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Kraftwerk live at Riviera Theatre, Chicago, USA
June 10th, 1998
1998 World Tour
Home Remaster / Enhanced Audio (Airwaves / Tango, Pocket Calculator - Music Non Stop)
Recording quality: A-~ / B+ / B
Attendance: 2.000 - 2.500
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00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:42 Numbers
05:09 Computer World
08:08 Home Computer
14:51 The Man Machine
22:39 Tour De France
29:02 Autobahn
41:19 The Model
45:00 Airwaves
48:16 Tango
56:14 Sellafield 2
57:15 Radioactivity
1:03:45 Pocket Calculator / Taschenrechner
1:12:30 Music Non Stop
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After taking a detour to a 2002 concert, we return to the 1998 tour and continue where we left off. This time, it's a concert at Chicago, the heart place of house music. Kraftwerk didn't only influence hip hop, but also house music. Frankie Knuckles, the father of house music, mentioned Kraftwerk as his primary influence. Kraftwerk's performance at Chicago was most likely a special occurance for house musicians.
The concert was well attended. In one attendee report, it is said that the venue was crowded, indicating that the concert was sold out. Another attendee report mentions that a security guard had told him that around 2.000 tickets had been sold. The audience was definitely noisy and engaged between the songs, especially during Pocket Calculator and Music Non Stop.
Unfortunately, Trans Europe Express, The Robots, Robotronik and Nummweltverschmutzung are missing. In the latter cited report, a taper was mentioned as well. It's definitely an alt recording that is on this tape because the author of this report was located in front of the stage together with the tape. This recording on the other hand has distant acoustics. The alt recording might include the missing songs.
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Compared to recordings of other 1998 concerts of the US leg, this recording has the lowest quality. The audio is mono which I mitigated by using a plugin that creates a stereo effect, and it has a DC offset caused by a low frequency that is inaudible to human ear, but still contributes to the amplitude causing the waveform to be asymmetrical which I fixed too. The frequency range is decently high, but after a few songs, the white noise gets louder and louder. Something weird happened to the tape which causes a snippet of The Model to be played in reverse. The Model was affected by a weird sine noise as well. I tried to correct this and suppressed the sine noise. Every track got EQed individually.
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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 Riviera Theatre, Chicago, USA
June 10th, 1998
1998 World Tour
Home Remaster / Enhanced Audio (Airwaves / Tango, Pocket Calculator - Music Non Stop)
Recording quality: A-~ / B+ / B
Attendance: 2.000 - 2.500
__________________________________________
00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:42 Numbers
05:09 Computer World
08:08 Home Computer
14:51 The Man Machine
22:39 Tour De France
29:02 Autobahn
41:19 The Model
45:00 Airwaves
48:16 Tango
56:14 Sellafield 2
57:15 Radioactivity
1:03:45 Pocket Calculator / Taschenrechner
1:12:30 Music Non Stop
__________________________________________
After taking a detour to a 2002 concert, we return to the 1998 tour and continue where we left off. This time, it's a concert at Chicago, the heart place of house music. Kraftwerk didn't only influence hip hop, but also house music. Frankie Knuckles, the father of house music, mentioned Kraftwerk as his primary influence. Kraftwerk's performance at Chicago was most likely a special occurance for house musicians.
The concert was well attended. In one attendee report, it is said that the venue was crowded, indicating that the concert was sold out. Another attendee report mentions that a security guard had told him that around 2.000 tickets had been sold. The audience was definitely noisy and engaged between the songs, especially during Pocket Calculator and Music Non Stop.
Unfortunately, Trans Europe Express, The Robots, Robotronik and Nummweltverschmutzung are missing. In the latter cited report, a taper was mentioned as well. It's definitely an alt recording that is on this tape because the author of this report was located in front of the stage together with the tape. This recording on the other hand has distant acoustics. The alt recording might include the missing songs.
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Compared to recordings of other 1998 concerts of the US leg, this recording has the lowest quality. The audio is mono which I mitigated by using a plugin that creates a stereo effect, and it has a DC offset caused by a low frequency that is inaudible to human ear, but still contributes to the amplitude causing the waveform to be asymmetrical which I fixed too. The frequency range is decently high, but after a few songs, the white noise gets louder and louder. Something weird happened to the tape which causes a snippet of The Model to be played in reverse. The Model was affected by a weird sine noise as well. I tried to correct this and suppressed the sine noise. Every track got EQed individually.
__________________________________________
*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.*
