Kraftwerk - Live in Vienna 2024

Kraftwerk live at Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria
July 6th, 2024
2024 World Tour
Audience Recording (my own recording)
Recording quality: A-~
Attendance: ~10.000
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00:00 Pre Show Sounds
10:03 Meine Damen Und Herren
10:36 Nummern
14:49 Computerwelt
19:19 Heimcomputer
26:18 The Man Machine
31:25 Computerliebe
37:24 Autobahn
46:12 Geigerzähler
46:43 Radioaktivität
53:14 Tour De France
57:23 Chrono
59:30 Etape 2
1:04:30 Trans Europa Express
1:12:18 Spacelab
1:17:17 Die Roboter
1:24:30 La Forme
1:30:49 Régéneration
1:31:21 Planet Of Visions
1:35:46 Music Non Stop
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After five years, Kraftwerk finally played another concert in Vienna, Austria. It was speculated that they would perform a special projection show at a sight of Vienna like in Athens and in Karlsruhe. Out of the many sights where such shows are possible, they chose Schloss Schönbrunn as the venue, or the Ehrenhof of Schloss Schönbrunn to be exact. Unlike many concerts in Germany, this one got slowly sold out, if not at all. According to Austrian press, more or less than 10.000 attendees appeared at the concert, which was not to be expected because of the slow sellout.
Due to the late sunset, the concert had to be postponed from 8:30 PM to 9:15 PM. The exact reason for the delay wasn't stated. It could be due to hot temperatures, but it was tolerably warm outside. On the other side, the projections would be disrupted by sunlight which explains the delay. The setlist suffered from the delay too. Neonlicht, Das Model, Ätherwellen, Tango and maybe Taschenrechner... these songs that they regularly play in 2020s concerts were sadly skipped. It is known that Viennese people are grumpy and a few residents who live near the venue complained about the loud music in comment sections of online boulevard newspapers. Not only local people, but people from around the world attended the performance. Some of the foreign people were Germans of which most of them missed the opportunity to buy tickets of the gig in Dresden.
One of the attendees was me. I was excited because of seeing Kraftwerk live and nervous because of the potential conditions at the venue at the same time. The first obstacle was the venue entrance. I was worried that the security would be strict, but they were instead friendly. It was allowed to record on phones and someone even smuggled a digital camera in. Finding the reserved seat on the other hand was not easy. Few attendees occupied the wrong seats, but shortly before the concert started, they took their correct seats.
At exactly 9:15 PM, the pre show sounds creeped in. The crowd's enthusiasm was high. Ten minutes later, the introduction kicked in and the show began with Nummern afterwards. For Nummern and Computerwelt, big numbers were set up in front of the stage that glow when specifically triggered. A few samples were possibly altered with a vocoder. In Computerwelt, Ralf's suit began to glitch during the entire concert. The Speak & Spell samples were muted. Heimcomputer and The Man Machine were performed as typically. A new bassline got introduced in Computerliebe that has simillarities to the one in the 2006 version.
In Autobahn, the synth that is responsible for the Doppler effect was muted as well and in Radioaktivität, Henning accidentely pressed the wrong keys at beginning. There's nothing special in Tour De France, Chrono and Etape 2 except that Ralf played the intro to early. Although Spacelab is not their best song, its projections contained marvellous eye candy. It did not only display the venue, but also Vienna's skyline during the break. Die Roboter followed up and then a surprise. La Form and Régéneration were included in the setlist which they rarely are. In my opinion, most of the tracks on the TDF soundtracks album are not for proper listening, but they fit perfectly as background music and especially for cycling. Planet Of Visions is more for dancing.
The show ended with Music Non Stop. Only few clapped for Georg, even though he did more for the projections in a year than Falk did in nine years. Falk's solo was mediocre. In Nummern, he was on high performance as it could be heard in the percussions and then, his performance slowly decreased like a battery. Henning did well as always. He often changes things up a bit like with the bass in Computerlove and that's good. Ralf did his melodical part and sang through his vocoder. He bowed to the audience and left the stage, and the concert ended.
Ein HERRRRRRRRLICHES Konzert!!!
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For the case nobody else does it, I took the opportunity to record the whole show on an old, unused smartphone that records every frequency that humans can hear at best. It has distortions and cloth friction noise, but is still enjoyable. This time, I didn't do a home remaster.
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[@etc834]

La Forme is a rare performance. And no one recorded it in the LA gigs in good quality. Thanks for attending this great show and recording!

[@thomasreiche6221]

Sorry, but this was the worst performance of La Forme I have ever attended. Sound was terrible and Ralf wasn't even able to play the simple melody correctly.

[@leogoulart7229]

31:34 Computer Loves`s Rhythm pattern went back to 2010`s standards.

[@crowblunt536]

in Autobahn, Ralf's synth already started having technical difficulties and it changes to strings with organs

[@KanalvogtSG]

It seems like Ralf uses an universal synth instead of different synths for each song. He doesn't use a saw wave or other fitting waveform, but the string he also uses as the main synth for the vocoder, I suppose. At least his vocals improved significantly.

[@crowblunt536]

@@KanalvogtSG i agree, almost any song they played has that string synth he loves to use and play with it, what bothers me is that his vocoder kept fading sometimes especially during Man Machine.

[@LoviGabi]

The funniest thing was the entrance to the concert, I showed the QR codes from my phone and the ticket inspector said "I see that's 1-1 QR code, okay, you can go in" all without a scanner... well, okay.

[@pmcyprys]

1. Pre-Show Sounds / Meine Damen und Herren 2. Nummern / Computerwelt 3. It's More Fun to Compute / Heimcomputer 4. Die Mensch-Maschine 5. Computerliebe 6. Autobahn 7. Geigerzähler / Radioaktivität 8. Tour de France '83 / '03 9. Trans Europa Express / Metall auf Metall / Abzug 10. Spacelab 11. Die Roboter 12. La Forme / Régéneration 13. Planet der Visionen 14. Boing Boom Tschak / Music Non Stop

[@DanielBrzezniak]

It's a shame the concert was shorter. I hope you enjoyed it anyway. 😎

[@KanalvogtSG]

Yeah, it was glorious!

[@DanielBrzezniak]

@@KanalvogtSG Hopefully it won't be like that in Dresden. It will be my first Kraftwerk concert.

[@KanalvogtSG]

@@DanielBrzezniak I'm sure it won't. The late sunset was the culprit for the delay and the shorter setlist, but this will not happen in September.

[@DanielBrzezniak]

@@KanalvogtSG From the outset, the concert should not have been held in July when it is still light for a long time. I don't think that was properly considered. 🤔 But I am optimistic that it will not be like that in Dresden, because the concert is scheduled to start during sunset. 😌

[@DanielBrzezniak]

@@KanalvogtSG As far as I understood, they were only allowed to play until 11 p.m.

[@KraftwerkArchives]

"Someone even smuggled in a digital camera" Any idea who this was?

[@KanalvogtSG]

There was someone with such camera sitting in front of me filming the entire concert, but I don't know who that person is.

[@KraftwerkArchives]

​@@KanalvogtSG Someone I know recorded video of the concert. Maybe it was them. Unfortunately I haven't gotten a copy of their recording yet