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Copenhagen - first impressions
by Svensson, Joakim 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Now I'm home from my third Kraftwerk concert. As expected a fabulous and fantastic experience. Some remarks during the show: The Man Machine This is the "new" version with very deep bass; very powerful. Tour de France 2003 A mix of the album versions. This works much, much better live than on the album. 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 laptap 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. 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. The Model A new version! Much left of the original, but with a new swooshing sound coming and going through most of the song. 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! Radio-Activity 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 time, 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. 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! 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. 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 the background is the robots from 1991. 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. Aéro Dynamik Much improvisation and alternation. Great version! 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" /Joakim This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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Copenhagen - here we come!
by Svensson, Joakim 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

I'll leave for Copenhagen in 20 minutes. This is a great moment! I'll post something when I come home tonigh, about 1:30 CET. /Joakim This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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Reviews of Kraftwerk concerts
by Electram 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Hello to all, We are inviting all the fans who saw the concerts at Finland, Sweden, Norway and Danmark to write reviews about these shows. Your impressions about the venue, the public, the show, the sound, the music details, all the atmosphere of the concerts. We have interest in publish these reviews in a specifical page at Technopop site, with the respective credits. If you're interested, please contact us at contact(a)technopop.com.br Best regards, Marcelo Duarte Dante de Conti http://kraftwerk.technopop.com.br Brasil

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RE: [Kraftwerk] Helsinki recording
by Svensson, Joakim 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Great. I'm on a business trip, but I can upload it tomorrow evening. Can you supply me with some adress and identities? Btw - I know SoulSeek is not the fastes or smoothest P2P network, but so far it's the best I know for finding rare music. /Joakim -----Original Message----- sure! I can setup a ftp space for list members to dl it. but I'm on a 512 / 128 KB ADSL line only. This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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KW in Detroit Electronic Festival?
by Edimes Cagliari 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

Read: http://www.freep.com/news/locway/move14_20040214.htm

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[Kraftwerk] Promotors are looking for help in the kraftwerk community.
by twingo 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

This week I received already 2 emails from promotors who want to get in contact with Kraftwerk :) the world discovers Kraftwerk. twingo (and other site keepers) are easier to contact than kraftwerk themselves :p 1st -- Hello, I am hoping you can help me with a request. I got your email address from a Kraftwerk related site. I am a promoter here in Toronto and I'm trying to get in touch with the band directly, prior to them playing here in April. Do you happen to know anyway to do this? I went on Kraftwerk.com but there was no contact or fan club information. Thanks for your help. --- 2nd --- Dear Sir, Could you please let us know who we should contact to promote a Kraftwerk concert in Istanbul? We could not find any contacts at their website. Kind Regards, --- /twingo

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KW : 3 Days @ Cirkus
by henrik.olsson＠equant.com 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Just getting back to normal life after 3 exciting days with Kraftwerk in Stockholm. The arena was the fantastic old Cirkus arena. The choice of venue couldn´t be a better one (this is the same venue that Rolling Stones specially requested for a gig in Stockholm, after being recommend by Dylan). The set list was identical all 3 days (and also same as for Helsinki), but the show initself had some (very) small variations : Sunday, February 8, 2004 - Small problems with the curtains not opening and closing properly - Florian wearing glasses during the first couple of songs - Very bad sound "feedback" when Ralf sang "Tour de France" - Florian did his weird little "dance" (i.e. bending his knees...) during Pocket Calculator - Ralf ended by saying "See you tomorrow" Monday, February 9, 2004 - Synchronization problems when Man Mashine started and the guys still were behind the curtains. Our "robots" had a hectical moment; one could see this on the shadows on the back lit curtain. - Ralf burst into laughter ( first time ever ?) during Pocket Calculator. Maybe at Florian ? I didn´t see the reason. - No video during the intro to Radioactivity - Ralf ended with "Good Bye" Tuesday, Ferbruary 10, 2004 - Ralf had problems with his microphone during Computer World. Occationally, his voice was lost. - More musical improvisations from the band members than ususal, before they left the stage, one after one, during Music Non Stop - Florian ran from the stage - faster than ever ! - Ralf ended with "Auf Wiedersehen" Personally, I think these concerts were slightly better than last years Luxembourg concert, and much better than the 1991 Solna-Sweden concert. Superb projections and sound quality, the robots were back (did not appear in Luxembourg), red shirts/black ties is much nicer than the all black outfits in last years concert. And the illuminous clothing they had during the last part of the show is gives a stunning effect combined with the new songs (EKG & Aerodynamik) and back projections. A 30 second clip from the beginnig of the Sunday show was shown on Swedish television. Panel discussion about Kraftwerk on the "Pop i Fokus" TV-show. Calle Dernulf from radio show "P3 Dans" called the Monday concert "probably the best concert I´ve ever seen"- on his radio show yesterday. Lots of celebrities on the Tuesday show. I saw some of the band members from "Kent", Johan Kinde from "Lustans Lakejer", Janne Schaffer, and also lots of TV & radio people. Svenska Dagbladet (morning paper) wrote in a VERY positive review (translated) : "It is so beautiful and esthetically perfected that it almost takes your breath away. A powerful concert experience leaving the audience completely stumped for some quivering minutes." "..a concert which does not surprise the least but which at moments is so completely brilliant it leaves memories for life." I also made a recording (Mini Disc) of the Tuesday show which turned out to be of superb audio quality. If any of the list members knows how & where to turn this recording into a bootleg double CD, pls mail me privately. (I´m thinking CD pressing, not CD burning :-) //Henrik

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Who wants a ticket to Kopenhagen?
by Electram 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Hello to all, The irish fan Peter May sent to us the following message: "Also i was wondering if you get requests from fans about tickets for the current Kraftwerk tour. My travel partner has pulled out of our trip to Denmark to see the band so i have one spare ticket to the Kraftwerk concert in Kopenhagen on Sunday 15th Febuary. I am travelling from home, in Ireland, to Denmark on the 13th and am staying until the 16th. If anyone is looking for a ticket for that concert i can be contacted at petermay4(a)hotmail.com " Best regards, Marcelo Duarte Dante de Conti http://kraftwerk.technopop.com.br Brasil

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RE: [Kraftwerk] Helsinki recording
by Nat Heidler 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

I don't post very much, but I do read every message. Thank you VERY much for this. I'm hoping to see KW this year, but will have to fly to San Francisco it's looking like. Wish they'd come to Chicago, that is a half-hour flight for me. I got good speed via FTP, by the way. Nat Somewhere in Kansas, USA -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Norman [mailto:sn@hemma.nu] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:56 AM To: Music, non-stop. Subject: Re: [Kraftwerk] Helsinki recording Ive got it of SLSK yesterday and have splitted the big mp3 file to individual songs (and removed some crowd noise). The quality is ok. I'll put it up for a while for this list. ftp://195.100.169.4 Anonymous login ok. 50MB/10 max connections. If anyone has an better recording, maybe from Stockholm, I gladly hear it... ;) -- All taglines are busy..One will be with you shortly...

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KW.COM update...
by johan.andersson＠allers.aller.se 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

...havn't heard anything on the list about it, its got info about "the catalogue" new digital masters from klingklang in the INFO-section... Regards / Johan

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