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Radio-Activity

~ Kraftwerk
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (17 Jan 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000087HXM
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,111 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Geiger Counter
2. Radio-activity
3. Radioland
4. Airwaves
5. Intermission
6. News
7. Voice Of Energy
8. Antenna
9. Radio Stars
10. Uranium
11. Transistor
12. Ohm Sweet Ohm

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Considered by many fans to be the German duo's first classic album, 1975's RADIO-ACTIVITY marked a major change of persona for Kraftwerk. Cutting their hair, shaving their beards and dressing in plain suits, Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider reinvented themselves as ascetic sound engineers as opposed to performers. Taking cues from minimalist composers likeSteve Reich or Terry Riley, RADIO-ACTIVITY explores the creative uses of repetition and limitation. Several songs are built on a single pulsing chord, and other tracks are less songs than they are brief sound pictures. Titles and lyrics pun off of both nuclear energy and radio waves, also helping to give the album a conceptual unity missing from their firstfew records. "The Voice of Energy" and the title track are among the band's finest works. As with many of Kraftwerk's records, RADIO-ACTIVITY was issued in a German-language version in the band's homeland.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece, 18 Jun 2005
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This experimental album with its electronic sighs and bleeps and atmospheric crackles is such a timeless masterpiece not because of the electronics but because of the heavenly melodies and the engaging rhythms. The whooshes, the bleeps and the disembodied voices are just the icing on the cake although they give the music an other-worldly atmosphere. The title track is mesmerising in its ebb and flow, while Radioland and Airwaves get progressively more weird. The more I listen to it, the more I think that Radio Activity is by far Kraftwerk's most varied and innovative album. What set Kraftwerk's electronics apart from most of the other synth pioneers, is the sense of classical structure that underlies the music. True, Klaus Nomi also used classic and operatic structures but he came much later. Songs like Antenna and Ohm Sweet Ohm with their beautiful melodic hooks are as accessible and addictive as their huge hit Autobahn. I recommend this album to all fans of synthesizer artists like OMD, Eurythmics, Yazoo, Suicide, Gary Numan and Sparks, to enjoy the source that most of these artists drew from to some extent.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the purest Kraftwerk album, 7 April 2005
By D. S. Smith "duncanssmith" (London England) - See all my reviews
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What can you say? Kraftwerk are among the most original and incredible bands of musicians in the 20th Century. This is one of their best albums. Leaving the competition standing, and massively influential to bands throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s (can you imagine any of the 80's pop bands like Yazoo, Depeche Mode, et al. without Kraftwerk?) Kraftwerk produced beautiful minimal melodic electronic music for the age of the transistor. Theirs is a music that is both sublime and simple, emotional and mechanical, electronic and surgingly euphoric. How do you do that? We can only guess and stand back in wonder. Radioactivity, the title track is characteristic - a haunting melody, a simple vocal track and a rhythm backing to die for.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Alles ist gut, 28 Jan 2005
By Andrew Bailey "princepetr" (london) - See all my reviews
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Ignore the "disappointed" review. He is obviously someone who came to Kraftwerk late, heard the re-worked Radiocativity in concert and on the "Mix" album, and felt the warm analogue 1975 version not to his taste. The truth is both versions are truly excellent and the rest of the Radiocativity album is brilliant too, especially Antenna which is sonically amazing for a 1975 recording. Kraftwerk's sly humour is in evidence hear on "ohmm sweet ohmm - (who said our teutonic cousins have no sense of humour!.) Admitedley, Radioactiity is not "up there" with with Trans Europe Express & Computer World , but if you have good taste you will want to own all of Kraftwek's (from autobahn onwards) albums anyway!
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3.0 out of 5 stars In the air for you and me
"Radioactivity" is the first release to feature the classic line up with Wolfgang Flur, Bartos, Schnieder and Hutter : the fluid nature of the group (now only Hutter remains... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. M. A. Reed

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
A most wonderful album. The simple sound of radioactivity beats the live version by miles. My favourite song is definately Airwaves. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Freddie Savenger

4.0 out of 5 stars Some balance is needed here...
Wedged in between Autobahn and Trans-Europe Express, this album has been largely ignored by Kraftwerk's 'pop' fans. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2004 by M. Aranda

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
The first time I saw Kraftwerk live was in 1981 and at the time I didn't own this album. The gig was excellent and featured a stunning version of the title track of... Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2004 by Mr. P. Martin

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