So this just showed up in my Instagram feed…
Kraftwerk Autobahn Dolby Atmos SDE
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https://apple.news/ABXWUzLnMQzCdRtBB0BrKcA
Kraftwerk Announces 2025 North American Tour
The 25-city tour celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the German group’s pioneering album Autobahn.
German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are going on tour next spring, announcing on Thursday (Dec. 5) a 25-city North American run that starts on March 6 in Philadelphia. The trek includes the group's previously announced performances at Coachella 2025.
This tour celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the group's fourth album, Autobahn, widely considered one of the essential blueprints for electronic music, along with Kraftwerk's first U.S. tour in 1975 behind the LP. Following the trek, the group will also perform in June at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, U.K.
On the upcoming run, called the Multimedia Tour, the four-man group will include original Kraftwerk member Ralf Hütter, who co-founded Kraftwerk with Florian Schneider in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1970. (Schneider passed away in 2020 at the age of 73.)
The 25-city tour celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the German group’s pioneering album Autobahn.
German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are going on tour next spring, announcing on Thursday (Dec. 5) a 25-city North American run that starts on March 6 in Philadelphia. The trek includes the group's previously announced performances at Coachella 2025.
Ticket for the tour go on sale Dec. 13
https://apple.news/ABXWUzLnMQzCdRtBB0BrKcA
Kraftwerk Announces 2025 North American Tour
The 25-city tour celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the German group’s pioneering album Autobahn.
German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are going on tour next spring, announcing on Thursday (Dec. 5) a 25-city North American run that starts on March 6 in Philadelphia. The trek includes the group's previously announced performances at Coachella 2025.
This tour celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the group's fourth album, Autobahn, widely considered one of the essential blueprints for electronic music, along with Kraftwerk's first U.S. tour in 1975 behind the LP. Following the trek, the group will also perform in June at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, U.K.
On the upcoming run, called the Multimedia Tour, the four-man group will include original Kraftwerk member Ralf Hütter, who co-founded Kraftwerk with Florian Schneider in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1970. (Schneider passed away in 2020 at the age of 73.)
The 25-city tour celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the German group’s pioneering album Autobahn.
German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are going on tour next spring, announcing on Thursday (Dec. 5) a 25-city North American run that starts on March 6 in Philadelphia. The trek includes the group's previously announced performances at Coachella 2025.
Ticket for the tour go on sale Dec. 13
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It’s hard to express how much this Band has meant since when I discovered the group with “Radioactivity” on Capital Records. I had first heard the title song on a small local radio station (that barely came in) on a skiing trip in a remote part of the Sierra Nevada‘s in California. When I came back home, there were only two copies of the record at “Record Factory” in Walnut Creek, because no one had ever heard of them, and they got little to no airplay here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Punk rock was just coming out and what would become so called “New Wave” didn’t exist as a thing. And even so, hardly anyone ever heard new wave music, let alone actually be into it, even around 1979-1980. It took work and effort and taking a chance (because records were expensive) to find some unknown band. This quickly changed with the advent of MTV and changing musical tastes in the 1980s.
I remember seeing the Quad Q8 of Autobahn at Sears in the 1970s when it first came out, but didn’t know what it was. I vaguely remember a single version of “Autobahn” getting some airplay on the AM radio. But it came and went away too quickly. There was simply so much music in the 1970s, and in different mainstream styles vying for attention. I was able to get the Q8 of Autobahn by having Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley order a copy in 1977. I couldn’t find the Q8 at any record store near me by then, or in all the Berkeley record stores.
Anyway, I hope this gets a good surround release. I’m all in for this title.
I remember seeing the Quad Q8 of Autobahn at Sears in the 1970s when it first came out, but didn’t know what it was. I vaguely remember a single version of “Autobahn” getting some airplay on the AM radio. But it came and went away too quickly. There was simply so much music in the 1970s, and in different mainstream styles vying for attention. I was able to get the Q8 of Autobahn by having Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley order a copy in 1977. I couldn’t find the Q8 at any record store near me by then, or in all the Berkeley record stores.
Anyway, I hope this gets a good surround release. I’m all in for this title.
It’s the alternate cover to Autobaun. I updated my old LP a few years ago with this version.
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Do they have surround releases? I'd be tempted, not entirely in my wheelhouse but a band / era in music I'm interested.
A very expensive and hard to find box set that has surround sound in it was available.
andyp
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Does anyone know if kraftwerk performs their show in surround sound? I've been a fan of theirs since I heard their Autobahn release in 1974 I have their surround stuff. It would be quite a stunning show in surround.
‘A road trip like no other’: my epic drive on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn
Fifty years ago, the electronic pioneers released a 23-minute song about a road – and changed pop music for ever. Our writer hits the speed-limit-free highways of Düsseldorf and Hamburg in search of its futuristic brilliance
Long read from Guardian UK on the occasion of the 50th anniversary:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/19/kraftwerk-autobahn-50-epic-road-trip-electronic
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Autobahn had a quad release back in the day, no official digital transfer though there is one fan made one floating around.
Live album Minimum-Maximum had a surround SACD (and I *believe* DVD) release.
And 3-D The Catalogue is every album from Autobahn through to Tour De France in the new “The Mix” style live versions, both on streaming and a very expensive box set where it comes with the full albums… twice. Once with just the concert visuals, and once with the concert visuals mixed with live footage (I bought the discs for the latter off Peterzach from the used listings here)
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3D visuals and sound.
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DTS 5.1 on the DVD in addition to stereo.
Absolutely true. The German 3D box set seemed to come and go like the wind, before you could even decide to buy it.
I bought it from some cat in Germany and was not cheap, can't imagine the cost now.
That said it is one of the coolest box sets in surround ever.
All in ATMOS.
I ripped the two Blu Rays and kept the video also as it is really fun to watch the graphic video's and it all plays gapless.
The concert version, really good also, but the live band on stage plays there weird way and they are very stoic and don't move so you think your just watching a still video but there are arm and head movements that you see ever so slightly.
This from the latest issue of Uncut:
3-D Catalogue was one of the first things I streamed when I got Atmos and Apple Music set up. Wasn’t a fan of the band, but had heard good things about the release. It was amazing.
Took me a while to find a sealed version of the box. Finally found it (thanks to a hint here) for $192.99 and didn’t blink twice at the $68.77 they added on for shipping. A few minutes later, whatever copies they had were gone.
3-D Catalogue was one of the first things I streamed when I got Atmos and Apple Music set up. Wasn’t a fan of the band, but had heard good things about the release. It was amazing.
Took me a while to find a sealed version of the box. Finally found it (thanks to a hint here) for $192.99 and didn’t blink twice at the $68.77 they added on for shipping. A few minutes later, whatever copies they had were gone.
Well, the US cover is a "alternate" one, since the original german (+ europe) cover is exactly what is featured on the first post.
Yes they did and quite impressive! They were always into new technologies, that's why they released their latest albums (3D - The Catalogue) also in Dolby Atmos.
I was lucky to order the Box Set from their website for about 150€ maybe 3 years ago.
I bought mine for the same price. After I bought one for a friend in doddax , new and sealed, for 16 £!!
Not usually in surround but with 3D visuals and impeccable sound.
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