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I'm home from my third Kraftwerk concert. As expected a fabulous and fantastic
experience. Some remarks during the show: |
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The Man Machine - This is the "new" version with very deep bass, very powerful. |
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Tour de France 2003 - A mix of the album versions. This works much, much
better live than on the album. |
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Tour de France - Some trouble in the beginning. Henning had some contact
with a technician who did something at the far right of the scene. Henning
checked his laptop some times, looking more worried and suddenly he left
the stage to fix something. He was away for half a minute and when returning
he started checking things on his laptop for some time before he looked
more relaxed. Ralf sung the second line here, with the vocoded version singing
the front line. |
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Autobahn - This was a mixture of the original version and the Mix. Slower
than the Mix and some parts was new, the "jodelling" part was altered as
compared to the Mix. |
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The Model - A new version! Much left of the original, but with a new swooshing
sound coming and going through most of the song. |
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Neon Lights - How beautiful! This is an updated version, with a long section
of the melody line repeated at different levels, overlaying each other.
Very, very stylish! |
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Radioactivity - Wow! The sound quality is soo great! My hair and my shirt
actually moved and vibrated with the deep, deep bass punches. This is the
new live version they've used some times, the Mix version slowed down and
very close to the original version (besides updated lyrics) in the first
half, speeding up to Robotronic in the second half. |
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Trans Europe Express - Great, as expected. I noticed one thing I ought to
have seen before - the spelling on the train footage is Trans Europ Express,
not Europa or Europe! |
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It's More Fun to Compute/Homecomputer - This rocks! Not in the live 1981-way,
but still. Very distinct melody line, much clearer than I've heard before. |
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The Robots - New robots! Or at least new heads! This new version looks more
natural, Fritz and Florians robots looks very close to the live versions.
The footage in the background is the robots from 1991. Very cool backlit
oscilloscopes projecting the robots in the beginning. |
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Elektro Kardiogramm - This version also works very good live. The band is
much more active in the last three songs, twisting knobs and pushing the
foot pedals a lot. |
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Aéro Dynamik - Much improvisation and alternation. Great version! |
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Musique Non Stop - The usual set-up, but more evident who does what. The
last half, where they left one by one, included a solo performance by each
one before leaving. This was very clear, since the other band members took
their hands from their consoles and looked at the one playing. Ralf, just
before leaving the scene: "See you tomorrow" |
| Review
by Joakim Svensson - Kopenhagen - Danmark |
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