Photos: Kraftwerk at the Shrine Auditorium

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Kraftwerk at the Shrine Auditorium (Photo by Stevo Rood / ARood Photo)

Man met machine met music met visual magic on Tuesday night when electronic visionaries Kraftwerk — now, amazingly, in their sixth decade — brought their summer tour to L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium.

The quartet (Ralf Hütter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert and Falk Grieffenhagen) gave the audience — 3-D glasses on — two solid hours of music, including some variations on their well-known songs. The cross-generational audience ate it up.

Setlist: Numbers, Computer World, Computer World 2, It’s More Fun to Compute, Home Computer, Spacelab, Airwaves, Tango, The Man-Machine, Electric Café, Autobahn, Computer Love, The Model, Neon Lights, Geiger Counter, Radioactivity, Tour de France, Prologue, Tour de France Étape 1, Chrono, Tour de France Étape 2, Trans-Europe Express, Abzug, Metal on Metal. Encore: The Robots, Robotronik, Planet of Visions, Pocket Calculator, Dentaku, Non Stop, Boing Boom Tschak, Music Non Stop

Photos by Stevo Rood / ARood Photo