Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Kraftwerk live at de Oosterpoort, Groningen, the Netherlands
May 25th, 1993
1993 Festival Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: A-
Attendance: ~700
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May 25th, 1993 was a special day when Kraftwerk played a legendary concert in Groningen, in the Netherlands. They played The Man Machine for the very first time. They didn't play this song in 1981 and they couldn't play in 1978 because they cancelled the mini-The Man Machine tour in the UK.
They considered including The Man Machine and Neon Lights to The Mix, but they actually didn't do it because it would make the album too long as Ralf stated it in a press conference in Stockholm 1991. He even mentioned in an interview from Berlin, June 1991 that The Man Machine would be included to the setlist of The Mix tour, but not even that came in place.
This time, however, they finally performed their iconic song, The Man Machine, for the first time. They went for a multilingual approach in the live version. Originally, this song has a German and an English version. The German version doesn't fit well to the rhythm of the chorus, but the rest of its lyrics are solid otherwise. Combining both version together also made the song less repetitive.
The pad isn't as prominent as in the later versions which is a reminiscence of the orginal version which lack the pad completely, and the drums sound hollow and punchy compared to the late 90s versions.
There's a "demo" of The Mix version of The Man Machine as well that surfaced on Kraftwerk's MySpace account. It's not exactly a demo because it has Ralf's 2008/09 vocoder voice on top of the speech synthesizer voice. It resembles the 1993 live version a lot with the weak pad and the punchy drums.
It's a pity that this recording only includes The Man Machine, but at the same time, it's a fortune that the only included song is this song.
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This recording used to be uploaded by someone before I saved it from getting lost from the internet and I remember that someone wrote in the comment section of that video that he finds the audio quality horrible. It might have a high frequency range and lots of details, but the quality is slightly more compressed than YouTube's standard (128kb/s). The original mp3 file of this recording has a bitrate of around 110 kb/s. Maybe he found it horrible due to the flatness of the recording which I fixed in the home remaster. I also completely corrected the speed. It may sound nostalgic if it's played with a speed difference of +3%, but it already has the nostalgic sound from the semi-digital Kling Klang Studio, so perfectionism gains the upper hand and a little bit of it doesn't hurt.
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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 de Oosterpoort, Groningen, the Netherlands
May 25th, 1993
1993 Festival Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: A-
Attendance: ~700
______________________________________
May 25th, 1993 was a special day when Kraftwerk played a legendary concert in Groningen, in the Netherlands. They played The Man Machine for the very first time. They didn't play this song in 1981 and they couldn't play in 1978 because they cancelled the mini-The Man Machine tour in the UK.
They considered including The Man Machine and Neon Lights to The Mix, but they actually didn't do it because it would make the album too long as Ralf stated it in a press conference in Stockholm 1991. He even mentioned in an interview from Berlin, June 1991 that The Man Machine would be included to the setlist of The Mix tour, but not even that came in place.
This time, however, they finally performed their iconic song, The Man Machine, for the first time. They went for a multilingual approach in the live version. Originally, this song has a German and an English version. The German version doesn't fit well to the rhythm of the chorus, but the rest of its lyrics are solid otherwise. Combining both version together also made the song less repetitive.
The pad isn't as prominent as in the later versions which is a reminiscence of the orginal version which lack the pad completely, and the drums sound hollow and punchy compared to the late 90s versions.
There's a "demo" of The Mix version of The Man Machine as well that surfaced on Kraftwerk's MySpace account. It's not exactly a demo because it has Ralf's 2008/09 vocoder voice on top of the speech synthesizer voice. It resembles the 1993 live version a lot with the weak pad and the punchy drums.
It's a pity that this recording only includes The Man Machine, but at the same time, it's a fortune that the only included song is this song.
______________________________________
This recording used to be uploaded by someone before I saved it from getting lost from the internet and I remember that someone wrote in the comment section of that video that he finds the audio quality horrible. It might have a high frequency range and lots of details, but the quality is slightly more compressed than YouTube's standard (128kb/s). The original mp3 file of this recording has a bitrate of around 110 kb/s. Maybe he found it horrible due to the flatness of the recording which I fixed in the home remaster. I also completely corrected the speed. It may sound nostalgic if it's played with a speed difference of +3%, but it already has the nostalgic sound from the semi-digital Kling Klang Studio, so perfectionism gains the upper hand and a little bit of it doesn't hurt.
______________________________________
*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.*
