KRAFTWERK live Austrian TV special, January 1982 (best quality)

[@electrozaps]

1 Numbers 2 Computer World 3 Pocket Calculator 4 The Robots 5 Home Computer

[@AceRuiner1979]

Florian impersonating the calculator sounds while looking at the camera had me laughing.. RIP Florian

[@FireStormDel]

In general, seemed like they had fun playing Pocket Calculator, especially with how Florian and Ralf let the up-close audience have a quick turn at playing their instruments. Plus Karl is smiling quite a bit too, but I think it could be because he's seen the camera on stage and either can't keep in character knowing he's going to have his dancing seen by people on TV or because he was just having so much fun.

[@Fuchsfein]

I read in Karl's book that Florian came up with the idea for Pocket Calculator when he brought a bag of toy instruments to the studio one day. It's the one song where he was clearly having fun in concerts. Seems he had a nice sense of humour. I can think of a couple of videos where Florian was goofing around. His mad scientist smile on BBC's Tomorrow's World in 1975. He gave bunny ears to the moderator at Discoring in 1981. He did silly air guitar poses during Pocket Calculator in New York in 1998. The audience loved it. He slowed down the robovox during Autobahn in Paris 2002 until Fritz next to him started laughing... Florian's Silverstar Club 1988 interview is also entertaining. He demonstrated the TI Language Translator he used in 1981 to do the computer voices on Numbers etc. He was cool and unique. It's inspiring. RIP Florian

[@AceRuiner1979]

@@Fuchsfein Kraftwerk just feels weird without him

[@Fuchsfein]

@@AceRuiner1979 I feel so too, it's not the same without Florian The sound of the concerts changed too after he left

[@Warzau]

It reminds me of when Mark Mothersbaugh or when David Byrne moved when they sang.

[@eldiablo3794]

3:55 so cool that Florian let the fans press the buttons and participate on the song. 🎧🤖🎹

[@tryfishin9]

It's time for a good Kraftwerk documentary

[@todd_sines]

I don't think Ralf would allow it

[@kgplay8066]

@@todd_sinescan you give more context? Why he wouldn’t allow it?

[@Blank_Frank]

ARTE (german/french channel) did a pretty good one a few years ago

[@RIFKLE]

The footage and sound of this video was ripped out of a documentary in itself.

[@MiadeRidder-p9r]

Frrrr

[@80ssynthfan48]

Anyone who witnessed these shows in person was fucking blessed.

[@fredschmitt456]

Fucking true!

[@vapeurdepisse]

I did!!

[@slickepinne]

@@vapeurdepisse where, when?

[@rudyamisano4626]

PRESENTE.🤟👽

[@marcelengels1079]

Saw them in 1991, they still had this setup (instead of the laptops now). They were absolutely fantastic!

[@Feguilosch]

Music from the future.

[@kgplay8066]

0:20 - Numbers 1:32 - Computer World 2:35 - Pocket Calculator 5:13 - Der Roboter (The Robots) 7:53 - Home Computer

[@christopheradderley45]

Kraftwerk are the perfect band ❤️🖤

[@tangerine825]

Electronic Music Legend ! Poland Loves Kraftwerk ;-)

[@martiansonmaui1749]

I saw this concert tour at the KongressHaus, Salzburg Austria in November 1981. Fantastic show! I had been a fan since “Autobahn”. 😎🤟🎹

[@KadeSauer0479]

This is one of the best Kraftwerk live videos on KZbin, thanks for sharing! Saw them on their most recent Kraftwerk 3D tour, amazing

[@TeknoTim2002]

Especially impressive considering how early this is in the video recording era, even before MTV.

[@robbe4711]

Still impressive what they did back in the times.

[@FireStormDel]

Man, The Robots was so epic, it needed both the human-robots and the robot-robots to perform it.

[@GlasgowCelticforever1888]

Went to see them at Glasgow Apollo in the early 80s. The nearest I’ve came to a spiritual experience.

[@madjidhamdini1977]

1982 i was 5 and as a child love kratwerk sound! i remember "space lab" maked me so fear !

[@mikerousey1038]

"Musique non-stop!"

[@modernclics]

What a badass way to leave the stage

[@spurv]

Yeah, and New Order took notice.

[@hallowed]

NOW THIS IS HOW ELECTRONIC MUSIC SHOULD EB PERFORMED LIVE

[@peteraustin2757]

Saw these guys in Sydney 1981, next 2003 at Big Day Out Concert in Sydney, again 2013 Sydney Opera House 3D concert, looking forward to seeing these guys in Brisbane this year, looooooove their music

[@FeatherGlow1]

They're coming to Brisbane? When? I'd love to see them.

[@chrisb6296]

You can hear the funk influence in The Robots

Can't imagine my childhood without Kraftwerk …

[@dmaclego]

Excellent stuff, thank you. I love how they actually used to MAKE music using their quirky instruments. Today Ralf and his new buddies just stand there with their laptops...

[@rickjansen3823]

Such a shame they abandoned this fantastic setup for laptops and hiding behind consoles that show nothing. When the curtains opened the audience gasped. And rightly so.

[@RampinUp46]

While I agree with you, it's understandable really; one of the synths they used back in the day (the EMS Synthi-A) runs around $21,000 at a minimum today and most of the stuff they used on this tour isn't cheap either, whereas digital is slightly less of a pain in the ass to deal with in some cases, so it's either pack up a bunch of synths that cost insane amounts of money and hope they don't get broken, stolen, or die onstage, or upgrade with the times out of pragmatism.

[@rickjansen3823]

I understand too, but I feel that going digital lost us the Kraftwerk I loved. Bartos describes it well in his book.

[@rickjansen3823]

@@RampinUp46 not that they actually fiddled with the equipment in old Kling Klang while on stage. Only very few times, and in the dark, with little torches. Much of the equipment seemed to be there just for show, like the EMS vocoder 5000. And the big sequencer on the left behind Hütter was only functioning during The Robots.

[@Fuchsfein]

I feel there were certain rhythmic irregularities in Kraftwerk's concerts that made the music so exciting to me. A big part of this was manually played percussion. In the 70s, in 1981 and from 1990 to 1992 they had live percussion on many tracks and it created an exciting, slightly irregular rhyhtm to the music that was missing in later concerts. The 2nd big change came in 2002. The feel of the music changed drastically when they abandoned hardware synths. Now every note is set in stone with perfect computerised precision, and let's be honest, it is boring. I understand why they do it, it made playing concerts much easier to no longer have to carry their huge Kling Klang Studio around with them. But musically it's a downgrade in many ways. Listening to earlier concerts I find myself hooked to the rhythms in a way that is no longer possible with the laptops.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Their 1991 setup was a great compromise. They still had gear onstage but it wasn’t the expensive vintage stuff.

[@y2ksw1]

I was about 20 and the electronic music devices were thriving. With ZX81 unimaginable things became possible. I had a very good time back then! 😊

[@waynefoote3781]

This absolutely amazing!@

[@rudyamisano4626]

27/5/81 Palalido. 4500 lire il biglietto alla cassa. Un suono spaziale con dei bassi che non ho mai + risentito ,manco in concerti HM . Mai. Certo ,non potevamo avvicinarci al palco come si vede qui in Austria. Da noi non sarebbe stato possibile . Figurati. Un 🪐fa. 👽

[@madjidhamdini1977]

10:27 When you see that's a REAL live ^^

[@claudeattou4595]

Pour moi la vrai l’inoubliable équipe du groupe Kraftwerk 🦾📡🎢

[@monnnalisa3479]

Pocket Calculator好き過ぎる

[@sibeex]

Wonderful, thanks!

[@julieboyce4614]

Beautiful classic work of genius ❤ this music 🎶 is genuine has good back then always original one of best

[@princegroove]

These guys were the musical zeitgeist of modern music.

[@lidianesudan1450]

Desde Brasil,q honra ouvir os caras em alemão original

[@RodMacQuarrie]

Minimoog, Polymoog, Roland MC-8, Syndrum Quad. Can you identify any more?

[@Fuchsfein]

I know that Florian played a Prophet 5 in 1981. It can be seen during Numbers at 00:00:46 in the video.

[@RodMacQuarrie]

@@Fuchsfein Yes, Prophet-5 was used all over the Computer World album.

[@michaelpaterson12]

Just brilliant.

[@britneychester6176]

GENIUSES !!!

[@knickkification]

this is great, thank you

[@icemanbuchanon7728]

..this is the Kling Klang studio on stage during the live sessions back in the days.

[@RamiroArguello-f1l]

Los reyes de la electrónica ningun djsito que necesita samplear música de otro los va a superar

[@paiefilhomachado7630]

5:12 M a s t e r p i e c e

[@jayanthony2342]

Yes

[@liselottefrejdig1112]

They were at the Arvika festival too.

[@Ecthelion1967]

Kids now a days may think this equal to silent movies. But when it hit it was cutting edge! And i kinda still like the the originals over the tuned up newer versions. And Kraftwerk were also the first band to make a live crowd explode when they saw no one was on stage.

[@electric5377]

Thanks!

[@jonv2911]

Magnificent!!!

[@JAMESJACKSON-s9p]

THIS IS FUCKIN' AMAZING. THANKS.

[@adrianmuino3412]

They also dance!

[@josejones7025]

They dance like robots. Which is totally cool I saw them in Chicago in 1981 and later in the mid 80s in Denver

[@PITERS15]

Muzyka elektroniczna jest super 😊

[@josejones7025]

This is sooooooooo great!

[@nastarwarrior]

Greatest fucking band of all time

[@uncooldispatch5438]

❤❤❤

[@brapmanbrap5188]

Kraftwerk genius

[@kaymilborrow]

This is fucking amazing

[@josejones7025]

What an entrance!!

[@chrisb6296]

thanks

[@femme-mirage]

Super

[@polytonic6493]

Yes

[@MagDiSante]

Absolutely AWESOME .. .I first saw them in 1981 and on many other occasions in the following years (from 1991 to 2016)... Considering what they were actually capable of doing on stage in real time even 43 years ago, the live performances of synthpop bands from the 80s are really PATHETIC, let's be honest!

[@citizencairn5230]

Let's be honest here: nothing - outside of Mozart or Beethoven - has surpassed this for sheer creative genius; and possibly never will.

[@twoeggcups]

Who actually produced this show? It looks like it was shot on film, so a full restoration is a possibility.

[@80ssynthfan48]

If it's Austrian TV then maybe it was produced by ORF.

[@josejones7025]

I saw this in Chicago

[@technopop1260]

graat technopop is kraftwerk😮😮😮

[@merseydave1]

I'm 17 all over again !!!

[@merseydave1]

After tour de France in 1983 (that was good) I stopped following them

[@kolbyte]

4:37 🤣

[@car-Stan835]

When you need a room to make music. Today a Laptop is enough ;)

[@ChrisSmith-lo2kp]

the Dusseldorf school of modern music

[@jdmcm.c579]

Florian ❤

[@thasinister]

Looks like they were in a hurry when performing Numbers!

[@GerkeRUS]

6:46 😮

[@adrianwoods7720]

The black community in the US was blastin this back in the 80's.

[@_ifstcuvifugig]

It's interesting that when people are talking about black music, electro and Detroit techno in the 80's completely fly under the radar.

[@adrianwoods7720]

@@_ifstcuvifugig Since Kraftwerk influenced Africa Bambatta with the haunting, futuristic apocalyptic rhythms and break dancers in the US danced to Kraftwerk at the time, Kraftwerk was considered to be part of the instrumental hip hop genre like this song - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYmzoaGdZsmEl8k.

[@illegalquantity]

I really don't understand why they did that. There were several black musicians who was inspired by the Kraftwerk's music.

[@jnnx]

Late 70’s was when they discovered “Numbers”, you just 2000, and LATE, SON!

[@vapeurdepisse]

Kraftwerk inspired the creation of hip hop and house in Detroit

[@CornishMotorcycleDiaries]

Good to hear the original German language versions of these. Pity about the editing.

[@uncooldispatch5438]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@astralpilot1]

❤❤❤

[@thesynthmanstreams]

Anyone have a translation of what's being said at 5:10?

[@barbarossa7231]

We call ourselves music workers

[@PlanetC64]

Ich bin so aufgeregt!!! (aber, ich bin Englisch)

[@H71BCD]

Can anyone identify the keyboard that Karl is using.

[@80ssynthfan48]

Could be custom made. I don't see any brand-distinctive marks or writing.

[@ThomasAllenMusikant]

Korg PS-3300 with custom keyboard

[@ManoeldaSilva-ty8bp]

Manoel da Silva da q Brasil do estado pernambucana do Recife e ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@josejones7025]

They mostly built their own instruments especially the percussion

[@netosilva2085]

São os Poneiros da Musica Eletrônica

[@Jakeman90210]

I like the part where it goes boop

[@ВиталийВоробей-й1п]

6:46 ..."Я твой слуга, Я твой работник"... Ну почему на русском ? Ай молодцы !

[@Steve-mp7by]

Now we must do the Sprockets dance!

[@paulcole1150]

2:35

[@josejones7025]

Would not want to be responsible for a complex stage set up

[@Richard.W7]

Gery Numan stole the style. 🙂

[@marcelbork92]

"Die Robotor" spielen sie zu langsam. Warum?

[@twinvasion7798]

🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻 🟥🟥🟥🟥 🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@Helderhugo]

🦾

[@thasinister]

Here is the full special: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXWYnJxsqbiMpbs

[@neosoul_1279]

삿솧항뎃엣섣동 인성힣 드러나눈게 플롤리앉은 민희 신디 내밀(?) 떄 많이 숙여주늕데 랊프는 않 글러넹용

[@zandarx]

tnere is no techno unless there iis Kraftwerk.

[@Papa-Anvil]

Too bad the rap community diluted Electronic music, ruined it actually!! This was pure genius!!!

[@a_nick_t]

Nonsense 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@femme-mirage]

True!!!

[@alfiekershaw2946]

i have to disagree mate, rap payed homage to kraftwerk in its early days, and it evolved and morphed as every genre does. admittedly i’m a bigger fan of kraftwerk than i am of rap but things change and that’s cool! kraftwerk were and always will be the godfathers of modern music.

[@johnstjohn6658]

EDM, Hip-Hop, House, New Wave, Freestyle,... Many genres owe parts of their starts to groups like Kraftwerk, YMO and the like.

[@allzverev]

@@johnstjohn6658 from that period the track "sharevari" comes to mind. it seems that "the dirt bombes" were inspired by kraftwerk also.

[@keithrenyard]

All pre-recorded, the rest is smoke and mirrors, discuss ...

[@futuristica1710]

Not true. Nothing to discuss. Move on.

[@leondego8445]

Horrible to hear for me

[@futuristica1710]

Ok, move on.

[@leondego8445]

@@futuristica1710 you should move on kiddo

[@uncooldispatch5438]

@@leondego8445so many trolls 🧌

[@leondego8445]

@@uncooldispatch5438 Can we still say what we think or is it forbidden?

[@sergiomiranda7141]

Que belleza