Kraftwerk live in Hong Kong

by **Mixer** » 22-10-2008 05:50 PM

One of the most influential bands in music history, the Godfathers and pioneers of electronic music ? Kraftwerk - will be performing at AsiaWorld-Expo Hall 9 on December 5, 2008 for the first time ever in Hong Kong!

The electro pioneers Kraftwerk started their vision of the future nearly forty years ago. They created the masterplan for so many contemporary music styles such as electro ? synth pop ? trance and techno.

Now in 2008, Kraftwerk have programmed their robots for a multimedia show with computer animation and digital surround sound. Fans will see Kraftwerk performing not only their innumerable hits from the past 40 years but also a multimedia spectacular that promises to delight their loyal army of fans.

The line up for Kraftwerk 2008 Live in HK will be: Ralf H?tter / Fritz Hilpert / Henning Schmitz / Stefan Pfaffe.

The Kraftwerk Story?

Approximately 40 years ago, in the cold, clean recesses of one Kling Klang studio laboratory located in D?sseldorf, Germany, a collective that called itself Kraftwerk began churning out from an assortment of electronic equipment and their own secret inventions what they termed ?machine music?, the likes of which had never been heard before. Cold, precise, minimal, repetitive and almost wholly electronically-processed, this new brand of stiff was released on an unsuspecting public in the 70s, and pop music was never the same again?
Beginning as a duo in Germany?s late 60s experimental music scene and evolving into a notoriously reclusive synth-pop quartet in the mid 70s, Kraftwerk is today both an institution and an enigma. The group that once expressed an intention to ?make music that sounded like Germany? has had its distinctive sound ? drum machine beats, synths, vocodered vocals ? copied and sampled by musicians such as David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, Art of Noise and Afrika Bambaataa across genres from techno and new wave to rock and hip-hop.
Strikingly antiseptic and yet strangely compelling, Kraftwerk?s spare melodies, precise programming and curiously facile lyrics (?Radioactivity is in the air for you and me?) reveal a deadpan humour and an appreciation of the absurd. Experienced live, a Kraftwerk show is a perfectly synchronised visual spectacle with four besuited guys (and their robot doubles) standing quite still behind consoles onstage, against a backdrop of perfectly synchronized visual projection, lights, robotics and pure theatre.

Kraftwerk Live in Hong Kong
8PM ? December 5, 2008
AsiaWorld-Expo? Hall 9

Tickets:? HK$680 (All Standing)
Tickets on sale at 10am ? Thursday October 30 , 2008 at HK Ticketing and
Tom Lee Outlets
Booking Hotline: (852) 31-288-288
Online Booking: www.livenation.asia / www.hkticketing.com
General Enquiries: (852) 2989 9239

(information provided by the organiser)

by **NewSoftOEMforums** » 22-10-2008 06:55 PM

INCREDIBLE

What an opportunity to see these pioneers! Stoked.

by **linum01** » 25-10-2008 12:25 AM

Can't wait!!

by **nick-w** » 25-10-2008 10:19 PM

really cool that they get a chance to perform in hk.

by **Ninjafeathers** » 26-10-2008 06:28 PM

Seen them once before at Brixton Academy in London.

Is in my top five gigs ever - they were outstanding

Best thing to happen in Hong Kong for a long time

by **Ninjafeathers** » 26-10-2008 06:32 PM

Seen them once before at Brixton Academy in London.

Is in my top five gigs ever - they were outstanding

Best thing to happen in Hong Kong for a long time

by **cosmosis** » 04-12-2008 12:16 AM

can anyone confirm and inform what time KRAFTWERK will be on stage?

THX