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Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

Almost all are either "soundboard" recordings (taken directly from the mixing desk used at the gig on the night) or old FM radio recordings. A few gigs, if they are of special historical importance, make an appearance even if they were recorded from the audience - these can also be made to sound better than ever.

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Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Show 140 - Kraftwerk - Live At Tribal Gathering Luton Hoo - 24 May 1997



A later gig from Kraftwerk this time, a full set featuring a previously unheard track - a track that's never been released since either. That track, in the files I had was listed as "Innovation" so that's what I've called it here but as Kraftwerk fans will know, it's been called several things over the years - guessing none of those names actually came from Kraftwerk themselves though!

This was a recording from the crowd - Radio 1 in the UK did record the show but have only ever broadcasted an edited version lasting less than 50 minutes - the show here, is in full, lasting an hour and 45 minutes, repaired, tweaked, EQ'ed and remastered to sound better than it ever has before.

Some studio toys removed some of the natural reverb you get on audience recordings and gave me more of the band's sound to play with. From there, it was out with the 30 band EQ, trying to give you more of the sound experience of being in that tent in front of Kraftwerk over 20 years ago!

You can download all of this improved recording for free HERE as one 320 kbps MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to support the site with a small donation towards storage subscription and internet costs, in return you can have the remastered show as separate, properly tagged MP3s or even lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this.

Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
Intro
Numbers
Computer World
It's More Fun To Compute
Home Computer
The Man Machine
Tour De France
Autobahn
Radio Activity
Trans Europe Express
Pocket Calculator
The Robots
Innovation
Musique Non Stop
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8 comments:

  1. ian Numanfan19 November 2019 at 13:39

    thank you :)

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  2. Jeff Tolva20 August 2020 at 07:12

    I've heard that unheard track referred to as "Tribal Gathering" before. I'm not sure if it's ever been given a proper name though.

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  3. Anonymous29 May 2023 at 10:12

    I was lucky enough to be at this festival and caught the Kraftwerk set. Until now I have never seen the full concert available for download. Thanks a million! :) As you mention the BBC shamefully cut the live recording down to 1 hour.

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    1. Flip Martian29 May 2023 at 14:16

      Cool. They were really on it at this gig. Hope it brings back some memories.

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  4. Anonymous3 July 2023 at 05:06

    Hey, this is really cool! I wasn't born when this was recorded but I know the Tribal Gathering gig was a real make or break moment for Kraftwerk, this recording sounds great cleaned up!

    I'm going to put it on Tumblr so more people aware. Thanks -- Ryan

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    1. Flip Martian3 July 2023 at 12:19

      Thanks Ryan, glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for sharing the link out there.

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