Rebooting Kraftwerk’s Historic Residency at Disney Concert Hall

Looking like something out of the TRON movie in lit-up circuitry-embellished jumpsuits (which was fitting considering the concert took place at a Disney venue) Kraftwerk presented a unique concert experience last week: nine nights of music highlighting their prolific output, each evening focused on a different recording. 

Timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their seminal album Autobahn –composed, produced, and recorded by founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1974– the series also presented seven more albums: Radio-Activity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991), and Tour de France (2003). We attended the 9th and closing show which covered all five decades of Kraftwerk’s repertoire, a retrospective hodge podge that illustrated the group’s evolution both visually and sonically.