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  • @arnodobler1096
    @arnodobler1096 3 роки тому +37

    Kraftwerk is the most influential German band, from the music of the 80s to techno and today. They invented, developed and built instruments and sounds that are taken for granted today.
    The New York Times called Kraftwerk the Beatles of electronic dance music in 1997
    David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, New Order, O.M.D., Alphaville (German). Detroit Techno Scene ... all influenced by them.
    thx for doing this

    • @dianafromgermany1513
      @dianafromgermany1513 3 роки тому +1

      Yes, true. They were way ahead of there times.
      They invented electro synthesizer pop in the early 70ties.
      "New Wave" music in the 80ties and "Techno" in the 90ties are influenced by Kraftwerk.

    • @mikemichael579
      @mikemichael579 3 роки тому

      They created electronic music and its fact

    • @Plexpara
      @Plexpara 2 роки тому +1

      @@dianafromgermany1513 i dont know about synths.but i know some of them got patents of first electro drum machines.they build it by them self

  • @matekochkoch
    @matekochkoch 3 роки тому +13

    They are not old school sounding, they were the predecessors of old school. It was experimental, it was something completely new and unique. They started 1969 more than a decade before techno became a notion almost two decades before Detroit-techno.

  • @justston188
    @justston188 3 роки тому +10

    Yes Kraftwerk, the pioneers of electronic music. The band has been playing electronic music since the early 1970s. Back then this type of music was so new that musical instruments were designed especially for the band. A lot of electronics experts created the instruments especially for Kraftwerk. Well before there was techno, these guys provided the electronic sound and gave the world the electronic sounds that have greatly influenced subsequent generations of music. There is a great deal of ancient influential music by them. I recommend some classics. Autobahn, Die Mensch-Maschine, Computerworld, Trans-Europa-Express, Neon Lights and some other important songs. Thanks for reaction.
    Sorry for my English.

  • @LaptopLarry330
    @LaptopLarry330 3 роки тому +5

    Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was the location of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor that nearly blew up in 1979 (I think). Harrisburg is the state capital of Pennsylvania.

    • @xsezz
      @xsezz  3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, I figured they were all nuclear accidents, I just didn't mention it. I did hear of Three Mile Island but not Harrisburg. Thank you for the explanation, it makes sense.

  • @andreasbinner3657
    @andreasbinner3657 3 роки тому +9

    This video is from one of there later concerts around 2010. It is actually quite experience: They use a 3D sound system. Never heard such loud, but clear sound combined with an intense bass in a concert before! BTW: There is only one of the original members left in the band: Ralf Hütter (the guy singing live). He is now 74 years old...

    • @Gyrbae
      @Gyrbae 3 роки тому +3

      It's from the DVD Minimum Maximum, released in 2005.

  • @PropperNaughtyGeezer
    @PropperNaughtyGeezer 3 роки тому +7

    This song is from 1975. The original is a little different. The original does not yet have this strong negative reference to nuclear energy. This opening credits with the disasters were completely missing. Back then it was more about the play on words radioactivity and radio-activity (broadcasting activity). The text "Radioactivity brings waves to the receiving device - radioactivity when it comes to our future." was changed for the later version. The latter is ambiguous in German as to whether you have a better future through nuclear energy or whether the future is radioactive.
    You ask - Sellafield (formerly Windscale) is a British nuclear complex with air-cooled graphite-moderated windscale reactors. Cooling a reactor with air that contains highly radioactive substances as well as flammable graphite is actually complete madness.

  • @MiyuMedia
    @MiyuMedia 3 роки тому +7

    Oh what a classic! Yes they do everything live. There's another version of this live track with the words in Japanese, recorded in Tokio in 2012, that includes Fukushima in the lyrics. I love Kraftwerk so much, they are truly influential and their live shows are awesome, i've seen them twice: on this 2004 tour and then on their 3D tour in 2016. Originally their songs had a more minimalistic style, and sometimes even a bit dark (some of their videos used to scare me a little when i was a kid, ahaha) But in 1991 they released a remix album with most of their greatest hits in a more upbeat version, the remixes were made by them of course. The album is called "The Mix" and since then, they started touring using those remixed versions of their songs instead, for their live shows. This version of "Radioactivity" is from their official live DVD called Minimum-Maximum [2004] if you love techno i strongly recommend their live versions of "Pocket Calculator" (that also has a japanese version called Dentaku that is often mixed with the english version live) , "Aéro Dynamik", "Music Non Stop" and "Home Computer".

  • @berlindude75
    @berlindude75 3 роки тому +6

    0:34 "Sellafield 2" was the 1980s/90s nickname of the planned new nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, officially called the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP), at Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria (England). Its much protested (Ireland, Isle of Man, Norway, Greenpeace, locals) construction had begun in 1979 and was completed in 1994. The plant was in operation from 1997 until 2018 with a serious level 3 INES-scale nuclear incident in 2005. Spent nuclear fuel will still be stored at the facility until the 2070s.

    • @berlindude75
      @berlindude75 3 роки тому +2

      Relevant links on Wikipedia (separated as they often seem to make comments disappear):
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Oxide_Reprocessing_Plant
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale

  • @Brickschooter
    @Brickschooter 3 роки тому +15

    If you react to "Kraftwerk - Model", you could combine it with the rammstein version of it "Rammstein - Modell". Both Versions are Insane!! :)

  • @freudsigmund72
    @freudsigmund72 3 роки тому +2

    3:54 the one on the right (for the viewer) is conducting the live video's. They all have their role in the music, where the one on the left is doing the vocals and the second from the left is more working on the main rhythm

  • @berlindude75
    @berlindude75 3 роки тому +3

    1:46 Not sure why they used it there but not earlier, but "Tschernobyl" is the German spelling of the name "Chernobyl" in English. Both refer to the 1986 major nuclear accident at the nuclear power plant near the city of Chernobyl in Ukraine (formerly within the Soviet Union).

  • @andreasbinner3657
    @andreasbinner3657 3 роки тому +10

    Fun fact: Rammstein in their video to "Radio" use a very similar antenna+radiowaves imagery like in this video at 3:33

    • @indiaboymusicgroup
      @indiaboymusicgroup 3 роки тому +4

      Rammstein is actually known for using Kraftwerk references in their songs & videos.

  • @Palo343
    @Palo343 2 роки тому +2

    Those amazing musicians played 4 different issues: one goes with the basses, another with the visuals, the third with the melody and the fourth, with the voices.

  • @commanderkruge
    @commanderkruge 3 роки тому +2

    Back in the olden days Kraftwerk actually played "really" live - computers weren't really a thing then and even they only had one analogue sequencer.
    Then, when computers and MIDI became a thing KW started to automatize their performances. I mean - how could they not, having sung about Computerworlds and Man Machines. Back in the 90s when I saw them live for the first time they were in the "Midi Phase". They would set up their whole Studio on stage and it'd look a LOT like the bridge of the Enterprise (the NX version). On some synths they had painted otherwise colourful buttons black, so you wouldn't be able to see they were using a Waldorf Microwave just from the huge red Knob it has. :D
    They would start to develop what's their current method to perform back then, only with much more hardware: A lot of the music is played by the computer/sequencers with them adding key phrases and things like that by hand. The thing with having the playback performed "for real" via sequencers and synthesizers instead of from tape means that they for one thing can select which part is to be played next in real time and also they can "log in" to each instrument that's played and with knobs and sliders change pitch and filters in realtime.
    Add a few years and that's still the way they perform their concerts. The difference now is, that you can simulate synthesizers in realtime on your computer. Even more - you can pretty much have a complete studio on your PC now. So instead of touring with several trucks full of synths that, before every concert, you had to set up, plug together and whatnot (which COULD go wrong - on my first concert their system crashed because of a loose MIDI cable - ironically just when they started to go into "Computerworld", the second tune. Everything suddenly just stopped and the electronic voice was like "Computerwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." until it was switched off. Curtains, much running around, 15 minutes later the concert went on. :D). So of COURSE they switched to Virtual Synth Technology, since it means much less trouble for them.
    Actually on the last tours - after this one - something really interesting happened: All through the 90s up to 2015 or so (give or take a year or two) their life performances - while much crisper in sound - where lacking some of the ... 'spirit' of the originals which were all played on analogue equippment while the tours from the 90s on were done on digital synthesizers. Those systems back then were 16 bit and simply couldn't do *exactly* the same things as the old analogue synths. Take for example turning a knob on both devices connected to a filter. An analogue knob has "indefinite" positions it moves through, creating a supersmooth filter sweep. On a digital synth the knobs themselves might be analogue, sometimes even some filters or other parts are, but somewhere in there what happens is that the signals from the slider and all the other stuff is turned into numbers (on MIDI it's 1-128) - which means two things: For one you can not only record what you play on the keyboard into a sequencer, but also what you do to the knobs and sliders. Which is cool. But also instead of one sweep of infinite granularity you'll now have it divided into at most 128 steps. Which, depending on what exactly you're triggering with the knob, you can clearly hear.
    But with the recent years PCs have become so powerful that they now are able to simulate old, analogue synthesizers almost perfectly - actually many manufacturers published official virtual versions of their original classic instruments by now. And of course Kraftwerk went that way too. Which means that today, on a concert, you get "the best of both worlds": The complex, sequencer based setup with added bits played by hand BUT performed on virtual synths that sound closer to the original 70s records than Kraftwerk have done in 30 years! :D
    ua-cam.com/video/5A-4KdYSM7I/v-deo.html

    • @xsezz
      @xsezz  3 роки тому +1

      I get what you're saying about the MIDIs. That's all there was back then. :)
      Heh "the NX version." I knew exactly what you mean. :D
      LoL "Computerwoooooo..." Sounds like a modern mix or something, with the mistake being on purpose, only for the base to drop after.
      A lot of technical terms towards the end but as someone who as messed around in Techno production, I understood what you're saying. :)
      Thank you for your post.

    • @commanderkruge
      @commanderkruge 3 роки тому

      @@xsezz I thought you'd get it since you said you fiddled around with electronic music yourself. :)
      About Drexler's Enterprise: Seriously, when you see videos or pictures of the tours from those days that's exactly what it looks like. They already had their four "workstations", but in the background all their synthesizers, samplers, effect processors and so on was arranged into two large consoles. :)
      And when you think about how much fiddling and setting up the correct software and so forth was required to let PCs communicate with each other - Midi was revolutionary back then. :) Pretty much plug and play.

    • @kraftwerklover69
      @kraftwerklover69 2 роки тому

      Some of it is still played live, like the lead melody played by Henning on Radioactivity, or tour de france played by Henning too, and some parts of Autobahn by Ralf

    • @commanderkruge
      @commanderkruge 2 роки тому

      @@kraftwerklover69 As I wrote. MOST is played by the sequencers and they add some key phrases "by hand" on live gigs. :)

  • @commanderkruge
    @commanderkruge 3 роки тому +2

    btw - I really hope that we'll get this whole Covid stuff sorted out now
    - last year Kraftwerk were supposed to play their only German concert
    to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary, which has first been moved to
    this year and now to next year. IF it ever happens, then it will
    literally happen 10 minutes from my place by foot. Okay, say 15. Of
    course I've got a ticket. XD

    • @xsezz
      @xsezz  3 роки тому

      Wow nice! It should be great! :D Congrats!

    • @commanderkruge
      @commanderkruge 3 роки тому

      @@xsezz I have been a fan since ... '78. Long story short: Star Wars was out and all of a sudden there were singing Robots on the radio! 7 year old me was impressed! :D
      Best thing so far to happen to me as a KW fan: Getting to know Karl and Wolfgang, doing some web stuff for both (nothing big or important but still) and ending up in the credits section of Karl's latest record and his autobiography. ^^
      That 7 year old fanboy inside me is still doing sommersaults. :D

  • @darrylrotrock7816
    @darrylrotrock7816 3 роки тому +5

    Sellafield is an English nuclear fuel reprocessing facility. Their leaked materials have made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world, causing much concern in Ireland and Norway.

  • @Oilerator_
    @Oilerator_ 3 роки тому +1

    There are some great videos on a channel called "Willy Billiams" of Kraftwerk's live performances from above them and you can see what they are doing. They are very interesting.

  • @4vinylsound
    @4vinylsound 3 роки тому +1

    If you watch that exact full concert you'll see who does what, when they exit the stage

  • @4vinylsound
    @4vinylsound 3 роки тому +1

    Its 20 years before techno was invented. It's electronic musica from the 70s.

  • @kratzvonscharfenstein
    @kratzvonscharfenstein 3 роки тому +4

    You really have to check out the band "Welle Erdball", a lot of their songs are created with den Commodore 64 (C64), try Welle Erdball = Deutsche Liebe, great music!

  • @ralfovonel9965
    @ralfovonel9965 3 роки тому

    Kraftwerk use cubase fx on Stage. Ralf perform the vocals and synth, henning bass lines and lead melodys, fritz the percussions and florian perform the robovox and sound effects. it's like making classical music, only with laptops and programs.

  • @hariputter
    @hariputter 3 роки тому

    If you want to see what they are doing behind their consoles, then check out their concerts at Paradiso in 2015. It's awesome! You can even check Radioactivity.

  • @robtyman4281
    @robtyman4281 2 роки тому

    Sellafield is a well known Nuclear power plant in the UK.

  • @frantisekvtelensky820
    @frantisekvtelensky820 3 роки тому

    I believe they are mainly using midi controllers/keyboards for the VST instruments and plugins they have installed in their DAWs.

  • @heisenberg5724
    @heisenberg5724 3 роки тому +2

    check Model by Kraftwerk

  • @DIDCOTTWIST
    @DIDCOTTWIST 3 роки тому +1

    This is 2008 or before as Florian Schneider closest to camera left in 2008 and died April 2020

    • @xsezz
      @xsezz  3 роки тому

      Aaaah, I see. So they disbanded in 2008? Haven't made anything since? Or they continued without him?

    • @DIDCOTTWIST
      @DIDCOTTWIST 3 роки тому +1

      @@xsezz Ralf hutter the other founder member is the only original member left they have done tours since 3D tour I saw them at Oxford in England in 2017 but Ralf is getting on now 74 he is now.

    • @xsezz
      @xsezz  3 роки тому

      @@DIDCOTTWIST Cool, cool. Damn, 74? Wow.

  • @_Rammstein
    @_Rammstein 3 роки тому +2

    I was thinking kinda the same💀🤣💀I was thinking this would fit well in the movie the fifth element...I was playing GTA vice city today on My PS2 and I was listening to one of my faves called 'Japanese boy' - by Aneka...you should give it a try one day

  • @eniati
    @eniati 3 роки тому

    Who IS that man ? Where does he Come ? Je doesn't know Kraftwerk ? I have been knowing Kraftwerk since 30 years !!! Yes this IS old school, Kraftwerk are the master !!!

  • @lancelessard2491
    @lancelessard2491 Рік тому

    This is a very different version from their original 1978 album version.

  • @fuzzybarnes5124
    @fuzzybarnes5124 3 роки тому +1

    There is a very good Docu about the whole "Krautrock" phenomenon: ua-cam.com/video/QP5dOKTB3ng/v-deo.html
    Nothing for a Reaction but a VERY interesting piece of knowledge about where Kraftwerk come from, where Rammstein has its roots and whats the Grannys of the techno music

    • @xsezz
      @xsezz  3 роки тому

      Oh cool! Thank you for the link! :)

  • @marbletown6012
    @marbletown6012 3 роки тому

    if you want there full experience dont watch clips with the young guy he took over when the other one died try to find videos of the time he brought in some new things and recreated the songs in a way. not taking them down but changing the original

  • @blackseven2297
    @blackseven2297 3 роки тому

    It is very good and good reaction from you

  • @marbletown6012
    @marbletown6012 3 роки тому

    ive been to a concert with the young guy it was fanominal im not saying he wasn't good

  • @mongo6152
    @mongo6152 8 місяців тому

    Techno??? The Belleville 3 were still in high school when this song was originally released in 1975. Although this version was a remix/reimagination of the original, the album cut is far superior...just cant dance to it

  • @4vinylsound
    @4vinylsound 3 роки тому +1

    Only one is on keyboard and another 1 has 1 but barely uses it

  • @Nidels
    @Nidels 3 роки тому

    Kraftwerk ... one of the great groups of electronic music along with Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis and Tangerine Dreams. A pity that they are lazy, because about 10 million years ago they haven't released a new album.

  • @johankaewberg9512
    @johankaewberg9512 Рік тому

    Ra-di-o. Ak-ti-vi-tät. Great song, but I always prefer the original German versions.

  • @3axapTv
    @3axapTv Рік тому

    Cancer YAY!

    • @3axapTv
      @3axapTv Рік тому

      OMG I just remember UA-cam Poop of My Little Pony with that exact line

  • @gorankopcic7827
    @gorankopcic7827 3 роки тому

    You should listen ORIGINAL, not this modern versions..... Please, listen to ORIGINAL SONGS!

    • @xsezz
      @xsezz  3 роки тому

      I already did... ua-cam.com/video/GImmYztJewg/v-deo.html

    • @gorankopcic7827
      @gorankopcic7827 3 роки тому

      @@xsezz No, not on UA-cam, on original CD... I told you to hear original SONGS... plural... Songs are connected, and when you listen the whole album, than you will get a full picture... I'm also an electronic music composer, my music is something like Kraftwerk, so if you want to hear it, here it is... soundcloud.com/user-283504795/electron-558 Just click anywhere on my email for other songs.