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Kraftwerk live at Pavelló de la Mar Bella, Barcelona, Spain (Sónar Festival)
June 18th, 1998
1998 World Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: B+
Attendance: 5.500
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00:00 Pre Show Sounds
02:04 Meine Damen Und Herren
02:41 Numbers
07:09 Computer World
10:15 Home Computer
17:19 The Man Machine
25:23 Tour De France
32:29 Autobahn
45:00 The Model
49:07 Airwaves
52:13 Tango
1:00:20 Sellafield 2
1:01:26 Radioactivity
1:08:00 Trans Europe Express
1:18:57 Pocket Calculator
1:28:09 The Robots
1:32:46 Robotronik
1:40:14 Nummweltverschmutzung
1:46:34 Music Non Stop
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After a series of concert in Japan and in the USA, Kraftwerk returned to Europe to perform at a festival in Barcelona, Spain. The Sónar festival, founded in 1994, specializes, as its original slogan emphasizes, in "advanced music and multimedia art" and is thus a hotspot of electronic music artists such as Kraftwerk, obviously, who undertake multimedia performances since the 70s with the additional usage of projectors, and focus heavily on being forward in time in terms of creativity and being up to date with technology.
The venue of this festival in 1998, the Pavelló de la Mar Bella, had a seating capacity of 2.000 people and a standing capacity of 4.000 people. It was speculated that all 6.000 tickets were sold, but according to Spanish radio, it turned out that 500 were still left.
Francois Kevorkian, a colleague of Kraftwerk, did a DJ set before they started performing and another one after they finished.
Compared to other 1998 concerts, this one seems to be the most average one as there are no special occurances except that Pocket Calculator didn't start with the arpeggio intro.
Attendees were strictly checked for recording equipment by security and only those with a pass-card were allowed to shoot photos of The Man Machine and film clips of Home Computer and The Man Machine which aired on Spanish television. Still, few managed to do shots of other songs, there is an amateur video recording of the two aforementioned songs and the entire show was recorded on an audio tape.
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An infamous CD bootleg that has Kraftwerk's traffic cone with blue stripes instead of white ones on the front cover supposedly contains the only (known) audio recording. The booklet claims that this is a soundboard recording, but it sounds far from being recorded from soundboard. There are typical characteristics of an audience recording such as reverb and crowd noises and, unfortunately, there are few minor cuts and distortion on the kick drums in combination with DC offset in one audio channel as well. Some high frequencies are hidden, but restoreable, although I couldn't restore all of them because I remastered it from a lossy audio source.
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*Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.*
Kraftwerk live at Pavelló de la Mar Bella, Barcelona, Spain (Sónar Festival)
June 18th, 1998
1998 World Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: B+
Attendance: 5.500
__________________________________________
00:00 Pre Show Sounds
02:04 Meine Damen Und Herren
02:41 Numbers
07:09 Computer World
10:15 Home Computer
17:19 The Man Machine
25:23 Tour De France
32:29 Autobahn
45:00 The Model
49:07 Airwaves
52:13 Tango
1:00:20 Sellafield 2
1:01:26 Radioactivity
1:08:00 Trans Europe Express
1:18:57 Pocket Calculator
1:28:09 The Robots
1:32:46 Robotronik
1:40:14 Nummweltverschmutzung
1:46:34 Music Non Stop
__________________________________________
After a series of concert in Japan and in the USA, Kraftwerk returned to Europe to perform at a festival in Barcelona, Spain. The Sónar festival, founded in 1994, specializes, as its original slogan emphasizes, in "advanced music and multimedia art" and is thus a hotspot of electronic music artists such as Kraftwerk, obviously, who undertake multimedia performances since the 70s with the additional usage of projectors, and focus heavily on being forward in time in terms of creativity and being up to date with technology.
The venue of this festival in 1998, the Pavelló de la Mar Bella, had a seating capacity of 2.000 people and a standing capacity of 4.000 people. It was speculated that all 6.000 tickets were sold, but according to Spanish radio, it turned out that 500 were still left.
Francois Kevorkian, a colleague of Kraftwerk, did a DJ set before they started performing and another one after they finished.
Compared to other 1998 concerts, this one seems to be the most average one as there are no special occurances except that Pocket Calculator didn't start with the arpeggio intro.
Attendees were strictly checked for recording equipment by security and only those with a pass-card were allowed to shoot photos of The Man Machine and film clips of Home Computer and The Man Machine which aired on Spanish television. Still, few managed to do shots of other songs, there is an amateur video recording of the two aforementioned songs and the entire show was recorded on an audio tape.
__________________________________________
An infamous CD bootleg that has Kraftwerk's traffic cone with blue stripes instead of white ones on the front cover supposedly contains the only (known) audio recording. The booklet claims that this is a soundboard recording, but it sounds far from being recorded from soundboard. There are typical characteristics of an audience recording such as reverb and crowd noises and, unfortunately, there are few minor cuts and distortion on the kick drums in combination with DC offset in one audio channel as well. Some high frequencies are hidden, but restoreable, although I couldn't restore all of them because I remastered it from a lossy audio source.
__________________________________________
*Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.*
