Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
Music // Steve // 24th January 2006
We've been meaning to write about this for a while, but DVDborn rather beat us to it - there's a fantastic torrent available of a German TV special featuring Kraftwerk at the peak of their powers in 1981.
I haven't watched it all yet, because my jaw dropped and hit the stop button when I saw them doing a version of "Pocket Calculator". They're absolutely going for it, giving it a hundred and ten percent, with maximum jerky dancing, random audience participation and live, hot Stylophone action.
No laughing at the back please, trust me: a Stylophone through a huge PA system sounds raw and rude. There's plenty of bass, believe me.
At the risk of murdering our bandwidth allocation, here's the (rather murky) clip. You'll potentially need the evil Quicktime to make it work...
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