Wolfgang was in the band for about a week at this point, and he built the drum pads 3 days before this performance. I read about this on his biography. He goes in depth about the concerts
@illegalquantity2 ай бұрын
Wolfgang was a carpet maker and a drummer. I don't think he made this electronic drum. But he obviously contributed to its development with his ideas.
@jhillst15 жыл бұрын
This version is actually a hybrid of Heimatklänge and Tanzmusik. The backing chords and flute notes are from Heimatklänge (which is a much mellower song) while the keyboard melody and electronic drums are from Tanzmusik. Very cool how they could combine these two songs into one.
@TheEFTuner12 жыл бұрын
they are the fathers of 'Techno' 'Electronic' styles, i m sure there could be others too, but these guys have strange melody, no matter what decade you are, even 1970 doesn't matter, it yields to every generation and my favorite is the vocoder part. Their experiments can be used as lessons in today's world for making melodious stuff. thx for this upload and thx Kraftwerk, love your music always :)
@paul69258 жыл бұрын
I love their little neon signs. I want one to hang in my living room.
@toml30398 жыл бұрын
+Paul M Wouldn't people think it weird if you had another dude's name up in neon in your living room?
@pankaburek593 жыл бұрын
@@toml3039 i think him said wrong he want has own one with his namr
@murielsartre12 жыл бұрын
Florian really is an excellent flautist. I wish he still played it.
@danielmalm36013 жыл бұрын
kinda dead now though Vila i frid
@pegna74042 жыл бұрын
Now he's playing harp
@caoimhec76979 жыл бұрын
Schneider's flute-work is beautiful
@JorgeClar10 жыл бұрын
This is the best video EVER. Everything about it is so gloriously pleasing. Everyone looks wonderful. The typography at the end of the show is amazing. So classic! And Wolfgang is the most beautiful man...
@JorgeClar8 жыл бұрын
+Zeta 21 Gaming ;) He is handsome too, but I adore Wolfgang playing the homemade drum pad.
@evilrobottolhurst9 жыл бұрын
Ralf with long hair and Florian with *any* hair! Plus Wolfgang "the Ringo Starr of Kraftwerk" Flür (quote: Wolfgang Flür) looking like a Thunderbirds puppet playing a biscuit tin lid. And it's a classically beautiful variation on the album version with shades of "Tongebirge"... The speaker sounds *very* like the voices of "News" from "Radio-Activity" - maybe the style of voice of news radio at the time. Except the Bavarian one. ;)
@ronniebillhicks3 жыл бұрын
Wholely shnickies,...... informative shpeel,.....thanks for that,.....
@martinkooistra78674 жыл бұрын
It's wonderful to listen how their music developed from the very experimental, but fascinating 'Tone Float' to this song, which is quite reminiscent of the master piece that was to follow. But what makes this video great is that it shows their already elaborate use of electronics. Just look at the number of cables and sockets they had to use for this! And Wolfgang Flür had \joined the group by this time!
@2glenside17 жыл бұрын
What a gem - you can always come back to these guys and enjoy their stuff as if you were hearing it for the first time!
@kirsten88910 жыл бұрын
Yeah Florian! You kick ass with that flute!
@enicds4 жыл бұрын
感谢你对现代电子乐带来的贡献 R.I.P Florian Schneider
@dmcinnis233 жыл бұрын
There are people ahead of their time...and then there are people like this.
@Burnrae13 жыл бұрын
What an amazing piece of history. This is the exact television appearance that wolfgang flur talked about in his book. It's a truly great experience to see what they really preformed like before they became famous.
@michelleyy1312 жыл бұрын
I can't even imagine hearing this if I was alive in 1973. My brain would have imploded.
@croiners41666 ай бұрын
I heard Autobahn when it came out and I’m still here!❤
@undergroundwarrior706 жыл бұрын
During that time period, to me Ralf looked like Walter "Radar" O'Reilly with long hair, and Florian looked like Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce from MASH. But back then I smoked a lot of weed during those days when I was a teen listening to Kraftwerk in the early mid 70's. And of course their albums after Autobahn.
@fuckingharpsichord11 жыл бұрын
Just realising : at 3:50 how Ralf mutes the beautiful drone the Minimoog produces almost the entire song, giving the bass for this amazing song. Kraftwerk, heros since my four years old, thank you.
@sdl-ep2gd4 жыл бұрын
RIP, Florian Schneider.
@kraftpunk866210 жыл бұрын
wolfgang...... you rock that moustache
@jesterface6910 жыл бұрын
so young and confused
@OZRIC198513 жыл бұрын
I didn't even realize that there were already electronic drum pads in 1973! These guys were cutting edge pioneers of electronic music! This song reminds me of stuff that my friends and I used to create when jamming in the 80s and 90s. It trips me out to hear this early stuff that sounds so much like music that I use to create years ago. I had heard of Kraftwerk in the early 80s, but I had maybe only heard one of their songs until now. :-o
@t3l3fragged10 жыл бұрын
wonderful traditional german music!
@namaste9116 жыл бұрын
I get Goosebumps when I hear this Song! Man, it's so wonderful!
@c.trottavonsipolje30295 жыл бұрын
Deutsche Folklore.
@CatPlusIT Жыл бұрын
Ja
@BarneySaysHi14 жыл бұрын
Wow, this music made all my thoughts go blank, just by listening to it and watching the clip. Absolutely amazing music.
@galasydney12 жыл бұрын
They are beautiful.
@josejones7025Ай бұрын
When they were young very handsome dudes
@googleygareth11 жыл бұрын
Love this. Been into kraftwerk since i was fourteen (now 47) and never seen such an early performance. Pure quality.
@mikew400116 жыл бұрын
It's young Wolfgang Flür, their long-time electronic drummer until 1990, who had just joined the duo after the recording of their "Ralf & Florian" album in 1973.
@SirHawkeyeWho15 жыл бұрын
Florian showing off his epic flute playing. Kraftwerk vermisse dich, Florian ='[
@wilfriedhaas41272 жыл бұрын
was für Genies. Ich liebte sie damals al 17-jähriger und liebe sie heute mit 66, so wie meinen damaligen Kumpel Jürgen Körner (Hattie) RIP, Hattie.
@emdotambient17 жыл бұрын
I love all their stuff, but this is from my favorite period of theirs. Thanks for posting. Too bad it wasn't longer!
@TheForkedtoungue12 жыл бұрын
That suit that Florian is wearing is brilliant. The musical note on the lapel, awesome musicians with a sense of humor.
@craigtempleton60404 жыл бұрын
RIP Florian
@Stereolabdream17 жыл бұрын
I fell in love recently. And you know what, this is what it felt like.Love made sound.
@andybyron15 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's pretty special. The MOST inspirational band of all time as of now.
@levesquezz8 жыл бұрын
YEAH WE GET IT FLORIAN YOU CAN PLAY FLUTE
@kamalmanzukie8 жыл бұрын
lol
@JorgeSantos-ik4qq4 жыл бұрын
Yes Xavier Levesque, Florian CAN play flute. And you, what can you do besides trolling on the internet?
@levesquezz4 жыл бұрын
@Halliwellsson sorry florian... rip :(
@lucanale48363 жыл бұрын
Flute was the first instrument play by ralf
@XQL14 жыл бұрын
Really incredible! So along ago, a great part of future was written by them, almost anonimously... Nowadays we can see a bit of the primary effects of the progression, evolution, the development of th recorded idea, the initial concept, fist steps of the these big dream called 'Future'... Exequiel from Buenos Aires, Argentina
@Informatisse15 жыл бұрын
They are like beautiful extra-terrestrial playing a cosmic music. 5 stars !
@nikamota16 жыл бұрын
The further back in time i go listening to Kraftwerk songs,the more ahead of their time they become!!! Just awe inspiring! Music without melody is nothing. Kraftwerk ARE melody!!
@voderick14 жыл бұрын
Yes remember that this was -73 they had the music in their heads. but no electronic equipment was available. so they built thier own machines! outstanding :) sweden fan
@matthewnewton7967 жыл бұрын
The best video on KZbin.....
@peterheatley767012 жыл бұрын
A justopoxition of modern and classical way ahead for its time. Carry on the good Werk's
@warminator109113 жыл бұрын
Ich bin so dankbar für diesen Ausschnitt. ich hatte die Platte damals "Ralf & Florian" in der Hand und dummerweise wieder ins Regal gestellt. Heute kann ich mich dafür ohrfeigen.
@zarzis35664 жыл бұрын
FLORIAN!!! GENIO!
@V00Rozen14 жыл бұрын
beautiful...
@Diskoboy197413 жыл бұрын
The true originators of circuit bending. Germany, thank you for sharing Kraftwerk with the rest of the world! :)
@3salamanders15 жыл бұрын
Oh, cool. This is by far the earliest work of theirs I've seen. Love the early electronic drums! I didn't know they existed that early.
@JannemanVaarwater16 жыл бұрын
They just did it back then - There still doing it right now Kraftwerk is amazing!
@3salamanders15 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I became a fan in the early 80s when I was in high school, but just found a video from 1971. It was fantastic!! I'm going to explore the earlier work more.
@AywillbeFayed13 жыл бұрын
Woooot? Florian playing an ACOUSTIC flute? Thanks for sharing such historic testimony.
@homonovus613 жыл бұрын
The first works needed to jump into the future, I loved them so much when I was very young
@FLIP-Brazegalyx9 жыл бұрын
1:11 It's the father's skrillex
@Xhanoir8 жыл бұрын
+flip2000 SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UP!!. Nah seriously that was the first thing that crossed my mind... ew...
@Bizarronumber416 жыл бұрын
I had their 'Rolf & Florian' album with this track on cassette in 1979. Great stuff.
@Stereolabdream16 жыл бұрын
The juxtoposition of Florian's flute with the beat and the electronic piano is beautiful-as it is at the end of the "First movement" of Autobahn.
@VerninTheRat13 жыл бұрын
That's quite the lil drumset there. He loves it! ^_^
@LOVE-gi5wh4 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Artist
@TheMonolith7515 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I came across this video...This gives me a whole new perspective on Kraftwerk...I just rediscovered them all over again!!...Beautiful!... Just beautiful!! Thanks for uploading this!!...
@dootraanougat14 жыл бұрын
an incredible creative moment in time, refining and defining their future sound, whats so magical is its kind of wagnerian and childlike at the same time..sublime genius, understated and yet epic..and what the future would bring in terms of influencing future generations x
@nadolik6 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing...
@wesmatron13 жыл бұрын
The beauty in the science of music. These guys are legendary.
@patty27084 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Florian
@eidodk12 жыл бұрын
True Pioneers, worlds first pure techno band.
@puffadder018 жыл бұрын
such a cool drum machine.
@SinceTheBeatdown15 жыл бұрын
Beautiful......great music and great footage. Thanks for posting this.
@Flatlift-TV-Lift-systems16 жыл бұрын
This was the beginning of electronic and technosound which was made in Germany. In time of Abba and other folksmusic in the 70s, Kraftwerk shows new ways of music and this was the base for todays electronic clubmusic. Thanks to Kraftwerk for this beautiful revolutionary music style!
@frompixieland18 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting it!I wish I had seen it years ago.Greetins from Madrid
@logica1014 жыл бұрын
Excellent. A piece of history for the generations to come.
@toouuyy17 жыл бұрын
as soon as i heard this it became a favourite. genius
@soundscapenyc15 жыл бұрын
the original pioneers of electronic music. these guys defined a genre. pure genius.
@blapo3816 жыл бұрын
Amazing audio and video quality. And amazing drum kit as well :-) Thanx for posting.
@Erik_The_Viking15 жыл бұрын
You're definitely right on with that description. Interesting to see such old footage.
@kriskina13 жыл бұрын
Awesome, beautiful track.
@RoehrenFan14 жыл бұрын
Das ist ein Beispiel für absolute richtungsweisende musikalische Kunst..... Wunderbar, gehört zu meiner Jugend wie zum momentanen Dasein..... geil, einfach geil.....
@dlaureano15 жыл бұрын
Awesome! This is the embryo of the amazing music we call 'eletronic' today! it's history!
@diskochimp16 жыл бұрын
Incredible clip. Thanks for posting.
@tacomadc12 жыл бұрын
This really sounds nice actually! They played lots of flute and steel guitar in those days - amazing the sounds they still got!
@SuperLjubic13 жыл бұрын
ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS....All started here and never stoped... still dancing
@beholderppf17 жыл бұрын
music that comes into your soul. Kraftwerk one of the the best forever.Fathers of electronic music.
@Thorpean17 жыл бұрын
so far ahead of their time! Best German music ever! Danke!!
@franckmimix89148 ай бұрын
Étonnant débuts 😊
@jesaja53fem12 жыл бұрын
Well,we don't dissagree,I was just amazed of finding the source to the beat that was bouncin' trough all the early 80's post-punk! :-)
@organfairy17 жыл бұрын
The first commersially available drum machine was from the late 50's. It was controlled by a mechanical "sequencer" (like a washing machine) and was called the "Wurlitzer SideMan". Hammond made their first organ drum machine in the late 60's and Yamaha had key operated drum sound on their organ models D-2B and D-7 from 1967.
@Martijnnaber12 жыл бұрын
He actually played electronic synthesis-flutes on The Robots. That main melody was done on an old version of an akai Electronic flute.
@chbtrucker14 жыл бұрын
@electro257 Thanx for enlightening me, I never heard this before. I grew up in the 80's listening to rap and in the 90's electronica. This music explains a lot. Im a new fan of the talented KW.
@Apolo-Rocks11 жыл бұрын
Simply BRILLANT. Kraftwerk was (i will be) GREAT forever. Thanks for share it. +10!
@mycuff213 жыл бұрын
these guys were the pioneers of most electronic music you hear today, including some electronic instruments such as electronic drum pads and sequencing!
@HHG_BREEDINGGROUND14 жыл бұрын
The four of them had those blue neon name signs on the stage when they played my high school in 1975.
@apollodave65412 жыл бұрын
Yep, thats exactly what Kraftwerk means. I first heard Autobahn, in the early '70s, and have been an electronic music fan ever since.
@bleclercq15 жыл бұрын
Magnifique!!! Merci.
@tie3210116 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk are the fathers of electronic music. no madder what they play or write the compositions are just a piece of art.
@julieboyce46148 ай бұрын
Beautiful Guiness and very well done 🎉❤❤❤
@DaftJarre15 жыл бұрын
The piano sound is produced by the Farfisa Electric Piano, and the other keyboard I think it's Minimoog synthesizer! ;)
@puzzud6 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I was wondering what that keyboard is. Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark use it on Loud and Clear.
@giupix56616 жыл бұрын
I kraftwerk sono semplicemente sublimi
@platinkippe12 жыл бұрын
Ein wundervolles Stück deutsche Musikgeschichte! Hamma!!!
@Cyberdruide14 жыл бұрын
so muss das klingen.... einfach nur genial.
@damienrecords_6664 жыл бұрын
RIP, FLORIAN
@MichelleTamezPerez4 жыл бұрын
RIP Florian.
@RodCornholio16 жыл бұрын
WAY ahead of their time. WOW some of that electronic gear is homemade, you can tell by looking. Cutting edge for 1973. Some of their music STILL sounds like it is from the future.
@SalAzad13 жыл бұрын
When my fellow American's talk about the great contributions to world culture from France, or Italy, I can only shake my head and think about Kraftwerk, Shopenhauer, Gropius/Bauhaus, Beethoven, Benz, Gutenberg, Leibniz and the countless others who make Germany an inspiration to all
@Tantejay10 жыл бұрын
Das waren noch Zeiten, wo man die Musik noch *erklärt* hatte.... Kann sich jemand vorstellen, irgendwas von Miley Cyrus zu erklären? :)
@ducarvalho11 жыл бұрын
I dont believe 40 years has already passed by.... and I still love this vinil a lot.