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Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity Audio CD

A fair review of the Kraftwerk "Radio-Activity" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Kraftwerk reviews here, or go back to the Kraftwerk tabs.

Kraftwerk Band: Kraftwerk
Title: Radio-Activity
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Release Date: 1995-09-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Geiger Counter 2: Radioactivity 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

under rated masterpiece
Previously, music consisted of radio, pop hit's and Bandstand. When I first bought this album in 1976, it literally changed how I would ever look at music again. Then I heard Radio-Activity. It was like nothing I had ever heard before. Listening to it again, 33 years later I am dumbstruck at how fresh this still sounds. The opening three tracks leave you with a feeling of reverence, liturgical music for the machine age. And although this could have just as easily been made today, the influence on everything from Goth, industrial, noize, ambient and so on is readily apparent. This is Kraftwerks masterpiece.


The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
I mean it serious. This is a appreciation of Pink Floyds Piper, and therefore Syd Barrett as the pioneer of Electronica. Listen to the synth-riff of Radio-Activity. I'm sure.


dull "music of der future"
Fortunately, man has still some sense of individualism, but barely, and Kraftwerk's fascist goal for music has not rendered vocals obsolete. There is something inherently prosaic in this dead dull "music of der future". Listening to this, it harkens back to the techno geek 1970's when Germans laden in neo-fascist uniforms with thin ties and a pound of grease on their hair, showed no emotion on stage, acting like machines. Most of them wore leather pants so tight that they froze while playing, hence the dumb and inarticulate Krautbot look. They copied architecture chic from the 1930's, added some 70's porn montage and called it "modern" 1970's and praised the revolution of robots and computers. Not only is that very idea horrifying, but it is also silly. "Kraftwerk" means "cheese plant" in German and they are very cheesy.

The CD is probably one of the most horrible things I've listened to. If you can get to the end of it, you'll find all sorts of unwanted electronic noise, Krautbot voice dubs, electro fuzz, beeps, computer konks, repugnant computer-generated vocals, static, repulsive synthesizers, and extremely unpleasant clamor that goes on forever, that you'll soon be reaching for a hammer to crush the CD. In my estimation, all crap. A few American bands at the time tried the stale trend with deadly results, Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle (1979), Styx Kilroy Was Here (1983) , both tossed their careers away because of it.

You'll be reminded of foolish telephone companies, lumbering computer screens, electronic wires, gay 70's discos, and moronic techno cabarets in smelly, dark German cellars. So, unless you're a nerd or have little taste in music, forget this stuff ever existed.
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I ordered a CD update of old LP music from the 70's by the German guys, "Kraftwerk", (Radio Activity), Amazon got me my copy and the ones I had sent to my brothers in Michigan quick and in good condition! .


It is a pleasant wavelength
Kraftwerk's radio-activity, my first Kraftwerk album, is I guess one of their more underappreciated works. Yet after hearing about the band and how great they were from friends for years it wasn't until I heard the song radio-activity in a couple of films by Fassbinder that I realized I should give their music a listen. . .
Radio-Activity is a great experiment in pop music and I find it to be among the most pleasant and thouroughly enjoyable experiences in 'electronic' music. . Clearly ahead of their time Kraftwerk seemed nevertheless to have a very classic understanding of how to contsruct a piece of music. . By the end of the electronic radio excursion we feel we have been to an interesting place that we would like to return to in the future. . . .


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