Kraftwerk 3D - 2017-06-14 - Gateshead, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Sage 
Gateshead 
UK 
2017-06-14 

lineage
SP-CMC-4U > TASCAM DR-40 > Sound Forge Pro 10 > Trader's Little Helper (level 8)

01 Intro 
02 Numbers 
03 Computer World 
04 It's More Fun to Compute/Home Computer 
05 Computer Love 
06 The Man-Machine 
07 Spacelab 
08 The Model 
09 Neon Lights 
10 Autobahn (short version) 
11 Airwaves 
12 Intermission/News 
13 Geiger Counter/Radioactivity 
14 Electric Cafe 
15 Tour De France/Prologue/Etape 1/Chrono/Etape 2 
16 Trans Europe Express/Metal on Metal/Abzug 
17 Encore Break Eins 
18 The Robots 
19 Encore Break Zwei 
20 Aerodynamik 
21 Planet Of Visions (short version) 
22 Boing Boom Tschak/Techno Pop/Music Non Stop 

A Rocking Regimental Recording

notes by the taper
Not my usual fayre...when this show was announced I had a real "do I, don't I" moment, ultimately reconciled by taking the view that they're "on the doorstep", so I'd might as well as the likelihood is I'd never have as convenient an opportunity to see these frontiersmen again. Convenient it may have been, easy it wasn't. Tickets sold out in minutes. I hadn't appreciated just how strong a following this lot still had, and when I got to the venue it was clear this was going to be "an event". Lots of Kraftwerk "lookalikes" (red shirts, black ties & trousers...), people of a certain age having made some effort. I like an air of expectancy before a concert, and this one had it in sack loads...with the added twist of everyone wearing 3D glasses to fully appreciate the 3D imagery that animated the show. And so, on with the show - and it is a SHOW. Four virtually static performers at their illuminated podiums, in front of a giant screen from which eminated retro-techno imagery. And boy, does it take you back...to a time when even I felt technology was almost understandable yet wonderous at the same time. So, so stylish...a bit kitsch one might argue, but comforting nevertheless. A perfect accompanyment to the regimented electronica which was surprisingly familiar to even a sceptic like me. My curiosity was well founded, and like everyone else I was soon immersed in the experience, almost disappearing into the pools of lo-fi digital landscapes hypnotised by the heavy, metronomic pulse of the "pioneers at the podium". This is more than a concert, it's an experience...an art installation perhaps. It ain't rock 'n' roll, but it's infectiously entertaining nevertheless. The show seemed to last less time than it took for the tickets to sell out, the truth being that we'd been engaged for a little over two hours. Whilst there was much enthusiastic cheering between pieces, the audience was absorbed into virtual silence during the numbers.