Kanalvogt SG | Kraftwerk - Live in Geneva 1976 (FUBUKI 3-6-9's Home Remaster) @KanalvogtSG | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Kraftwerk live at Palais des Expositions, Geneva, Switzerland
October 2nd, 1976
Trans Europe Express Tour
FUBUKI 3-6-9's Home Remaster
Recording quality: A-
Home remaster quality: A~
Attendance: unknown
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00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
01:35 Kometenmelodie 2
09:22 Europe Endless
19:46 Geiger Counter
20:41 Radioactivity
28:28 Goethe's Poem
29:37 Airwaves
39:23 Die Stimme Der Energie
40:13 Radio Sterne
40:57 Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne
44:04 Ohm Sweet Ohm
49:57 Trans Europe Express
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Premiered in celebration of Wolfgang's 77th birthday.
For a long time, I haven't covered Kraftwerk's 1970s shows since I'm still occupied going for the concert from 1998 to 202? (don't worry, I will only select the most important and unique shows, so, it won't take decades until I reach their early concerts). In 2021, a partial recording of Geneva 1976 got leaked and circulated on trading websites followed by an upload on YouTube by Babass_. It only took little speculation and most importantly research to determine the date and the venue this performance took place. The hype was big when this recording got shared publicly because it originates from a concert of the Trans Europe Express tour, a tour of which few recordings are available and the TEE songs are performed before the album released.
Some may scratch their heads and point out that the Trans Europe Express tour never existed. In regards to the fact that 2 and later 3 out of 4 main songs of the album premiered in their late 1976 shows, it is actually not invalid to classify this series of gigs as the TEE tour, although the tour only existed unofficially.
The show starts with Kometenmelodie 2. Kometenmelodie 1 and Tanzmusik were removed from the setlist (with latter song never returning again) in order to fit in Europe Endless, Trans Europe Express and maybe Showroom Dummies.
Europe Endless has a bassline that differs from the one in an earlier concert in Amsterdam. Even if Switzerland is primarily a German-speaking country, this song was performed in English. Geneva belongs to the French-speaking part of Switzerland, but that doesn't mean that its residents don't speak German. The same applies to Trans Europe Express.
In Geiger Counter, a kick instead of a snare is used for the ticking sound, and Radioactivity, Airwaves and Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne now include the Orchestron giving these tracks more depth.
Two titles, Radio Sterne and Ohm Sweet Ohm, were absent in the setlist from early 1976 and got first introduced later that year. Ohm Sweet Ohm follows the same structure as the album version. It has an accelerando and the melody repeats for an eternity whereas the later versions constantly have a slow BPM and are not overly repetitive. However, the "sweet" in the title is not spoken by the Votrax, but by Ralf, and there is a proper outro.
The last recorded song is Trans Europe Express. It already has the whispering Votrax voice that first appeared in Paris September 1976, but not in Amsterdam 1976. This was replaced by a whispering vocoder in the album version. The different key, intro and chorus order stand out the most in the 1976 iteration.
Sadly, there is a tape flip during the Iggy Pop & David Bowie line and the second tape that includes Autobahn and Kristallo, if not Showroom Dummies or even Les Mannequins, is lost. A user compulsively asked for Autobahn, but he got disappointed for a 3-digit number of times. The Radioactivity and TEE tours remain undocumented to a high degree.
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This Kraftwerk audio home remaster is the first of the two FUBUKI 3-6-9 created. He specializes in video remastering, yet his audio remasters show even more improvements. London 2nd Night 1991 for instance sounds flat, dry and muffled and he turned it into a marvelous remaster. Recordings of other bands were touched by him too. One of them sounded horrendous before and ended up sounding like an official live album.
Geneva's tape didn't need much polishing work. Every hearable frequency is captured on it. On the other side, there's a problem that many microphones have. They often capture the sound flat and muffled. FUBUKI 3-6-9's remaster definitly has the sharpness that the original audio doesn't have. The only downside of the remaster is that it still lacks depth. Additionally, there was a note on his upload that he remastered it from mp3 128k audio, so, he couldn't get hands on the lossless files at that time.
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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 Palais des Expositions, Geneva, Switzerland
October 2nd, 1976
Trans Europe Express Tour
FUBUKI 3-6-9's Home Remaster
Recording quality: A-
Home remaster quality: A~
Attendance: unknown
__________________________________________
00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
01:35 Kometenmelodie 2
09:22 Europe Endless
19:46 Geiger Counter
20:41 Radioactivity
28:28 Goethe's Poem
29:37 Airwaves
39:23 Die Stimme Der Energie
40:13 Radio Sterne
40:57 Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne
44:04 Ohm Sweet Ohm
49:57 Trans Europe Express
__________________________________________
Premiered in celebration of Wolfgang's 77th birthday.
For a long time, I haven't covered Kraftwerk's 1970s shows since I'm still occupied going for the concert from 1998 to 202? (don't worry, I will only select the most important and unique shows, so, it won't take decades until I reach their early concerts). In 2021, a partial recording of Geneva 1976 got leaked and circulated on trading websites followed by an upload on YouTube by Babass_. It only took little speculation and most importantly research to determine the date and the venue this performance took place. The hype was big when this recording got shared publicly because it originates from a concert of the Trans Europe Express tour, a tour of which few recordings are available and the TEE songs are performed before the album released.
Some may scratch their heads and point out that the Trans Europe Express tour never existed. In regards to the fact that 2 and later 3 out of 4 main songs of the album premiered in their late 1976 shows, it is actually not invalid to classify this series of gigs as the TEE tour, although the tour only existed unofficially.
The show starts with Kometenmelodie 2. Kometenmelodie 1 and Tanzmusik were removed from the setlist (with latter song never returning again) in order to fit in Europe Endless, Trans Europe Express and maybe Showroom Dummies.
Europe Endless has a bassline that differs from the one in an earlier concert in Amsterdam. Even if Switzerland is primarily a German-speaking country, this song was performed in English. Geneva belongs to the French-speaking part of Switzerland, but that doesn't mean that its residents don't speak German. The same applies to Trans Europe Express.
In Geiger Counter, a kick instead of a snare is used for the ticking sound, and Radioactivity, Airwaves and Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne now include the Orchestron giving these tracks more depth.
Two titles, Radio Sterne and Ohm Sweet Ohm, were absent in the setlist from early 1976 and got first introduced later that year. Ohm Sweet Ohm follows the same structure as the album version. It has an accelerando and the melody repeats for an eternity whereas the later versions constantly have a slow BPM and are not overly repetitive. However, the "sweet" in the title is not spoken by the Votrax, but by Ralf, and there is a proper outro.
The last recorded song is Trans Europe Express. It already has the whispering Votrax voice that first appeared in Paris September 1976, but not in Amsterdam 1976. This was replaced by a whispering vocoder in the album version. The different key, intro and chorus order stand out the most in the 1976 iteration.
Sadly, there is a tape flip during the Iggy Pop & David Bowie line and the second tape that includes Autobahn and Kristallo, if not Showroom Dummies or even Les Mannequins, is lost. A user compulsively asked for Autobahn, but he got disappointed for a 3-digit number of times. The Radioactivity and TEE tours remain undocumented to a high degree.
__________________________________________
This Kraftwerk audio home remaster is the first of the two FUBUKI 3-6-9 created. He specializes in video remastering, yet his audio remasters show even more improvements. London 2nd Night 1991 for instance sounds flat, dry and muffled and he turned it into a marvelous remaster. Recordings of other bands were touched by him too. One of them sounded horrendous before and ended up sounding like an official live album.
Geneva's tape didn't need much polishing work. Every hearable frequency is captured on it. On the other side, there's a problem that many microphones have. They often capture the sound flat and muffled. FUBUKI 3-6-9's remaster definitly has the sharpness that the original audio doesn't have. The only downside of the remaster is that it still lacks depth. Additionally, there was a note on his upload that he remastered it from mp3 128k audio, so, he couldn't get hands on the lossless files at that time.
__________________________________________
*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.*
