The FIRST - the best - the very greatest Grandfathers of Techno and Trance... they started it all - I listened to them in the late 70's as a 15 - 16 yr. old when they seemed very odd... thanks for the video!
I remember first seeing this video when I when it was uploaded here in 2006. I was in high school back then, and now I am a grown man. A lot has changed with myself and the world, but I'm still as amazed by Kraftwerk as much, if not more, than I was back then. This video brings back so many memories of back then.
I remember when I was twelve, I caught my dad rumaging through some old records of his. The autobahn record caught my eye...I asked to play it. He set it in the phonograph and played it. From then on I fell in love with all forms of electronic music...
Cool...I dig musicians that love the musik that they make, and it explains the approving looks that Ralf shoots to his band. Since he wrote the tune, and that tune has carried him into middle age, that speaks volumes...joy!
These new arrangements for Pocket Calculator are great ! They put a modern touch without left the nostalgia of the music. Kraftwerk is such a great band.
The Fathers of Electronic music. Split Enz and Crowded House were inspired by these guys. They look a bit old now, but were very ahead of their time when this music first came out...about the time the first pocket calculators came out! Loved watching this.
I´ve never seen any band like Kraftwerk, who did electronic music in the early 70´s(except Jarre), and made lyrics in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and several other languages. And the fact that two of them, as engineers, built some of the synth instruments they play with their multiple skills. >Awesome!
Gives me a happy happy feeling, remember when i bought Pocketcalculator on a maxi-songle with light green convolute in 1981.And me and my freind listened constantly to it for about 4 hours lol, nad its still one of the coolest tracks :-D
Yes I was there too. I also saw them twice in 1998 at the Hollywood Palladium and in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom. But the first time was in 1981 in New York, which was their first US tour if I am not mistaken.
Haha classic! Thanks for posting this, brings back memories of the guys who inspired so many. Kraftwerk are undoubtedly among, if not THE godfathers of modern music.
I always took this song as an homage to the simple synthesizers they used and when he sings "I'm the operator with my pocket calculator" I think of him behind a synthesizer playing on it. Adding and subtracting etc. are just metaphores for making music.
I remember this band, in 1986 with computer world, it was ahead of its time, because now we see palmdevices( celulars, mp4, cameras), that you program yourself in to the future, and this version sounds beter. Gretings fron Puerto Vallarta Mexico, Thank you for posting
Kraftwerk rocks! I first heard their music on the Saturday Night Live skit Sprockets back in the early 90s, but didn't know it was Kraftwerk. Then, when I bought one of their cassette tapes (I'm old!), my old high school buddy and I started listening to it in his dorm room and we heard the same song...we looked at each other with mouths agape!
I totally agree,Balanescu Quartet,only played covers.I saw them live when they released 'Possesed' and they also played songs from Depeche Mode and Human League.
I love electronic music and love bands like Daft Punk, justice and so forth. Now I'm going back to the origin of electronic music and listening to bands such as Kraftwerk and I must say their music is very good and well done for the 1970's.
If it wasn't for Kraftwerk, many of today's music wouldn't exists. If you were to listen to many of today's Pop, Hip Hop, Dance music you will notice a lot of Kraftwerk beats in it. God bless these innovators.
ABSOLUTELY FU+KING BRILLIANT!!! Considering how long ago the original was made and how they updated it AND did part of this in Japanese!!!! Just blows my mind!
Thanks Jd, They are great because they are good, but they are not _trying_ to be good. They just play and do their own thing, have fun, and share it with us. Best way to perform. Certain bands are just really great in concert- Kraftwerk, OMD,, Devo, not always the ones you might imagine.
They changed over to all-digital over the last few years. There were interviews I read during the US tour that indicated they'd basically re-done Kling Klang Studios, converting the old analogue sequences and sounds to digital loops (got them working in soft-synthesizers).
jajajaja....me gusto tu comentario - tienes un buen sentido del humor - las toallas quedaron bastante mojadas del sudor de los Kraftwerk...jejeje - Grandes Kraftwerk.
They are using just laptops nowadays mainly at live gigs. At least with Helsinki gig, they only had 4 laptops with some looptracker running running together with cubase.
Kraftwerk will always be great to those who see through all the crap that exists today and comprehends how far ahead these guys were. They not only invented electronica, but the actual instruments themselves ....
Because their lyrics were always minimalist. This song was from 'Computer World', which was based around the innovation of the computer age in the late 70's-early 80's.
I sit corrected... LOL You're right and that album was released in 1970 which would make the odds even better that most viewing this were not even born. :)
80's?? Heck, I was listening to them in the 70's! Of course, the early stuff more like ambient music, but it was still recognizable as their unique sound.
mr i-know-everything-about-music-and-im-real-smart, u know these guys are pretty much the fathers of electronic music, they were the first people to experiment with such technology back in the 70s
The music is the one of Dentaku, song n.2 in the Japanese version of Computer World., and the second song in this video. Other version are little different.
I agree to an extent. "Electronic" instumentation has been around for some time (yes, as far back as the 20's). However, the instrumentation was relegated to background melody and not the sole focus of the entire song. I think it safe to say that though they didn't invent electonic instrumentation, they were the first electronic band...forgoing any other traditional instrumentation.
can people STOP bagging these men, they came up with great electronic music. If you don't like it don't listen to it - simple. I think they're the best.
日本語になった時に声を揃えて歌うのを聞いた時音楽ってすげぇなって思った！言語を超えて歌うクラフトワークはすごいなぁ、
電卓のカットだけ恐らく赤坂ブリッツスリーデイズの時とおもわれる。
あの時の電卓の盛り上がりは異常だった。
20年以上経った今でも鮮明に覚えている。
滑稽にも見える
The FIRST - the best - the very greatest Grandfathers of Techno and Trance... they started it all - I listened to them in the late 70's as a 15 - 16 yr. old when they seemed very odd... thanks for the video!
Remember?
I remember first seeing this video when I when it was uploaded here in 2006. I was in high school back then, and now I am a grown man. A lot has changed with myself and the world, but I'm still as amazed by Kraftwerk as much, if not more, than I was back then. This video brings back so many memories of back then.
1970年にこんな音源聞けたなんてドイツの人達がうらやましいですね、でも私YMO聞いて感動してたから一緒な感覚かな、どっちも素晴らしいですね、
This live version of Pocket Calculator is one of the best that I have seen so far!
This is the real definition of electronic music!
I remember when I was twelve, I caught my dad rumaging through some old records of his. The autobahn record caught my eye...I asked to play it.
He set it in the phonograph and played it.
From then on I fell in love with all forms of electronic music...
Cool...I dig musicians that love the musik that they make, and it explains the approving looks that Ralf shoots to his band.
Since he wrote the tune, and that tune has carried him into middle age, that speaks volumes...joy!
These new arrangements for Pocket Calculator are great ! They put a modern touch without left the nostalgia of the music. Kraftwerk is such a great band.
nice concert. nice dvd. nice sound. nice visuals. everything is superb and technological. these are kraftwerk. the gods of electronic music.
Ralf really loves this song, he always seems so happy when they're playing it!
The Fathers of Electronic music. Split Enz and Crowded House were inspired by these guys. They look a bit old now, but were very ahead of their time when this music first came out...about the time the first pocket calculators came out! Loved watching this.
I saw Kraftwerk live in Dublin, Ireland back in September. The best gig I've EVER been to!
I´ve never seen any band like Kraftwerk, who did electronic music in the early 70´s(except Jarre), and made lyrics in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and several other languages. And the fact that two of them, as engineers, built some of the synth instruments they play with their multiple skills. >Awesome!
I had the privilege of seeing Kraftwerk live in a rare performance at the 9:30 Club in DC -- Summer 2005. Amazing show!
Go boy !
They sound so amazing. The live recording for this album is one of 'the' greats.
their performances are so theatrical and sophisticated..finally artists who aren't prostutes!
Gives me a happy happy feeling, remember when i bought Pocketcalculator on a maxi-songle with light green convolute in 1981.And me and my freind listened constantly to it for about 4 hours lol, nad its still one of the coolest tracks :-D
これをLIVEで観られた人世代が羨ましいなぁ
Fantastic post. Great video and sound. I love the section where they start singing in Japanese and the crowd goes bonkers.
this is by far the coolest song I ever heard of.
When I heard this in my 8th grade, I was so much inspired. Now, I understand all the lyrics and stays still fresh to my ears. Amazing.
Great performance. :] I didn't know much about Kraftwerk, but I love it since I heard this, awesome classic. :]
3:25 日本語バージョン
良すぎて泣きそう(:_;)
泣いた。
やっぱりこの横一列スタイルかっこいいなぁ
Yes I was there too. I also saw them twice in 1998 at the Hollywood Palladium and in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom. But the first time was in 1981 in New York, which was their first US tour if I am not mistaken.
かっこよすぎて震えた🤦♀️
Haha classic! Thanks for posting this, brings back memories of the guys who inspired so many. Kraftwerk are undoubtedly among, if not THE godfathers of modern music.
I always took this song as an homage to the simple synthesizers they used and when he sings "I'm the operator with my pocket calculator" I think of him behind a synthesizer playing on it.
Adding and subtracting etc. are just metaphores for making music.
テクノポップにはまるきっかけを作ってくださった曲。kraftwerkから始まって、YMOも聴きまくり、今では平沢進にどっぷり浸かってます。ありがとう、ありがとう。
テクノ好き同士はひかれ合う…
←馬の骨
@@Kei_T_1341 同士よ、こんなところで会えるなんて！クラフトワークもいいですよね。
十六夜さんはヒラサワ関連のコメ欄でよくお見かけするので、通知来たとき、あっこの人！！！ってなりましたﾌﾌｯ
クラフトワークの日本単独公演行きましたが、とても素晴らしかったです。
I remember this band, in 1986 with computer world, it was ahead of its time, because now we see palmdevices( celulars, mp4, cameras), that you program yourself in to the future, and this version sounds beter. Gretings fron Puerto Vallarta Mexico, Thank you for posting
Kraftwerk rocks! I first heard their music on the Saturday Night Live skit Sprockets back in the early 90s, but didn't know it was Kraftwerk. Then, when I bought one of their cassette tapes (I'm old!), my old high school buddy and I started listening to it in his dorm room and we heard the same song...we looked at each other with mouths agape!
すごいとしか言えないけど、感動する…
やっぱり良い音楽ってのは、国も年代も人種も宗教さえも関係なしで残るんだな…
クラフトワークの皆さん、日本の中学生に感動をありがとうございます！
Naoki Yoshikawa 謎の年齢アピール
Naoki Yoshikawa 素敵な中学生。素晴らしい未来を！＼(^^)／
these guys started the electronic music in the late sixties.godfathers of house,techno
What would the world of music be without Kraftwerk? I love this group.
I totally agree,Balanescu Quartet,only played covers.I saw them live when they released 'Possesed' and they also played songs from Depeche Mode and Human League.
Damn they were great at the Greek Theater in LA a couple years ago. Third time I saw them and one of the best live shows I've ever been too.
Kraftwerk are just really fabulous! I am just so sad that I couldn't make this concert, I didn't know when they were in Japan!
I love this song! Great to see it live.
Muy bueno!!!!
Ongaku
I can't think to compose 30 years ago.
Very sophisticated.
Yeah, it is. Couple years ago, max.
Saw them at Coachella, had been a long time fan. Their sound system was capable of lethal bass levels. So awesome.
I love electronic music and love bands like Daft Punk, justice and so forth. Now I'm going back to the origin of electronic music and listening to bands such as Kraftwerk and I must say their music is very good and well done for the 1970's.
this is an example of perfect music
If it wasn't for Kraftwerk, many of today's music wouldn't exists. If you were to listen to many of today's Pop, Hip Hop, Dance music you will notice a lot of Kraftwerk beats in it. God bless these innovators.
ABSOLUTELY FU+KING BRILLIANT!!!
Considering how long ago the original was made and how they updated it AND did part of this in Japanese!!!!
Just blows my mind!
I saw them in Montreal 2 years ago.
Their tours are few and far between.
great song!!! so simple and gorgeous sound !!!!
Thanks Jd, They are great because they are good, but they are not _trying_ to be good. They just play and do their own thing, have fun, and share it with us. Best way to perform. Certain bands are just really great in concert- Kraftwerk, OMD,, Devo, not always the ones you might imagine.
And it's interesting to see how a song evolves with time.
They changed over to all-digital over the last few years. There were interviews I read during the US tour that indicated they'd basically re-done Kling Klang Studios, converting the old analogue sequences and sounds to digital loops (got them working in soft-synthesizers).
I heard these guys back in Jr, High and still no match to there music. Good job.
if you like this you should buy the dvd of the whole show.. its amazing
Absolutely number one in elmusic :) Unforgetable!
jajajaja....me gusto tu comentario - tienes un buen sentido del humor - las toallas quedaron bastante mojadas del sudor de los Kraftwerk...jejeje - Grandes Kraftwerk.
I was at that show too. Amazing amazing. Bass like nobody's business, too.... Numbers and Computer World absolutely killed.
it is amazing to have a band do so many songs in many different languages especialy when theyre pioneers or synth/tehcno/ all that nonsense
かっこよ過ぎてマジで泣いた・・・
Fantastic, I could watch and listen forever
Thanks for posting it.
They are using just laptops nowadays mainly at live gigs. At least with Helsinki gig, they only had 4 laptops with some looptracker running running together with cubase.
"Ich bin der Musikant mit dem Taschenrechner in der Hand"!
I'm controlling and composing...love it. Pure genius.
LOVE THis, great get up in te am and move nad groove, caffine and this is all you need... the best
Humans do not stay young but music keeps the soul that way, that is the beauty of it/ music is the ultimate art.
I just got into these guys...that's just awesome how they just stand there with those laptops and make music...
Kraftwerk will always be great to those who see through all the crap that exists today and comprehends how far ahead these guys were. They not only invented electronica, but the actual instruments themselves ....
Brings back memories, true pioneers! I can see where the blue man group got their influences.
So beautiful, this almost made me cry. Truly the godfathers of electronica.
Because their lyrics were always minimalist. This song was from 'Computer World', which was based around the innovation of the computer age in the late 70's-early 80's.
These guys, Tangerine Dream and Larry Fast practically invented Electronica and modern Dance Music by themselves.
brillant!! KRAFTWERK at their best "live"...keep rocking guys... music is stale with no KRAFTWERK!!1
I read in a DK book on Spies about how a "bug" can be stashed in a calculator, and records conversations even when in use!
This is the best video of this song on YT. Thank you!
omg this is such an adorable song i can hardly contain myself
クラフトワーク
電卓
super!
I sit corrected... LOL You're right and that album was released in 1970 which would make the odds even better that most viewing this were not even born. :)
I know they're the "founders" of electronic music. But this sounded like a gameboy tune. I thought it was boring as hell.
18 years of epic gamer concert
With this music, they capture the spirit of a modern, computerized, and industrial era.
what bottleovodka said, me too.
80's?? Heck, I was listening to them in the 70's! Of course, the early stuff more like ambient music, but it was still recognizable as their unique sound.
These guys invented their own sound. AWESOME!
mr i-know-everything-about-music-and-im-real-smart, u know these guys are pretty much the fathers of electronic music, they were the first people to experiment with such technology back in the 70s
no mames amo esta cacion es lo maximo apesar de los años kraftwerk sigue siendo lo
mejor
This song never gets old. :D
pioneer of the electonic music... genius
僕は音楽家、電卓片手に 足したり 引いたり 操作して
作曲する。
Oh god this is ridiculously good. Fantastic visuals.
awesome german synth pop new wave, i totally love this sound very much, with the germanic vocals
I'm from a technoheads family. My parents and I love this song !!
The music is the one of Dentaku, song n.2 in the Japanese version of Computer World., and the second song in this video.
Other version are little different.
i love the guy freaking out at 3.44 lol
Finally artists who will never get laid ever.
Or have any musical talent, at all.
idk this is so cute i don't know why this is what i'm thinking
this whole idea is so cute and they are so cute
I like Ralf Hütter's necktie! I want mine too!
They still sound and look great.
yeah they tour a couple of years around europe
and they sound better than ever!
que honor de RADIOHEAD cerrar el concierto de Kraftwerk!!
I agree to an extent. "Electronic" instumentation has been around for some time (yes, as far back as the 20's). However, the instrumentation was relegated to background melody and not the sole focus of the entire song. I think it safe to say that though they didn't invent electonic instrumentation, they were the first electronic band...forgoing any other traditional instrumentation.
can people STOP bagging these men, they came up with great electronic music. If you don't like it don't listen to it - simple. I think they're the best.
Bank Managers with Bontempi Casio keyboards by pressing dow this special key it plays a little melody-simple & i love it