Beginning their eight night run at Tate Modern last night, German electronic museum pioneers Kraftwerk played their debut album Autobahn to a crowd of 1,250 in the museum’s Turbine Hall.  Mirroring their run of shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art last year, the band will play one of their eight full length albums each night, closing on February 14th with their last album, Tour de France.  “I saw them three-and-a-half years ago at the Manchester Velodrome and now that the whole show is in 3D and with surround sound, it’s incredible. It’s amazing that 40 years into their career, they’re still relevant,” said Andy McCluskey of electronic act Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark. (more…)

In a replication of their performances at the MoMA in New York this past April, 2012, legendary German electro-pioneers Kraftwerk will perform eight classic albums in chronological order, with “spectacular 3D visualizations and effects” in Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern. At both museums the show was billed as “a chronological exploration of the group’s sonic and visual experiments.” Tate Modern’s title, slightly different than MoMA’s, is KRAFTWERK – THE CATALOGUE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8,  and tickets go on sale December 12th.  (more…)