that was awesome
RIP
― maffew12, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
Think it was a regular routine to have some fun during Pocket Calculator. Florian did it the only time I saw them (on The Mix tour).
― everything, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Radio 3 playing a little tribute to Florian right now which is v moving
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 May 2020 06:59 (four years ago) link
Florian and Juan Atkins at the liquor store:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXbj9zPWoAEWPC-.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
aw man, that's amazing
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
What a great photo
― paolo, Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Florian looks like he just asked Juan to pull his finger
A+, but I really wanna know what they bought there
― sleeve, Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
You vill be pulling ze finger, Herr Atkins?
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/blogs/read-michael-rothers-eulogy-to-florian-schneider-126501/
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
― sleeve, Thursday, May 7, 2020
Lays Kettle Chips + a bottle of white zin
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Feel quite emotional looking at that pic.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 7 May 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
behind the mask of the machine...a man
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 7, 2020
which flavour???
― maffew12, Friday, 8 May 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link
wine flavour duh
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 8 May 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
otm
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
@geetadayalLevel 1:In tribute, I am trying to dress up like Kraftwerk circa “The Man-Machine.” Problem is, I forgot how to tie a tie.Can you help? I never knew.This is how far she's gotten:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXYhKciUYAEik_G?format=jpg&name=900x900
― dow, Friday, 8 May 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
Thread...
June 8 1998 was one of the most important nights of my life. Kraftwerk played a absolutely breathtaking show at the Palladium (the last tour w synths instead of laptops), after EVERYONE was headed Kontrol Faktory - LA's legendary all industrial club. And when I say everyone...— Das Bunker (@DASBUNKER) May 6, 2020
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 May 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
Great story. Takes me back to many fantastic nights at Kontrol and Helter Skelter
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 9 May 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
Michael Rother remembers Florian from school days, early studio play, enduring inspiration etc.:https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/read-michael-rothers-eulogy-to-florian-schneider-126501/
― dow, Monday, 11 May 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
A piece from the archives i just re-read, the predictably on point Pushing Ahead Of The Dame, talking about Bowie, Berlin, Kraftwerk etc
https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/v-2-schneider/
― piscesx, Monday, 11 May 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
xp It still occasionally amazes me that Michael Rother played in Kraftwerk, Neu! and Harmonia.
― doug watson, Monday, 11 May 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
+ I have his first three solo albums ID3 tagged as Rother / Liebezeit / Plank
been going through the 1990 KW bootlegs. last tour with Karl Bartos, though it's Hilpert playing raw live percussion. lots of extremely different versions of the 90's digital retool of 'Numbers', and 'Autobahn' traffic jams are top. probably the last hurrah for them as an actual live band; the only real reason to go through different nights of any given tour after '91 is for fidelity reasons
― Milton Parker, Monday, 11 May 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
That Pushing Ahead piece reminded me that you can draw a straight line from "V-2 Schneider" to Einstürzende Neubauten's "Kalte Sterne" (they have the same underlying pulse):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-oXfqqgVE
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 11 May 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
my little tribute here:https://critterjams.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/endless-endless/
― frogbs, Monday, 11 May 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
speaking of Kraftwerk covers, new for Aboriginal / first nations charities, in homage to both Florian and Weatherall - a 15-minute Neon Lights cover (plus 10-minute remix)) by Jono Ma (from Pnau/Jagwar Ma), Jonti (Danimals/live Avalanches), Stella Mogzawa (Warpaint/the XX/Kurt & Courtney), Ewan Pearson (Ewan Pearson) & pals
― massage angry pixels (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2020 09:31 (four years ago) link
Ewan Pearson (Ewan Pearson)
thank you for this, I knew the name sounded familiar...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
Ah, you’re partial to his arts
― massage angry pixels (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
Echo..
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 May 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
^ That Neon Lights cover is rather lovely and would have sounded excellent at ALFOSes I'm sure.
― Picasso visita el planeta de los shitposteros (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
new kraftwerk dropped lads: https://open.spotify.com/album/5FvNOnZtP0dQKZbDQ1uhGy?si=eOOM4BwmQCueKyK6Wm_5HA
― mark s, Monday, 21 December 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
What's at the link?
― huge rant (sic), Monday, 21 December 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
This is really just a playlist of remixes that were previously released. Nothing new about it.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 21 December 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
yes
― mark s, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
karl bartos solo material is just as good except his rock release!
― xzanfar, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
honestly p stoked the Orbital remix is finally on spotify
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
I was all "Oh Oh.... oh."
― Mark G, Friday, 25 December 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
Never mind, I have enough copies of the Vertigo albums...
― Mark G, Friday, 25 December 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
was thinking it would be funny to do a "Bohemian Rhapsody" style biopic of Jean-Michel Jarre. the only scene I have nailed down is Jarre buying Autobahn and hearing "Kometenmelodie 2" for the first time. his mind instantly rockets through the cosmos, like in the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. you keep seeing him make the faces from the Vince McMahon gif. he wakes up drenched in sweat, comes downstairs and says "Dad...I don't want to take piano lessons anymore"
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 May 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
Would watch!
― paolo, Sunday, 8 May 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
I had a dream about Kraftwerk last night. they did a show in Madison (?) and the setlist was:
RuckzuckNeon LightsSupper's ReadyElectric Cafe - with 5 cats in wireframe suits. 4 of them ran away, the other one flopped on its belly and everyone said "awww"
then the curtains closed and I grabbed a beer out of a vending machine (?) which came with a shot of Fireball for 27 dollars. I used my wife's credit card.
the curtains lifted and some guy comes out and says "sorry ze robot is broken, we cannot play, Auf Wiedersehen." and everyone stood up and booed and threw pretzels
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
sorry, had to write this down somewhere
amazing, tyvm
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
hoping your wife is cool with the beer expenditure, otherwise it's Computerliebe from here on
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 15 April 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
4 of them ran away, the other one flopped on its belly and everyone said "awww"I will retrofit this onto the Kraftwerk canon or die trying
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Saturday, 15 April 2023 05:40 (one year ago) link
Supper's Ready is the key element here
― hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Saturday, 15 April 2023 07:49 (one year ago) link
Excellent.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 April 2023 08:01 (one year ago) link
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53751889788_7cfbc324d6_h.jpg
We went to the Disney Hall show on Trans Europe Express night. Unbelievably... powerful? The acoustics there are stellar to start - an ideal match for the relative purity (tidy low end, all frequencies given a chance to solo) of how Kraftwerk sound now. Too bad about the fixed seats, needed dancing.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 04:10 (one week ago) link
One does not dance to Kraftwerk.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 05:09 (one week ago) link
wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 05:13 (one week ago) link