The Drum Machine That Shaped Krautrock 

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that back socket is an untapped bounty. gotta find the other side that would be awesome. the socket. wonder if its a custom or has a name. very coool

What’s better than Heinbach bringing us some classic: Boom Data Boom Dat Boom Dat Dah? Thanks for making my week Heinbach. 🎵✌️

Perfect person to talk about Krautrock.

Herzlichen dank for ihre arbeit!

"Immer wieder rauf und runter ..." :-) I think Michael Rother also used a Keio Mini Pops drum machine, as did Echo and the Bunnymen. Great video, thanks.

Ooooh... when you turned up the "dirty stinking bass" drum 4:44 and got that lovely throbbing drone out of it... I made the same face that Sam makes 6:14 when the speed drops down on the tape! I love how "Pipe Dreams" has just a tiny soupçon of "Ohm Sweet Ohm" 8:03. Right, I've got to go put some Harmonia on my phone for headphone listening now.

OMG the entire drum section of the Dust Brothers' Fight Club Soundtrack

Amazing timing on this video. I saw Michael Rother play live recently, and have been on a Harmonia ride ever since. I have really been wondering what they used for a rhythm machine - and here we are!

I got thrown out of a music store when I was a kid for making one of those sound like a truck full of angry ducks hitting a truck full of empty milk cans - at least that's what the salesguy said...

Thanks for this. Your videos inspire me - not because of nostalgia but because you show the value and greatness of the most clear simplicity.

Loved seeing how these ‘simple’ drum machines can be used so creatively and to such great effect.

I know the video’s abt the drum machine, but that Audio/Baton stole the show for me - the little keyboard graphic above the controls is a genius bit of design work, showing where the frequencies sit!

Ooo love the snare on that. The trigger outs on the back are a surprising feature! Very useful. Sounds amazing through the processing. Also noticed you got a Korg FK-1. Mine is being fixed, but also modded with CV inputs to use as a stand alone filter module. I'll have to get the details from my tech if you want to do the same.

Love that KORG VCF , neat and tidy with clairty easy to shape long faders never have seen that item. I would throw everything through my SH-2 filter similar deal - but I no longer have the keyboard .

I love it! Are you gonna make a plugin version of this?

Wow, just when I’m rediscovering krautrock again, HARMONIA, wow, what a dream, and Can and and and…. Makes me love this human experience 🤠

i read a rother interview that said they used the schaller tremolo to cut up the preset beats to make new rhythms

You just doubled the resale price in the last 70 seconds of the video.

OMG i had a Kenwood Amplifier from 1977 with a drum box option , exactly thoses sounds 8 + 8 drum sounds , bongo bossa nova conga etc etc etc i miss itt so much ... PS : Easly tunable for exemple used it as a drum pad (like kraftwerk) ^^

A software version of the Elka Drummer One would be cool!

I might have one of those plugs that goes in the Solo Rhythmer port in the back. I gotta check my attic...

Now, an Arduino mod that lets you create presets that presses all of the drum preset buttons at one time. Actually, with Korg filter - that is *really* cool.

Always wondering if Hainbach has his own power plant to power all of that equipment 😂

Wow that thing packs a punch!

Awesome video ☺♥♪

06:20 - I have absolutely heard some of that on some krautrock album, fantastic!

Did Harmonia run their drum machines through the Schulte Compact Phasing phaser like some other bands of the era? Would be interesting to hear that. Thanks Hainbach!

Harmonia is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ 04.40 moves its sound from retro to contemporary tribe tekno / sprial tekno within turning a knob. nice.

Krautrock- such a great creative genre!

Servus Hainbach! Ich frohe mich über dein kanal. (Excuse me for my crappy school German). As a dreamy nerd who used TD and various other synthesizer experiments as soundtrack for my 80s adolescence I find great joy in your videos. Electronic music is a strange and often beautiful beast. It's like breaking down reality into small electronic pieces and construct something new and improved while having great fun. I'm especially glad that you reach out to other creators. In our time of conflicts I find comfort in watching the videos about the Polivoks. That would have been so much harder to make during the cold war. Likewise, who would have thought 80 years ago that a German and an Englishman would be making music together, having fun? To me it seems that we can make a claim on the future. We have at least a possibility to make it beautiful. We just need to connect the cords to the right sockets, put all the knobs in the right positions and add some effects ❤

What a glorious machine!

woaaa amazing that this thing is still in working order.

Sounds like Zuckerzeit and Musik Von Harmonia. Awesome.

It has cowbell! I approve of this machine! 😁

Consistently great videos. These type of machines are the mainstay of my favourite era of music proto and post punk self published electronica, Caberat Voltaire, The Normal, early industrial. Always happy to see a new one for me. I have too much old gear to usefully maintain. Instead I use field recordings and along with the inbuilt sounds, process in Audacity, then build repetitive early drum machine type percussive loops, for experimentation and performance. Possibly totally pointless but great fun. .......mmmmm. maybe I should get a life, but it does keep me sane, mostly.

Asolut Wow, was da so an equipment rumsteht, die musik - noch "wower" ,superfroh das ich über deinen kanal gestolpert bin, erstmal rumhören und die gratis Plugins runterladen! Danke erstmal und bis bald, vielleicht ja auch in echt in Finkenbach obwoh wederl Guru Guru noch Conni&Manni am Start sind und im vergleich zu früher (1. mal '93) voll komerziell...

WHAT THE BLONDER TONGUE WOW

Very Cool

Hauntology 😅😅 as Jacques Derrida explained ... The culture and economy of old gadgets worship, washed up from the past, here to haunt us about a time long gone...

Such perfect timing of a video. I’ve already been obsessed with Musik Von Harmonia for the past year, but recently I finally listened to Zuckerzeit and got even more obsessed. Wonderful video, so cool to see this iconic drum machine being explored in depth

Heya! St.Elmo's Fire.

Could you modify this to make it play a Motorik drum beat? 😀

Wow. Interesting

eine echolette drummachine, ja krass, wusste gar nicht, dass es so was gibt! (wenn auch nur ein re-brand) mein erster gitarrenamp 1982 war ein echolette. ich hab den noch im keller stehen. dieses rhythmus teil kingt echt interessant, weich und organisch + diese veränderungsmöglichkeiten on the fly waren nicht schlecht!

very dope!

Sounds and looks amazing. Has a very Dieter Rams look in a 70s way to it, timeless! The tempo strobo on the right side is such a wonderful feature, lock in from a distance, love it!

Love the Drummer One and love Harmonia. Great video. I have mine modded with individual outputs and Tubbutec midi. Also have two that were in combo amps!

So wait, it reacts to CV? So if you, for example, use a piezzo mic, convert it's output to CV (or even connect it DIRECTLY???) to one of the out(and now also IN-puts) it will be able to be used as a live electric drum-head???😮 Or is it „just“ (awesome enough for sure) using the CV for sync? I'm wondering...😳

Looking forward to a follow-up vid using cv

Cluster used a vibrato-pedal in on the elka, harmonia too.

harmonia is amazing

I feel like Gary Numan could have used this on “Cry the Clock Said”. Very cool

I somehow feel it also "shaped" Brian Eno a tiny bit on his first two solo albums

Doesn't the SH-2 have an external input? Couldn't you use the pulse signal from the Elka to trigger that?

Machines like that are so incredible. The Seeburg select-a-rhythm is another legendary machine of this type, used by Synth Punk pioneers Suicide, especially on the scariest song in the world "Frankie Teardrop"

I have a maestro rhythm king mark 1. Same model sly and the family stone used. Found in the trash in perfect working order

Ok, until 5:00 I was like, "ok"... and then that bomb

It sounds like it was used on the intro to JJ Cale's "They Call Me The Breeze".

Are we there yet?... ;D

Some sounds are almost TR-808 like

Was that used by the dust brothers?

最高～～～～裁判所！！

4:44....brooooo. WTF .wOw

aber...ist da auch lambada drin? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DEvGjHJiCf4.html

Hi Hainbach, what is your opinion on the Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, and do you believe it is unique enough to shell out the big bucks for? There was one listed in my area but it was slightly damaged in a way I wasn’t sure if I could repair. Thanks!

I was given one of these along with an elka eh105, foolishly i gave it away and then gave the keyboard to a ex girlfriend , if i knew then what i knew now 😢

5:04 next gig at the UG techno club!

It somehow reminds me the Minipops used by Jean-Michel Jarre.

when most people in the room head explodes that time you heard an insane spaced out mind f**k audio production by a superbly talented musical act and all you do is break down the gear and settings used 😂

the drum machine that shaped Krautrock was, in my opinion, the drummer of CAN xD

Are you keeping Bartosz in your cellar so that he only repairs things for you, or does he have his own workshop where he can also do jobs for other people?

i hope musik von harmonia is found by new generations bc of you!! one of the great kosmische albums! ohrwurm is an all-timer!

Harmonia!

I prefer sauerkrautrock myself…..

I Like this old drum machines

How does it work? I guess lots of transistors making sequencer and oscillators and envelopes. Or does it have a tiny 16 cylinder ferrari engine inside? Thanks Hainbach for everything that you bring and all those that you inspire

I love the sound of both of the "Cymbals" on this machine, they really do it for me 👌 That Harmonia album - Live 1974 - is simply a classic, and it's easily one of my 'Time machine gigs', an event that I wish I could go back to. I would particularly recommend the track "Veteranissimo" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BwCPTxwtJ3E.htmlsi=8GUvqpo8hJHKQBow

Did The Resident use a Drummer One?

Jaki Liebezeit was much better!

i dont want an 808, i want this !

Pipe Dreams - a dream i like mucho much ;) ... just like your demo in this video, "fett", thank you, Hainbach! ... will we see you live/on festivals in the near future? ... if yes, I would like to make a wish ;)

Swear there is a drum sequence by Gorillaz that sounds like 6:05; so good. Good evidence that they implement a lot of dub processes into their production. Love it!

Wow, that last little extra bit is a eureka moment, I'd love to see you trigger from external sources if you can make some kind of cable to make it easier so there's not so many pins close to each other on that socket

The drum loop in 6:38 reminded me so much of "Shame" by Young Fathers that I had to go check the song. It may have something of this machine, but heavily processed and layered. Great video as usual!

Music noob, but I was surprised how you changed that classic drum machine, combine it with even older, new tech and create something absolutely contemporary. Now I realize this is the essence of sampling and synthesizing, but the creative mix of music and technology is something that never ceases to amaze me.

Da muss aber jetzt das Folgevideo mit dem externen Triggerinput kommen!

Wonderful to see people keeping electronic music history alive. The creative juices that came out the challenges of rather temperamental and limited equipment when plugged together beats anything done in the box today. I miss my Casio!

so cool thanks

Found one of these that came within a wooden cabinet that also includes a dedicated amp and a speaker. I thought maybe someone custom built it but it has legit elka plates everywhere and i can't find any of these online except on a dead IG post from 5 years ago. Wanted to sell it but this thing is built like a mini fridge so no one wants it

What's that Korg VCF? A filter I'd imagine, first time I see it

I'd have loved to hear more results from the sequencer connection at the end. if im understanding correctly, you'd need a sequencer that can send different pulses for each drum (or a pile of sequencers) to get a full rhythm. perhaps there's a mod you could do on something you already have

Obviously this machine was used on the KLUSTER albums too.

I hope this will be another AudioThing collaboration....

It was also used KMFDM on their "Symbols" tour in 1997.

What a wonderful piece of music history. Thanks für sharing.

its a lot like a very basic version of the roland cr78 much used by Gary Numan

Is it a big problem for you to repair any of the vintage hardware you have? Is there a good electronic service near you? Greetings from Amon-dur Music School from Macedonia!

5:33 You can even hear how it's producing a 50Hz tone from the mains