Radio-Activity

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-05-11 rating:
Amazing
A most wonderful album. The simple sound of radioactivity beats the live version by miles. My favourite song is definately Airwaves. A great album with that unmistakeable Kraftwerk sound

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review by: Toypom date: 2005-06-18 rating:
Masterpiece
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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review by: duncanssmith date: 2005-04-07 rating:
Probably the purest Kraftwerk album
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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review by: princepetr date: 2005-01-28 rating:
Alles ist gut
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!


review by: noisemonger date: 2004-12-05 rating:
Some balance is needed here...
Wedged in between Autobahn and Trans-Europe Express, this album has been largely ignored by Kraftwerk's 'pop' fans. This album was hastily created by the band to follow up their huge Autobahn, and anybody who knows Kraftwerk knows that they NEVER rush themselves (ha ha...how long did it take to release TDFSoundtracks...12 years??)pRadioactivity is also of of KW's most conceptual albums, maybe too conceptual as sometimes you're not listening to music at all, but aural paintings meant to signify the air/gamma waves themselves.pThis is definitely worth a listen. It's the last album KW made in a strictly avant-garde mode, though it still has plenty of poppy tracks (Ohm Sweet Ohm is my particular favorite.)

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