Kraftwerk Working on Blu-ray Release of 3D Shows

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Kraftwerk's most recent tours (including their upcoming North American fall tour) have been presented in 3D, with venues hooked up to surround sound as 3D imagery is projected in synchronization with the music. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the group's Ralf Hütter said they're working on a home video release for the 3D show.

He told Rolling Stone:

We've been doing this and working on a Blu-ray to make this available. It should be coming out in the late fall. We've put a lot of work into all the images, transforming from our Kling Klang archives into 3D format and arranging it synchronized with the music, so it's quite a lot of production. We're quite a small team of musicians, technicians, computer programmers here at Kling Klang Studios; we do everything ourselves. That's what we've been working in, and still are. When we travel to America, we'll hopefully be finished with this work.

Later in the interview, Hütter was asked if the group is working on new music. "Yes, we are always working on new tracks and patterns and sound compositions, and once we are finished with our work on the 3D Catalogue, those eight albums, then we will concentrate on number nine," he said. (Hütter also gave a similar-sounding quote about the band's would-be ninth album back in 2013.) 

Hütter also confirmed that Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider, who left the group in 2009, was not involved in the making of any new music.

Read Jenn Pelly's report from their 2012 MoMA show.

Watch Kraftwerk play "The Robots" at MoMA:

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