Kraftwerk - Köln II - Live 1971 - Remastered

Kraftwerk in their short lived 1971 lineup with Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger. Rother and Dinger would later form Neu!.
This recording is not from the Beat Club Sessions or in any way related to them. It was recorded in a studio in cologne (hence the song title) for the youth programme "Okidoki".
Remastered by WF203

[@doublebakker1]

incredible document! in hindsight this could almost be more accurately described as Florian sitting in with Neu!

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

Still, thr band was called Kraftwerk

[@marguskiis7711]

NEU! was started after the duo (actually only Dinger) was dumped from Kraftwerk by the control freak Hutter,

[@Wanderlustus]

Agreed.

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

Kraftwerk rocked in their early days. Too bad they didn’t stay like this for a bit longer.

[@baco82]

These are Kraftwerk with Dinger and Rother, so they are practically Neu! with Florian. If you like this you'll love Neu!

[@krisscanlon4051]

Yes I miss that idea however without the electronic keyboard sound it would've never been as influential

[@miisu]

This is Neu!

[@Klaviar11]

I found in comments to another version of this video that there was recorded a full album of such material. Probably forever locked in archive

[@milesdufourny4813]

Klaus is still looking for his sunglasses!

[@erebousde]

NEU! ft. Florian Schneider sounds really great!

[@SpoonyMcSpoonface]

I’m so glad Ralf took a sabbatical. The music without him at that time sounded so much better for his absence.

[@jackal59]

Holy hell, Dinger was an animal.

[@tomfenn7149]

Listening to this, it really makes me wonder just how much of Kraftwerk's initial double LP credited to Ralf Hutter is in fact Ralf at all. NEU! were so ahead of their time.

[@user-ev2th7xe2w]

Great! Klaus Dinger has always worn overalls. It's like NEU! I was impressed by the tight drums like. thank you!

[@user-ux9bx8kc5y]

Overalls look super badass on a drummer, Bill Bruford proves this.

[@neuzethmusic131]

Love it! Love early Kraftwerk/NEU!

[@Spaceshiptechnician]

I could listen to this all day. Simply stunning.

[@NOWtheband]

They're good lads.

[@oliviertruchon5648]

Incredible video quality.

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

Dinger looks like he has the day of his life, while Florian looks like he’s about to throw up.

[@TheMaximus63]

Thanks for the effort, I am thrilled with your posts 😃

[@ME-ty8rv]

Thanks a lot for this ... Great Track and picture quality .... always thankful for new old Kraftwerk stuff :)

[@alejandrosantos8882]

Alucinante.

[@emilyoshiro]

Brilliant piece

[@qrdnk]

Awesome! Thanks for the upload!

[@Lakewin1988]

very weird how this group transformed itself

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

I had no idea Florian Schneider actually invented the mullet

[@futurescalling]

RIP Klaus

[@user-il3bz9vp4f]

Really nice! It is quite similar to the music of Neu!.

[@bouchralkhili9808]

💃💃💃❤️💕💕

[@dalboz]

👏👏👏

[@dougrea9270]

Nice video! Have you any footage of early Triumvirat?

[@nilsketzler7942]

klaus schreddert seine drums...nicht übel. da lief ja alles schief bei ihm, erst die Brille dann der Stick dann das kleine Becken..

[@nilsketzler7942]

Hmm Klaus verliert erst die Brille dqnn nen Stick und man merkts kaum. Wahnsinnsdrummer. Aaaber Sandalen bei Rother????

[@verwurster]

Die Sandalen wären ok. Aber Socken, eh Socken geht ja garnicht.

[@markjohnsonjohnmarkson]

Ja pierdole, co to jest? Sprzężenie na wzmacniaczu a ludzie się podniecają, udało im się parę utworów, klasyk Autobahn i radioactivity, tak po za tym, jakoś Czesława Niemena nie docenili.

[@warmswarm]

i get the impression the sound man didn't like the flute. 🤣

[@TimJackson-eq6iy]

This sounds more like Nue.

[@marguskiis7711]

Neu! emerged a year later from the aches of Kraftwerk.

[@philippestojanovic1303]

Hi, This song is fantastic. Between SISTER RAY et JOY DIVISION. Do you know if it's possible to find in CD version ? Thanks a lot...

[@user-ix7ec8hc4k]

Not between, before ...

[@somebonehead]

How did Florian get his flute to sound like that?

[@JackBobsonOfficial]

I suspect that he has a microphone going into a mixing desk, which has a mountain of effects.

[@videostak]

he used an array of effects on his flute but the main two that got it to sound like that were something to lower the sound of the flute and give it a bassier sound (dont kno if this was something he himself made or a pedal) and then a wah wah pedal. you can hear the effects of the wah wah very clearly in this video which is what sorta gives ot the duck quack sound. sounds kinda similar to when miles davis used a wah wah on his trumpet too around the same time.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

​@@videostak I don't think it's a wha pedal. He has an EMS synthesizer over there, through which you could channel external sounds or instruments via an input jack as Brian Eno famously also did in Roxy Music. You can barely see it in this clip, but it's clearly visible in other videos of performances from this era. So, I'm pretty sure it was the synth's envelope filter creating that effect.

[@videostak]

@@VuotoPneumaNN ah that explains it! tho i think hes also using a wah pedal over that too right? in the video of rucktoss gondoliere 2nd version around the 6:48 mark u can see him pressing down a wah wah pedal while playing. i guess its a mixture of the two that creates that distinct sound but my first thought is always wah pedal since it reminds me so much of miles davis' playing from the 70s lol

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

@@videostak Oh yeah you're right, that's definitely a wha pedal.

[@Wanderlustus]

Fan fucking tastic

[@Fuchsfein]

Hallo WF203, Ist das genaue Datum der Okidoki Aufnahme bekannt? Jetzt ist mir auch klar warum hier die Klamotten anders sind. Ich dachte immer alle drei Tracks wären aus dem Beatclub, 1971-05-22. Edit: Nach ein bisschen Recherche bin ich auf folgendes Datum für Okidoki gestossen: 1971-05-15 Okidoki, ARD TV Studio, Cologne, Germany Das hört sich zumindest glaubhaft an.

[@WF203]

Hallo Reynardine, die Folge 4 der kurzlebigen WDR-Jugendsendung Okidoki mit diesem Musikbeitrag wurde am 15.05.1971 ausgestrahlt. Ich denke, die Aufnahmen haben also mindestens ein paar Tage früher stattgefunden. Der Titel "Köln II" suggeriert ja, dass es noch mehr Titel aus dieser Session gibt, es scheint aber nur noch die fertig geschnittene Sendung archiviert zu sein, in der nur dieser eine Song gespielt wird. Hoffe damit konnte ich etwas weiterhelfen :)

[@Fuchsfein]

@@WF203 Danke für die Hilfe. Ja, das ist super. Ich war mir nie sicher mit dem Datum. Ich freu mich immer wenn ich allen Aufnahmen in meiner Sammlung ein konkretes Datum zuordnen kann. 1971 hat mich immer fasziniert, ob die Band wohl weitergemacht hätte wenn Ralf nicht doch zurückgekommen wäre? Tja, wer weiß. Schade dass die Originalaufnahme nicht mehr existiert. Ein im TV gesendeter Mitschnitt von Kraftwerk Live in Belgien 1976 ist komplett verlorengegangen, niemand hat es damals aufgezeichnet und das Original exitiert nicht mehr.

[@NowSpinningTV]

What is this song 🤯 ?????

[@coldacre]

Trans Europe Express

[@NowSpinningTV]

@@coldacre Thanks but that definitely is not Trans Europe Express 😆

[@musicglenn]

autobahn? :) lol

[@ittes-wv3yv]

「Hallogallo」とかじゃないですかね？