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Kraftwerk live at Apollo, Manchester, UK
July 12th, 1991
The Mix Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: B+
Attendance: 3000 - 3500
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00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:50 Numbers
06:04 Computer World
11:10 Home Computer
19:40 Computer Love
26:55 The Model
30:48 Tour De France
38:32 Autobahn
50:04 Radioactivity
57:07 Trans Europe Express
1:08:00 The Robots
1:13:33 Robotronik
1:18:32 Pocket Calculator
1:30:51 Music Non Stop
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A year before the Sellafield '92 concert in Manchester, they did a concert there in the same city, but with Fernando Abrantes instead of Henning Schmitz. I already analyzed the differences in the Glasgow '91 recording, but I didn't talk about the stage design. Wolfgang Flür stated a few times that he wasn't only responsible for the drumming, but also for the stage design. When Wolfgang official left the band in 1990 (Florian had asked Wolfgang if he wanted to take part in the Italy '90 tour, but he declined), he got replaced by Fritz Hilpert and Fritz also replaced his role. It was Fritz' idea to use robots on stage during Robotronik and he did the work for the new '91 video projections. Fritz also did a few mistakes with the stage design. After the transition from Numbers to Computer World, purple lights instead of green lights turned on and during Computer World, the video projection said "Medecine" instead of "Medicine". In Pocket Calculator '90, the video projection showed the faces of each member. Now, in Pocket Calculator '91, it was blank. Lights in all colors were on. In a short distance, it looks like a rainbow, but in a long distance, it looks like white light because if all colors that are in the rainbow get mixed, white will come out. The songs didn't change much. Ralf or Florian improvised with the Synclavier at the beginning of Computer Love. At the beginning of Radioactivity they used the bass from William Orbit's remix for a short time. Ralf mostly used the "stylophone"-preset in Pocket Calculator and Florian and Fritz had an epic duet during Music Non Stop which I love. What's most noticeable in this concert is Ralf's hoarse voice. Ralf's comments are also worth mentioning. Before The Model the audience asked him to play a specific song, but he answered "No!" and proceeded playing The Model. At the beginning of Autobahn he let the audience guess what car it is. Later he gave them the solution "Volkswagen".
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This recording originally had a very wet sound. I somehow EQed it in a way that it sounds less wet like in Birmingham '91. I had to remove the left channel and replace it with a clone of the right channel because it had faulty kick drum frequencies. Unfortunately I didn't run a Pseudo-Stereo-plugin on it because I didn't know anything about that plugin before I remastered this recording, but I still think it sounds good. The high frequencies couldn't get restored because most of these frequencies are white noise. There were clicks at the very beginning, but I could reduce them. I had to use a trick at 01:09 because the amount of click there were too large and too exhausting.
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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 Apollo, Manchester, UK
July 12th, 1991
The Mix Tour
Home Remaster
Recording quality: B+
Attendance: 3000 - 3500
__________________________________________
00:00 Meine Damen Und Herren
00:50 Numbers
06:04 Computer World
11:10 Home Computer
19:40 Computer Love
26:55 The Model
30:48 Tour De France
38:32 Autobahn
50:04 Radioactivity
57:07 Trans Europe Express
1:08:00 The Robots
1:13:33 Robotronik
1:18:32 Pocket Calculator
1:30:51 Music Non Stop
__________________________________________
A year before the Sellafield '92 concert in Manchester, they did a concert there in the same city, but with Fernando Abrantes instead of Henning Schmitz. I already analyzed the differences in the Glasgow '91 recording, but I didn't talk about the stage design. Wolfgang Flür stated a few times that he wasn't only responsible for the drumming, but also for the stage design. When Wolfgang official left the band in 1990 (Florian had asked Wolfgang if he wanted to take part in the Italy '90 tour, but he declined), he got replaced by Fritz Hilpert and Fritz also replaced his role. It was Fritz' idea to use robots on stage during Robotronik and he did the work for the new '91 video projections. Fritz also did a few mistakes with the stage design. After the transition from Numbers to Computer World, purple lights instead of green lights turned on and during Computer World, the video projection said "Medecine" instead of "Medicine". In Pocket Calculator '90, the video projection showed the faces of each member. Now, in Pocket Calculator '91, it was blank. Lights in all colors were on. In a short distance, it looks like a rainbow, but in a long distance, it looks like white light because if all colors that are in the rainbow get mixed, white will come out. The songs didn't change much. Ralf or Florian improvised with the Synclavier at the beginning of Computer Love. At the beginning of Radioactivity they used the bass from William Orbit's remix for a short time. Ralf mostly used the "stylophone"-preset in Pocket Calculator and Florian and Fritz had an epic duet during Music Non Stop which I love. What's most noticeable in this concert is Ralf's hoarse voice. Ralf's comments are also worth mentioning. Before The Model the audience asked him to play a specific song, but he answered "No!" and proceeded playing The Model. At the beginning of Autobahn he let the audience guess what car it is. Later he gave them the solution "Volkswagen".
__________________________________________
This recording originally had a very wet sound. I somehow EQed it in a way that it sounds less wet like in Birmingham '91. I had to remove the left channel and replace it with a clone of the right channel because it had faulty kick drum frequencies. Unfortunately I didn't run a Pseudo-Stereo-plugin on it because I didn't know anything about that plugin before I remastered this recording, but I still think it sounds good. The high frequencies couldn't get restored because most of these frequencies are white noise. There were clicks at the very beginning, but I could reduce them. I had to use a trick at 01:09 because the amount of click there were too large and too exhausting.
__________________________________________
*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.*
