Live and Loud!: Show 212 - Karl Bartos - Live At The Palladium, Cologne

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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.

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Friday, 1 November 2024

Show 212 - Karl Bartos - Live At The Palladium, Cologne - 31 May 2000

A quick request. If you plan on downloading this and putting it on your YouTube channel or your own bootleg page - I don't mind. But a credit to this website where you found it and a link back to this page would be really appreciated. It helps me gauge which artists are popular - ie more chance of other restorations coming. Don't just steal it, cut out the intro and outro and take the credit. Thanks.

The Show
I think this was originally a TV broadcast of Karl's solo performance at the Electronic Beats festival in Cologne, Germany. Whether it was originally broadcast in stereo or not, I don't know but the only available sources of this recording I found are in mono. It came to me via a collector (and he'll be getting a lossless copy of this restoration as a thank you).

What Was Done
It was rather flat and muddy but otherwise in good condition. So most of the work I did was to clean up the sound and make it more powerful. Making the sound mix clearer, so the drums and synth bassstand out better in particular, and then mastered to make it clearer and more powerful overall, and wider (pseudo stereo, if you like). The result is much clearer than the original recording; I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

The All Important Download/Stream Link

As always, the restored and remasterd show is available to download or stream for free as a single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:

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Setlist
Nummern / Computerwelt
Metropolis
It's More Fun to Compute / Heimcomputer
TV
Neonlicht
The Model
Computer Love
The Robots

Interested in Kraftwerk? You're in luck! This is just the latest in quite a few shows relating to them - check them out HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.

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