Before Ralf, Fritz, Henning and Falk were jumping on the Trans Europe Express, inspiring Afrika Bambaattaa’s Planet Rock and pioneering electronic music worldwide, they were a couple of friends in their early 20’s looking for venues to share their unique sound. Then, in 1970 in a TV studio in Germany the Kraftwerk crew packed up a stage with a ton of computers and instruments for one of their first performances and did just that. The rest is, history…
From the archives of Germany's public broadcasting institution WDR, this televised concert video of Kraftwerk from 1970, the year of the band's formation. Even then, their post-Krautrock motorik dynamism is trance-inducing.