The end of the concert is really stunning, when they leave the stage one by one while the music keeps playing. This is highly significant and disruptive, I think: it raises the question of the role of the artist at computer age. In ’81, this is such a visionary performance!
I had a roommate at Boston U. in 1981 that was from Germany, who said you have got to check out Kraftwerk. So I visited him in Dusseldorf that summer and saw them live. Absolutely intoxicating! We even talked to them at a local "disco" - very nice guys. I've been a fan ever since!
Man hearing bands such as Krafwerk and Cluster is better than sleeping even when your freakin tired that you might as well collapse on the keyboard, nah...oh...I think that could happen to me....O.o
*I'm sitting on my Homecomputer, beam myself into the future in this version (german lyrics in this version: Am Heimcomputer Sitz ich hier, Programmier di Zukunf mir)
The ComputerWorld(Weld) album is without doubt the zenith of their creative genius - i love it and any track from it.......so many bands since have ripped them for samples and stuff.
I'm saying that nobody is more monumental(more bad ass in this case) than Kraftwerk. I'm glad I found this video because it is amazing to hear this version of Home Computer. I know that Kraftwerk is the milestone of electronic music. I wrote an essay on the lasting effects of Kraftwerk's timeless music on the music industry and their influence to music production and performance. Sorry for my blunt previous statement; I did not know it would be misinterpreted.
Nice, powerful and uptempo version of this song. And now we are in the time that we sit a lot behind the homecomputer, we were wondering about that, when we listened to the Komputerwelt album in the early eighties.
By definition someone must've recorded the whole 1981 live gig, because there's a 30 minute documentary/interview that ends with this video. Who should we talk to in order to see the whole show? The camera guy? The network? Ralf? Jesus?
the documentary was made by austrian tv ORF, 29. January 1982. you can buy it in original high quality for around 50euros from them. maybe i will do it sometimes and upload it here. but i think they only have the tv show with interview and concert parts, not the whole concert anymore :(
This Heimcomputer life version it still the most electrifying thing I could see even today. Look all those guys concentrated in their machines, working so well and with that perfect attitude... And Ralf is a true master (that dance is the hotest minimalist thing ever! :D)and I love the way he leaves the mic, takes those scores and walk out leaving the machines doing their job: What a genius! Too much elegant for some primitive sensitivities ;)
krafwerk are pioneers in this musical genere & i 4 one will always listen to them& 2 the haters if u don't like the music don't listen to or watch thier videos. i am a fan & not a saddo & I won't apologize for being a fan. i luv people from all walks of life & culture. much luv to kraftwerk AND kraftwerk fans. *kisses on the jaw & hugs* to one of the most talented gentlemen in their field.
I love the "jam" feeling of this version! In fact I think the second leg of the european Computer Tour was like this. They played the songs a bit faster as well. I have the Utrecht concert and they play "Heimcomputer" similar to this version.
Way ahead of their time! Future funk. This is cutting edge stuff. These guys were pioneers. Geeks with rhythm. Nerds that make you dance. What a novel concept. German engineers with New York street cred? Unbelievable! Long live Kraftwerk.
Fantastic to find this on YT, great footage and version! I really like seeing an 'electronic' band play the music, much more than those that just stand on stage and stare at a laptop running the mix.
28 years old. Half the human population. And this is still so cool. Kraftwerk ist uber. Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider. They will be remembered forever.
I have to say I agree. If you listen closely to their albums, you realise it's perfection! I haven't heard any who have surpassed. And I heard it all! :o)
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. Big regards to Kraftwerk. Quality Music made in Germany.
HEIMCOMPUTER Wahnsinn, damals saß ich, 1984, an meinem C64 und hab mich tierisch über den Sound des Rechners gefreut! Hölle was für ein Quantensprung zu heutigen Computern...
I went to see them at hammersmith odeon london in 1981 twice and will always remember this track. kraftwerk are unique in that they brilliant then, and they ain't arf bad now!
Anyone who'd criticize is just clueless. Regardless of what they are playing and what is pre-recorded or sequenced it is great music and they are the creators of it. FEW artists will ever be the innovators and icons these guys were and are.
Calm down Ralf! Good to see the old boy grooving away-albeit 25 years or so ago. This is very different to any version I've heard before-cheers for putting it on!
In almost every every interview of that time Ralf&Florian said that they don't like other groups who treat their machines like servants. They said they love their machines. Machines are not submissive to man nor are they superior. They are equal, in a friendly relationship. Sometimes they play machines, and sometimes machines play them. They are kind to them, and instruments are kind to them back. :)
CosmoCortney Yes, they did. I was at their show at the Ritz in NYC in 1981 and outside were tractor-trailers that someone told me they'd used to bring the whole Kling Klang studio on tour. An amazing show I'll never forget...especially during 'Pocket Calculator' where Florian was letting the audience tap on the keys of his Texas Instruments calculator that had a mounstrous cable bundle growing from it...
I mean that all people are actually communicating with them selfs, all the time, when they are thinking and so on, with what is my feeling telling me about, how it all is functioning like and so on then, yes.
how good........puts a real meaning to 'live'.......... today you go to see a live electronic artist and they use 'ableton live' and just fire loops. similar i guess, but so not in a lot of ways.. and i am a ableton user man i wish i could make music with all those machines...they are so unruly, yet , they make magic....fantastic.
solamente digo esto SON UNOS MAESTRO DE LA MUSICA COMPUTARIZADA a pesar que tocan de los anos 70,s hasta ahora siguen siendo unos maestro de la musica computarizada buena krafterk soy un fan de ustedes JULIO DE JAPON
KRAFTWERK ÜBER ALLES!! 'Ve arr ze ROBOTS und ve FoKKing RULE.' Zherman enzhineering in full effeKt, ja. EXcellent sound quality on this video- AWEsome live version!
SlushPile - this is 'Home Computer' "I program my home computer. Lead myself into the future." Great track, but I have not found the English version, or a studio version of it yet on RUclips.
You're right about the better bassline and the extra songs, like Ohm Sweet Ohm, and in some concerts they also played Die Stimme Der Energie and Die Sonne, der Mond, die Sterne. But I like the faster, quasi-rock feel of the second leg.
Hammerhart, '81 war Computer noch große Kisten die nix konnten Jetzt 30 Jahre später sitzt man mit einem kleinen Ding auf der Terasse und kann sich das Video hier anschauen. Damals hat man davon nicht mal geträumt!
For this tour, they used as commercial synths a minimoog (top of 3 synths stack), polymoog, and Prophet 5. Maybe some more as well. That seemingly huge synth you see at 1:23 doesn't ring a bell, but I think that actually you see the keys of a synth standing below an electronic contrapion above it, likely a sequencer.
no one has programmed anything so perfectly with analog synths.....yet! since 1970's...........!!!!!! all the latest music stars cannot even dream of such Live performance ............Man ruling the Machines.........takes genius.......pedigree
The end of the concert is really stunning, when they leave the stage one by one while the music keeps playing. This is highly significant and disruptive, I think: it raises the question of the role of the artist at computer age. In ’81, this is such a visionary performance!
This is pure genius! I love Ralf's Robot dance, Karl funking it out, Wolfgang bopping in place, and Florian sulking over his keyboards.
1981. I am at home with my computer. Watch Computer Love by Kraftwerk. 30 years ahead....!
Just got back from Amsterdam and Kraftwerk live at The Paradiso. This is awesome really amazing. SO unlike them live nowadays but i like both
This sounds awesome live!
Florian's battery died at 1:33
Flyersftw hahahah very good!
He's rebooting.
😂
I also love their hypnotic dance moves! They not only invented Techno-Pop but also the appropriate Techno-Dance! Groundbreaking in all respects!
I had a roommate at Boston U. in 1981 that was from Germany, who said you have got to check out Kraftwerk. So I visited him in Dusseldorf that summer and saw them live. Absolutely intoxicating! We even talked to them at a local "disco" - very nice guys. I've been a fan ever since!
The control-room set is bloody amazing. Still unbeaten more then 25 years later.
Bosse, II
Man hearing bands such as Krafwerk and Cluster is better than sleeping even when your freakin tired that you might as well collapse on the keyboard, nah...oh...I think that could happen to me....O.o
Man, I love this track! I've NEVER seen and heard this live before! Thanks so much for posting it! Their gear looks so awesome...
Weeee...I really like this version! Makes my head's shaking
My laptop and I. This is my future (lyrics). 1981 knowledge of 2015. Amazing.
*I'm sitting on my Homecomputer, beam myself into the future in this version (german lyrics in this version: Am Heimcomputer Sitz ich hier, Programmier di Zukunf mir)
The ComputerWorld(Weld) album is without doubt the zenith of their creative genius - i love it and any track from it.......so many bands since have ripped them for samples and stuff.
I'm saying that nobody is more monumental(more bad ass in this case) than Kraftwerk. I'm glad I found this video because it is amazing to hear this version of Home Computer. I know that Kraftwerk is the milestone of electronic music. I wrote an essay on the lasting effects of Kraftwerk's timeless music on the music industry and their influence to music production and performance. Sorry for my blunt previous statement; I did not know it would be misinterpreted.
Nice, powerful and uptempo version of this song.
And now we are in the time that we sit a lot behind the homecomputer, we were wondering about that, when we listened to the Komputerwelt album in the early eighties.
By definition someone must've recorded the whole 1981 live gig, because there's a 30 minute documentary/interview that ends with this video. Who should we talk to in order to see the whole show? The camera guy? The network? Ralf? Jesus?
Been looking for it since i saw this clip years ago, without luck... I think maybe Jesus is shooting a little low for this :P
+Knoh its out there yes, some old guy who probably forgot he's got the tape hidden somewhere in his attic.
the documentary was made by austrian tv ORF, 29. January 1982. you can buy it in original high quality for around 50euros from them. maybe i will do it sometimes and upload it here. but i think they only have the tv show with interview and concert parts, not the whole concert anymore :(
This Heimcomputer life version it still the most electrifying thing I could see even today. Look all those guys concentrated in their machines, working so well and with that perfect attitude...
And Ralf is a true master (that dance is the hotest minimalist thing ever! :D)and I love the way he leaves the mic, takes those scores and walk out leaving the machines doing their job: What a genius! Too much elegant for some primitive sensitivities ;)
These guys are remarkable....Enough said!!!
one of the most under rated band ever fact
krafwerk are pioneers in this musical genere & i 4 one will always listen to them& 2 the haters if u don't like the music don't listen to or watch thier videos. i am a fan & not a saddo & I won't apologize for being a fan. i luv people from all walks of life & culture. much luv to kraftwerk AND kraftwerk fans. *kisses on the jaw & hugs* to one of the most talented gentlemen in their field.
I love the "jam" feeling of this version! In fact I think the second leg of the european Computer Tour was like this. They played the songs a bit faster as well. I have the Utrecht concert and they play "Heimcomputer" similar to this version.
It was Bill Bailey that got me into Kraftwerk, i love them now!!
Is Ralf expressing the idea of communicating with himself through time?
1981 wurde ich geboren und jetzt verstehe auch warum ich elektronische Musik so liebe.
Best illustration of "die musikarbeiter"... Four blokes in an industrial control room, twiddling knobs on a music production line... ;)
Kraftwork split the atom for techno music. Many thanks to their original vision, sound and style.
This was almost 30 years ago. Amazing!
I'm a huge fan!!!
damn so old and so cool, i love them, viva the masters.
They keep on trekking across the universe of electronic music. Now and then. They're the best in the genre and far beyond it.
Way ahead of their time! Future funk. This is cutting edge stuff. These guys were pioneers. Geeks with rhythm. Nerds that make you dance. What a novel concept. German engineers with New York street cred? Unbelievable! Long live Kraftwerk.
Fantastic to find this on YT, great footage and version! I really like seeing an 'electronic' band play the music, much more than those that just stand on stage and stare at a laptop running the mix.
Randy Newman and Donna Summer were voted in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame ahead of Kraftwerk this year, unbelievable.
Don't worry the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame is little more than a tourist attraction. It's funny to me when artists feel slighted by not being inducted.
Smooth synthesizers sounds, elegant and i get in a trance of this !
this video redeems the reason why youtube deserves to exist. amazing.
fantastic...still to this day
cheers from germany
28 years old.
Half the human population.
And this is still so cool.
Kraftwerk ist uber.
Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider.
They will be remembered forever.
I have to say I agree. If you listen closely to their albums, you realise it's perfection! I haven't heard any who have surpassed. And I heard it all! :o)
30 years later and this stuff still blows me away, just like it did when I was in high school.
Excellent!!
64m >:-)
Ralf had a Minimoog and a Polymoog, Florian had a Prophet 5 and Karl had a Korg PS3100 with a custom keyboard IIRC.
Saw them during this tour at Santa Monica. Fabulous!
Me recuerda algo a joy division, por el tipo de base de bateria, el bajo. También hay que tomar en cuenta que a Ian Curtis le gustaba Kraftwrek
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.
Big regards to Kraftwerk. Quality Music made in Germany.
Probably some of the most original music I've ever heard.....
HEIMCOMPUTER
Wahnsinn, damals saß ich, 1984, an meinem C64 und hab mich tierisch über den Sound des Rechners gefreut! Hölle was für ein Quantensprung zu heutigen Computern...
素晴らしい！！今となっては逆に全てが新鮮に映ってくる！！
Ah, the Kraftwerk that played the synthesizers live.
fantastic...what an era...
many thanks for installing that amazing nostalgia stuff
cheers.numanhuman
I went to see them at hammersmith odeon london in 1981 twice and will always remember this track. kraftwerk are unique in that they brilliant then, and they ain't arf bad now!
Ultra cool! :)
Anyone who'd criticize is just clueless. Regardless of what they are playing and what is pre-recorded or sequenced it is great music and they are the creators of it. FEW artists will ever be the innovators and icons these guys were and are.
Calm down Ralf! Good to see the old boy grooving away-albeit 25 years or so ago. This is very different to any version I've heard before-cheers for putting it on!
Kraftwerks classic line up live!! Thanks for posting this!!
...absolutely Love the one "robot" standing completely still, waiting for his cue... :D
In almost every every interview of that time Ralf&Florian said that they don't like other groups who treat their machines like servants. They said they love their machines. Machines are not submissive to man nor are they superior. They are equal, in a friendly relationship. Sometimes they play machines, and sometimes machines play them. They are kind to them, and instruments are kind to them back. :)
The stage looks like a music lab :D
yes, they mobilizied their entire studio and brought it to stage :D
CosmoCortney Yes, they did. I was at their show at the Ritz in NYC in 1981 and outside were tractor-trailers that someone told me they'd used to bring the whole Kling Klang studio on tour. An amazing show I'll never forget...especially during 'Pocket Calculator' where Florian was letting the audience tap on the keys of his Texas Instruments calculator that had a mounstrous cable bundle growing from it...
I love Kraftwerk
are unique
I love to watch them
that's beyond sick - now i must hear the rest of show - thx
perfect structure, wonderful melodies --> kraftwerk
I mean that all people are actually communicating with them selfs, all the time, when they are thinking and so on, with what is my feeling telling me about, how it all is functioning like and so on then, yes.
how good........puts a real meaning to 'live'.......... today you go to see a live electronic artist and they use 'ableton live' and just fire loops.
similar i guess, but so not in a lot of ways..
and i am a ableton user
man i wish i could make music with all those machines...they are so unruly, yet , they make magic....fantastic.
Kraftwork is HIGHLY rated and respected as the fathers of techno (we are the robots)
Ganz schön aufs Tempo gedrückt.
finally live footage from the early eighties
there best(live) period for me..
Nice seeing them operate the analog keyboards and the big computer synth in the back.
solamente digo esto SON UNOS MAESTRO DE LA MUSICA COMPUTARIZADA a pesar que tocan de los anos 70,s hasta ahora siguen siendo unos maestro de la musica computarizada buena krafterk soy un fan de ustedes JULIO DE JAPON
THANK YOU
Kraftwerk changed music for ever. If thare are GODS of electo they are it!!!! See them live if you can...
I Love 80's
genial, die jungs... unvorstellbar wo die elektronische musik ohne sie heute wär...
This is so ellegant!
I saw this concert live!!!!! :D
KRAFTWERK ÜBER ALLES!!
'Ve arr ze ROBOTS und ve FoKKing RULE.'
Zherman enzhineering in full effeKt, ja.
EXcellent sound quality on this video- AWEsome live version!
Thank you for the reply. This is an amazing video.
I like Ralfs "dancemoves" with his arms :)
Ralf´s hand while singing is kind of his trademark or something. I like them more in those days...
@HiTopProd That is an incredible story! It's doubly cool that you're a BU alum, too; I'm class of '92.
I think we all have to pay tribute to the guys that started techno...without them we wouldn't experience electro, modern house, TECKTONIK and all that
Great performance!
Amazing! Thank you Kraftwerk!
Amazing footage.. when they actually played live, instead of standing in front of laptops looking bored. Awesome clip
SlushPile - this is 'Home Computer'
"I program my home computer.
Lead myself into the future."
Great track, but I have not found the English version, or a studio version of it yet on RUclips.
I'm so old (and hip!)that I actually have 2 records of theirs that I bought in the 70's. Of course, I have nothing to play them on now.
You're right about the better bassline and the extra songs, like Ohm Sweet Ohm, and in some concerts they also played Die Stimme Der Energie and Die Sonne, der Mond, die Sterne. But I like the faster, quasi-rock feel of the second leg.
Brilliant! just Brilliant!!
The most FIERCE germans this world has seen!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS! Kraftwerk changed music period!!!!
That keyboard is so badass!!
Kraftwerk rock!!
this is just AWESOME stuff
Kraftwerk and Electro FOREVER!!!
Woohoo Tomorrowland 1981!
Nice! The robots are more speedly at this music version... I never seen this version before.
Greetings from Brasil.
Gilberto,
look at the man dancing!!!!
awesome!!
i love this song wow
Magic guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hammerhart, '81 war Computer noch große Kisten die nix konnten
Jetzt 30 Jahre später sitzt man mit einem kleinen Ding auf der Terasse und kann sich das Video hier anschauen. Damals hat man davon nicht mal geträumt!
For this tour, they used as commercial synths a minimoog (top of 3 synths stack), polymoog, and Prophet 5. Maybe some more as well. That seemingly huge synth you see at 1:23 doesn't ring a bell, but I think that actually you see the keys of a synth standing below an electronic contrapion above it, likely a sequencer.
Ralf has incredibly pretty hands.
@miniroll32
This is a (german spoken) live version of the song from the 1981 Album "Computer World"
no one has programmed anything so perfectly with analog synths.....yet! since 1970's...........!!!!!!
all the latest music stars cannot even dream of such Live performance ............Man ruling the Machines.........takes genius.......pedigree
unsung heroes of music.
this is art and history in our times remeber this is from 1981 !