The pioneers of techno and electropop. Kraftwerk inspired and influenced generations of bands and musicians.
@diehandgottes6721
Ай бұрын
I include Tangerine Dream in that, and I think they were around earlier. But I like both groups TD even more.
@Mrowiec
3 жыл бұрын
The instruments they're using here are not laptops or synths, but a mix of various electronic instruments compiled into one custom-made package: various types of synthesisers, sequencers, custom-made miniature keyboard, effects processors, samplers and laptops. This live vid was taken from their "Minimum Maximum" DVD (I'd recommend "Radioaktivitaet" or "Die Mensch Maschine" from it btw). If you'll continue reacting to songs from that release you'll see some better shots at what they're doing (for that you may want to check out the song titled "Autobahn"). I've never seen any reactions before to Kraftwerk btw (I don't really like reaction vids in general tbh), but it was a nice experience to check this one out. I'd wish only for more commentary about the song, but that would fall into reaction/review category I suppose? Anyway, it was nice seeing that people are still enjoying Kraftwerk (which is my 2nd fav band btw). Cheers!
@chrisguevara
3 жыл бұрын
I've seen them live and they can jam on those machines. So the music is "performed" live.
@kraftwerklover69
2 жыл бұрын
Ralf does use an analog synth, but nowdays even a 100 euro phone can simulate any synth that ever existed.
@lalocompi
3 жыл бұрын
The influence of Kraftwerk can be seen in a wide spectrum of musicians, from David Bowie to bands like Rammstein.
@freudsigmund72
3 жыл бұрын
the album Computerworld was released in 1981,.... imagine the bold statements made back then
@Ron-pe8zt
Жыл бұрын
Nothing was cooler back in the day dark dank underground clubs playing Kraftwerk and deep German techno..maybe some KMFDM. Lord I miss those days.
@Nidels
Жыл бұрын
In fact they play live. They generally manipulate sounds and effects. If you compare this song with other concerts of the same tour in other countries, you will see that it never sounds the same and that they improvise both sounds and effects continuously. As for the languages of numbers, I think they are English, French, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and German.
@frankj10000
3 жыл бұрын
Both songs are from the 1981 album Computer World. They had another really great song on that album (Computer Love) that was about online dating (in 1981!)
@ZondaFRoadster
3 жыл бұрын
The statement in this song was so far ahead of it's time, and frighteningly relevant in this day and age. It blows my mind that way back in 1981, Kraftwerk knew that 20-30 years in the future the civilised world would be run entirely through computers.... and that large, powerful organisations could find ways to exploit that.
@nutster9000
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Travis! You meant the Texas Instruments "Speak N' Spell", they sampled & modified the toy for the original song on The Computer World LP from 1981. They even ended up working with Texas Instruments for sounds on their "Pocket Calculator" single from the same album. Just love your reactions to this.
@commanderkruge
3 жыл бұрын
Speak and Spell - and yes, the voice comes from it's brother "math ... something". I believe it was from Texas Instruments. The Laptops: They switched to mostly virtual synths some years ago - before that they went on tour with their complete studio. Back then their stage looked a LOT like the bridge of the Enterprise. But in the end that became too much trouble for them when technology had advanced far enough to be able to put a complete studio into one computer... Languages in Numbers... German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Russian. The original of Numbers/Computerworld was released in 1981 - and the "Numbers beat" from Karl Bartos was Combined with the Melody from "Trans Europe Express" from 1977 by Afrika Bambaata and became one of the first Hiphop hits. :) Music History. :)
@commanderkruge
3 жыл бұрын
If you consider the tune is from 81 - when Homecomputers were JUST beginning to come out, when there was no Internet - this was almost prophetic. :D
@mileythighless5094
3 жыл бұрын
*Speak & Spell
@commanderkruge
3 жыл бұрын
@@mileythighless5094 no. The "brother" of the Speak and Spell wasn't "Speak and Spell". It was a device doing math with a different name.
@_Wolfsbane_
2 жыл бұрын
First there was Kraftwerk - then I was completely into electronic music after hearing them in the late 70s. This Is Genius!
@jeffcappelletti1986
3 жыл бұрын
Ralf Hütter on the far left does keyboards, sound manipulation and vocals. Next to Ralf is . Henning Schmitz. Henning also does keyboards and sound manipulation. Fritz Hilpert does live effects and sound manipulation. Falk Grieffenhagen is responsible for all videos on the screens. Falk can manipulate video live on the fly live. Kraftwerk does have a lot of music pre sequenced on laptops or tablets. Kraftwerk does do parts live. The three on the left can manipulate and change the sequences live. Ralf and Fritz use midi controller keyboards for live playing and manipulation
@teknotik1601
3 жыл бұрын
OH Nice!!! Legends The pioneers of what Techno and The Synth sounds in the 80s. I have produce and released 70 tracks of techno and they were one of my inspirations. I grew up with them in the mid 80s. Tour De France is legendary
@derrickparran
3 жыл бұрын
They were the founders of progressive hip hop. Everybody sampled them!
@Ahris22
3 жыл бұрын
The true pioneers of electronica, these guys started out in the 60's when electronic instruments barely existed so they invented and built their own. They've had a huge influence on modern electronic music. :)
@EessaTube
2 жыл бұрын
You should check out their contemporaries, another German group called Tangerine Dream... perhaps start with some of their remix albums.
@thelwulfeoforlic6482
3 жыл бұрын
You can find Kraftwerk videos where things go wrong on stage proving they are playing live! There is also one where they link up with the astronaut Alexander Geist on the ISS who performs with them live on the track ‘Spacelab’
@timschulz9563
3 жыл бұрын
They don't pretend to make the music live. Almost everything is prerecorded (as MIDI probably and not as a sound file) and they can adjust some parameters. Some parts/melodies are played live completely. If they don't move they aren't doing anything.
@joaoguimaraes4993
3 күн бұрын
Minimalist song, no letters, melodic numbers....very nice.
@freudsigmund72
3 жыл бұрын
I have been lucky enough to see 5 live performances by Kraftwerk. At one of the venues they played the manager stated afterwards they were ordered to remove all the lighting and sound equipment and wirings as Kraftwerk would only play if they could install all their own equipment.
@Easy_Skanking
3 жыл бұрын
You are thinking of the Speak-n-Spell. It has been used in so many songs throughout the years, it's unreal. But it always add an interesting character to any song.
@overcomer5693
3 жыл бұрын
Songs were longer back then in the 80's but we stayed on the dance floor for the entire song. Those were the good old days!
@Truthteller58-z3c
3 жыл бұрын
Innovators influence many Rap artists Rnb and pop artists German geniuses A Masterpiece of sounds .This song is a 80's hit before its time .
@MsCristyn83
3 жыл бұрын
I am reminded of the stock market. This could be the official "anthem". :)
@Nidels
3 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk... One of the great electronic music groups of all time together with Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis. A pity that they are so lazy and have not released a new album for so many years.
@michaeljeffries6767
3 ай бұрын
I've seen kraftwerk in Columbus ohio and they hit it out of the park what a great performance from the godfathers of electronic music kraftwerk is the best experience live amazing
@alx406
2 жыл бұрын
This also became a hip hop classic.
@chrisguevara
3 жыл бұрын
This track has been sample to death...
@zindi1138
2 жыл бұрын
they play the instruments in real time
@johankaewberg8162
3 күн бұрын
The version in The Mix is even better.
@Triggerhippie70
Жыл бұрын
I was 11 when this song came out and I remember hearing it on the radio and I was like oh my gosh this is awesome!! I love the 80s synth!
@sixstanger00
Жыл бұрын
The mind blowing thing is that this album came out in 1981, and like another song on this album, _"Computer Love,"_ they were decades ahead of their time, predicting that computers would control so much of our world. The other song I mentioned deals with online dating -- nearly 30 years before online dating was a thing.
@Schaw1337
3 жыл бұрын
they are legends
@rouguy1972
2 жыл бұрын
Numbers is my favorite ❤️
@neilmclanaghan4980
3 жыл бұрын
Techno pioneers way ahead of their time.. frequency perfection.
@djprideone1
Жыл бұрын
german electronic at its best !
@neilmclanaghan4980
3 жыл бұрын
These guys were playing this live before you were you were born!! Please show some respect 🙏
@DarioAvilaaCL
2 жыл бұрын
Those laptops were custom made by Sony Vaio at the time, at request of kraftwerk.
@georgeclarke8137
2 жыл бұрын
Pioneers of techno-rock.
@Oilerator_
3 жыл бұрын
You should react to some of their live performances on the channel "Willy Billiams". Specifically the ones at Amsterdam as he got a really cool angle from above them, so you can actually see what they're doing. Quite fascinating to me.
@chrisguevara
3 жыл бұрын
That device is called a "Speak and Spell"
@InSilentAgony
3 жыл бұрын
YESSSSSSS
@InSilentAgony
3 жыл бұрын
and Speak & Spell is what you are thinking of.
@Ramonafloyd
2 жыл бұрын
I had this on 45 when it came out in 1977...lol
@rochu.
Жыл бұрын
1981...
@tetsuotsukamoto231
3 жыл бұрын
try Aphex Twin "come to daddy" or widowlicker" videos, nice creations :-) !!!!
@Astrofrank
3 жыл бұрын
Also "Ventolin".
@marbletown6012
3 жыл бұрын
look at 70s videos of them this one has the kid who took over from the guy who died
@Craplatte
3 жыл бұрын
Please react to a live version of "Radioactivity", it's gonna blow your mind.
@johankaewberg9512
2 жыл бұрын
Ein, zweie, drie, fur, fumf, sex, sieben, acht. Itch, ni, san, shi. Uno, due, tres, quatro. One, two. This like all their shows was prepackaged. All in the sequencers. I still loved them live even if they did nothing.
@stevejiminez7791
3 жыл бұрын
Das 2021 Rock and Roll hall of fame inductee
@marbletown6012
3 жыл бұрын
you need to look at 70s kraftwerk they created the electric drum these are the grandfathers of this music infact 30 years before
Suzie's eyes make her eerily believable as a robot. 🤣🤣
@juliettpapa
2 жыл бұрын
Remember! Its from 1981
@rama9125
3 жыл бұрын
Next please: Rammstein-Mann gegen mann live Paris.🙏🙏🙏🙏
@timomastosalo
3 жыл бұрын
Languages I recognized: German, English, Italian, Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish - so I got 7. Did I miss any?
@Mrowiec
3 жыл бұрын
It was Japanese (ichi, ni, san, shi), not Chinese (yi, er, san, si).
@timomastosalo
3 жыл бұрын
@@Mrowiec Thanks - I heard i as the first number - I tried hard to hear if it really was i, but seems the machine voice tricked me :). If I had heard ichi, I would've known it's not Chinese, maybe would've guessed Japanese. And there's long time when I heard the numbers in each of these languages, Chinese the latter.
@NeuerAlias4711
Жыл бұрын
Look, as a side effect, you learn the numbers in german 😂
@warre1
Жыл бұрын
Ex Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos make very similar music
@dominic6283
3 жыл бұрын
This was a Jam when I was a kid in Brooklyn
@odunhops7727
2 жыл бұрын
Autobahn!!
@sirjohnmara
2 жыл бұрын
Genius!
@uncle_thulhu
3 жыл бұрын
You mean Speak 'n' Spell?
@Schaw1337
3 жыл бұрын
remember that this band and their songs are from the late 1970s
@reallivebluescat
Жыл бұрын
Speak & Spell!
@ryananthony4840
3 жыл бұрын
From the thumbnail I thought u had a pirate hat on bro 😂😂
@xmiraculix82
3 жыл бұрын
2021 and the lyrics are still topical
@michaeljeffries6767
2 жыл бұрын
wolf hunterz you should do kraftwerk's musique non stop live and tell me what you think of it it from the mimimum maximum live concert, this track rocks!!!!!!!!
@christiankelm6159
3 жыл бұрын
Rummelsnuff looking. The german popeye.
@Astrofrank
3 жыл бұрын
"Bratwurstzange" - the video is very special!
@Astrofrank
3 жыл бұрын
Suggestion for another German band: Xmal Deutschland playing "Incubus Succubus" or "Incubus Succubus II"
@timomastosalo
3 жыл бұрын
Do you remember the lyrics?
@timomastosalo
3 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk - their batteries have already run a few decades
@franckmedina3346
2 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk/radioactivity
@germanywho
3 жыл бұрын
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@jurgenstahl9756
3 жыл бұрын
Kraftwerk Model next please !
@timiilott8883
2 ай бұрын
Speak and spell , i had one
@surfer4378
3 жыл бұрын
From 1978...
@rickyratte5643
3 жыл бұрын
Thats all you need to know about music 123 456 78
@ndwmix
2 жыл бұрын
You should take the band seriously and do not make ridiculous. The music, videos, devices, everything has perfected power plant in over 50 years. Who makes electronic music yourself how hard to implement is and especially live.
@nicovanrompaye5844
9 ай бұрын
Don't act so idiotic! Respect them. They made everything possible for you! Without them there wouldn't be a place for you.
@matthewrandom4523
2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately all of the band members had a terrible German accent when speaking Englisch. Anyways, Kraftwerk waren ihrer Zeit weit voraus!
@reactionfan1448
3 жыл бұрын
they got the idea of the images from the U2 Zoo TV tour from what ive researched
@user-ny8mh4jq9g
3 жыл бұрын
kraftwerk-das model
@alexfletcher5192
3 жыл бұрын
I believe this took over the black community for a time. It's total minimalism, pop and dance 101. And it works.
@Astrofrank
3 жыл бұрын
Also quite common in black dance clubs was "Trans Europa Express". Another song which was often played there was "Bostich" from Yello.
@timomastosalo
3 жыл бұрын
Mr Anderson, do you like what I did to the place?
@AntoineVanGeyseghem
Жыл бұрын
=o
@rudyamisano4626
Жыл бұрын
Interpol Deutsche Bank, FBI and Scotland Yard... CIA KGB ...control data Memory... Comunication, people, Medicine , 😬🤐🤫. KRAFTWERK 1981. Tutto chiaro.
@markusweissenbock6337
3 жыл бұрын
fake, simply fake
@gorankopcic7827
3 жыл бұрын
Please, stop smiling and dancing with your heads. That looks stupid. This is serious music, from serious band.... This is like you listening Mozart and jumping around the room... Listen to the music and try to understand it. Listen the original, not this modernised concert versions....
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