2005-07-01 Poppodium 013 Tilburg Netherlands Kraftwerk Live Video

2005-07-01 Live at the Poppodium 013, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Audience video of the "Minimum-Maximum" world tour.
Ralf Hütter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert, Florian Schneider, from left to right.

00:00:00 The Man-Machine
00:08:03 Planet Of Visions
00:12:49 Etape 1
00:17:13 Chrono
00:18:43 Etape 2
00:23:34 Tour De France
00:29:20 Vitamin
00:35:20 Autobahn
00:44:32 The Model
00:48:22 Neon Lights
00:54:20 Sellafield 2
00:55:26 Radioactivity
01:02:14 Trans-Europe Express
01:05:37 Abzug
01:07:18 Metal On Metal
01:11:59 Numbers
01:16:23 Computer World
01:19:31 Home Computer
01:25:25 Pocket Calculator
01:28:25 Taschenrechner
01:31:44 The Robots
01:39:04 Elektro Kardiogramm
01:44:10 Aero Dynamik
01:50:32 Musique Non Stop

As far as audience video shots are concerned this is fantastic and clearly a labour of love. I'm happy we have a complete concert preserved where you can see the workstations up close.

A continuation of the 2004 world tour. Probably done to advertise the official "Minimum-Maximum" live album. Setlist and song arrangements are unchanged. Differences are minor, The ambient intro to Tour De France '83 is skipped in 2005, a green lighting effect during Home Computer first seen in 1991 returns, Florian no longer wears a headset and the band members wear grey shirts instead of red ones.

Ever since Kraftwerk started using Cubase SX and softsynths in 2002 they've been doing a crossover between DJ set and live performance. Audio quality is high and they do put on a nice show for the audience, so it's not all bad. But I miss the live drumming and intricate little variations and irregularities in the rhythms and effects they had when they used hardware synths.

It is what it is. It's still Kraftwerk, I still love the music. But I feel it's fair to admit that the concerts were better in the 90s and earlier.

I take no credit. This video was filmed and edited by Nafoute to be shared freely among fans. I felt like sharing it to document Kraftwerk's live history. All rights belong with Kraftwerk.

I created a 50fps version of the video:
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Feel free to give it a try. Let me know if it plays well for you at 50fps.