3-D (Der Katalog)

'3-D (The Catalogue)' (also known as '3-D (Der Katalog)' in its German language edition) is Kraftwerk's second official live album, following 2005's Minimum-Maximum. It is comprised of new versions of the eight core Kraftwerk albums, as performed at a series of live events around the world between 2012 and 2016. The venues included:
Museum of Modern Art in New York City (9–17 April 2012)
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf (11–20 January 2013)
Tate Modern in London (6–14 February 2013)
Akasaka Blitz in Tokyo (8–16 May 2013)
Sydney Opera House (24–27 May 2013)
Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (18–21 March 2014)
Burgtheater in Vienna (15–18 May 2014)
Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (6–14 November 2014)
Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (6-13 January 2015)
Paradiso in Amsterdam (16–23 January 2015)
DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen (26 February – 1 March 2015)
Oslo Opera House (4–7 August 2016)
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (7–14 October 2016)
The liner notes do not specify the recording location of each track, and there is no crowd noise included in the recordings.
The eight album boxset (with a total of 69 tracks) was released in a variety of formats:
- a 9 LP boxset sung in German with additional download code
- a 9 LP boxset sung in English with additional download code
- an 8 CD boxset sung in German*
- an 8 CD boxset sung in English
- a 4 Blu-Ray boxset sung in German with 2 Blu-Rays of actual live footage and 2 Blu-Rays of background projection footage as well as a 228 page book.
- a 4 Blu-Ray boxset sung in English with 2 Blu-Rays of actual live footage and 2 Blu-Rays of background projection footage as well as a 228 page book.
There are two different English-language high-resolution digital download versions available. matches the track listing of the Blu-Ray version, whereas omits eight tracks which appear twice on.
A single disc compliation album entitled 3-D (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) was released in May 2017, featuring tracks from each of the eight albums in this set.
* The initial German CD boxset contained a mispressed CD2 with the latter part of track 2 sung in English instead of German. A replacement CD was manufactured and made available to customers from the artist website. The full box set was re-issued in 2021 with the audio corrected (although some German language boxes included an English language booklet, and vice versa).