Wow, that's v likely the most sincere/informative/responsibility-taking apology letter I've ever read from a company tbh
― I have one thing to say: "Roxanne Shanté" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
i agree with stevie d
― Z S, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
still bummed, though :(
For you, ZS!http://www.vwgifaway.com/DO IT NOW!
― Mayan Calendar Deren (doo dah), Monday, 12 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
:O
― just sayin, Monday, 12 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
i almost fell out of my chair! holy shit!!
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
wait a second..
"Increase your odds of seeing Kraftwerk at MoMA. Create an animated GIF from one of these sites."
the link points to a google search for "animated gif online". does that mean i have to use a crappy automatic gif maker? can't i just use photoshop?
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
aw man, and it doesn't even matter if the animation is good or not.the quality of the gif doesn't matter.
The official rules say "GIFs will not be judged", and then go on to talk about a random drawing for the winners. All that submitting a gif gets you is 2 chances to win instead of 1, essentially.So you could submit a flashing text gif that says "KRAFTWERK" and it counts as much as a 400-frame epic journey through the pulsating electronic veins of Ralf & Florian, basically.
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
oh well, made this anyway
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0skhq2Og61qdmmiqo1_400.gif
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
A+
― tylerw, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
alright, I've officially given it the ol' college try
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0sl7joE3n1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Monday, 12 March 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Weird, I guess the gallery of images is at the bottom of the link above (http://www.vwgifaway.com/). One of mine just showed up there (a really crappy text one I barfed out in a few minutes). But so far it's the only one that's related to Kraftwerk whatsoever?
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Monday, 12 March 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
ur awesome dude. take me if you get tix.
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Meantime:
http://io9.com/5894792/listen-to-a-sprawling-six+hour-mixtape-tribute-to-kraftwerk
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
sweet, thanks, ned!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
uh DJ Food has been one bloke for the last 11 years, and these were done annual-ish-ly from 2004, and have been online for free download since 2006
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Just found a copy of "Radio-Activity" at a horrible record store in Philly. Later, while giving it a closer look I discovered it contains the elusive yellow and pink stickers; 16 of them fully intact. Collectible?
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
What?? Which record store? How much?
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
You better not say Repo or we will be having words
Long in the Tooth. Dude behind the counter=total asshat.$10.00
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Mr.(or Mrs.)Repo, again I ask, collectible?
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
yes it is
http://www.djfood.org/djfood/kraftwerk-month-10-radio-activity-extras
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, thats like 10 blocks from me. I saw an in-store there a month ago but I've never actually shopped there :-( it looked cute!
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Milton. I was just happy to get a nice vinyl copy, this is a nice bonus.
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
My 21 month old daughter asked for Robots tonight. Last weekend we listened to Man Machine a few times but I didn't think she remembered. As soon as I put it on tonight she started dancing. This made me extremely happy.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 22 March 2012 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa, I just won TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS tickets from that Volkswagon contest!
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
omg don't even talk to me I cant
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, same here. I don't even want many things from life, I really don't. I just want to see kraftwerk. Or even just ONE FUCKING guy from kraftwerk. I don't know why this is so difficult to accomplish.
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I say congrats!
― Mark G, Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, I should have said that too! That's awesome you get to go, and especially to that particular show!
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, thanks! Really didn't expect to win. I'm actually a little worried that the tickets will be revoked because they said they might ask me to sign a release for the .gif, which I don't really have any right to do since I made it with the NYPL Stereogranimator thing with NYPL archive images. I should have thought about for 2 seconds before idly entering the contest, but since they encouraged using generator sites, and most of the images they displayed were obviously in violation of copyright, it didn't occur to me. So we'll see.
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
just sign it and smile
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
It appears, from my ticket confirmation I rec'd yesterdaythat there's be some nice merch on sale @ these shows. Must remember to bring some extra $.
― kwhitehead, Saturday, 24 March 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
highly recommended: the "nippon numbers" bootleg. well-recorded document from the Computerworld tour with a surprisingly fast version of "It's More Fun to Compute"
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Thursday, 5 April 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Kraftwerk POX
Heavy Metal Kids 7:53 K4 (live june 12, 1971) K1 15:38 K4 (live june 12, 1971) K2 (Ruckzuck) 19:20 K4 (live june 12, 1971) Ruckstoss-Gondoliere 11:18 Kraftwerk !/2 Autobahn 21:54 Concert Classics (19750520 Denver, Ebbets' Fields) Mitternacht (Rdioactiv/Showroom) 12:04 19750917 - Live At The Dome, Brighton, Uk Faust intro - Kometenmelodie 1 & 2 11:39 19760228 - Machine: l´Olympia, Paris It's more fun to compute 8:02 19810907 - Virtu ex Machina (Live in Tokyo) Numbers 5:25 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF Airwaves / New Song 11:19 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF
― Milton Parker, Monday, March 17, 2008 9:48 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
trying to figure out which two I'd bump for:
The voice of energy / Uranium / Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne - 3:51 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, LondonPocket Calculator - 9:12 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
― Milton Parker, Friday, December 19, 2008 7:39 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
& the car-breakdown in the 42 minute long version of Autobahn from Leverkusen 1974 is them at their weirdest
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
did I say "YSI?" after that three years ago?
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
Easier to find online now than ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNjwJLDic3o
Or the Amsterdam 76 'Europe Endless' when it was a less syncopated techno stomper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjKWN1Vzgao
Or the 75 version of 'Midnight' which still sounds like 'Kristallo' but turns into an early version of 'Showroom Dummies'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSeTZ5JymSM
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
The last 10 minutes of the Leverkusen gig are a completely unreleased piece which sounds like a collapsing Irish jig, it is hilarious and wonderful
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
I meant to post this version of 'midnight'! Leverkusen again. I like that Leverkusen gig, parts almost sound like Conny is still in the band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovWbn3f6U4
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
1998 tour was much better than the 2004 tour they put on the DVD
The digital pitchfeedback version of Numbers, much better than the recent live versions where they've reverted to samples from the 81 studio recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-61JCxSLQ4
One of their 3 new songs, I can see why they didn't put them out but live, they sounded great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbDHK_6Z9Q
About 6:10 into this one it became clear how much basic channel they'd been taking in, Would have been a much better thing to put out instead of expo2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxpWCO6EqCU
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2012 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
mp, it's just so easy to buy a ticket to NYC
― Dominique, Thursday, 5 April 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
wow, looks like I got a lot of searching to do. I did quite like the 1975 "Concert Classics" (!?) album, which had something called "Klingklang" which sounded a lot more like the land they use on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood when they go into Make-Believe land, it's really goood
still listening to "Nippon Numbers", I just remembered that Ralf kind of starts rapping two-thirds through Autobahn, all the places you can go "Auf Leon auf Madrid auf der Autobahn"...then to "Auf Hongkong auf Tokyo auf der Aero-plane", ha!!
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
oof that 42-minute Autobahn is Autobahn-tastic! thx for posting.
― tylerw, Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/08460-kraftwerk-jls
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
(from right to left)Aston = RalfMarvin = FlorianJB = WolfgangOritsé = Karl
― beanz meanz lulz (snoball), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Aston has that worried look that Ralf sometimes has, while Marvin seems more confident. Oritsé looks the youngest, so he's Karl, which leaves JB as Wolfgang.
― beanz meanz lulz (snoball), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
already? jeez. from Pithfork:
As part of Kraftwerk's eight-night retrospective New York museum residency this month, the band will release a limited-edition box set of all eight of their albums. 2,000 copies of the set will be sold on the Museum of Modern Art's website, and at gift shops in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and MoMA/PS1 in Queens. It'll include remastered versions of the set released in 2009 (the massive reissue The Catalogue).
are they already dated sounding or something?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
I love Kraftwerk but this stuff doesn't surprise me. They're in this for the $$ now it seems - much like any other self-respecting band looking to milk their back catalogue with a "reunion tour".
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link