'd laugh if they were all 'toys'.

[TheRealSamDole]

I believe at least one of the devices they used was a Texas Instruments Language Translator (and in all likelihood an actual pocket calculator). It was not uncommon for them to use circuit-bent consumer electronics, a practice that is still widely in use today.

[Lachlant1984]

If Kraftwerk were the Bee Gees, they'd be singing about love and relationships, they wouldn't be singing about pocket calculators.

[roscoegino]

lol

[DonJuanDeMarco2]

Nice :)

[Kraftwerkification]

Wow! Is it possible to order such a machine from somewhere? Where did you get that?

[d34thishere]

classic

[Corvid]

Sweeeeet man!

[golfoo33gti]

I've got one !!!

[golfoo33gti]

Hey!!! i have a BEE GEES Rhythm machine among my loads of toys! is anyone interested?

[6364gg2]

ME!!!

[Prometheus1991]

Me too

[6364gg2]

Back off. I replied FIRST!

[Kraftwerkification]

Mememe!!!

[scatmanjohn3001]

what keys are you using? I can't see them them, they are too small.

[reeferdk]

Where did you find this?

[Azkrav47]

yEAH BEAUTIFUL SOUND I WANT ONE!!!!

[54spiritedwill54]

That's so cool, my favourite Kraftwerk song.

[josephxxl]

I am adding....

and subtracting!

[Lillic33]

AMAZING !!!

[b3njum]

YEAH!

[evandroangelim]

i'm the operator of my pocket calculator!

[bongo4unme]

Yessssss!!

[Fallaji]

I WANT ONE I WANT ONE I WANT ONE DAMMIT!

[luv4piggy]

Fallaji,

oink!

oink!

[machiner6]

@Fallaji yeah, but it's tiny. I'd get a full-size synth personally.

[JASFMXL]

HAHAHA!!! Brilliant!!!

[djmrbrown00]

i'm a watching a youtube vid of someone watching a youtube vid... it's 5 am.. i need a life

[6364gg2]

No. Look at the computer. Obey. OBEY!!!!

[XINDIOS]

nice :D

[HarryBlach]

u made ur point 0:45

[kffive]

I still have my Speek and Spell, we should start a band !!!!!

[kilkennyfishblue]

ye you

[dj2bklyn]

oh my god I still have mine lol

no midi

[YoungArchitect84]

does it have midi out? LOL

[vitaminfian]

Anybody know where I can get one of these???

[madmuffinz]

Is that you breathing? That's uncomfortable.

[kukenimunnen]

LOL

[popfiasco]

lol

[cograilfan]

what are the tabs? im sorry but, i tried so hard. and i cant figure it out..... GHAD!!!!!!!!!!!

[d3p3ch3mod3]

Negativland circuit bends the crap out of these things

[stargeo]

peahix thx! u ar the best!

[Lachlant1984]

"The other hand-held noisemakers are a Stylophone, TI Language Translator (same sound chip as the Speak & Spell)," Now I understand what was making that synthetic voice in the Pocket Calculator video, I don't remember seeing a Speak and Spell in the video, thanks for clearing that up. I LOVE KRAFTWERK. I have the CD version of Computer World, but I don't remember seeing a picture of the keyboard in question on the album cover.

[LordFancourt]

I must be a geek at heart because I loved reading your notes on this video. Very interesting to know what they were doing to get these sounds.

[8Vets8]

I used to own a Bee Gees Rhythm Machine. Now I really wish I still had it.

[neopundis]

Kraftwerk! My greatest musical experience.

[steyracr]

Modern Archeology - Retrieving an icon of Electro Pop.

[Rockvoxxx]

Lol i saw that exact same stupid to "bee gees" keyboard in the rock and roll hall of fame GIFT SHOP in Cleveland. They wanted like $500 for it.lol That's dope that he busted out Kraftwerk on it though!.

[lpmaskman]

It's fuckin' awesome!

[ultrauseless]

I WANT IT!!!

i'm the operator of my pocket calculator

[Lachlant1984]

That's so cool, my favourite Kraftwerk song.  Does that keyboard have any beats? That's the sort of thing I like to see.

[peahix]

yes, it has some cool beats, but i didn't include them here because kraftwerk didn't use them. maybe sometime i'll make another shitteo w/ a demo of the beats.

[NyXemB]

Not easy to play on such small keys, eh? Been watching some kraftwerk jamming on youtube, now it's the time to look where i left my kraftwerk CDs :D

[KasioKristmas]

ahhhh... now that's what i call "out of this world" i did something similar with my kasio. wanna see?

[cheeseco2]

alot of time on his hands - he could have been out producing GDP

[promontorium]

Very intersting. also funny to watch somebody on youtube watching somebody on youtube.

[LtProfty]

Fuck groovy... dan spiel wir ein Kleines musik schtuck

[R3dPin]

I heard that, at this time Kraftwerk were building their own instruments. the look alike and sound is pretty close; isn't it ?

[peahix]

they were building *some* of their own things, ie the elec. percussion units, but they mostly used stock gear.

[vjrei]

@peahix They use Sony Vaio computers and Edirol keyboard controllers. They may do their own software but regarding hardware they never builded anything. Kraftwerk is composition and simplicity.

[djrixmix]

@vjrei They built their electronic drums (read I Was A Robot by Wolfgang Flur)

[AriPonansa]

Awesome, very good, congratulations!!! =)

[slorpus]

either u have enormous hands or those keys are incredibly tiny..... or a combination of the two.....lol

[PHONICPOTION]

It's a chemical reaction from the plastic, it makes your fingers swell up!

[juavt]

It's not a piano.

[Kraftwerk67]

c'est bien!!!Il reste plus qu'a rajouté les percussions!

[DividedAkhiloth]

The funniest thing is that Kraftwerk actually used a modified Bee Gee's as an instrument..

[classof77]

You're right, this is a black belt-level display of musical/tech geekery. Nice job!

[baby13sc]

damn i really want one of those...badass

were can i get one

[NotSoWickedElphaba]

A video of someone watching youtube on youtube!

don't you it can make space fold on itself and create a time distortion leading to the end of the world???

[nitrotekk]

lmao you'll crash the bloody internet!

[demianp2008]

Cool!.

[Meteotrance]

extra it sound like the original ^^ Kraftwerk use also wierd toy on the music dentaku as percussion .

[furious383]

Awesome, geeky, I love it!

[wisteela]

Fantastic!

[jameswrightuk1983]

Could you give me the notes to this? I want to play it on accordion...

[gabriellehto]

Great!

I think that is a little bit hard to play it, but anyway you get it!

Well done!

Gabriel Lehto

[MrPSGifford]

Excellent.

[Spule4]

Five stars just on principal....

[matthewvolz]

Hey I am sellin a Bee Gees Rhythm Machine on ebay right now, check it out!

[nebardo8]

jajajajaja q hijo de puta

[skatejam7]

your the operator with your beegees keyboard HAA

[doomer79]

"you're" not "your".

[enemyindisguise]

:) thanks

[malletblow]

Haha! Brilliant! I was just watching the kraftwerk utrecht video and typed in 'Mattel Bee Gees' and this is what came up. Very jealous you have one! Nice playing

[paulotcsoares]

Wow!! Very good!

[spacepixie87]

one question: WHERE WHERE OH WHERE did you get that?!?!

[muzikman2008]

lol... nice! i never knew it was one of them. :o)just goes to show!... less is more!

[LukeHarrison]

You're the operator with your pocket calculator!

[jkbnumber1]

friggin lol to you

[AndrewHaddow]

I want one so bad, awesome video.

[mellotrongirl]

Let's hear the entire Bee Gees "Odessa" album on that thing.

[64mung]

How the hell did you find one of those things?

[basco77]

coooool

[TOPOFFMAN]

You are an operator

[dave7733]

that's cool, but can you do the dance as well?

[kennethbear]

All I can say is wow! Extreme geek love to you, sir!

[steinber]

niiiice.

[satorres82]

Nicely done.

[ardianworld]

Wow, I want one of those! Nice work :D

[the486kid]

there is on on ebay right now: Item number: 220165691742

I'm gonna out bid you all! hehehehe

[askaninjafan]

lol

[the486kid]

OH! Some dirty F'er out bit me on that.. damn!

would have been so cool.. dream on!

[tolugo87]

yes!

[shatminer]

you rule

[futureimage]

Brilliant!!!