Kraftwerk - Live in Soest (Germany), November 1970

[@ricardozara]

This is one of the best video of the entire KZbin.

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

Its the dawn of electronic music...But nobody there knows it...Some leave immediately,,,some feel it right away, while others struggle to understand the new sounds with open ears and minds. Its amazing to watch the primordial ooze of future music evolve. Nobody knew what a waveform was...but there they are embracing it. This is an amazing film.

[@darrenbetts2987]

Tangerine Dream formed in 1967. So about 3 years before these guys, but yes it’s much older than most realise.

[@angelakiisk6356]

I agree with you. with that, this is just the case when you can say that the DJ is playing, and really... English is not my native language, and so I'm not sure if my previous thought was correctly written ...)

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

@@angelakiisk6356 Yes. Real music performed by true artists of analog sounds. Did I read you correctly?

[@angelakiisk6356]

Yes that's right

[@xXfrankreynolds69Xx]

only really the drums are good. the sy th stuff sucks.

[@zorglub667]

loving the audience wide "WTF are these sounds?" reaction. kraftwerk were true pioneers.

[@Jauuneken_Presseeyadoh]

Heard this sound in after-school specials also in.influences by electronic artists like Boards of Canada aphex twin

[@johcafra]

And at about 16:43 Ruckzuck was where it all began for me. I frankly hadn't expected to hear it again nearly 50 years hence. Rave on, gents. Your music lives!

[@Steinwelt]

Sadly they stopped playing the pre Autobahn stuff

[@jonathanwaswrong3917]

I love how 98% of the crowd has no idea whats going on. Love the random stuff on the screen too... excellent. Good watch. Thank you! :3

[@carstenfrank3612]

My little hometown Soest was in the early 70ies every november the hotspot for new electronic sounds during Allerheiligenkirmes. I was too young that time, but it's a pity that this innovated, progressive music spot finished at the end of the 1970ies because of the costs.

[@billmcanally7782]

thanks for this info! sounds like a fun festival!

[@ericrhodes5174]

My prayers have been answered! There aren't enough live Kraftwerk videos of the 70's

[@beauarthur2617]

This is a pivotal moment in history, wow I am changed thank you

[@lr8786]

So glad you posted the full concert.

[@anaavila3825]

I love how even though people don’t quite understand what are they’re experiencing, they are fully immerse and engage with the show. Watch their reactions is so cool! Nowadays people would have more focused in streaming the show or just taking pictures / snaps that they don’t even would look at again...

[@FiglioBastardo]

Ringing even more true three years later...

[@benwesley5260]

This is what I imagine Voyager 1 listening to deep out in space right now. Being surrounded by deep space robots that communicate only through Kraftwerk.

[@davidperkins3621]

Raw Kraftwerk with instruments - awesome. Thank you

[@nickalkire1187]

And R.I.P., Florian

[@DrPeacockOfficial]

🙏🏻 legendary

[@Time4Technology]

What a time to be alive that must have been.

[@FiglioBastardo]

For real

[@JeffPDX]

A lot of these bands were around a lot earlier than we think. There are also Devo videos that are nearly as old. Confused audiences are funny and universal. Big love to the sharing people.

[@McLarenMercedes]

To my knowledge Devo first played at Kent State University campus in 1972 as "Sextet Devo". From 1974 to 1977 they began composing and performing their early material in local bars and such. But unlike the "confused audience" here the people at said bars which Devo played at pretty much showed their disapproval by throwing empty beer bottles at them and in one recorded 1977 gig they shocked the very puritan audience with their lyrics about sexual practices and the owner of the place pulled the plug on them and told them to "get the h*ll out of here!". My point is that there are *different kinds* of "confused audiences" Those who take it rather well and who react to it politely. Those who are openly hostile to anything which challenges their myopic minds. So no, I disagree to your notion that "confused audiences are funny and universal".

[@marioluizdesa]

After 8 endless minutes of oooings boooings zeeeiungs zoooings as well as other intracranial sounds the ultra-resilient audience starts to clap their hands - that's what seemed to be the unbelievable kick-off of the electronic music and the genesis of 2 geniuses, Klaus and Florian.

[@billmcanally7782]

i didn't hear any booing...the smoking/gum-chewing audience appeared (to me) to be quietly curious more than anything...

[@lowandodor1150]

Ralf and Florian.

[@boardcc]

I’ve recognised for years that the experience of unadulterated electronic music (or #techno) sends wild shivers down my spine and fits my timbre. It was also the favourite of my big father, and as a kid we would blitz through the English countryside with Yellow at full volume in his little sports car. I eventually moved to Berlin to immerse myself in the exotic beats of the time, improvised, twiddled and performed in repurposed bunkers and factories etc, but never stopped to consider the origins of this form. This footage arguably captures a turning point in those origins. · I think my subsequent love for Germany also has its roots here. A generation embracing pragmatic instincts, new modes of creation, technology, and new forms of expression, in a country learning to rebuild and understand its new self and its identity against the backdrop of a traumatic past. However, creativity is a great healer, a universal tool in bringing the commonalities of diverse mindsets and cultures together, making things happen, and overcoming trauma. This for me is an exquisite example of ‘pure creation’, thankfully saved from the ‘dust of the museum of music’, and a key piece of the puzzle I didn’t know I would find. xR

[@sam0xin]

So they’re not just pioneers of electronic music but genre of minimalism as well . And the evolution of Kraftwerk was amazing !

[@cymen1]

They were not pioneers, they continued what Tom Dissevelt and Dick Raaijmakers started.

[@Spiderhead1000]

This is outstanding. I'd seen a few clips but not the whole thing. Thank-you for posting it.

[@miguimau]

These "WTF should I do looking at each other" faces are gold.

[@FiglioBastardo]

🤣

[@tesscrochet9221]

Sólo por ver las caras de la gente merece la pena! 😅 Es la primera rave... Kraftwerk son la caña. Pioneros y padres de la música electrónica. Geniales!

[@Junon01]

Whoa, and I thought it was striking gold to find the 10 minute video of Ruckzuck. This is amazing.

[@lorenaelizabet6588]

Pensarán los q estaban ahí q eran espectadores del principio de la música electrónica y han escuchado como a evolucionado este estilo ahora ya viejitos

[@ogrebattle22763]

Early Kraftwerk.... this is some vintage video right here... CLASSIC......

[@lhyperboreen9716]

Finally i find it SINCE 2/3years AMAZING!!!!!!!! I’m crazy about it 😍😍

[@nickalkire1187]

R.I.P., Florian Schneider

[@tierearbeiten-nicht8833]

some people shouted "Aufhören" what means Stopp IT. In an old Kraftwerk interview Florian Schneider sayed about the time in the 70´s: we didn´t know what we´re doing.

[@juansanchez-wl2ow]

Una verdadera joya este video.

[@baronsaturday9529]

AMAZING!!!

[@claudio8695]

Wunderbar, amazing !!!

[@waynefoote3781]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!@ THANK YOU!

[@rderodolfo]

My dog reacts like that people when I play this session.

[@OldSchool-px1xk]

I was nine years old when this happened, at a time there wasn't a single German radio station on the air playing more than one hour of rock music per day! You had to listen to the Allied army stations wanna hear the good stuff. Looking back it feels strange and sad at the sa time, realizing how old I have become - and, probably a lot of these people in the vid might already have passed away. Listening to all the crap of today it make me even more sick. But we can't stay young for good.

[@MarkoMagic]

You lived through the golden age my friend. Coming from an 18 year old, this planet is doomed

[@eltfell]

I was born that year, about 70 km southwest from that place.

[@billmcanally7782]

time for a walk-about OldSchool!

[@alanburns538]

WOW! Where did this come from? Never thought I'd hear any concert-length performances from before the 1971 bootlegs. Amazing! Thank you!

[@tommygunx]

you're welcome!

[@carstenfrank3612]

That was in my little hometown Soest during Allerheiligenkirmes in november. Crazy what hapoened that time there in my little 40.000 inhabitants city.

[@FiglioBastardo]

Finding it today, eight years after you uploaded it and bleeping, blopping my fucking mind. Grazie mille!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love your work!!

[@Tom-Lahaye]

That's the first time I've heard an overdriven violin, being plucked and strummed rather than played with a bow, it is played solo around 30:25

[@GibsonVienna]

Heard a similar yrs ago live on a Led Zeppelin Coverband. Violin can really go Rock.

[@FreemanVLD]

Thank you for posting this amazing video

[@RED_indiemusic]

Time travel does exist....it's in the music.

[@frankenjstein9371]

I was two months old when this happened.

[@XanderEwald]

For context, this show took place almost one hundred years after the construction of the first synthesizer, the "Musical Telegraph". Kraftwerk did not invent electronic music, but stood on the shoulders of four generations of musicians, composers, and engineers who created the genre and introduced it to an audience. When Kraftwerk began, they could already go to the store and buy a Minimoog. Also, there is a fair chance that the parents of the people in the crowd already attended electronic concerts as youngsters, so they might not have been as mindblown as we like to think they were.

[@euroyen420]

There's definitely someone in the crowd that the acid was just kicking in, with the intro pitch bends...😀

[@billmcanally7782]

maybe that guy blowing the whistle...and that rag-doll sitting in her boyfriend's lap...but did not appear to be an "acid" crowd...

[@lhyperboreen9716]

I love it It bring be back to time 🔊😍🔊😍

[@solofemaleraver]

Thank you for the upload!

[@saulhernandez403]

QUE VÍDEO TAN MAS LEJENDARIO , INCREÍBLE

[@jasonmullaley3234]

Amazing way ahead of time

[@lancependergrass415]

Amazing seeing these guys at this point, that being said, I hope somebody got that kid with the whistle and dragged him outside and whooped his ass

[@Sarke2]

Thsi is amazing, thanks on share :)

[@analoguebetter8235]

'Ruckzuck' played live is immense

[@hellblauauge]

15.11.1970,also available as a colorvideo.

[@andreagirolami6869]

37:05 “Improvisation” First act of ambient music

[@arranger1977]

allein, dass die menschen das konzert nicht verlassen haben ist schon bewundernswert. ;))) nerdy, crazy, geeky, freaky

[@pluxauag7555]

I'm hearing techno music in 1970 well that experiment was 20 years ahead of its time at 10mins 20 it starts

[@BuddieOLLi]

Meine Kindheit. Schien aber wichtig zu sein da das Deutsche Fernsehen da war. Was das angeht: da waren wir in 🇩🇪 richtig gut versorgt, es gab viele Top Acts im TV zu sehen

[@flufycat2748]

Amazing! Like begining of Universe.

[@felipegordillo6217]

Hermoso!

[@IR-fl2tl]

Listen for spongebob at 0:30

[@morningcoffeecat2271]

hahaha

[@minginify]

Meanwhile across the Atlantic Disco, uppers and dancing was in full swing.

[@udosawinski5550]

Schade, da war ich nicht dabei. Ein einzigartiges Dokument und echt genial, was 1970 möglich war. Mit Autobahn wurde Kraftwerk 1974 uninteressant, zumindest für mich damals. In der Rückschau sind auch die Platten nach Ralf & Florian wegweisend und einzigartig.

[@Radobilly]

So thats where the dial up modem got its sounds from

[@awrogers3013]

The introduction to the world of Klaus Dinger…….

[@ndn1077]

outstanding

[@ГошаОнжегога-п8ы]

Супер крутяк.неожидал.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@maxinemckenzie5765]

Welcome to the (Retro) Future! These were new sounds then, only Wendy Carlos and Silver Apples maybe predate this. Fantastiche!

[@Timmybear]

I lived in Soest in those days (though I was 3.5 when this was filmed). Wonder where in the town they were playing?

[@Omskanielar]

War auf scheinbar an Kirmes (Karussell der Jugend am Bahnhof), kann also durchaus sein, dass es die Location niemals "fest" gab... Ich frage mich, ob meine Mutter da war :D

[@sebastianp4411]

Müsste im Schlachthof gewesen sein.

[@ikaiko8342]

Der Schlachthof würde sich anbieten und war auch mein erster Gedanke. Sieht man sich das Video jedoch an, scheint es tatsächlich ein riesiges Zelt zu sein, welches extra für die Allerheiligenkirmes 1970 und die Veranstaltung "Karussell der Jugend" aufgebaut wurde: www.wa.de/kultur/kraftwerk-soest-konzertmitschnitte-karussell-jugend-1970-internet-3522483.html

[@radic888]

I would love to know more about this concert. Like, why were there so many cameras? Did the audience pay for the concert? Was Kraftwerk well-known?

[@TraciSundari]

theres just one word for the kraft cooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!😎😎😎😎

[@bahmnphi2]

The evolution of electronic music was from here.

[@XanderEwald]

This happened almost one century after electronic music history began, it already stands on the shoulders of four generations of musicians and engineers.

[@nightporter3039]

i can't believe that someone has been so 'brave to see this video from' beginning to end? I would like to know!

[@uliboge]

The thing is not watching it, its the listening.

[@nightporter3039]

i tried ...... but I did not succeed !

[@jacobtoedtman1417]

thats okay

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

Ive listened to it 9 times with good headphones. Each time i find something new. Like watching Courage the cowardly dog... This is like witnessing evolution..like when dinosaurs broke off into birds..i have an analog synth i play to this when im stoned..Its like a brain blender....

[@gorankopcic7827]

I've been listening Kraftwerk for 40 years... What's 45 minutes more...?

[@len1234567890]

GEWELDIG

[@guariba63]

The Most Free Jazz....

[@jdalbiac]

Some of it sounds a bit Miles Davis-y, circa On The Corner

[@wordscontrolminds]

+J. Thomas Rae yeah...much prefer the throbbing gristly bits!

[@anthonyroberts5052]

i'm sure someones already said this but 20 years to soon!!

[@user-brick_norgald]

Time Tables 0:37 Stratovarius 16:43 Ruckzuck 27:23 Heavy Metal Kids 37:12 Megaherz

[@Daniel_EDDA]

"Marty, das war eine sehr interessante Musik!"

[@theunifiedfield.]

Our bass player wrote this!

[@jonathanwaswrong3917]

TheUnifiedField, hahahahahahahahahahah

[@jonathanwaswrong3917]

TheUnifiedField, PS i guarantee not enough people got the spinal tap reference... im... going to go watch that entire movie...

[@naranjojo]

Puppenspiel und Kraftwerk!

[@cyclestart_youtube_sosi_drova]

Ох.уеть! Почему я раньше не слышал?! Это прородители всея электронной музыки!

[@augustineleudar]

The first rave ?

[@zemzela]

Is that Klaus Schulze in the audience?

[@DaemonWeiss]

Jep

[@realAmigo77]

krasse sache man

[@MichaelSalmons64]

EDM invented at 13:48.

[@chetrok1]

Michael Salmons edm is new age trash

[@baladar1353]

chetrok1 You mean Electronic Dance Music??? I thought it was invented when the first guitar amplifier was overdriven...

[@finaldestination5847]

The music you are listening has nothing to do with the pictures you see... the music is from 1971 recorded in Bremen !!

[@sorayaman]

that's probably the reason why you hear and see the whistle-blower

[@hansdado]

Ohhh

[@UberSynth]

If you don't know wtf to do... Just clap 👏 Peace ✌️ out people

[@billmcanally7782]

great document! thoroughly enjoyed! thanks for posting!...couple of things: do not believe the first track is "Stratovarius", I think they mixed it up, Florian is playing the flute, he picks up his violin for the third track; and...what is that instrument Ralf has strapped over his shoulder for the first track?, interesting!

[@mariohasudungan9620]

It's called tubon

[@dreamspeeddsp-musik932]

Ist Dinger bei Kraftwerk doch Urvater des Techno?

[@marklines2599]

@ 16:44 what's that song? Should know...

[@coenruijs7140]

Mark Lines The song they play at that point is Ruckzuck.

[@C.Hawkshaw]

I’ve never wanted to go to Germany before. Now I do. Although l’m sure it’s not the same.

[@augustineleudar]

whats the track called at 22:30 ?

[@steved2667]

01. Introduction / Stratovarius 16:44 02. Ruckzuck 10:41 03. Heavy Metal Kids 9:48 04. Improvisation 10:42

[@baladar1353]

Steve D I think you were a bit high when you wrote this list.

[@davideveson7531]

Klaus dinger on drums.

[@krollpeter]

16:50

[@marklines2599]

Wunderbar...the bemusement and apathy on the faces of the crowd is classic...anti muzik...mind you they were probably all so stoned it didn't matter...

[@ГеоргийМаксимовский]

Mark Lines The audience actually looks so much more alive than they were during performance by Can at the same place

[@darthdeluxe_1]

The hole crowd inkl the Band is on acid :-)

[@scottlarson1548]

Very typical of audiences at the time. Amazing that some people were even clapping to the music.

[@smiley5ize]

What is that instrument at 1:20?

[@billmcanally7782]

yeah, good question, I was wondering, too...I found images of 'keytars', but nothing that looked like that...and there is 'syntar'...maybe Ralf made it?

[@billmcanally7782]

just found it! wikipaedia, a Tubon electric organ, "made by Swedish factory Joh Mustad AB in 1966".

[@billmcanally7782]

just found it!...it's a Tubon electric organ, apparently rare!

[@mattizchilled4041]

sounds like a mix of what it predicted as of todays electronic music

[@jaysunbrady]

Did kids not get spots back in them days?

[@narfvader8651]

Wow.. Imagine a time travel, handing over these guys a kaoss pad and some other stuff from today.. Btw if you wonder.. At 19.00 the screen says "support the economy, christmas more often"

[@joetoetjube]

Going to a concert wearing a suit and smoking pipe, remembers me of: the fact that I'm getting old

[@gheorghathus]

Show ou tortura ?

[@MichaelDietz-n9s]

Soest 15. November 1970.

[@DrAtmo]

ich bin erstaunt dass die Leute so lange durchgehalten haben und nicht gegangen sind. Der eine hat sich schon die Ohren zugehalten. Aber es gab schon einige gute Stellen / Ideen.

[@honkforpeace007]

18:55 "Unterstützt die Wirtschaft-öfter mal Weihnachten" Man hatte Humor...