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Kraftwerk Return to the ‘Autobahn’ on First Night of Disney Hall Residency: Concert Review
Electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk launched their residency at Los Angeles' Disney Hall with a full airing of their 'Autobahn' album along with hits.
Standards like “Numbers,” “Airwaves,” “Computer Love” and “The Man-Machine” sounded as massive and ahead-of-their-time as ever, with Hütter giving the late showstopper “Trans Europe Express” a few impromptu embellishments, turning that oft-sampled synth melody inside-out until the song resembled a midnight train to Transylvania. The meditative, two-part “Kometenmelodie” offered a lovely little breather amidst all of the kling und klang of the heavy-hitters, while “Mitternacht” felt like something out of a horror movie, with video screens zooming in and out on an unnervingly placid nocturnal residential scene. Indeed, for all his deadpan lack of sentimentality, one had to imagine Hütter breaking into something resembling a smile as he left the stage to a standing ovation after “Musique Non Stop,” a fully-deserved acknowledgement for a body of work that has shifted the course of popular music in countless ways over the last 50 years.
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