Robot at Rest
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posted by mcdoublewide at 1:32 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by mcdoublewide at 1:32 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by May Kasahara at 1:32 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by May Kasahara at 1:32 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by SystematicAbuse at 1:35 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by SystematicAbuse at 1:35 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by madcaptenor at 1:36 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by madcaptenor at 1:36 PM on May 6, 2020
Three favorites:
Tour de France
Boing Boom Tschak
Airwaves
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posted by thatwhichfalls at 1:45 PM on May 6, 2020 [4 favorites]
Tour de France
Boing Boom Tschak
Airwaves
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posted by thatwhichfalls at 1:45 PM on May 6, 2020 [4 favorites]
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posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:48 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 1:48 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by GalaxieFiveHundred at 2:03 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by Windopaene at 2:18 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by Windopaene at 2:18 PM on May 6, 2020
So sad. Here's Ralf und Florian inventing techno in 1970 in front of a mostly befuddled audience.
posted by meehawl at 2:20 PM on May 6, 2020 [18 favorites]
posted by meehawl at 2:20 PM on May 6, 2020 [18 favorites]
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posted by my-username at 2:22 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by my-username at 2:22 PM on May 6, 2020
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And in meehawl's link, there's a dude who looks just like Heino at 15:05. (It probably isn't.)
posted by tclark at 2:24 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
And in meehawl's link, there's a dude who looks just like Heino at 15:05. (It probably isn't.)
posted by tclark at 2:24 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
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posted by vverse23 at 2:27 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by vverse23 at 2:27 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
Rest in beeps, Florian.
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 2:42 PM on May 6, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 2:42 PM on May 6, 2020 [7 favorites]
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posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 2:43 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 2:43 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
And, I think, previously live from Earth and space. (whoops, this is a double, sorry OP and mods)
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 2:46 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 2:46 PM on May 6, 2020
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I was fortunate enough to see Kraftwerk live three times, and those were some of the best concerts, I have attended.
posted by bouvin at 2:48 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
I was fortunate enough to see Kraftwerk live three times, and those were some of the best concerts, I have attended.
posted by bouvin at 2:48 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by ChutneyFerret at 2:48 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by ChutneyFerret at 2:48 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by w0mbat at 2:49 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by w0mbat at 2:49 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by lalochezia at 2:54 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by lalochezia at 2:54 PM on May 6, 2020
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Drehen wir am Radiophon
Vernehmen wir den Sendeton
posted by remembrancer at 3:03 PM on May 6, 2020
Drehen wir am Radiophon
Vernehmen wir den Sendeton
posted by remembrancer at 3:03 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by northtwilight at 3:10 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by northtwilight at 3:10 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 3:41 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 3:41 PM on May 6, 2020
For some reason, my father bought The Man Machine on vinyl when it came out. It was most definitely Not Music He'd Be Into, so I feel like he was talked into it by a record store clerk.
Regardless, it's how I first came to hear Kraftwerk, and I found the cover art oddly compelling as a kid.
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Boop boop be boop.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:46 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
Regardless, it's how I first came to hear Kraftwerk, and I found the cover art oddly compelling as a kid.
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Boop boop be boop.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:46 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
So much good music.
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posted by carter at 3:51 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by carter at 3:51 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
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Hard to overstate their influence on multiple genres of music.
posted by p3t3 at 3:54 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
Hard to overstate their influence on multiple genres of music.
posted by p3t3 at 3:54 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
That's right: the John Cleese one.
My favorite version of The Robots
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posted by rhizome at 3:59 PM on May 6, 2020
My favorite version of The Robots
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posted by rhizome at 3:59 PM on May 6, 2020
Kraftwerk - Pop Art (documentary 2013)
posted by philip-random at 4:22 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by philip-random at 4:22 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
I'll be honest: I usually really hate the "moment of silence" dots in obit threads. But here, scrolling through the tall stack of them at the start of the thread makes for a pulsing motorik sort of pattern, so this time I'll allow it.
posted by ardgedee at 4:22 PM on May 6, 2020 [12 favorites]
posted by ardgedee at 4:22 PM on May 6, 2020 [12 favorites]
I finally got to see them just a couple of years ago. Standing on the shoulders of giants.
posted by Capybara at 4:34 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by Capybara at 4:34 PM on May 6, 2020
::sigh::
I just watched this last night. He plays his homemade electronic flute here, and it's the last time, I think, he used any instrument like that in his work with the band. It's fascinating, the whole performance.
Resten in Frieden, Herr Schneider-Esleben.
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posted by droplet at 4:36 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
I just watched this last night. He plays his homemade electronic flute here, and it's the last time, I think, he used any instrument like that in his work with the band. It's fascinating, the whole performance.
Resten in Frieden, Herr Schneider-Esleben.
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posted by droplet at 4:36 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by dogstoevski at 4:49 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by dogstoevski at 4:49 PM on May 6, 2020
Here's Ralf und Florian inventing techno in 1970 in front of a mostly befuddled audience.
This is one of those bizarre crypto-anachronism things, or whatever the term is for two things you’d normally think of as products of entirely different eras existing at the same moment. Like the story about how the last wooly mammoths died after the first pyramids were built. It is hard to imagine Kraftwerk inventing techno music in front of that clearly bewildered crowd before it could be recorded in colour.
posted by mhoye at 5:04 PM on May 6, 2020 [12 favorites]
This is one of those bizarre crypto-anachronism things, or whatever the term is for two things you’d normally think of as products of entirely different eras existing at the same moment. Like the story about how the last wooly mammoths died after the first pyramids were built. It is hard to imagine Kraftwerk inventing techno music in front of that clearly bewildered crowd before it could be recorded in colour.
posted by mhoye at 5:04 PM on May 6, 2020 [12 favorites]
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My introduction to the band was, likely not uncommonly for my age cohort, via PBS. I played tons of Kraftwerk on my college radio station in the late 90s. And this was one of the concerts we were planning to go to this year, finally, after years of this music being formative for me and so many 80s nerd children.
posted by cobaltnine at 5:06 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
My introduction to the band was, likely not uncommonly for my age cohort, via PBS. I played tons of Kraftwerk on my college radio station in the late 90s. And this was one of the concerts we were planning to go to this year, finally, after years of this music being formative for me and so many 80s nerd children.
posted by cobaltnine at 5:06 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
I raise my pocket calculator in respect.
posted by Beholder at 5:26 PM on May 6, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by Beholder at 5:26 PM on May 6, 2020 [5 favorites]
This is one of those bizarre crypto-anachronism things, or whatever the term is for two things you’d normally think of as products of entirely different eras existing at the same moment. Like the story about how the last wooly mammoths died after the first pyramids were built. It is hard to imagine Kraftwerk inventing techno music in front of that clearly bewildered crowd before it could be recorded in colour.
Past and future colliding.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:29 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
Past and future colliding.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:29 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by zengargoyle at 5:43 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by zengargoyle at 5:43 PM on May 6, 2020
(That Lester Bangs interview where their fave bands are MC5 & Iggy & The Stooges)
posted by ovvl at 6:05 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by ovvl at 6:05 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
Huge fans of The Ramones as well, which when you think about it makes total sense.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:10 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:10 PM on May 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk) talks about Stop Plastic Pollution
posted by philip-random at 6:26 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by philip-random at 6:26 PM on May 6, 2020
What's happening in the old Kraftwerk Kling Klang Studio these days?
posted by philip-random at 6:30 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by philip-random at 6:30 PM on May 6, 2020
Bowie's tribute from "Heroes", "V-2 Schneider".
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posted by Halloween Jack at 6:37 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by Halloween Jack at 6:37 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]
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My first exposure to Kraftwerk was watching the older kids in my suburban Minneapolis neighborhood attempting to breakdance to 'Tour de France' around 1984 or so. I never attempted to dance to them, but young me loved listening to them any chance I got.
The other big dance track I remember from that time (aside from anything by Prince, of course) was 'Rockit' by Herbie Hancock, who'd clearly been influenced by Kraftwerk a lot by that point.
posted by theory at 6:56 PM on May 6, 2020
My first exposure to Kraftwerk was watching the older kids in my suburban Minneapolis neighborhood attempting to breakdance to 'Tour de France' around 1984 or so. I never attempted to dance to them, but young me loved listening to them any chance I got.
The other big dance track I remember from that time (aside from anything by Prince, of course) was 'Rockit' by Herbie Hancock, who'd clearly been influenced by Kraftwerk a lot by that point.
posted by theory at 6:56 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by Hairy Lobster at 7:50 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:01 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:01 PM on May 6, 2020
Man-Machine was such a formative album for me from my high school years.
Among the many live music shows I am mourning in the current times is the Kraftwerk show in June for which I have tickets. It will be postponed until some future time when we can gather again. Schneider wasn't playing with them, for sure, but I was really looking forward to the show.
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posted by gingerbeer at 10:03 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Among the many live music shows I am mourning in the current times is the Kraftwerk show in June for which I have tickets. It will be postponed until some future time when we can gather again. Schneider wasn't playing with them, for sure, but I was really looking forward to the show.
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posted by gingerbeer at 10:03 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by inpHilltr8r at 11:20 PM on May 6, 2020
posted by inpHilltr8r at 11:20 PM on May 6, 2020
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posted by alex_skazat at 1:18 AM on May 7, 2020
posted by alex_skazat at 1:18 AM on May 7, 2020
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posted by lordrunningclam at 5:26 AM on May 7, 2020
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posted by HumanComplex at 6:08 AM on May 7, 2020
posted by HumanComplex at 6:08 AM on May 7, 2020
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The discovery of the very existence of Kraftwerk, and the Man Machine album, were just . . . unbelievably important to my early teen discovery of music and self and taste. Even though nothing I create sounds anything like them.
posted by soundguy99 at 7:11 AM on May 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
The discovery of the very existence of Kraftwerk, and the Man Machine album, were just . . . unbelievably important to my early teen discovery of music and self and taste. Even though nothing I create sounds anything like them.
posted by soundguy99 at 7:11 AM on May 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
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posted by DelusionsofGrandeur at 9:49 AM on May 7, 2020
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posted by nightrecordings at 2:24 PM on May 7, 2020
posted by nightrecordings at 2:24 PM on May 7, 2020
I gotta highlight the Stop Plastic Pollution link above, as Florian wears a suit made of plaid plastic rice bags and does a robot dance and talks more than I’ve ever heard him.
posted by larrybob at 7:11 PM on May 7, 2020
posted by larrybob at 7:11 PM on May 7, 2020
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The Model (Kraftwerk), a tribute to Florian Schneider, on the bells of Dom tower, Utrecht 2020
posted by eendje at 1:43 PM on May 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
The Model (Kraftwerk), a tribute to Florian Schneider, on the bells of Dom tower, Utrecht 2020
posted by eendje at 1:43 PM on May 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
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