Kraftwerk's Autobahn: Understanding the Pioneers of Electronic Music

Kraftwerk❤

The car recording at the very beginning was Florian Schneiders car but it wasnt a VW.

I'd love to hear you breakdown some Depeche Mode songs to explain the theory

Firstly Kraftwerk used a Minimoog, Mk 1 ARP Odyssey, Farifsa Organ and Custom vocodr for Autobahn.

I am German, Autobahn was my first album i buy this Autobahn 1976. This album change my live and i want a synthesizer, but i had just a old Piano.

"Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn" = "We drive, drive, drive on the motorway".
Not really a nod to the Beach Boys, unless it was a bilingual in-joke.

German au·to·bahn·en [ou-taw-bah-nuhn]. a super-highway; expressway.

Good job, sir! 🎉

Ralf on Farfisa?

Florian on flute! ❤

You need a new cart for your turntable. I have a technics turntable, and have noticed this static in the upper registry of the cart if the stylus gets damaged, or simply wears out.

I'd love to see you do a similar review of Magnetic Fields by JMJ. Just an incredible piece of work. Thanks.

Checkout Captain Pikant who did a wide review of Kraftwerk and a simple breakdown of their albums a few months prior to this video, perhaps this video was inspired by it.

Trans Europe Express

You’re the man, Doctor Mix! It sounds pretty jazzy as well. Love this album

Why do you keep calling them 'THE Kraftwerk'?

What about Electric Cafe?

And it appears in my homepage 3 months after... But it's always good to watch the Doc in ANY video. Any

Muito legal conhecer os pais da música eletrônica!!!! Um alô para o brasill

The remix version they did from 91 is great also.

Kraftwewrk invented the STAR WAR effect and sound 7 year befor movie.
40 year later the sound of Kraftwerk still on the world musics.
Electronic music began in underground Germany because the laws did not allow people to invent something unless it went through the government and it took over the copyright. That's why Kraftwerk didn't come out before the Tone Float album.

Autoban... 🚫

Tubular Bells!

Except it's not "fun fun fun" it's "fahren fahren fahren". They're singing "drive, drive, drive on the highway". And they're fecking with you! :-D

I assume Doktor Mix doesn't realize that the album sleeve actually depicts the German Autobahn road sign meaning "the Autobahn begins here".

Potentially interesting video, but I seriously can't be doing with the 3000 adverts per hour. Sorry.

This was one if the vest video i ve seen on kraftwerk. Its realy helped me understand their art. Thank you.

Pink Floyd - Time <-------

doctor hello can i see you without the cap for a while

where was popcorn?

It's just a road trip soundscape, perfectly orchestrated. Nothing more, nothing less. Honest feelings recorded in music

Think about the industrial age, metal factory's, coal mines, boom, kling. Metal clinging, dig machines, hard live

I do think you got some things wrong. Kraftwerk always wanted the mimick or replicate true environmental sounds. Autobahn is a mix of going on a journey, there was an accident on the highway, but we managed to get true, dispite the terror on the dayly road

Is that just a simple phaser on the mid-range chords? Or is it more processed? It has so much warmth & character and has a lot of potential, almost approaching an electric guitar stature.

TUBULAR BELLS!! Please do both the original and the 1992 sequel and maybe compare them?

Wow, i never noticed the similarities with the Beach Boys, the melody at 14" sound a lot like Beach Boy's vocals

I was 15 years old in 1974. I picked strawberries to raise the money to buy this album. Then in 1977 they came to the Paramount heater in Portland Oregon and I paid 5 dollars for a ticket to the show. Tangerine Dream came and played for2 dolor tickets a month later.

Can you analyse Trans Europe Express of Kraftwerk or Oxygene of Jean-Michel Jarre? It would be very awesome!

I prefer « das model » or « trans europ express »

Tubular Bells! Yes, to Tubular Bells!

Autobahn is a great album, too, though.

thx a lot 4this! d-.-b
btw: TUBULAR BELLS 😎 and GREETINGS from Düsseldorf!

Anyone Who Knows Anything About Music Must Appreciate Kraftwerk. Most People Do Too.

It's the fact it was all done manually!! that's what makes it fantastic. Every so often you keep saying to yourself early 70's !? Really

for me (and for other music lovers) music has both volume and color. when I listen to a song or an album, images form in my mind. my idea (I don't know if it's original) is that the lights at a concert should follow the music. sounds to have shape and color in space. I tried to do this by hand in an animation program but it's a 2d space (at a concert it's not a bad thing). I think we would enjoy and understand the music better and easier if it also had this visual component.

pelase do the album quichotte from tangerine dream. is so similar with autobahn.

TUBULAR BELLS!!!